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Join us for a conversation on the story of the scandal in the LBJ administration that brought queer life into national political thought. Tim Stewart-Winter’s book OUTED, covers the arrest and aftermath of Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-serving and most trusted advisor, Walter Jenkins. In 1964, Jenkins was arrested for soliciting sex in a YMCA bathroom near the White House. The scandal blasted across the front pages of major US newspapers, becoming a watershed in making straight America aware of queer life. Stewart-Winter is joined by Hugh Ryan, historian and co-host of the Queer History 101 podcast, for a conversation about the conditions of queer folks during the “Walter Jenkins affair” and its political and cultural aftershocks. Copies of Outed will be available for purchase. Both authors will be available after the event for a signing. Timothy Stewart-Winter is a historian of sexuality, gender, and politics in modern America. His research examines LGBTQ activism and public policy, electoral and presidential politics, and the shifting public meanings of private life. He is the author of Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest That Transformed a Presidency and Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics. His writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, and leading historical journals. Hugh Ryan is a writer, historian, and curator in New York City. With the multi-talented Peppermint, he is also the host of Queer History 101, the bookclub & podcast from Allstora.com. His most recent book, THE WOMEN’S HOUSE OF DETENTION: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, is a queer history of the Women’s House of Detention in Greenwich Village. It is the story of one building: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. It is the winner of the 2023 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle of the American Library Association, as well as the 2022 Warren Johansson Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. 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 and accessible by the 6th Ave 1 2 3 L trains and 8th Ave A C E trains. Our cafe, The Bureau Cafe, is open Tuesday-Sunday from 9am-7pm.

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