Cruising Pavilion Book Launch

Join us to discuss the ways queer people have occupied, invented, and transformed urban spaces with the release of Cruising Pavilion. From the team behind the international Cruising Pavilion project comes the book of the same name. Cruising Pavilion brings together artists, architects, writers, and researchers to look at cruising as a queer spatial and social practice. How have queer people occupied, invented, and transformed parks, streets, public restrooms, bars, bathhouses, sex clubs, and, more recently, digital spaces? Join us as we discuss the histories of queer communities, desire, visibility, secrecy, and the right to inhabit the city differently. Copies of Cruising Pavilion will be available for purchase. The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe, The Bureau Café, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.