Come visit the Bureau’s table at The Eighth Annual Rainbow Book Fair!

Fair hours: noon to  6 PM

The Bureau will host a panel discussion on Queer Zines as Social Media with Anne Alex Hays (Alex), Winter Mendelson (Posture), Billy Miller (Straight to Hell), & Paul Moreno (Knowsgay) from 3:15 to 4:30, moderated by Bureau volunteer Jason Haaf.
 
Anne Alex Hays is the author of Alex, a zine loosely themed around the lived experience of gender. S/he’s published fiction and essays in PANK, Ms. Magazine blog, the Brooklyn Rail, and others. S/he runs a zine distro called Sleeping Creatures, and works as a Librarian at CUNY.
 
Winter Mendelson is the Founding Editor of Posture, an arts and fashion magazine that is dedicated to the creative exploration of identity. After graduating with a B.A. in Art History in 2012,​ she moved to NYC to immerse herself in ​non binary ​and feminist discourse. From that passion Posture developed and officially launched in Fall 2013 as a platform to support creatives and further feminist and lgbtqi+allied visibility. When she is not writing or editing, she enjoys going on personal photo shoots around the city and taking in as much art as possible.
 
Billy Miller is an artist/curator/publisher/musician/bad-ass based in NYC. His writing has appeared in publications such as BUTT, Index, VICE, Little Joe, Revel, and others. His artwork has been exhibited internationally at galleries and cultural institutions such as PS1 MoMA, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Team Gallery, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and others, and he has curated numerous exhibitions and film screenings at venues such as The Mix Festival, The Fringe Festival and the White Cubicle Gallery London, Exile Gallery Berlin, Invisible Exports Gallery NYC, 80WSE, the Queer Biennial LA, and many others. And he is the publisher of several independent publications including the infamous chapbook series Straight To Hell, aka, The Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts.
 
Paul Moreno, originally from Sparks, NV, is a Brooklyn based visual artist. He is the co-creater of the queer art zine Knowsgay; and has made a number of other art based zines. Paul has most recently been writing semi-fiction which he has been sharing through events organized by Paper Cuts. Paul also works as a prop-stylist and decorating consultant.

The Eighth Annual Rainbow Book Fair will take place at:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W. 59th Street (just west of 10th Avenue)
Saturday, April 09, 2016
12:00pm – 6:00pm

Once a year, approximately 1500 people get together in New York City to mingle, get to know each other, enrich, broaden, and even extend their lives through the amazing medium of LGBT books.  The New York Rainbow Book Fair is America’s longest-running LGBT book fair, and the largest LGBT book event in the country.  It has grown every year since its beginning in 2009.  It brings together thoughtful, interesting people of all ages, from early teens to those in their 70s and 80s; from a spectrum of countries, ethnicities, gender identities, and viewpoints.  It attracts readers and writers of course, but also publishers, editors, agents, and media attention – people who have never experienced queer culture, and others who have made it the focus of their lives. Rainbow Book Fair is open to the public, with book discounts and giveaways.