Through Sunday, 5th: Urban Bear Weekend 2013
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Saturday, March 9th & Sunday, March 10th: The 20th Original GLBT Expo
The 20th Original GLBT Expo Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Manhattan Noon-6pm both days $17 Click here for more information. Click here for more cheap New York City events & things to do.
Wednesday, February 6th: Queer Ladies Speed Dating
Queer Ladies Speed Dating Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway, Manhattan) 7-9pm $25 in advance Whether you’re looking for love or to make new friends – look no further, this is where you should spend your Wednesday night. Join us in the rare books room for a glass of champagne, a few divine snacks, lots of laughter, [...]
Through Sunday, January 27th: 2nd Annual Festival of Poetic License
The 2013 Festival will include stories by more than 20 writers including LGBT, youth, Black, Latina, Veteran, Native American and Asian American artists writing about war, mental health, identity, love, politics and memory in Juarez, Ghana, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, and all over America. The festival will feature more than 75 artists over 7 days in [...]
Friday, January 11th & Sunday, January 13th: ‘Madonnalogues’
Click here for half price tickets to Madonnalogues. Hailed as “brilliant” by Roseanne Barr and “genius” by tastemaker Perez Hilton, Nadya Ginsburg returns to New York’s Laurie Beechman Theatre with her acclaimed one-woman show, Madonnalogues. In the comedic show, Ginsburg mixes original characters, including Babka the Russian bikini waxer and Belinda, a guidette vampire, along [...]
Wednesday, January 9th: The Way the Lights Went Out: A Hurricane Sandy Zine Benefit for the Ali Forney Center
The Way the Lights Went Out: A Hurricane Sandy Zine Benefit for the Ali Forney Center Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm $5-20 suggested Featuring Kate Angell, Jamie Varriale Vélez, Jenna Freedman & more! NYC zinesters of many stripes invite you to a reading and zine sale to benefit The Ali Forney Center, a Manhattan-based [...]
Monday, December 31st: Bushwig Drag Queen NYE Celebration + Free Champagne Fountain
Bushwig Secret Project Robot (389 Melrose St., Brooklyn) 10pm-6am $10 The girls have been invited back to present Secret Project Robot’s 2013 New Year’s Eve bash! The event is for everyone to celebrate the whole spectrum of ‘Drag’ and per-formative gender expressions! Highlights include 8 of the finest drag queens, Free champagne fountain @ midnight, [...]
Saturday, November 17th: MIX NYC: ‘Wildness’ by Wu Tsang
Wildness UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 9:30pm $10 suggested Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LGBT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, [...]
Friday, September 28th: Big Red Apple Music Festival + $1 Beers
Big Red Apple Music Festival 6th Street Community Center (638 E. 6th St., #4, Manhattan) 7pm Suggested donation Please join us for an evening of Music for Social Justice Featuring: R-Tronika Kelly Montoya and anarcho-folk legend David Rovics In addition our fantastic musical talent, we will also be hosting tables from various local left wing, [...]
Friday, July 27th-Tuesday, July 31st: NewFest 2012 – LGBT Film Festival
New York’s premier LGBT Film Festival—one of the world’s most comprehensive showcases of international LGBT film—returns for its 24th annual edition, and its first in partnership with Los Angeles’ Outfest and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. As always, the program includes a compelling collection of narratives, documentaries, shorts and panels. Click here for more [...]
Thursday, July 5th: QUEEROCRACY: 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today
QUEEROCRACY: 30 Years In, 30 Years Out: AIDS Activism Today New Museum (235 Bowery, Manhattan) 7pm + Free museum admission from 7-9pm Free Gearing up for the 2012 International AIDS Conference this July in Washington DC, QUEEROCRACY will present a workshop about AIDS today and the activism necessary to guarantee access to AIDS treatment and [...]
Sunday, June 24th: NYC Pride March
NYC Pride March Starts at 36th Street & 5th Ave., ends at Christopher & Greenwich St., Manhattan 11am gather, noon start Free The first March was held in 1970, and has since become an annual civil rights demonstration. Over the years its purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight against AIDS and to [...]
Tuesday, June 12th: NYC Dyke March Retrospective
NYC Dyke March Retrospective The LGBT Center (208 W. 13th St., Manhattan) 7-10pm $10 suggested donation Come celebrate 20 years of revolutionary protests! Since 1993, when the Lesbian Avengers organized the first Dyke March in Washington, D.C. at the March on Washington, and then again in New York in June, dykes have come out to [...]
Saturday, June 9th: Brooklyn Pride
Pride Day 2012 Prospect Park at Bartel-Pritchard Circle 15th Street and Prospect Park West Pride 5K Fun Run (Registration begins at 8:00 AM) A fun event for the LGBT community and friends in a festive, healthy and inclusive environment. Part of the proceeds go to a local LGBT organization. Multicultural Festival (11:00 AM – 6:00 [...]
Saturday, June 9th: Laid Brooklyn Pride Queer Dance Party
Laid Brooklyn Pride Queer Dance Party The Bell House (149 7th St., Brooklyn) 8:30pm $10 DJs Nasty Esq, Roze-Royze, Noa D keep you moving all night. Click here for more cheap New York City events & things to do.
Thursday, June 7th-Saturday, June 9th: ‘Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love’
Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love WOW Cafe Theater (59-61 E 4th St., Manhattan) 8pm $8-40, pay-what-you-wish The third iteration of the groundbreaking performances and artwork of Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love! Three evenings of multi-genre performance sharing the voices, stories, and experiences of the intersection between queerness and Islam. Click here [...]
Wenesday, June 6th: ‘Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution’
Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Fifth Ave. & 42nd St., Manhattan) 7pm Free When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted—most notably at a bar called Stonewall in Greenwich Village—in the summer of 1969, most religious traditions condemned homosexuality; psychiatric experts labeled people who were attracted to others of the same [...]
Tuesday, June 19th: Queer Poets & Poetry (Register Now)
Queer Poets & Poetry Brooklyn Brainery (515 Court St., Brooklyn) 8:15-9:45pm $11, registration required Just in time for New York Gay Pride, we bring you QUEER POETS & POETRY! We’ll study poems that are both explicitly (and not so explicitly) queer in context. Of course, queer poems aren’t just about hot, titillating gay erotica (but [...]
Sunday, June 3rd: 2012 Queens Pride Parade & Festival
Queens Pride Parade 37th Ave. from 84th St.-75th St., Queens Noon Free Festival 75th St. & 37th Rd., Queens 11am-6pm Free QUEENS PRIDE promotes awareness and education among and of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning community of Queens, New York. Our founders were provoked to organize the QUEENS PRIDE parade and festival by [...]
Saturday, June 2nd: Dyke March Music Show Fundraiser
Dyke March Music Show Fundraiser Public Assembly (70 N. 6th St., Brooklyn) 3-6pm $7-10 sliding scale This should be a super fun Saturday afternoon of Queer music and good times. Come on out to Williamsburg and see this show. Sliding scale of $7 to $10. With some great musicians/bands. Music by: Sierra West Julia Weldon [...]
Monday, April 30th: Sister Spit with Michelle Tea & Justin Bond
Sister Spit with Michelle Tea & Justin Bond Issue Project Room (22 Boerum Pl., Brooklyn) 8pm $15 The legendary literary performance tour, Sister Spit, comes to ISSUE Project Room with a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance! Don’t miss this gathering of taste-makers, novelists, luminaries, chanteuses, performance artists, poets, and musicians.Featuring your host Michelle Tea (Best [...]
Saturday, February 18th: Frances Kellor Biography Discussion
Founding Mother Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm Free Come learn about the most fantastic transgender lesbian activist of the Progressive Era. Frances Kellor (1873 – 1952) developed theories of gender and basketball, founded the National Urban League, set up alternative government forms, led in two Presidential elections before she could vote, got suffrage on [...]
