BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
BGSQD
A hybrid in-person/virtual launch party and conversation about the first installment of Gender.Network, an interactive digital exhibition of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, and other media created by trans, Two-spirit, non-binary, and gender liberation activists, organizers, and artists during the 1960s–1990s.
Gender.Network has grown out of ongoing conversations with elders, researchers, and activists, who suggested many of the materials, events, and people that are represented in the exhibition. Each person we spoke with helped connect us with others, who in turn suggested further materials to research and people to contact.
We hope that you will do the same! Please join us at this event to share your thoughts both about what is here and what is still missing, and help shape the future of this project.
In collecting and curating these materials, we honor the activists, organizers, and artists who continue to lead the way forward and remember those whose voices, images, and energy live on in these materials.
Curated by Sky Syzygy
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 for those attending in person. Seating is first come, first served.
If you would like to join this event via Zoom, you will need to register on Eventbrite.
Once you have registered on Eventbrite you will receive an email with the link you need to join the event on Zoom – or you can simply return to the Eventbrite page and click on “Access link” (beneath “When and Where/location/online”). But you will only be able to access this AFTER you have registered.
Closed-captioning will be available on Zoom.
Also live-streaming at youtube.com/@bgsqd
Deep gratitude to Christian Camacho-Light, Roxana Fabius, and the membership of A.I.R. Gallery, who have provided a home base, administrative, fiscal, and moral support for this project.
Endless thanks and admiration to our advisory committee: Che Gossett, Finn Enke, Jeanne Vaccaro, Malcolm Shanks, and Susan Stryker.
Major thanks to Ritu Ghiya for her incredible web design.
This project would not exist without the many questions, insights, anecdotes, stories, and conversations that have helped guide and shape our research. Thank you to Aiden Bettine, Ariel Goldberg, AJ Lewis, Charley Burton, Chelsea Goodwin, Chris Vargas, Christina Linden, Cicely Haggerty, Daria Dorosh, Darla Bjork, Dee Dee Chamblee, Dee Farmer, Dena Muller, Donna Kessinger, Efrain John Gonzales, Frances Woods-Baugh, Gayle Rubin, Harmony Hammond, Harrison Apple, Ignacio Rivera, Jamison Green, Jaune Quick-to-see-Smith, Jessica Xavier, Joanna Rivera, Jolene Rickard, Jonathan Thunderword, Joshua Burford, Jude Patton, Judy Grahn, Judy Greenspan, Kai Pyle, Kaspar Saxena, Kat Griefen, Kay Turner, Kelly Wooten, Lauren Berke, Leah DeVun, Leo Valdes, Lou McCarthy, Madsen Minax, Marisa Richmond, Martha Wilson, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Muriel Miguel, Nancy Azara, Pat Califia, Reneé Imperato, Sandi Salas, Shannon O’Neill, Sharon Day, Simon Fisher, Suzanne Iacenza, Venus de Mars, Xiomara Niculescu, and so so many more for your time and energy and brilliance.
Gender.Network is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; with public funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC; and by The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.