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Sunday June 29, 2008

Show Some Pride!

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Gay Pride March
Gay Pride.bmp Come to the Gay Pride March with grand marshals Candis Cayne, PFLAG, the Gay Center, and Gilbert Baker leading the annual celebration. The event starts with the march itself but don’t miss the dance on the pier or the rapture on the river afterwards.
Time: Noon Sunday, June 29
Location: 5th Avenue & 52nd St. to Christopher & Greenwich St.

Saturday June 21, 2008

Awesome Parade

Category: Fairs + Festivals Permalink

Mermaid Parade
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Come to Coney Island for the nation’s largest art parade, presided over by a different celebrity King Nepture and Queen Mermaid every year, followed by a post-parade ball. Don’t miss this bizarre spectacle and don’t forget your homemade costume.
Start: 2:00 pm Saturday, June 21
Location: W. 10th St. & Surf Ave. - Coney Island

Friday June 20, 2008

Gallery Opening

Category: Art Events Permalink

Opening of After Everything: Gay Directions in New Art
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An exhibition examining the art of gay artists in the post-everything society. Curated by Dylan Peet, the show features a diverse selection of works by eight great artists
Time: Friday, June 20, 6:30 - 10PM
Location: Like the Spice – 224 Roebling Street

Saturday June 14, 2008

Come to Brooklyn Pride...

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Brooklyn Pride
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Come attend this gay celebration hosted by the Brooklyn Pride Committee. This years theme is "Live Love Be" - which is also the international theme for 2008.
Start: 9:00 AM- 6:00 PM Saturday, June 14th
Location: Prospect Park Bandshell – 9th St. & Prospect Park West

Watch Some Great Gospel...

Category: Live Music Permalink

Lavender Light Gospel Choir
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Lavender Light Gospel Choir is dedicated to keeping alive the black gospel music tradition in an environment supportive to lesbian and gay people, with a special ministry to black lesbians and gays.
Start: 8:00 PM Saturday, June 14th
Location: Symphony Space – 2537 Broadway

Sunday June 24, 2007

Pride Parade

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10:45 a.m.

Gay pride parade begins; 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

Wednesday May 23, 2007

LGBT Singles Event with WNYC host Richard Hake

Category: Queer Events Permalink

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WNYC Host Richard Hake

It's high class and fantastic times as Richard Hake hosts an LGBT Singles Event at The Chelsea Art Museum tonight. Ticket price includes complimentary drinks and hors d'oeuvres, a pop culture trivia ice-breaker, and the first solo exhibit of Japanese photographer Miwa Yanagi. Tickets and event info here.

7:00pm to 10:00pm
$35 advance/$40 at the door
The Chelsea Art Museum
556 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue
212-669-3333 (WNYC Listener Services for questions)

Saturday May 19, 2007

March across the Brooklyn Bridge

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11 a.m.

Same-sex-marriage rights advocates march across the Brooklyn Bridge; begins at Foley Square, across from 60 Centre St., and proceeds across bridge to Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn.

Thursday April 19, 2007

Gays Rally For Parades, Tax Rights

Category: Protest, March, Rally Permalink

4PM

Gay group holds rally and parades with permit to challenge NYPD's parade permit laws; City Hall Park.

6PM

Same-sex marriage advocates hold tax day protest; outside James Farley Post Office, Eighth Avenue between 31st and 33rd streets.

Wednesday March 21, 2007

Love Ahoy! Grrrlz Gone Wild

Category: Queer Events Permalink

7-9:30PM
Love Ahoy: Grrrlz Gone Wild
@ Galapagos Art Space
Frontroom
70 N 6th St b/w Wythe & Kent
Williamsburg, BK
718-782-5188
Free

Fuck televised nautical-themed game shows - Love Ahoy! is New York City’s only live-action nautical-themed game show! Yeah!This month's show is for the lay-deeez when one sexy bachelorette chooses one of three more seasoned female contestants for her first-ever "deep sea muff dive". Is that live-action, too?

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Friday February 09, 2007

Nan Goldin

Category: Art Events Permalink

6-8PM
Nan Goldin 1972–74 and The Other Side
@ Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th St b/w 10th and 11th Aves
212-243-0200

Nan Goldin's infatuation with Boston drag queens Ivy, Naomi and Colette is documented beautifully in an exhibition of over forty early black & white photographs made between 1972 and 1974. These are accompanied by the artist’s celebrated slide show The Other Side, named after the Boston night club where she spent her early years.

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Monday January 29, 2007

Last Monday!

Category: Free! Permalink

9PM
Last Monday
@ Floyd
131 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn
Free

You say that you're looking for gay hipsters who aren't total trons? This 'sort of convenient to many trains''South Brooklyn party for boy and girl homosexuals and their friends' is - I have it on very good authority - the jam.

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Thursday January 18, 2007

Michael T Turns 40

Category: NYC Buzz Permalink

10PM
Michael T's Birthday Bash
@ Sol
609 W 29th St
$10, $5 with flyer
Open bar 10-11PM, 2-for-1 drinks 3-4AM

Legendary New York DJ/superstar Michael T defies his age and rages out tonight at Sol. This is the party tonight. Go drunk and stay drunk with an opening open bar and a closing two-for-one drinks special, and make sure to splash it way way way up for the doorman: they wanna see you dressed up like what.

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Tuesday September 26, 2006

Happy Tuesdays

Category: Queer Events Permalink

10PM
Happy Tuesdays
@ Happy Valley
14 East 27th St

Put on the glitter and anything else that sparkles because it's time for gay fabulous Tuesdays, sister!
Catch a special performance by Princess Superstar.

Sunday June 18, 2006

Miss LEZ

Category: Queer Events Permalink

8PM
Murray Hill's 6th Annual Miss LEZ Pageant
@ Knitting Factory
74 Leonard St
212-219-3006
$15

Monday January 09, 2006

Reading

Category: Book Events Permalink

7PM
Kevin Keck
@ McNally Robinson Booksellers
50 Prince St at Mulberry St
212-274-1160

Kevin Keck reads from his memoir, "Oedipus Wrecked", about his sexual misadventures.

Sunday January 08, 2006

L Word

Category: Benefits, Auctions + Dinners Permalink

7PM
The L Word Season 3 Official Premiere Party
@ Crobar
530 West 28th St
212-629-9000
$10 suggested

The Human Rights Campaign is throwing this bash.

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Thursday January 05, 2006

Homo Comicus

Category: Comedy Permalink

7:30PM
Homo Comicus
@ Gotham Comedy Club
208 West 23rd St between 7th and 8th Ave
212-367-9000
$12 plus a 2 drink min

NYC best gay and gay friendly comics fearturing Bob Smith from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Judy Gold, Larry Amos, and Kim Cea just to name a few.

Monday January 02, 2006

Ladies Night

Category: Queer Events Permalink

10PM
Free
@ Nowhere
322 East 14th St between 1st and 2nd Ave

Hosted by Jen Urban, Doro, and Sandy, this ladies only party has 2 for 1 draft beers, free pool and jukebox.

Tuesday December 27, 2005

Beige

Category: Queer Events Permalink

10PM
Biege
@ B-Bar
40 East 4th St at Bowery
Free

Popular bar for gay men. The music is great and the dance floor is always packed.

Friday December 23, 2005

Q Girls

Category: Queer Events Permalink

8PM-2AM
Q Girls
@ The Lounge at Elmo
156 7th Ave between 19th and 20th St
$5 before 9 and $10 after

Wednesday December 21, 2005

Ladies Only

Category: Queer Events Permalink

8PM
Wham
@ Henrietta Hudson
438 Hudson St at Morton
$5

Open bar from 8-9
2 for 1 drinks from 10-12.
Two bars, good music, and pool table. Great place for single ladies to mingle.

Thursday December 15, 2005

Lesbian Utopia

Category: Art Events Permalink

6-9PM
JD's Lesbian Utopia
@ Deitch Projects
76 Grand St at Wooster
212-343-7300
Free


This exhibit features JD Sampson's (from Le Tigre) quest to find a Lesbian Utopia.

Tuesday December 13, 2005

Snapshot

Category: Clubs Permalink

9PM
Snapshot
@ Bar 13
35 East 13th St between 4th Ave and University Pl
$8

This week Miss Jessica Rose and Big Apple Burlesque star in "Burlesque and Honkytonk".

Saturday December 10, 2005

LGBT Art Gallery Tour

Category: Queer Events Permalink

1PM
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Art Gallery
Tour @ 526 West 26th St between 10th and 11th Ave
$15

This tour is given by a gay-studies professor
and includes eight stops at the local Chelsea
galleries.

Sunday June 26, 2005

NYC Gay Pride 2005

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Gay Pride 2005 week comes to an end in NY, the last days events include:

12PM The 36th Annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride March, 5th Ave and 52nd St (to Christopher and Greenwich St) Details

11AM PrideFest, street festival, Greenwich and Washington St (b/t Christopher and Spring St) Details

4-11PM Dance 19: The Dance on the Pier, Pier 54 (13th St @ Hudson River) Details

Tuesday June 21, 2005

Lincoln Center Salutes Gay Pride

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Lincoln Center presents an array of events all week long saluting Gay Pride 2005. Acclaimed literary figures, leading entertainers of pop, rock, jazz, Broadway, cabaret, dance, opera and classical performances will be brought together for the week. 6/21-6/23

Saturday June 18, 2005

Leather Pride auction

Category: Queer Events Permalink

6-11PM 22nd Annual Leather Pride Night Auction at Roxy, 515 W 18th St (btwn 10th/11th Aves)

Saturday August 21, 2004

Wigstock

Category: Queer Events Permalink

5 - 7PM Wigstock, FREE Tompkins Square Park 500 E 9th St 1.212.387.7684 RuPaul, Boy George, HRH Princess Diandra, Jackie Beat, Miss Guy, Sugga Pie Koko, The Ladies of Lips, Milan, Cashetta, Flotilla Debarge, Lily of the Valley ETC...

Sunday June 27, 2004

Pride Events

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Pride Events Today
 
PRIDE March
5th Avenue and 52nd Street
to Christopher and Greenwich Streets
Sunday, June 27th, 2004, 12PM-end
 
PrideFest
Greenwich and Washington Sts.
Between Christopher and Spring Sts.
Sunday, June 27, 2004, 11am-10:30pm

Dance 18: The Dance on the Pier
Pier 54 (13th St. @ the Hudson River)
in Hudson River Park
Sunday, June 27, 2004, 4:00PM-11PM
DJ Tony Moran + Robbie Leslie

Saturday June 26, 2004

WMD Women of Mass Defiance LICK BUSH!

Category: Queer Events Permalink

5PM WMD Women of Mass Defiance LICK BUSH! NYC Dyke March
Yearly unsanctioned protest march down 5th Ave. Step off at 5 pm at Bryant Park, 42nd St. and 6th Ave.
Stand along the sidelines and support + cheer them along.

Thursday May 20, 2004

Girlsalon

Category: Queer Events Permalink

730PM
Girlsalon
@ Starlight Bar,
167 Avenue A
Five Bucks $5.

Dirty Phoenix an Iranian Queer Performance
artist will be tonights featured events.

Literary segment begins at 7:30 (sharp)
Variety show begins at 8:30

AI: URI

(afterparty with Dj's Mickey and Oz)

Saturday March 20, 2004

Black Party

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Black Party Featuring DJs Paulo & Susan Morabito Sat. 3/20- 11 PM until 3 PM Sunday 3/21 Roseland Ballroom 239 West 52nd Street, NYC

Same-Sex Wedding Expo

Category: Queer Events Permalink

10AM-10PM
Same-Sex Wedding Expo and Honeymoon After Party
An exhibition of must-have items for a same-sex wedding.
Jacob Javits Center
Afterparty @ Therapy, 348 W. 52nd St,
$5 Suggested Donation

Thursday February 05, 2004

Pet Silvia - Can't Pet This

Category: Queer Events Permalink

6-9PM
Pet Silvia - 'Can't Pet This'
@ Art @ Large,
630 Ninth Ave, (btwn. 44/45th Sts.) #707
The performance artist who performs silently from within his studio using gender issues as the basis of much of his art. The longing to be the 'pretty girl' in the magazines is partly to blame for this inspiration, but also to be the artist’s model in a great work of Fine Art.

Saturday January 24, 2004

Evolve @ Crobar

Category: Queer Events Permalink

4AM (sat late-early sun)
Evolve @ Crobar,
530 W 28th St
917-339-1800
Angel Moraes 10 PM
Victor Calderone 4AM
Johnny Dynell all night in the Reed Room.
crobar.com

Wednesday January 21, 2004

Girlsalon

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Girlsalon: A hot forum for up and coming queer performers. Every 3rd Wednesday of the Month at Meow Mix , located at 269 East Houston St at Suffolk, 5$ cover. Talent (Comedians, Musicians, Dancers, Writers, Performance Artists) can book themselves at janine@janinesays.com with "variety booking" in the subject line.

Brainy Sluts: a party for the hip and whip smart girl hunting girl. Follows Girlsalon Literary Nite: Meow Mix, 2nd Saturdays of the Month at 9:30pm.

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Sunday January 18, 2004

Frankie Knuckles with David Morales

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Frankie Knuckles with David Morales SBNY, 50 W. 17th St., (212) 691-0073. 10 p.m.

Thursday January 15, 2004

James Mccourt Queer Stree..,Signs

Category: Queer Events Permalink

7PM
James Mccourt QUEER STREET: RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN CULTURE, 1947-1985 Barnes & Noble 6th @ 22nd 675 6th Avenue [10010]
212-727-1227

Sunday December 21, 2003

Bar Alternative for the Bear Crowd

Category: Queer Events Permalink

Bear Cafe
Sunday 3-6pm
LGBT Center 221 W 13th St
alcohol/smoke/noise/attitude-free gathering of bears/cubs/admirers
$4 cover + potluck-style munchie to get in

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