BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:412901@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20261112T090746Z DTSTART:20261112T233000Z DTEND:20261113T013000Z SUMMARY:The Wisdom Bar-“Queer Melville: A Secret History of America’s Gay Writers” DESCRIPTION:Events\\nManhattan\\nBooks & Readings\\nTalks\\nThe Wisdom Ba r-“Queer Melville: A Secret History of America’s Gay Writers”\\nNov ember 12\\, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm.\\n$33\\nEvent website\\nN/A\\nQueer Melv ille: A Secret History of America’s Gay Writers. Expert-led lectures in bars and creative spaces across NYC.\\n🧠 Who doesn’t love to learn about a secret history previously untold? Especially when it pertains to one of the most iconic writers of all time…Join us as we learn about th e man behind the myths! 📖\\nHerman Melville’s legacy as one of the m ost important figures in queer literary history is somewhat obscured and contested\\, but his work is suffused with male intimacy\\, homoerotic en counters\\, same-sex desire\\, and permutations of radical faggotry. 🏳 ️‍🌈Melville was not openly gay in the modern sense\\, because the categories of sexual identity through which we understand such concepts t oday had not yet been developed. He uneasily maintained the role of husba nd and father throughout his life. The term “homosexual” itself wasn t coined until he was in his 50s. Yet many readers\\, starting within h is own lifetime\\, understood the queerness that was often allegorically encoded in his narratives\\, but sometimes achingly blatant. 🏳️‍ \\n🐋 Whether it’s sperm-squeezing and interracial same-sex marriag e in Moby-Dick\\, cross-cultural sexual explorations of Polynesia in his early adventure tales\\, the gay blade who takes the protagonist of Redbu rn to a male brothel in London\\, the unwholesome and sexualized father-w orship of Pierre\\, or Melville’s own febrile romantic yearning for his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne\\, the textual and historical evidence for a queer reading of Melville’s life and works is abundant and compelling.\ \nLonely Christopher exhaustively presents the case that\\, as we uplift the contemporaneous writer Walt Whitman as America’s Great Gay Poet\\, Herman Melville has been and will be our Great Gay Novelist. 🏳️‍ \\nThis might be for you if you…\\nAre a Herman Melville or Moby Dick enthusiast\\nAre intrigued by the secret histories of literary icons tha t were previously unexplored\\nAre curious about LGBTQ+ representation th roughout history\\nEnjoy lecture-based and conversation-focused events of any kind — think Ted Talks in bars\\, Lectures on Tap\\, or micro lear ning meets dinner party\\nWant to switch up your usual weeknight. Why not make it interesting? 🤓\\nAGENDA\\n6:30 PM: Doors Open\\n6:30 PM – 7 :00 PM: Grab a Drink!\\n7:00 PM – 7:45 PM: Lecture Begins\\n7:45 PM – 8:00 PM: Q&A\\n8:00 PM – 8:30 PM: Meet the Speaker & Mingle\\n*2 Item Minimum\\nLonely Christopher is the managing director of the literary non -profit Segue Foundation and author of several books and plays. His forth coming work includes the poetry collections White Ruins and Troubleshooti ng as well as the monograph Herman Melville Crazy: Queer Signs and Wonder s. He lives in Brooklyn and also works in the field of HIV treatment and prevention.\\n🎟️ This is a ticketed event\\, purchase here: https:// www.eventbrite.com/e/the-wisdom-bar-queer-melville-a-secret-history-of-am ericas-gay-writers-tickets-2003372044715?aff=AMNY\\nLocation:\\nBibliothe que\\n54 Mercer St\\nNew York\\,\\nNew York\\n10013\\n+ Google Calendar+ Add to iCalendar\\nFeatured Events\\nPost an Event\\nToday\\, 6 pm\\nOpen Call for Participants: AIDS Memorial Quilt with Hamptons Pride\\nThe Chu rch\\, 48 Madison Street\\, Sag Harbor\\, NY\\, USA\\nToday\\, 6 pm\\nNEW Pride Agenda Empowerment Awards\\nSalesforce Tower\\nToday\\, 6:30 pm\\n The Wisdom Bar-“Queer Melville: A Secret History of America’s Gay Wri ters”\\nBibliotheque\\nToday\\, 7 pm\\nEarl Grey Presents: “I Am ME On Purpose”\\nLaurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Cafe\\nToday\ \, 8 pm\\nQueer Trivia Extravaganza @ Secret Pour\\nSecret Pour\\nToday\\ , 10 pm\\nKaraoke All Night at Seventh Heaven ˖ ݁♬⋆.˚𝄞.\\nSeven th Heaven Bar & Karaoke\\nTomorrow\\, 3 pm\\nQueens Queer Youth Group (ages 13 – 18)\\nNY LGBT Network Queens LGBT Center\\nTomorrow\\, 7:3 0 pm\\nPOTUS: Or\\, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Keeping Hi m Alive\\nThe Gallery Players\\nTomorrow\\, 8 pm\\nThe Boys in the Band\\ nthe heights players\\nTomorrow\\, 8 pm\\nBia Ferreira\\nNublu\\nTomorrow \\, 10 pm\\nClub Cocoa ft. halima (live)\\, UBABU\\, Ch3ri\\, Nebula\\nTh e House\\nTomorrow\\, 10 pm\\nShe’s Not A Christian… Girl Autumn: Que er Dance Party for Blasphemous Pop Music\\nclub cumming\\nView All Events …\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/the -wisdom-bar-queer-melville-a-secret-history-of-america-s-gay-writers--202 6-11-12 LOCATION:New York URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/the-wisdom-bar-queer-melville-a-secret-history-of-america-s-gay-writers--2026-11-12 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR