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SUMMARY:Author Event: Robin Maril’s A Queer Guide to Saving American De
 mocracy
DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE\\nJoin us for to celebrate the launch
  of Robin Maril’s book A Queer Guide to Saving American Democracy. Robi
 n hosts a podcast of the same name discussing the interconnection between
  our queer future and our democratic future with guests like Margaret Cho
 \\, Dean Spade\\, and Brian Sims. A Queer Guide to Saving American Democr
 acy the book situates the attacks on LGBTQ rights within a larger democra
 tic crisis. Speaking directly to the queer and transgender people navigat
 ing the intensifying political and cultural fault lines\\, the book argue
 s that the current denigration of queer and transgender lives in the US i
 s a symptom of the broader degradation of American democracy\\, represent
 ing the newest threat of American fascism. Joined by the founding editori
 al director of NBC Out\\, Brooke Sopelsa\\, the two will discuss the pote
 ntial of the queer perspective towards transformative social change. \\n
 Copies of the book will be available for purchase and there will be a sig
 ning after the event. \\nRobin Maril is a writer and Constitutional Law 
 professor based in Portland\\, Oregon.  Her work engages questions of de
 mocratic integrity and the growing threat of fascism and authoritarian re
 gimes within America.  She also hosts the podcast A Queer Guide to Savin
 g Democracy. She is a widely recognized scholar on LGBTQ rights and polic
 y\\, Executive power\\, and the law of democracy.  Before teaching\\, Ro
 bin worked in the LGBTQ civil rights movement at the Human Rights Campaig
 n for nearly a decade. Robin began her legal career as a Presidential Man
 agement Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
  She and her wife have two sons\\, two dogs\\, and an unknown number of s
 nails. She is a proud graduate of the University of Oklahoma and Temple U
 niversity Beasley School of Law.\\nBrooke Sopelsa is an NYC-based award-w
 inning journalist who has been writing\\, editing and producing for major
  national newsrooms for more than two decades. Most recently\\, she serve
 d as the founding editorial director of NBC Out at NBC News Digital\\, an
 d she’s an alumna of HuffPost\\, MSNBC and CNBC. Brooke has also co-pro
 duced three documentaries centered on the LGBTQ community: the 2007 indep
 endent film “QueerStreets\\,” the 2019 NBC News docu-series “Stonew
 all 50” and the 2024 NBC News feature documentary “The Stonewall Revo
 lution.” Brooke holds a B.A. in Economics from Bucknell University\\, a
 n M.A. in Journalism from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from NYU’s 
 Stern School of Business.\\nThe Bureau of General Services—Queer Divisi
 on is Manhattan’s only queer bookstore\\, located on the second floor o
 f the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesday-Sunday from 1-7pm and accessible 
 by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe\\, The B
 ureau Cafe\\, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.\\nhttps://www.gayout.c
 om/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/author-event-robin-maril-s-a-
 queer-guide-to-saving-american-democracy-2026-10-23
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/author-event-robin-maril-s-a-queer-guide-to-saving-american-democracy-2026-10-23
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