Photographer Ryan Pfluger will talk about his new book, Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens. Throughout 2020 and 2021, during a time of intense personal and political upheaval, Pfluger set out to capture intimate images of queer, interracial couples, along with personal insight into their relationships in today’s world. Featured together for the first time in Holding Space, this unique collection of modern love in its many forms across the spectrum of race, sexuality, and gender identity and gives space to these couples to share short, revealing stories about their relationships.

Copies of Holding Space: Life and Love Through a Queer Lens are available for purchase at the Bureau. To reserve a copy, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com.

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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.

Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel

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.

Ryan Pfluger is an artist and photographer, whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Time, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. Ryan lives in Los Angeles, California, with their dog, Sarah Connor. Born and raised in New York, they received an MFA in Photography at School of Visual Arts. (Portrait photograph by Travis Chantar)