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This inaugural (virtual) BESPOKE NEXT GEN will feature readings by four fabulous writers, including poet/playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes, novelist Nawaaz Ahmed, fiction/comic writer and playwright Emma Horwitz, and poet Beth Hightower, plus a small…
Lance Ringel’s latest novel, Floridian Nights, unfolds against a background that at times, surprisingly, can feel as distant as the World War I France of his award-winning debut novel, Flower…
Join us for a Virtual Craft Class & Reading with Kai Coggin Craft Class will run from 11 AM-1PM EST. Followed by a reading from 1:05 PM-1:20 PM.…
Afro-American scholar James Wright will be presenting recent revelations concerning Lorraine Hansberry, famed author of A Raisin in the Sun. The focus of the talk will be Hansberry’s…
Poets Daniel W.K. Lee, Travis Montez, and Stephen S. Mills guide us through the terrain of wanting—from carnal to familial, satiation to longing—reading from their oeuvres including works from their most recently…
Come hear new songs, dance new dances and eat new snacks inspired by Hugh Ryan's WHEN BROOKLYN WAS QUEER –– a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the…
TELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014, making…
Join artist Paul Moreno and writer Adam Zmith in a discussion about poppers and queer culture in their respective work. The vapors that escape an open bottle of…
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is proud to present Wallpaper Saints: Photographs by Frank Mullaney. “Wallpaper Saints was inspired by the holy prayer cards I collected during my…
Join historian Stephen Vider and novelist, playwright, and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman for a conversation about Vider’s new book, The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War…
Jeremy Sorese will be reading from his new book The Short While, a Queer Science Fiction graphic novel which will be followed by a conversation with cartoonist Lale Westvind—about Science Fiction…