Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight (in person and live-streaming)

Join us for the launch of Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight by Mark Broomfield with Carlos Jones and Vincent E. Thomas.

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:

youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.

All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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 or on Venmo @BGSQD

Mark Broomfield, PhD, MFA, Associate Professor of English and Founding Director of Performance as Social Change at SUNY Geneseo, is a London-born award-winning scholar and artist of Jamaican heritage.

Carlos Jones is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport. He has a body of work that extends from the concert stage to theater to television and film.

Vincent E. Thomas, dancer, choreographer and teacher, (MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina) has danced with Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ), EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC), and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD). He is the Founder/Artistic Director of VTDance and Professor of Dance at Towson University.