With their new book, From Gay to Z, playwright and performer Justin Elizabeth Sayre brings a funny and far-reaching take on Queer Culture. Based on their series of shows, The gAy-BC’s, the new book is a huge accomplishment. A witty and wise take on the queer culture that has come before and the culture that may yet to be.

Sayre will be joined in conversation by Shane O’Neill!

The Bureau is thrilled to welcome these dear friends back to our space!

From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium (Chronicle Books, 2022, hardcover, $24.95) is also available for purchase at the Bureau.

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

Join this event in-person at the Bureau

OR watch the live-stream of the event on the Bureau’s YouTube channel.

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.

Safety protocol (for those joining in person)

In an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19:

If you have any symptoms associated with COVID-19 in the days leading up to the event, we ask you to please stay home.

Please note that masks are required at all times inside The LGBT Community Center, where the Bureau is located.

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is a playwright and performer who Michael Musto called, “Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg.” Sayre is a fixture of the Downtown Cabaret Scene in New York, first with their long-running variety show, The Meeting (Bistro Award-winning & 2 MAC nominations). They are currently in residency at Joe’s Pub at the Public with their new variety show, Assorted Fruit. As a playwright, Sayre’s work has appeared at Dixon Place, The Wild Project, The Celebration Theatre, Dynasty Typewriter, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre. Their 12-part-epic Ravenswood Manor, a Camp-Horror-Soap-Opera, called “a sharply written and well-acted exemplar of the horror-comedy genre,” by the LA Times and is currently being developed with Sony Television and Rupaul. Sayre has written a series of YA Novels, Husky, Pretty, and Mean, released by Penguin Books, and the book, From Gay to Z: A Queer Compendium, just released by Chronicle Books. Sayre has written for Television, working with Michael Patrick King on his Hit CBS comedy, 2 Broke Girls and Fox’s The Cool Kids. Sayre also appeared on HBO’s The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow.

Shane O’Neill is a reporter for the Styles desk at The New York Times. During his tenure at the Times he has profiled “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider, produced the short documentary “Who Threw The First Brick at Stonewall?”, produced and edited the internet culture series “Internetting With Amanda Hess,” covered the Black trans community’s response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and edited the pop music video series “Diary of a Song.” He starred in the animated short documentary “The Shawl” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.