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The Bureau will sell books that have been nominated for Lambda Literary Awards at the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalist Reading at Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian…
Harry Hay’s life is typically presented in two chunks: the first covers his founding of the Mattachine Society, from approximately 1948 to his exit in 1953; the second,…
Please join us for the first public event of Kristiania, an international anarcho-literary collective of politically minded writers. This will be a conversation around the subjects of queerness…
Three queer women writers of various genres read from their latest, taking apart and putting together an image of the world around them. Moving between revelry in the…
Ectoplasm refers to a vomit-like substance produced by mediums during seances, supposedly as a manifestation of otherworldly spirits. For this performance salon and accompanying zine, we would like…
Kate Fagan, a former Division 1 Basketball player and current ESPN writer, has written an honest and heartfelt memoir about coming out in sports. She is teaming up…
NEWFANGLED returns to the Bureau! Robert Siek introduces poets Joey De Jesus, Ryan Doyle May, & Roberto Montes for a night of poetry readings. JOEY DE JESUS is originally…
Join us for a fun and fur-filled evening of hirsute literary pursuit for the premiere reading and book launch for the new bear poetry anthology, Hibernation, and other poems…
Come join us in writing letters, postcards and words of encouragement to our queer and trans family incarcerated in New York state. Writing a letter, postcard, or sending…
The Bureau will be on hand selling copies of Tom Spanbauer's I Loved You More at his reading at The Second Tuesday Lecture Series at The LGBT Center in…
I let my hands become weapons…and I feel prepared for the rest of my life. – David Wojnarowicz What happens to documentary practice when we turn our hands…
An introduction to the world of Evripidis Sabatis AKA Evripidis and his Tragedies, where music, writing and drawing intertwine to picture a world of love, lust and loss.…
Celebrating the release of Scorcher issue #7 (“Valedictorian”), published by Birdsong Micropress, please join Max Steele at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division for an evening of…
Post-Clown Disaster, Ariel Federow and Cabaret Idiot, Sabrina Chap bring you this new works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s…
From award-winning historian and activist Martin Duberman comes a poignant dual biography of two men central to activism in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Michael Callen…
TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Winning is the theme…
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Blue Hanuman, a new book of poems by Joan Larkin. There will be a reading and books hot off the…
The Values return to set the Bureau ablaze with Why The Reckless, Matt Kastella, and Sleepyzzz. The Values deliver sizzling dance tracks, sultry ballads, and electrifying blues. In this…
Join us for the opening reception of Diego Vela's exhibition Delicate Identity. The exhibition will remain on view at the Bureau through Sunday, July 6. …
Passionate Commitments is a dual biography of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, life partners and labor journalists who were instrumental in establishing and maintaining the Labor Research Association…
Join us for a special poetry reading with D. Gilson, Aaron Smith, and Randall Mann. Hosted by Lawrence Kaplun. D. Gilson is the author…