BGSQDJoin us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Patricia Spears Jones Craft Class will run from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM EDT. Followed by a reading from 8:30 PM-8:45…
This April 29, 2022, Bespoke Next Gen event will (we hope) be our first in-person event since 2019 and will feature four readers, including poet/writer Shayla Lawz, writer/comedian…
Queer Pleasure: A poetry reading featuring Julia Guez, Timothy Liu, Ricardo Maldonado, & Angelo Nikolopoulos. Books by all of the readers are available for purchase at the Bureau.…
The ancient practice of circumcision is a hot-button, global controversy. This event brings together artists, activists, and experts for a wide-ranging conversation on circumcision psychologically, poetically, cinematically, and…
Hear from two innocence litigators as they describe the harmful yet tantalizing power of faulty forensic evidence, and how it has been used to wrongly convict queer people…
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children,…
🚨🚨AWWWWWSHEEEEIT!!!🚨🚨 Affirmative Laughter is back and better than ever! Back from a 4 yr hiatus, host Elsa Eli Waithe is ready to shake the cobwebs off and bring the funny.…
Join us for the first of two nights of readings by nine finalists for the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards taking place online! Register on Eventbrite to join this event on…
Join us for the second of two nights of readings by eight finalists for the 2022 Publishing Triangle Awards taking place online! Register on Eventbrite to join this event on…
Poetry Reading with Jameson Fitzpatrick, Monica McClure, and Angelo Nikolopoulos This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor…
