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Kick off National Poetry Month at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division as two award-winning queer poets, Lisa Dordal & Emanuel Xavier, share their poems of wisdom, struggle,…
Please join us online for the launch of Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, now out from Nightboat Books! Accompanying Ojeda-Sagué are the great poets Alli Warren and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, who will read from recent…
Join poet and scholar Karen Jaime and scholar Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails, for a conversation about queerness, poetry and performance, and Jaime’s…
Join poets Jendi Reiter and Steven Riel for a reading from their new books and a conversation about inhabiting different gender personae through art. Reiter's third poetry collection,…
Join editors of OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture, Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross, contributors Mariana Romo-Carmona and Linda Villarosa, with interlocutor Reginald Harris to discuss the OutWrite conferences and their enduring legacies. …
Come out for the NYC launch of Ryan Tracy’s Tender Bottoms, a collection of poems inspired by literary modernism’s doyen of queer domestic life, Gertrude Stein. Ryan will be joined…
Please join us for a conversation between Professor Lisa Duggan and Professor Samuel Huneke about queer liberation movements across history and Huneke’s new book States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy…
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. The…
Join us in celebrating two new books and new work by three queer poets in celebration of National Poetry Month, and in support of the Bureau of General…
The NYC Queer Comic Fair is BACK! After a 2-year hiatus due to covid-19, Doable Guys is taking the helm and bringing back the fun! We’ll be in the Bureau, located…
The NYC Queer Comic Fair is BACK! After a 2-year hiatus due to covid-19, Doable Guys is taking the helm and bringing back the fun! We’ll be in the Bureau, located…
Heteronormative bias is deeply embedded in the internet, hidden in algorithms, keywords, content moderation, and more. In fact, the internet has become largely straight by suppressing everything that…
Join 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.…