The Center

Activating Young LGBTQ+ Adults: Mindfulness and Embodiment for Unwinding Blocks Inhibiting Wellbeing
2026-02-28 11:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Please join us for a free mind-body exploration, combining meditation and embodied physical practices.
Kick-start your year with four Saturday sessions with Fay and Ananta.
To register, fill out this form.
Class is limited, so register NOW!

DA Writers and Creatives Prosperity Meeting
2026-02-28 11:15 - 12:15
DA Writers and Creatives Prosperity Meeting meets on Saturday every week from 11:15am-12:15pm.

CMA Saturday Solutions
2026-02-28 11:15 - 12:15
Saturday Solutions meets every Saturday from 11:15am-12:15pm EST. Saturday Solutions is a one hour long closed meeting CMA topics meeting. Participants choose a topic card from which to share on, or a subject of the participants choice. For more information, visit www.nycma.org.

Priceless Gift of Serenity - Women’s Al Anon Meeting
2026-02-28 12:00 - 13:15
Priceless Gift of Serenity – Women’s Al Anon Meeting meets on Saturday every week from 12-1:15pm. Al Anon is a fellowship of individuals recovering from the effects of someone else’s drinking. This meeting welcomes all who people who identity as women.

(OPEN) The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
2026-02-28 13:00 - 19:00, 2026-03-01 13:00 - 19:00
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.

Fashion Drawing Group
2026-02-28 14:00 - 16:30
The Fashion Drawing Group at The Center
The focus of this session is simply to enjoy an afternoon drawing from a live model with emphasis on illustrating fashion. Artists of all levels are welcome to spend an afternoon drawing and exchanging their art with others. Bring your own materials. There will be no instructions offered. It is your time to relax, explore and learn more of your talent and above all to have fun in doing it.
Every other Saturday, $20 fee to be paid at the session.
First come, first served. Limited seating. No online reservation list for now.
For more info you can follow me on Instagram @bycadiente

Queer ACA Saturday
2026-02-28 16:00 - 17:00
The Queer ACA meeting is every Saturday from 4-5pm EST. Queer ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families). All Welcome. For more information, you may contact queeracanyc@gmail.com

Just for Today Meeting of NA
2026-02-28 16:00 - 17:00
Just for Today Meeting of NA meets on Saturday every week from 4-5:00pm.

Queer Tango Lessons
2026-02-28 16:30 - 19:30
Learn how to dance tango in a queer inclusive space! Beginner class 4:30-5:30pm, Practice hour 5:30-6:30pm, Intermediate class 6:30-7:30pm. $20 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. Drop ins welcome. Email qpdnyc@gmail.com for details.

AA Women Together
2026-02-28 18:00 - 19:00
AA Women Together-Closed Discussion meets on Saturday every week from 6-7pm. Lesbian meeting/All women welcome

SLAA Saturday Beginners
2026-02-28 18:00 - 19:30

Identity House Peer Counseling Walk-In Center
2026-02-28 18:00 - 20:00
Looking for a supportive space to talk about what you're going through? Identity House Walk In Center meets on Wednesday every week, offering a free, confidential peer counseling clinic.

Trained volunteer peer counselors are available to listen and support you in exploring your experiences and identifying your needs. After your session, you may receive referrals to mental health professionals or other supportive resources.

This service is open to anyone seeking emotional support, whether you're struggling with coming out, gender identity questions, relationships, mental health concerns, or simply want a space to talk things through with someone who gets it.

For more information, email info@identityhouse.org or visit identityhouse.org.

Recovery Dharma
2026-02-28 19:00 - 20:15
Recovery Dharma meets on Saturday every week from 7-8:15pm.

AA LAex
2026-02-28 19:45 - 20:45
AA LAex meets on Saturday every week from 7:45-8:45pm. The LAeX meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other in order that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. After the meeting many of us fellowship and go out for sober fun.

SIR - CMA Topic Meeting
2026-02-28 20:00 - 21:00
SIR – CMA Topic Meeting meets every Saturday from 8-9pm EST. Sex positive identity, right relationships. Crystal Meth anonymous topic meeting. This meeting's focus is on the shaping of sane and sound ideals for our future sex lives, as outlined in step 4, page 69 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is a closed meeting. For more information, you may visit NYCMA.org.

DA/BDA Underearning, Fear of Success & Vision Issues - 12-Step Lens
2026-03-01 09:00 - 10:00
DA/BDA Underearning, Fear of Success & Vision Issues – 12-Step Lens

Boys Do Cry SLAA Men’s Meeting
2026-03-01 10:00 - 11:00
Boys Do Cry is a men's meeting of SLAA meeting every Sunday at 10am. Each week a speaker qualifies on their experience with a single step and shares are limited in focus to that step. This is a safe space for men to speak on their experience with sex, love, and intimacy.

Conscious Contact: An 11th Step Focused AA Meeting
2026-03-01 10:15 - 11:15
Conscious Contact: An 11th Step Focused AA Meeting meets every Sunday from 10:15-11:15am. This meeting centers on the 11th step in Alcoholics Anonymous.

DA & BDA: Recovering from Underearning, Fear of Success, & Vision Issues
2026-03-01 10:15 - 11:30
DA & BDA: Recovering from Underearning, Fear of Success, & Vision Issues meets on Sunday every week from 10:15-11:30am.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
2026-03-01 10:15 - 12:45
Are you struggling with food? Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) can help! FA is a free program based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). There are no dues, fees, or weigh-ins at FA meetings. FA is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience and mutual support, are recovering from the disease of food addiction. FA members are people of all ages from every part of the world, people who were morbidly obese, substantially underweight, or even at a normal weight. Regardless of their size, they were tormented by cravings, dieting, bulimia, and/or an obsession with exercise. In FA they found hope and recovery, and so can you.

CA Serenity Sunday
2026-03-01 11:00 - 12:00
CA Serenity on Sunday meets on Sunday every week from 11am-12pm.

Out of the Cave UA
2026-03-01 11:00 - 12:15
Out of the Cave UA meets on Sunday every week from 11-12:15pm.

CMA Sunday Solutions
2026-03-01 11:15 - 12:15
CMA Sunday Solutions meets on Sunday every week from 11:15am-12:15pm. Group suggested topics and round-robin sharing.

AA High Noon
2026-03-01 12:00 - 13:00
High Noon meets on Sunday every week from 12pm-1pm. We are an open meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. Seats are offered on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a strict capacity limit of 120. Email high.noon.sundays@gmail.com for more information.

(OPEN) Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library
2026-03-01 12:00 - 16:00
Housed within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center of Manhattan (The Center), the Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library is the only LGBTQ+ dedicated, free, circulating library in New York. The PPVR Library is committed to acquiring, maintaining, and making accessible a collection of literary, artistic, and intellectual works by, for, and about LGBTQ+ people. The Library promotes research, exploration, and discovery.

CMA Outside the Lines
2026-03-01 12:30 - 13:30
CMA Outside the Lines meets on Sunday every week from 12:30-1:30pm. This is a special interest meeting for BIPOC individuals.

Book Launch: AIDS, Art & the Origins of the Culture War by Robert Atkins (in person & live-streaming)
2026-03-01 13:00 - 14:30
Join Visual AIDS for a conversation with Visual AIDS co-founder Robert Atkins on the occasion of his new book, AIDS, Art & the Origins of the Culture War: Selected Writings of Robert Atkins. He will be joined by Sarah Schulman and Jackson Davidow to discuss the Culture War, defined as a Christian Nationalist assault on the increasingly multicultural society and liberal ethos that emerged in the 1960s in the new form of attacks by Americans on other Americans. Media-savvy politicians and religious figures took advantage of relatively new and little-known groups–artists, queers, and people with AIDS. Despite their initial lack of support, members of these groups soon applied their art and media practices to effectively oppose authoritarian inroads on the Constitution’s First-Amendment guarantees of free expression. “But,” Atkins wonders,” “have we already slid too far back from the future to avoid another full-scale medical crisis?”

AIDS, Art & the Origins of the Culture War presents three-and-a-half decades of articles and essays stemming from these contentious assaults on the rights of individuals, institutions, and, by extension, all Americans. A staff columnist for the Village Voice during the 1980s and 90s, Atkins produced both eye-witness reporting and thoughtful analysis from 1987 and the debut of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, DC to the most recently published piece collected for the book, his 2019 review of Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag. The book also features When the Culture War Became the Culture, his lengthy, recently written cultural history of the past half century in the US against which the book’s narrative plays out.

To reserve a copy of AIDS, Art & the Origins of the Culture War, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve AIDS, Art & the Origins of the Culture War for March 1 event” in the subject line.

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

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: https://www.youtube.com/@bgsqd

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.
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

Robert Atkins is a UC Berkeley-trained art historian, journalist, curator, and educator. A former columnist for The Village Voice, he has written for more than 100 publications worldwide. Among his many books is Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression, published by the New Press. He has curated exhibitions in far-flung venues from Sao Paolo, Brazil to New York and co-curated From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, the first international traveling exhibition of AIDS art. A pioneer of online art production and commentary, he is a fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and producer of Artery: the AIDS Arts Forum. He is also a founder of Visual AIDS, the producers of Day With(out) Art and the Red Ribbon.

Jackson Davidow is a writer, curator, and art historian.

Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, screenwriter, and AIDS historian.

https://www.bgsqd.com/event/atkins/

Meditation in Practice (Narcotics Anonymous Meeting)
2026-03-01 13:15 - 14:15
Meditation in Practice (Narcotics Anonymous Meeting) meets on Sunday every week from 1:15-2:15pm.

NA Serenity on Sunday
2026-03-01 14:15 - 15:15
NA Serenity on Sunday meets on Sunday every week from 2:15-3:15pm.
