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Michael Shirey

A large crowd at the Brooklyn Pride festival in 2022.
Events

What to do in queer NYC June 6-9

By Michael Shirey
Crowds hover around Ginger's Bar at Brooklyn Pride in 2023.
Events

What to do in queer NYC May 30-June 2 

By Michael Shirey
The Stonewall Inn.
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What to Do in Queer NYC May 16-19

By Michael Shirey
NYC skyline
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What to do in queer NYC April 18-21

By Michael Shirey
NYC skyline at night
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What to Do in Queer NYC March 7-10

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What to Do in Queer NYC Jan. 11-14

By Michael Shirey
From holiday events to happy hours, kick off the month of December with events across the city.
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What to Do in Queer NYC Nov. 30-Dec. 3

By Michael Shirey
Head to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art to see Gemma Rolls-Bentley celebrate the US. publication of “Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between” with writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew and artist Clifford Prince King.
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What to do in queer NYC Nov. 16-19

By Michael Shirey
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What to do in queer NYC Nov. 2-5

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Join Queer Social at Bowlmor Chelsea Piers for Queer Tag.
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What to do in queer NYC Oct. 26-29

By Michael Shirey
On Oct. 21, head to Green-Wood cemetery to learn about its queer luminaries — including Jean-Michel Basquiat and lyricist Fred.
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What to do in queer NYC Oct. 19-22

By Michael Shirey
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What to do in queer NYC Oct. 5-8

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What to do in queer NYC Sept. 21-24

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Nicholas Galitzine and Taylor Zakhar Perez star as Prince Henry and Alex Claremont-Diaz in "Red, White & Royal Blue."
Cinema

‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ is a fairy tale come to life

By Michael Shirey
The Dyke March is scheduled to take place on Friday, June 23.
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What to do in queer NYC June 22-25

By Michael Shirey
Bronx Pride, seen here in 2019, is returning this year.
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What to do in queer NYC June 16-18

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Homage: Queer lineages on video presents
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Homage: Queer lineages on video
Wallach Art Gallery

Free to play. Cheap to drink. Impossible
Tomorrow, 7 pm

Wig Out Wednesdays : Drag Queen Bingo in NYC
Recreation at The Moxy Downtown

Come out to Queens Botanical Garden for
Aug. 14, 6:30 pm

Summer LGBT Dance Social with Brooklyn Contra
Queens Botanical Garden

For the first time, The Heckscher Museum
Aug. 15, noon

All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection
Heckscher Museum of Art

It’s All About the (S)ex By Joe Ma
Aug. 15, 3 pm

It’s All About the (S)ex!
BACCA Arts Center

Join us for a night of comedy that
Aug. 15, 7 pm

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Pete’s Candy Store

Meet Carol Anne from “Mommie Deare
Aug. 15, 8 pm

Chain NYC Film Festival — Land of the Mustaches
Chain Theatre

Short films and documentaries from emerg
Aug. 16, 2 pm

Chain NYC Film Festival — LGBTQIA+ Block
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Arts

  • “Went Up the Hill,” directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, opens Aug. 15 at the IFC Center. Q&A: Filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven on the making of queer ghost story ‘Went Up The Hill’
  • Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins, at Stage 422 at 422 W. 42nd St., runs through the end of the month in New York City. The great escape: ‘Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins’ takes New York
  • Ethel Cain's “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” debuted August 8. August LGBTQ music: Ethel Cain and Water From Your Eyes
  • Morgan Bassichis in "Can I Be Frank?" ‘Can I Be Frank?’: Solo show honors a comic queer pioneer
  • A man and a woman's faces are close together in a black and white scene in “Who Killed Teddy Bear," directed by Joseph Cates, opens Aug. 8 at the Film Forum. “Who Killed Teddy Bear,” dramatic thriller starring out actor Sal Mineo, screening at Film Forum

Crime

  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2025. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes persisted in 2024: FBI data
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Man arrested after husband’s gruesome stabbing death in Manhattan
  • Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village. Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD
  • Police officers in NYPD vests examine scene where person was shotTwo men shot near Harlem gay bar; shooter remains at large, cops say
  • Man in suit looks at crime scene with blood and napkins on sidewalkStonewall shooting: Two teen girls shot near historic Village inn during Pride celebrations

Perspectives

  • Ronald Porcelli is the director of the NYC Unity Project. How the NYC Unity Project’s Family Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth Initiative heals families and saves LGBTQ+ lives
  • The 2025 NYC Dyke March. Letter to the editor: NYC Dyke March’s policy represents deliberate exclusion rooted in religious and political identity
  • At the Queer Liberation March in 2022. Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity
  • A picture depicting the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV prior to his election is displayed as Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfan Cordova speaks during a press conference, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025. Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues
  • Carmen Hernandez. Patients and employers pay more as healthcare conglomerates profit from federal program meant to serve vulnerable communities

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