Thomas Moore in London
2025-08-13 18:30 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Trisha’s, 57 Greek St., Soho, London, W1D 3DX, United Kingdom
Thomas Moore (author of In Their Arms) will be reading in London alongside Audrey Szasz, Jane Dabate, and Casper Kelly. Organized by Danny Profit and TC Hell.
To attend, please send RSVP to dannyprofit94@gmail.vom

Christine Vartoughian - Moving Body Salon NYC
2025-08-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Moving Body Salon, 112 W. 27th St., 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.

Scott Alexander Hess at the New School
2025-09-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Scott will discuss his latest novel Drought at The New School in New York City.

Scott Alexander Hess @ The New School
2025-09-16 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States
I am thrilled to be back at my MFA in Fiction Alma Mater The New School to read from and talk about my new queer novel DROUGHT! The New School was where I first had the thought that I might be able to write a novel and here we are 8 novels later!

I will be giving away a free copy of my book and a special T-shirt at the reading. Drop in! It’s free and will be fun!

Info and Register (you can also just show up).

Fall of Freedom
2025-11-25 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Bar Redux, 801 Poland Ave., New Orleans, 70117, United States
Bar Redux and Unlikely Stories present a night of pro-democracy, anti-fascist art in support of the nationwide Fall of Freedom movement (see https://www.falloffreedom.com/ ). Presenting writing and music by NaTRILL Dizaster, music by Josh Benitez, a musical performance by the No-Law Solidarity Choir, and literature by Andy Young, Daniel W.K. Lee, Cid Galicia, Rel Farrar, Scythe Sylvia, Briana Augustus, and Russ Mercado. There will be a silent procession for free speech and a literary open mic, so come and share your pro-democracy, anti-fascist work. Tuesday, November 25, 8pm in New Orleans!

4th Annual Rebel Satori World AIDS Day Reading & Book Launch
2025-12-03 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
The Library of Homosexual Congress, a Rebel Satori imprint, is proud to reissue two seminal novels from the AIDS crisis: Bo Huston’s Remember Me and Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick.
Tom Cardamone from the Rebel Satori imprint, The Library of Homosexual Congress, will read from Bo Huston’s work.

To reserve a copy of Remember Me (Library of Homosexual Congress, November 11, 2025, paperback, $17.95) and/or Sacred Lips of the Bronx (Library of Homosexual Congress, November 4, 2025, paperback, $23.95) please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve Remember Me and/or Sacred Lips of the Bronx for December 3 event” in the subject line, and in the body of the email let us know which book you’d like to purchase or if you’d like to purchase both.
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
Even better: sign up to make a monthly tax-deductible donation to the Bureau!
https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/bgsqd
Thank you for committing to sustaining this vital project!

Remember Me by Bo Huston
This elegiac novel, first published in 1991, is the story of smalltown friendship, longing, and the impact of AIDS on a young gay writer’s now fleeting artistic ambition. In prose poetic yet uncompromising, Huston’s work brings a life from the margins to the forefront like no other novel from an era of overwhelming prejudice, fear and powerful resilience.
A three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, Bo Huston (1959 – 1993) was the author of two novels and two short story collections. A columnist for the San Francisco Times, he was a co-founder of the LGBT literary conference Out/Write and participated in the first March on Washington DC. Huston received his HIV diagnosis in 1988 and in diminishing health orchestrated his own exit on May 24th, 1993.

Sacred Lips of the Bronx by Douglas Sadownick
“Sadownick’s ambitious first novel combines AIDS activism, Jewish folklore, New Age therapies, kinky sex, and some extraordinary passages about life in contemporary Venice, California, and the Bronx of yesteryear. At the center is Michael Kaplan, an AIDS journalist living in post-riot Los Angeles. Sadownick juxtaposes the ghosts of Michael’s adolescence in the Bronx –his Polish grandmother Frieda, his jazz musician brother, and his Puerto Rican teenage lover –against his current struggles in L.A., particularly his deteriorating 10-year relationship with Robert, an AIDS activist and performance artist.”
-Publishers Weekly

Douglas Sadownick was born on Shakespeare Avenue in the Bronx, where he first encountered the allure of gay desire amidst the gritty sensuality of urban life. His intellectual journey took him to Columbia College, where he studied Plato and Baldwin, developing a lifelong fascination with homosexual Eros. He later earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute and founded the nation’s first LGBT Specialization in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University in 2006. He also established the Colors LGBTQ Youth Counseling Center.
In addition to Sacred Lips of the Bronx (1994), he’s the author of Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present (1996) and Healing Gay Sex and Love: A Group Experience (2025).

Ryan Schulte in NYC
2026-03-22 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Word Up Community Bookshop, 876 Riverside Drive, Washington Heights, NY, United States
Ryan Schulte author of I Dreamed I Saw Augustine will read at the Word Up Community Bookshop in Washington Heights.
“Dance Yrself Clean” The fourth year in a row – another year, another reading across literary genres and named after an LCD Soundsystem song. Come hear five exciting new voices work out their ideas and find an audience among friends. In years past, they’ve read about new film, psychoanalysis, the Fall of Man, and growing up in New York City. Who knows what this time around will bring.
In compliance with Word Up Community Safety guidelines, all attendees are encouraged to stay masked at all time.
Recirculation, a project of Word Up Community Bookshop, is located at 876 Riverside Drive (near 160th St.) in Washington Heights, NYC. You can take the 1 train to 157th St., A/C train to 163rd St., and the M4 and M5 to Broadway and 159/160th.
