The Bureau (BGSQD)

Yasi Alipour & Meg Turner – A conversation about photography, queer collaborations, and Meg’s first photo book WET.Editor, writer and artist Yasi Alipour and long time friend and queer photographer Meg Turner talk about the creation of WET, published in March 2023 by Burn Barrel Press. Intimately involved in the creation of WET, Yasi and Meg discuss collaboration, publishing, and photographic practices.Copies of Meg Turner’s […]

New York City book launch at the Bureau for Candystore’s nonfiction debut, Further From Heaven (Smutburger Editions)—“the smart and smutty journey of a budding genderfuck.”Further From Heaven is a confrontational, autobiographical work tracing a decade’s worth of profile photos, anecdotes, chat histories, screenshots, dick pics, and poems shared by way of gay hookup apps. In juxtaposing the hyperreal invention […]

The Bureau is pleased to present I Cannot Begin to Tell You How Angry I’ve Been, a solo exhibition of work by Ryan Wilks.Opening reception: September 14, 2023, 6-8 PMExhibition dates: September 14 – November 19, 2023Ryan Wilks is an artist working out of Kansas City. They delight in the dirty-schoolboy-like quality of drawing crude and beautifully executed illustrations of […]

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 queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices. Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: youtube.com/@bgsqd. […]

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 88th TELL is Bathrooms. Featuring storytellers Micah Brown, Glace Chase, & Fred Brown, Jr. Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served. Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s […]

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 […]