Please Help a Brother Out: Come Fund Top Surgery for Bryan By now practically everyone in the Queer Nation has heard of the really unfortunate incidents that occurred in March of this year on the Washington Mall during the Supreme Court arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). But do you know the real people who...
If contained and redirected, the amount of energy in the sheer force of hatred dispersed by those opposed to homosexuality with violent protests and vindictive manipulations of power could provide electricity to every home, hut and third world village in the entire world for a thousand years… Conservatives Attack Gay Activists At Rally In Tbilisi...
Today is Harvey Milk Day and if the gay rights hero and icon were still alive today he would have turned 83. Supervisor Harvey Milk recorded a message to be played should he ever be assasinated…and he was. Below is a video with the recorded message dubbed over images of San Francisco during the time...
A lot of attention and energy is surely focused on same sex marriage and marriage equality but just because members of the LGBT Community are able to profess their love legally, it certainly does not mean we are invincible. Early this morning, the third tragic hate crime against a member of the LGBT Community...
DJ Big Ragoo and DJ Chauncey D move their sardonic soiree from the EV to the WV with the help of DJ Austin Downey on Saturday, May 25th! The party, like it did, features eclectic electro, classic house and new wave seasonings along with cult film screenings and queers of all shapes and sizes….it’s our...
Chip Kidd, The Standard, ARTBOOK | D.A.P. and PictureBox invite you to join Gengoroh Tagame in celebrating the release of his new book. Thanks to our friend Ricardo for the heads up about this event! Gay. Erotic. Manga? We shall soon see what those three things together will bring. The Passion of...
QMF 2013 was envisioned by Rockbar NYC and Monarch Presents as a platform for the best that queer music has to offer! The roster includes a dizzying variety of acts from rock to hip-hop, punk to electro and everything in-between. This Year’s Line Up: I AM LIGHTYEAR AB SOTO JOGYO CLINICAL TRIALS COREY TUT BRIGHT...
What do you get when you mix producer Armand Deluxe and queer electropop icon SIRPAUL together? You get “One Love” the LGBT Pride anthem of the Summer! One Heart, One Mind, #OneLove! OUT NOW – Worldwide! Spotify Amazon iTunes Video coming soon! Czech owt… Flashback American Life : Madonna “Run” Demo Quicker Than...
HOT RABBIT – Queer Dance Party – QUEEROCRACY EDITION !!! FRIDAYS @ THE MONSTER (Downstairs) 80 Grove St (W 4th/7th Ave) 10pm-4am The H.O.D. tries to support Queerocracy in any way it can…it is one of the newest evolutions of queer activism to take over the LGBT Community and the group is our very own...
JOIN The H.O.D. as we walk with the team that is “INSPIRED BY MADONNA” at the 2013 NYC AIDS WALK. Please visit MYMDNA.COM for information on how to register and donate. A great event to meet and connect with fellow Madonna fans and walk for a cause. RSVP and Invite your friends to this event...
Figment is an experimental dance-theater piece that asks questions surrounding death. What does it mean to contemplate what is inevitable for us? Is death the end? What comes after? Why do so many queer youth turn to suicide as a resolution and how does it affect the community? Two queer bodies will explore this spiritual...
A violently amazing classic house throwback track with a video challenging homophobia? Sign us up! This track is sick and the video is brilliant! Thank you LOGO! (no not that Logo) The Parisian duo LOGO reveals the video of “Cardiocleptomania” their new stunning EP out on Kitsuné!Beautiful and questioning, the video is designed to...
KA – BLOOM! Visual Aid’s Spring Art Auction Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 hosted by Temple Nightclub and Mirus Gallery, 540 Howard Street, SF L-R: art by Andrew Belshner, Jamie Brunson, Derek Lynch, Ferris Plock Click here for an online preview of featured art Purchase tickets now and bid on great art to...
THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME Monday, May 20, 8 pm Gerard W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College 524 West 59th Street, NYC Tickets are on sale now for a one-night performance of the landmark show The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. For its 20th anniversary, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me will be re-imagined from a...
There is not much that can be said about the powerful short (almost) one man show short film that is “The Language of Love” without the burden of a million cliches and sentimental sugary words. All that aside, The Voices Project, based in Australia has captured the magical static that reverberates in every teenager’s...
As the civil rights movement for the LGBTQ Community keeps on moving forward, we use our column Exploring Elsewhere to shed some light on iconic members of the past and present along with events, ideas and concepts often times ignored by major media. This is a snippet of a documentary featuring one of the...
As part of National Volunteer Week, members of SWISH will be hosting their annual Spring Collection Drive at Duane Reade on April 27th in Times Square. Donations collected will be divided between two organizations: SAGE is the country’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
On April 25, 2013, Housing Works will present New York City’s most popular interior design benefit event at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. Design on a Dime features more than 50 of the world’s top interior designers, who create unforgettable room vignettes with new merchandise, which is donated and then sold for 50 to 70...
One of the last books I purchased from Housing Works is a glorious 1971 first edition paperback called “Remember, Be Here Now” by Ram Dass, an American contemporary spiritual teacher known for his connections with the infamous Timothy Leary at Harvard in the early 60s, his relationship with Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, his travels...
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Join the Rock Bar crew, host George Hains and our very own DJ Chauncey D for a night of music, men, liquor and mayhem on Good Friday, March 29th for the monthly underwear party, BEAR YOURSELF! Each party keeps getting better and the crowd has been growing in more ways than one ...
As a conclusion to the TAKE BACK THE NIGHT MARCH organized by Queer Rising on Saturday, October 9, 2010 in reaction and response to the staggering rise in gay bashings, gay bullying and gay suicides, young Caleb (a son of two lesbians) sang a song as he strummed his guitar in which he wrote immediately...