Rebel Satori Press

Dave Gaddy at Sacred Source Conference
2024-03-28 - 2024-03-31 | The Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel, 903 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD, 21204, United States
Dave Gaddy, author of The Simple Magic of Wild Things: The Journey of a Southern Male Wytch, will present his class on using ancestral magick to work through trauma at the 2024 Sacred Source Conference in Towson, Maryland.

Corvino @ Leather History Archives, Chicago
2024-03-28 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Leather Archives and Museum, 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL, 60626, United States
Bonds and Boundaries author Dale Corvino will be reading in Chicago at the Leather Archives & Museum.
Details will follow.

Emanuel Xavier at the NY Public Library
2024-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, United States
A book party like no other, unpacking the pleasures and pain of working in the city.
Kicking off NYPL’s World Literature Festival, join poets Camonghne Felix, Dorothea Lasky, Emanuel Xavier, and moderator Helena de Groot for readings and lively discussion about poetry, language, and labor. From day to day labor to the work of writing, this conversation explores the way poetry embodies work, using our multicultural city’s rich labor history as the backdrop. Pioneering home recording artist Linda Smith will close out the event with a special musical performance.
This event will take place in person and online.
This World Literature Festival event is co-presented with Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a multicultural and multi-arts institution supporting rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians across New York City.
To join the event in person | Please register for an In-Person Ticket. Doors will open 45 minutes before the program begins. For in-person events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment; we will do our best to accommodate everyone. Booked seats that have not been claimed will be released shortly before start time, and seats may become available then. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.
To join the event online | Please register for an Online Ticket. A livestream of this event will be available on this NYPL event page. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register! If you encounter any issues, please join us on NYPL’s YouTube channel.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival celebrates books and writers from around the world and reflects the languages spoken in our communities. Discover what our patrons are reading in different languages, resources the Library offers, free events, book recommendations, and more.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Helena de Groot is the host and producer of the Poetry Foundation’s flagship podcast Poetry Off the Shelf. She also created the NYT-featured award-winning audiobook Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver, and is senior producer and sound designer for the Paris Review Podcast, lauded by The New Yorker.
Camonghne Felix received an MA in arts politics from New York University and an MFA from Bard College. Felix is the author Dyscalculia and Build Yourself a Boat, which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. The 2013 winner of the Cora Craig Award for Young Women, Felix has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Poets House.
Emanuel Xavier was born in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry collections include: Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, Radiance, Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier, and Love(ly) Child. He is also editor of Me No Habla With Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry, Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of seven books of poetry and prose, including The Shining and the forthcoming essay collection, MEMORY.
Home recording pioneer Linda Smith released several collections of delicate, bewitching solo music on cassette in the 80s and 90s, recently reissued by Captured Tracks on vinyl for the first time. ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ originally released in ’95, captures the tension between daily life and creativity. Her album ‘I So Liked Spring’ sets the poetry of Charlotte Mew to music, resulting in unpredictable yet melodic songs — songs that continue to resonate with new listeners nearly 30 years later.

Publishing Triangle Awards
2024-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Emanuel Xavier MCs the Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony.
Join the Publishing Triangle on Wednesday, April 17 at The New School (63 Fifth Avenue off 13th Street, UC Auditorium) for the 36th annual Publishing Triangle Awards. The ceremony, hosted by poet and activist Emanuel Xavier, will also be livestreamed, and a reception will follow. The awards ceremony and reception are both FREE and open to the public. The event starts at 7pm but arrive early and take pics in front of our new step-and-repeat banner.
This celebration of LGBTQ+ authors and books will feature presenters Carole DeSanti, JP Howard, John Keene, Wo Chan, Reginald Harris, Hugh Ryan, Judy Grahn, Teresa DeCrescenzo, Christopher Bram, Stephen Greco, and Carol Rosenfeld. Michael Nava and Jacqueline Woodson will also present via video.
Winners in nine competitive categories will be announced. Special awards presented will include: Dorothy Allison with The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement; Hilary Zaid with The Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award; Emily Drabinski with The Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award; and Kris Kleindienst with The Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award.
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Make sure to sign up for The Publishing Triangle Awards on Eventbrite. Tickets for the awards ceremony and reception are FREE but all guests must be registered in order to be able to enter The New School.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/publishing-triangle-36th-annual-awards-ceremony-tickets-875910149837
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For a full list of finalists, reference our announcement post here- https://publishingtriangle.org/2024/03/2024-publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-announced/
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For those unable to attend in person, the event will be livestreamed and can be viewed on Wednesday, April 17 starting at 7pm here:
https://newschool.zoom.us/s/92123970685

New Orleans Poetry Festival
2024-04-20 - 2024-04-21 | NY
Rebel Satori will be at the NOLA Poetry Festival’s Small Press Fair.
The mission of the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Small Press Fair is to create a space for an inclusive and diverse group of writers to collaborate, share and influence each other while also being immersed in the distinctive literary culture of New Orleans. Our goal every year is to bring in poets and performers from across the globe to share their work and research in topics not only specific to writing but to all aspects of the Humanities, including cultural, political, ecological and historical disciplines relevant to contemporary New Orleans, Louisiana, and the world. We showcase the best writers New Orleans has to offer to our visitors, and to the local community we try to offer the most compelling authors from across the nation and the globe. The Festival is highly participatory with events ranging from workshops where you will be generating writing to open mics where you can share your work, from formal readings and panels to the most informal and collegial interactions and collaborations. For both locals and visitors we invite the active inspiration of four days of poetry immersion and collaboration, hopefully fostering further explorations and creations that continue beyond the time spent here in New Orleans.

Rainbow Book Fair, NYC
2024-04-20 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Rebel Satori authors will be at the Rainbow Book Fair in New York City.

Emanuel Xavier @ Book Soup, West Hollywood
2024-05-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, United States
Reading and book signing at Book Soup.

Celebrating Time Remaining and James McCourt @BGSQD
2024-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Please join us in celebrating the reissue of James McCourt’s 1993 novel of drag, AIDS, New York City and beyond: 1993’s Time Remaining. Critic Harold Bloom listed Time Remaining as one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
“McCourt is that rarest of contemporary American authors — a true iconoclast.” Dennis Cooper.
To reserve a copy of Time Remaining (Library of Homosexual Congress, April 30, 2024, paperback, $19.95), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve copy of Time Remaining for May 30” 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:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
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

James McCourt is the author of multiple works of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his acclaimed 1971 debut novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced Mardu Gorgeous) which is currently available with the New York Review Books Classics imprint. Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-85, published in 2003, was identified by The New York Times as an “heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation.” Critic Harold Bloom listed Time Remaining as one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
James McCourt lives with his husband, author Vincent Virga, in New York City with summers spent in Ireland. They’ve been together since 1964.

Tim Young has written the new introduction for Time Remaining. He has been thinking and writing about the role of literature and music in the narrative of life for many decades. In addition to a series of essays on popular culture for Design Observer, he has contributed work for The Yale Review.

Dale Corvino @ Sex Worker Sunday
2024-06-02 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Judson Memorial Church, NY, United States
Dale Corvino will be reading from his recent release Bonds and Boundaries at Sex Worker Sunday at the Judson Memorial Church, a sex worker affirming church.
Service 11AM Eastern
Readings begin at 1PM Eastern.

Noel Alumit @ Skylight Books
2024-06-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, United States
Noel Alumit joins a star studded reading at Skylight Books.

NOLA Pride with Local Authors
2024-06-06 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Latter Library, New Orleans, LA, United States
Daniel W.K. Lee joins other local New Orleans authors to celebrate Pride.

New Orleans Pridefest
2024-06-08 | NY
Big Freedia will headline the New Orleans Pridefest. Come, dance, and you might just run into Rebel publisher Sven Davisson and other NOLA based authors in the crowd.
North Rampart and Elysian Fields, aka the iconic Phoenix Bar.

Denver Pride
2024-06-22 - 2024-06-23 | NY
Celebrate Denver pride. Rebel authors Jerry L. Wheeler and Christian Baines will be on hand with copies of their books.

Rebel Satori @BGSQD, New York
2024-06-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Rebel Satori authors, including publisher Sven Davisson, will be at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division. Details to come.

Dave Gaddy Signing - Atlanta
2024-08-03 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore, 5531 ROSWELL RD NE, ATLANTA, GA, 30342, United States
Embark on a mystical journey with The Simple Magick of Wild Things. Discover the untamed wisdom of nature and harness its mystical energies to bring a touch of wild magick into your everyday life. Uncover the secrets of the wildlings and the elements as author Dave Gaddy takes you on an exploration of the natural world’s potent spellcraft and delves into the lives of his ancestors.
You’ll experience the stories and history of a southern male wytch and follow him along his daily path. Put on your most comfortable walking shoes and allow yourself to be captivated by old dirt roads, homey stories, and a whole lot of laughter along the way. Embrace the simplicity of the life of a country wytch and connect with the enchantment that surrounds us, awakening the wild magick within.
“I am a Southern male wytch, deep fried and dirt grown. Growing up in this unique blend of culture and magick has made me who I am today. Just as the South is known forits rich flavors and hospitality, I’ve found a deep richness in the world of wytchcraft. This is my own personal journey, filled with family traditions and the magick of the land. So, I embrace who I am, rooted in my heritage and the legacy of those before me.” —Dave Gaddy

Carol Campbell in Winchester, VA
2024-08-24 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Winchester Book Gallery, 7 N Loudoun St., Winchester, VA, 22601, United States
Join Carol for a very special event – she’ll be discussing her new historical fiction, The Rebel Rose and signing copies. PLUS bonus: she’s bringing her beloved Crone Stones with her for free readings. Crone Stones will also be available for purchase. Go to carolleecampbell.com for more info. See you on the 24th!

Lewis DeSimone at Fabulosa
2024-10-01 | Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro St., San Francisco, CA, United States
Lewis DeSimone will sign copies of his new book Exit Wounds at Fabulosa Books in San Francisco.
Details to follow.

Julian's Debut Book Launch at the Bureau
2025-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Brian Alessandro’s new novel, Julian’s Debut—his fifth book and third novel—explores the ethical gray area that comes with writing memoirs. What right do writers have to the private lives of friends, family, lovers, and acquaintances when writing memoirs?
Brian will read from Julian’s Debut and discuss its themes, inspirations, and plot with the award-winning author of 2022’s Greenland, David Santos Donaldson. Copies of Julian’s Debut will also be sold and autographed during the event.

To reserve a copy of Julian’s Debut (Rebel Satori Press, March 18, 2025, paperback, $21.95), please write to us with “please reserve Julian’s Debut for March 20th 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:
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

Julian’s Debut synopsis:

Julian Sorrento is a giver. Throughout much of his life he served his large, dysfunctional family at the expense of his own needs and desires. Drawing from his experiences as his family’s crutch, therapist, and bank, as well as his career as a clinical social worker of homeless youths, Julian writes a New Yorker article titled My Mighty Meekness, about altruism, sacrifice, and how putting others first could be pleasurable and rewarding, which is published to a surprising amount of attention.

Following the article’s publication, Julian’s family comes after him with a righteous fury. They claim he has exaggerated and distorted facts, making himself look like a victim and a hero and them the villains. His agent encourages him to expand the article into a book and portions of the article are also optioned by The Darlington Brothers, independent filmmakers, who hire Julian to adapt the work into a cable series for HBO (now MAX). They are interested exclusively in his anthropologist aunt who inadvertently incited a small civil war in Northeastern India, her husband, who builds bombs for Raytheon, and their son who punishes them both by inviting homeless people to live with them.
As Julian meets with each member of his family to hear their grievances, he also seeks—or sometimes makes up whole cloth—additional damning secrets about them to include in his memoir. Throughout the interminable filial reckoning, Julian leaves his job with social services, and develops the cable series with the assistance of Raul, his ex-fiancé, who makes vague allusions to sabotaging the media empire he works for as a programmer.

“An inventive, wildly entertaining novel, which revolves around the hazards of writing a memoir about one’s family. What a cast of characters Brian Alessandro has brought to life, through sparkling dialogue and vivid, often comical scenes. I enjoyed ‘Julian’s Debut’ immensely!” – Bill Hayes, author of Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me

“By turns comic, wrenching, appalling, bewildered, shrewd, never nice, and always alive, Julian’s Debut is a powder keg of a book that explodes and explodes.” —Paul Lisicky, author of Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell

Brian Alessandro has written for Interview Magazine, Newsday, PANK (co-founded by Roxanne Gay), Huffington Post, Galerie (Wes Anderson’s cult film streaming app) Lambda Literary, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Kirkus Reviews, and The Florida Review, and has recently co-adapted Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. Additionally, Brian co-edited Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs, an anthology of essays and interviews about Burroughs for Rebel Satori Press. Brian is also the co-founder and editor in chief of the literary journal, The New Engagement. His first novel, The Unmentionable Mann, was published in 2015 by Cairn Press and his first feature film, Afghan Hound, was produced by Maryea Media in 2011, and is streaming on Plex, Tubi, and Amazon. Julian’s Debut, his fifth book, will be published by Rebel Satori Press in March 2025. Brian also has a feature film and a limited series in development with an Academy Award-winning producer.

David Santos Donaldson was raised in Nassau, Bahamas, and has lived in India, Spain, and the United States. He attended Wesleyan University and the Drama Division of the Juilliard School, and his plays have been commissioned by the Public Theater. He was a finalist for the Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award and has worked as the Artistic Director for the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts in Nassau, Bahamas. Donaldson is currently a practicing psychotherapist, and divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Seville, Spain. Greenland is his first novel.

Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
2025-03-28 - 2025-03-30 | Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
Come party with the literati in the heart of New Orleans’s French Quarter.
Rebel authors in attendance include Jerry Wheeler (Mercedes General), Jewelle Gomez (We Three), Brian Alessandro (Performer non Grata and Julian’s Debut), Jeffrey Round (The English Tutor), Tom Cardamone (Fever Spores), Sven Davisson (Breeding Devils in Chaos, The Desire Line, and Puck You!) and others.

Jeffrey Round in Toronto
2025-04-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | The Staircase, 27 Dundurn St N, Hamilton, Ontario, L8R 3C9, Canada
LitLive is a monthly literary reading series based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Featuring Jeffrey Round, author of The English Tutor.

New Orleans Poetry Festival
2025-04-12 - 2025-04-13 | New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude, New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Rebel Satori will be at the fest’s Small Press Book Fair!
The mission of the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Small Press Fair is to create a space for an inclusive and diverse group of writers to collaborate, share and influence each other while also being immersed in the distinctive literary culture of New Orleans. Our goal every year is to bring in poets and performers from across the globe to share their work and research in topics not only specific to writing but to all aspects of the Humanities, including cultural, political, ecological and historical disciplines relevant to contemporary New Orleans, Louisiana, and the world. We showcase the best writers New Orleans has to offer to our visitors, and to the local community we try to offer the most compelling authors from across the nation and the globe. The Festival is highly participatory with events ranging from workshops where you will be generating writing to open mics where you can share your work, from formal readings and panels to the most informal and collegial interactions and collaborations. For both locals and visitors we invite the active inspiration of four days of poetry immersion and collaboration, hopefully fostering further explorations and creations that continue beyond the time spent here in New Orleans.

Frank Pizzoli Signing
2025-04-18 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | LGBT Center of Central PA, 1323 N Front St., Harrisburg, PA, 17102, United States
Enjoy a special evening with the LGBT Center and Frank Pizzoli, who will be reading from and signing his new book, Passionate Outlier: Gay Writers and Allies on Their Work.
The LGBT Center will also be celebrating the new History Project Exhibit, which examines the origins and development of the LGBT Center’s History Project, its accomplishments, and its impact on the region’s LGBTQ+ community and the public over the last 12 years. The exhibit will be on display through July 17.

Noel Alumit @ LA Times Festival of Books
2025-04-26 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | NY
Defining Moments: Novels About Identity, Desire, and the Turning Points in Our Lives – Tickets Required

One moment can change everything in a person’s life—but more often, these big moments are comprised of many choices that seemed much smaller as they were happening one by one. Two of these propulsive, smart novels follow lives abruptly changed and forever redirected, while the third plays out more like a slow burn, exploring the ramifications of choice and secrets over decades, familial generations, and international borders.

Noel Alumit is a multidisciplinary artist who received a COLA grant, the James Duggins Mid-Career Prize and named one of Out Magazine’s “Out 100.” He wrote “Letters to Montgomery Clift” and his LA Times bestselling novel “Talking to the Moon” will be reissued later this year. His most recent book is the short story collection “Music Heard in Hi-Fi” (Rebel Satori). Noel acted in the forthcoming short film “Pearls Lost,” written/directed by Rebecca Ocampo and produced by Ryan Shrime. Noel co-founded the artist-run space OFFUS located in the Bendix building in downtown Los Angeles.

Carol Lee Campbell in Richmond
2025-04-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Abi’s Books and Brews, 1212 1/2 W Cary St,, Richmond, VA, 23220, United States
Hey Richmond! Carol Lee Campbell will be in Richmond, Virginia for a book event at Abi’s Books & Brews on April 27th at 2 pm, located on Cary Street. This free event will feature a discussion about their latest fiction, The Rebel Rose. Carol would love to see you there—be sure to stop by!

Rainbow Book Fair
2025-05-10 | LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Stop by this amazing event and stop by our table.
The Rainbow Book Fair is back! For our 13th Fair, the theme is “Queer Resistance Now: No Stopping Us!” As we face an increasing array of transphobic, racist, misogynist, and homophobic actions by the federal government, the RBF has joined the resistance! The Rainbow Book Fair celebrates LGBT culture and queer joy — nothing can get in the way of our commitment to justice, access, and great books. Our featured readers address the struggles and pleasures of living in community with each other and being our authentic selves. And get ready for panels that explore all kinds of LGBT resistance: political, gendered, sexual, and literary.
AND… don’t forget our annual Drag Story Hour, a celebration of gender fabulousness for children of all ages.
PLUS, we’ll be hosting the Come Hear! poetry marathon and a wide roster of short readings in every genre.

Drought Book Launch
2025-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Red Eye, 355 W 41st St, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Join author Scott Alexander Hess to celebrate the launch of his novel Drought.
About the book:
When Parnell, a recluse from Newark, New Jersey, inherits a dilapidated tobacco farm in Kentucky from his estranged Uncle Willy, he moves to the farm hoping to jump start his empty life. Such begins an odyssey igniting a dual narrative as Uncle Willy shares from the grave about his deep love for a man named Phil, and a violent curse born from hate and intolerance. In Kentucky, Parnell befriends Darl, who works at the Sonic, and John, an eccentric preacher who guides him to learn the twisted fate of his Uncle Willy. Parnell discovers there are more than tobacco leaves buried in the fields. As he unearths a long-hidden crime, to his surprise, he gains a new sense of self.
“Drought is as full of compassion for its characters–and humanity, in general–as it is unexpected in its storytelling. Hess has written a novel that manages to be simultaneously tender, macabre, and transcendent.” –Brian Alessandro, author of Performer Non Grata and Julian’s Debut
“Drought is an intricate, moving novel about a lonely farmer who wrestles with his uncle’s past and learns what it means to belong.” –Foreword Reviews

Christine Vartoughian at KGB
2025-06-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Christine Vartoughian reads from her new story collection, The Only Way Out Is Through. Signed copies will be available for purchase.

Rebel Satori Annual Pride Reading NYC
2025-06-28 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join a slate of Rebel Satori’s authors at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division for our second annual pride reading.
Authors in attendance will include Tom Cardamone, Sven Davisson, and Scott Hightower.
The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer cultural center, bookstore, and event space hosted by The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape, now known as New York City. We aim to foster a community invested in the values of mindfulness, intellectual curiosity, justice, compassion, and playfulness. The Bureau seeks to excite and educate a self-confident, sex-positive, and supportive queer community by offering books, publications, and art and by hosting readings, performances, film screenings, book discussion groups, and workshops. We provide local and visiting queers and friends with an open and inclusive space for dialogue and socializing. The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division welcomes you.

Christine Vartoughian at Word Books, Brooklyn
2025-07-08 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Word Books, 126 Franklin St., Brooklyn, NY, United States

Stories & Sparkles at 3rd & B'zaar, NYC
2025-07-23 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | 3rd & B’zaar, 191 East 3rd Street, New York, NY, United States
Christine Vartoughian reads from her new story collection, The Only Way Out Is Through. Signed copies will be available for purchase. Also featuring themed jewelry popup from Snootie Seconds. Drinks and sips for socializing.
