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On April 21st we celebrate the 60th Anniversary when Bars in the US could finally legally serve the queer community
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of a very important event in queer history, which so needs celebration. Julius Bar has been open at 159 West 10th Street and Waverly Place in NY since the 1860s, although not always as a gay or gay-friendly bar ….its actually just around the block from the Stonewall Inn. …
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Drag KIng MURRAY HILL launches monthly INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF DRAG KINGS BRUNCH in NY
When we think ‘drag king’ we always think of Murray Hill, who is the ‘Daddy’ of them all, and so we are excited to hear of his latest venture. He is about to host INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF DRAG KINGS (IHOD), a monthly drag brunch in NY devoted solely to drag kings. Hill, not known for…
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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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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…
