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A slideshow presentation by Japanese photographer Kazuo Sumida, which follows his uncle through the night, in the gay cabarets and bars of a small-town’s red-light district in the…
Join Cleis Press in launching Best Sex Writing of the Year—a thought-provoking collection that traverses the spectrum of the contemporary sexual landscape.Editor Jon Pressick and contributors David Henry, Sterry, Stoya, and Lux Alptraum…
Two Canadian queer authors take New York by storm! Improv artist, sex radical, genderqueer uni professor Michael V. Smith launches a memoir, My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp…
Speaking OUT –Open Mic story telling and experience sharing Join the photographer/author Rachelle Lee Smith, co-host Sam LaRoche, and subjects from the new book Speaking OUT: Queer…
Three local speculative fiction writers-- Richard Bowes, Robert Levy, and Sam J. Miller-- read stories of the weird, the queer, and the otherworldly. Richard Bowes is nominated…
Walter Frank will examine the history of the modern gay rights movement in the United States and will also discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case on same…
Photograph by Francesca G Bewer Andrea Cohen’s poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and…
Two expatriate poets who have lived in New York long enough to consider themselves New Yorkers read their recent work. Jee Leong Koh is the author of four…
Austin Alexis, Charlie Bondhus, Dean Kostos, & Lynn McGee read from their recent books. Austin Alexis is the author of one full-length collection: Privacy Issues, published…
Author Wayne Hoffman reads from his steamy and comic debut novel, HARD, newly republished this month by Bear Bones Books. HARD follows a group of young AIDS…
Join us for a reading celebrating the long-awaited publication of Mark Doty’s new book of poems, Deep Lane (W. W. Norton). Gerald Stern says, “Mark Doty writes with absolute exactitude,…
Chris Freeman, Christopher Bram, Bill Goldstein, David Drake, and other special guests will read their favorite passages from the work of Christopher Isherwood, and there will be a…
This reading brings together five poets from Chicago and the Midwest who currently find themselves in New York. Readers include Cortney Lamar Charleston, H. Melt, Angel Nafis, José Olivarez,…
A reading and discussion on gay people and having suffered being bullied by their peers through the years, in school, at home, and even in the workplace with…
Que(e)rying Theory is a discussion group about queer theory and critical theory for thinkers from all contexts. Reading texts both vintage and new, we will ask questions such…
In conjunction with the Bureau's current exhibition, A Buried Past, Forgotten Stories: The Sexual Underground of the Meatpacking District before Gentrification—The Photographs of Efrain John Gonzalez, we are…
Sabrina Chap brings you this works-in-progress series featuring new work from cutting-edge queer artists. Built on the notion that there’s no greater inspiration than a deadline, this series forces…
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 since February 2014.…
Gay men have served in our nation’s military since the beginning. Lance Ringel’s historical novel Flower of Iowa centers on the unexpected romance between a young American…
The Bi Book Club meets once a month to discuss bi-themed books and the issues they raise. People of all orientations and genders welcome! Dinner after nearby. Our…
Join us for the 6th installment of Newfangled, poetry readings by emerging poets hosted by Robert Siek. Newfangled 6 will feature Chase Berggrun, Tom Capelonga, & Paul Tran.…
Dale Peck discusses his new memoir, Visions and Revisions, with critic and editor Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon. Visions and Revisions revisits Peck’s experience as an AIDS activist and writer…
Please join us to celebrate the release of Claudia Cortese’s chapbook Blood Medals. The poems in the book explore a girl named Lucy whom Winter Tangerine Review calls…
You are invited to the debut of our first books of poetry! Help us welcome these titles into the world: Improvise, Girl, Improvise by Lilith Latini and Which…
A party and performance/reading to mark the publication of the novel PORTRAITS AT AN EXHIBITION (Lethe Press) by Patrick E. Horrigan. Patrick E. Horrigan was born and…
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division and The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center host dancer, choreographer, and poet Ian Spencer Bell in a solo performance of…
Please join us to celebrate the latest issue of the beautiful and sexy gay male poetry magazine Assaracus 18 (Sibling Rivalry Press). Poets look at the world…