BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:286531@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20261014T211140Z DTSTART:20261021T190000Z DTEND:20261021T210000Z SUMMARY:Book Launch: How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Throu gh Pop Culture DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE\\nIn How to Win a Culture War\\, soci ologist Lisa M. Stulberg explores how LGBTQ+ artists\\, athletes\\, and e ntertainment leaders have helped reshape American culture through visibil ity\\, advocacy\\, and storytelling. Using examples from television\\, fi lm\\, music\\, sports\\, and politics—including the cultural impact of late-2025 breakout series Heated Rivalry—Stulberg shows how today’s p rogress was built on decades of creative risk-taking and activism.\\nDraw ing on 14 years of interviews with 170 culture workers\\, including Eric McCormack\\, Lea DeLaria\\, and Greg Louganis\\, the book reveals six key strategies used to advance LGBTQ+ social change—from becoming visible to “staying queer.” Rich with behind-the-scenes insight\\, How to Win a Culture War offers a timely playbook for changing hearts\\, minds\\, a nd culture in the face of ongoing political backlash.\\nCopies of the boo k will be available for purchase and there will be time for a signing aft er the event. \\nLisa M. Stulberg is associate professor of sociology of education at New York University’\\;s Steinhardt School of Culture\ \, Education\\, and Human Development and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Sociology at NYU. Her research focuses on the politics of race and education\\, affirmative action in higher education\\, schoo l choice policy and politics\\, and LGBTQ+ social change. She is the auth or of a forthcoming book on the connection between pop culture and LGBTQ+ social change\\, entitled How to Win a Culture War: LGBTQ+ Social Change Through Pop Culture\\, to be published by the University of Chicago Pres s in October of 2026. She is also the author of Race\\, Schools\\, and Ho pe: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Pre ss\\, 2008) and LGBTQ Social Movements (Polity\\, 2018). \\nBrian Sims i s a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate who spent a decade in the P ennsylvania House of Representatives as the first openly LGBTQ+ person el ected to the state’s General Assembly. Before his time in state office\ \, he was co-captain of the Bloomsburg University football team\\, becomi ng the first openly gay college football captain on record. He currently serves as a Lecturer in Culture\\, Advocacy and Leadership at Vanderbilt University New York City. He also has lectured at more than 150 colleges and universities and has spoken at more than 25 Fortune 100 and Fortune 5 00 companies and has served in a number of non-profit leadership position s.\\nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s que er bookstore\\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re o pen Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L train s and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\\, The Bureau Cafe\\, is open Tuesda y-Sunday from 9am-7pm.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/ new-york/events/book-launch-how-to-win-a-culture-war-lgbtq-social-change- through-pop-culture-2026-10-21 LOCATION:Bureau of General Services-Queer Division URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/book-launch-how-to-win-a-culture-war-lgbtq-social-change-through-pop-culture-2026-10-21 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR