BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
BGSQD
Join The Bars Are Ours author Lucas Hilderbrand and scholar Nerve Macaspac for a conversation about the legacies of gay bars and nightclubs in New York City and nationally. They will discuss bars’ historical role in shaping gay male cultures, spaces, politics, and aesthetics. The New York Times described The Bars Are Ours as “sprawling, playful and rigorous.” Library Journal named it one of the best books of 2023.
Copies of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After (Duke UP, 2023, paperback, $32.95) will be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “reserve a copy of The Bars Are Ours” in the subject line.
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This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @bgsqd
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Lucas Hilderbrand (he/him) is the author of The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After; Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic; and Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright. He is Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Nerve V. Macaspac (he/him) is a political geographer, cartographer, and filmmaker. His research focuses on the kinds of work required of marginalized communities in creating spaces of peace, safety, and security amid violence. He has published in Geopolitics, International Peacekeeping, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, Geography Compass, and Human Rights Review. He is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at Queens College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and Doctoral Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences at The Graduate Center, CUNY.