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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.
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.
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/not-even-nominated/NOT EVEN NOMINATED:40 OVERLOOKED COSTARS OF OSCAR-WINNING PERFORMANCESAuthor John DiLeo will be discussing his 8th book on the subject of classic movies. John will do some reading, take questions, plus show clips from several of the 40 performances profiled in the book. He will also be signing copies of NOT EVEN NOMINATED after the presentation.To reserve a copy of Not Even […]
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.
https://www.bgsqd.com/event/poetry-quesada-xavier-ben-oni-beatty/Celebrate an evening of poetry with queer poets Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion), Emanuel Xavier (Love(ly) Child), Rosebud Ben-Oni (If This is the Age We End Discovery), and Jan Beatty (Dragstripping) in conversation about their latest work. This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.Registration is […]
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.
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.
Restaging Sex and the Social: New Books from Fordham University PressThis talk features two new books on sex, sexuality, race and embodiment from Fordham University Press: Christopher Breu’s In Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire (Fall 2024) and Kirin Wachter-Grene‘s Black Kenosis: The Erotic Undoing of African American Literature (Fall 2025). Breu, Professor of English at Illinois State University, theorizes […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.” […]
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 […]
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 invites you to join us for a very special Pop Up Reading & Launch for MORNING WHISPERS, the first installment of HOTGLUE, a new fiction series […]
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 […]
TELL is a monthly queer storytelling show hosted and curated by Drae Campbell. It is the longest running event at the Bureau! 10 years and going. Each month there is a different […]
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.
https://www.bgsqd.com/event/bisr-journals-and-diaries-2/The November 19 class will be the second of four meetings.See registration details below.In 1973, Susan Sontag wrote in her diary: “In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to […]
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 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
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/emma-and-the-angel/Maria Teresa Cometto, author of Emma and the Angel of Central Park, in conversation with Allen Ellenzweig.The Angel of the Waters was the cover of the Guide to Lesbian & Gay Historical Landmarks New York, published about 25 years ago, and it is featured in the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project‘s website. It is also the “favorite angel” of Prior […]
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.
Release of 2024 Hit Play, BATHHOUSE.PPTX by Jesús I. Valles!Presented by The FleaCome celebrate the publication of Jesús I. Valles’s epic new play BATHHOUSE.PPTX which follows Presenter, a queer Latiné student, whose powerpoint presentation on the history of cleanliness and bathing quickly starts to burst at the seams with appearances from the ghosts of a […]
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.
Queering Palestinian Literature with Raji Bathish (in person & live-streaming)https://www.bgsqd.com/event/queering-palestinian-literature/Palestinian author and cinema critic Raji Bathish comes to the Bureau to read from his genre-hopping texts that combine fiction, poetry and other forms, followed by a discussion with his translator Suneela Mubayi and Rutgers literature professor Ben Koerber in a far-ranging dialogue that will touch on language, translation, gender and sexuality, […]
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 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.
