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KEITH HARING : a new retrospective of his early work 1980-1983 at The Brant Foundation NY
We still find it tough to believe that it’s 36 years since the world lost KEITH HARING . Aged just 31, Haring died of AIDS related complications at the height of the epidemic. At his memorial service on May 4, 1990, at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, there were…
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Matt Dorado’s MONSTER PARTY : a new surrealist queer sociopolitical melodrama. @ Rita House, LA
Remember those days when one went to a theatre to watch actors work hard to enthrall you? Well, if theater director/producer Matt Dorado had his way, then they wouldn’t exist anymore. All of the performances he creates these days are interactive, which puts the audience at the center of the drama. His latest production MONSTER…
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Mayor Mamdani Signs Executive Order Establishing the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs; Appoints Taylor Brown as Director
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (THE NY Mayor that we have waited so long for)…signed an executive order establishing the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs and appointed Taylor Brown, currently an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General, as its director. With this appointment, Brown becomes the first…
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Queerguru’s (newest) Contributing Editor DAVID ALLEN rallies to the message of hope in ‘ADAM’S APPLE’
In a time where the loudest voices offering up their opinions and making decisions about trans people aren’t trans themselves, Adam Sieswerda, with his mother Amy Jenkins, provides a voice we need to be listening to in the documentary ADAM’S APPLE. Amy is an accomplished artist who has been visually documenting her life since her…
