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ALL AGES PRIDE PARTY | NYC | JUNE 24
Performances by Julia Weldon, Be Steadwell, and the Urban Word NYC Youth Slam Team, MC’d by Kristin Russo & Gabby Rivera, and hosted at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe!
Founded in 2012, the Everyone Is Gay & Autostraddle All Ages Pride Party is a space dedicated to LGBTQ young people, their families, allies, and friends. We work to prioritize collaborative, community-based engagement and to center queer and trans performers. The event began as a response to the increasing number of 21+, alcohol-focused, corporate-driven events at many Pride celebrations across the country, and is believed to be the first Pride event in NYC that made a commitment to centering LGBTQ young people. This annual event is hosted on the Saturday of NYC Pride and is supported by grassroots organizations and artists committed to the liberation and radical empowerment of LGBTQ youth.
It’s free, open to all, and our favorite event of the whole dang year.
Details here: housingworks.org/events/detail/5th-annual-all-ages-pride-party/
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January was a great month at the bookstore! Here’s who we hosted:
Graywolf authors Maud Casey & Stacey D’Erasmo talked about their books The Art of Mystery and The Art of Intimacy
Boston alt-rock band Buffalo Tom played a benefit concert,
Queer podcast Food 4 Thot did a live show and celebrated the launch of Joe Osmundson’s memoir Inside/Out.
Nathaniel Rich launched his new novel King Zeno, a historical thriller set in New Orleans, with live jazz from The Jazz Foundation.
Austin-based showcase Greetings, From Queer Mountain launched their NYC residency, with Sam Sax, Tommy Pico, Whitney Chanel Clark, Jes Tom, Chewy May, Lynaé DePriest & host Michael Foulk!
Rising sci-fi and fantasy star Brooke Bolander talked about her debut novella, The Only Harmless Great Thing, with Maria Dahvana Headley and Amal El-Mohtar.
Drunk Ed continued its wildly successful series of roasts of “great” literary men, with Meredith Clark, Kate Knibbs, Muna Mire, and Chelsea G. Summers taking down Joseph Conrad, Michael Wolff, Jack Kerouac, and Christopher Hitchens..
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Eve L. Ewing reads her poem ‘Why You Cannot Touch My Hair’
my hair is my childhood friend who used to come over every day and became cool in high school and then began to do drugs and then ran away but now is back trying to get her life together and we have coffee together one Sunday morning before her shift at the grocery store
my hair was in a zoo. my hair escaped from the zoo and took out three officers of the law before they shot my hair up full of tranquilizers. tranquilizers only because my hair is too valuable to die
my hair is a speakeasy. it’s not that no one can get in– it’s just that you don’t know the password
my hair did a lot of work and climbed many mountains literal and metaphorical to get here. my hair ran out of oxygen tanks a mile back and has been heaving for breath ever since but is determined to reach the summit. my hair endured a bonnet last night. that’s a lot of work
my hair is a technology from the future and will singe your fingertips, be careful
my hair doesn’t care about what you want
my hair has a brother. I washed and conditioned and moisturized and combed and braided my hair’s brother in the kitchen sink when my hair’s brother was depressed. my hair’s brother has a daughter. my hair’s brother’s daughter is tenderheaded and I sing while I comb her, holding her at the roots, touching her forehead so gently and telling her I love her while she cries
Save the date! This year’s World AIDS Day is on Friday December 1st. Join us at King’s Theater in Brooklyn from 11AM to 1PM.
https://www.housingworks.org/events/world-aids-day
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On October 25th, Terrance Hayes and Ellen Gallagher talked about the intersections of poetry and art, taking inspiration from nature, and the influence of politics on art.
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