The Bureau (BGSQD)

How many animal species are actually gay? What can whale falls teach us about relationships and rebirth? How can queer communities find and create safe spaces in the outdoors? How can queerness help us adapt to a changing climate?Join us at the Bureau for Queer Ecologies, an evening of readings by authors writing about queerness, science, […]

Join us for the launch event for BONDS & BOUNDARIES, the debut short story collection by Dale Corvino, from Rebel Satori Press. Dale is in conversation with Michael Bullock, co-editor of I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT: THE 1979 DIARIES OF SEAN DELEAR from Semiotext(e). They will discuss the queer Gen X tropes raised by each work, followed by […]

Please join us for a poetry reading with Paloma Yannakakis, Izzy Casey, and Amy Klein to celebrate the release of Double Take. Between arrival and disappearance, between the longed-for and the long forgotten, what remains intact across time? Parsing the distance ‘in all directions’ and taking inventory, this collection explores states of exile and recognition. The poems move across quotidian […]

Authors Stephanie Cowell, Lance Ringel, and Sebastian Dureaux-Russell read from their novels, each set in a different decade of the early 20th century, and all focusing on relationships between gay male protagonists.Copies of Cowell’s The Boy in the Rain, Ringel’s Flower of Iowa, and Dureaux-Russell’s Burning with a Blue Flame will all be available for purchase at the event. To reserve a copy […]

The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Christian Baines, Jim Berg, Mary Burns, JP Howard, Michael Klein, Sean Patrick Mulroy, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. Join us as in-person or remotely to hear from some of […]

The pre-promotion tour has started for the upcoming book release of Eden’s Garden – A Road of Triumph and Battle, which will be available in 2024.Seven King’s memoir takes a vulnerable look into the experience of a young independent who went through a maze to fulfill an idea that was bestowed upon him. The idea came […]

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 theme of […]

The Library of Homosexual Congress is proud to reissue Allen Barnett’s 1990 collection The Body and Its Dangers and Other Stories. Among the finest short stories in the gay literary cannon in particular, and American fiction in general, Barnett’s record of the then-burgeoning AIDS crisis is unparalleled in its poignant humor amidst compounding loss. Please join […]

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 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.