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The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
On Episode 6 of Revisioning Democracy, we’ll examine the Lessons of Florida and community intersectional strategies that LGBTQIA+ groups and activists used there to successfully fight back against the Ron DeSantis anti-gay and anti-diversity attacks – after the initial shock of the state “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Join special guest Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida, and a dynamic activist […]
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
We’ll be reading fiction and non-fiction — classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary. As a group we will decide what to read each month, focusing on lesbian authors and/or related topics. Co-founded by lesbian book lovers Judi Komaki and Piper Olsen.For our November 9th meeting, we’ll read Divagaciones II, edited by our very own member, Jaqueline Jimenez Polanco (paperback, $15)! Copies […]
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
As part of programming for the You Left A Mark On Me exhibition, we are excited to present a live figure drawing night. In keeping with the show’s theme of queer tattoo exploration, our featured models Brad Carpenter and Himerosdisco are notably tattooed. Our aim is to present a space where the models unique ownership of their ink can combine and […]
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Join anthropologist and artist Shaka McGlotten & drag king Maxxx Pleasure for the launch of Dragging: Or, in the Drag of a Queer Life. Dragging is a book about artists and activists who use drag in Berlin, Israel/Palestine, and New York. It is also an autoethnographic account of illness, failing at being a good anthropologist, and losing out on love.There will […]
https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bisr-journals-and-diaries-1/In 1973, Susan Sontag wrote in her diary: “In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.” What is the relationship between a writer’s lived experience and the works they present, crafted and bound, to the public? For Virginia Woolf, the diary […]
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from […]
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space in room 210 of The Center. We are open Wednesday through Sunday from […]
https://www.bgsqd.com/event/outspoken-november-2024/The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Donna Minkowitz, Jenifer Levin, Ruben Quesada, Lauren Melissa Ellzey, Samy Nemir Olivares, Ken Harvey, Judith Barrington, and Mercedes Lewis.Join us as in-person or watch the live-stream (see below) to […]
