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Best Gay Erotica 2008 Signing and Party

  • erotica
  • NYC
  • parties
  • Rapture Cafe
  • readings
Submitted by Elizabeth on 13 February 2008 - 6:05pm.

Location(s)

Rapture Cafe
200 Avenue A between 11 and 12 streets
New York, NY
United States
See map: Google MapsQueer award-winning New York poet Emanuel Xavier presents the New York contributors to this year’s installation of the world’s most acclaimed gay men’s erotica collection, BEST GAY EROTICA 2008 (by Cleis Press, 2007, 240pp, tpb, $14.95), which he curated.

This year’s contributors Andrew McCarthy, Charlie Vazquez, Lee Houck, Sam J. Miller, Taylor Siluwe and Tom Cardamone will each grace the infamous Rapture Cafe stage to share their stories of obsession, desire, lust and seduction. Who said gay bohemia was dead?

Drifting Toward Love: Black, brown, gay and coming of age on the streets of New York

  • Brooklyn
  • readings
Submitted by Elizabeth on 10 February 2008 - 2:45pm.

Location(s)

Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
United States
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Journalist Kai Wright reads from his new book "Drifting Toward Love" about black and Latino gay young men in Brooklyn. From the book's web site:

Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains and passions that are typical of any young person coming of age. But they do so with few resources -- material or emotional -- in a world where the cards are stacked against their success.

 

Reading: Debbie Nathan "Pornography"

  • Debbie Nathan
  • New York
  • pornography
  • readings
Submitted by Chris on 5 January 2008 - 8:55pm.

Location(s)

Bluestockings
172 Allen St At Stanton
New York, NY
United States
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While the sexual and moral compass here in the U.S. generally points toward 'porn is bad', demand and access to pornography has grown to unprecedented levels. Journalist Debbie Nathan takes an objective view on the social issues surrounding it. Thoroughly researched and written in friendly language for a young audience, Nathan's "Pornography" explores how young people take a critical approach toward this medium. Step out for a lively and important discussion, 'cause we ask, we tell, right?

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  • events
  • films
  • readings
Submitted by Elizabeth on 18 August 2007 - 6:37am.

Do you have ideas for events that Sex in the Public Square might put on? Readings? Film screenings? Discussions? Let us know! And if you're an organization that would like to cosponsor an event, drop us a note using the contact form and let us know that, too.

 

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Single State of the Union anthology reading

  • Diane Mapes
  • New York City
  • people
  • Rachel Kramer Bussel
  • readings
  • single
  • women
Submitted by Elizabeth on 14 July 2007 - 5:52pm.

Location(s)

McNally Robinson NYC
50 Prince Street between Lafayette and Mulberry
New York, NY
United States
See map: Google MapsReading from Diane Mapes's anthology Single State of the Union with Rachel Kramer Bussel, Lynn Harris, Sarah Iverson, Judy McGuire, Susan Shapiro, and Amy Thomas.
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