Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • Jobs
  • News
    • All
    • Arts
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
    • Local Events
    • Post an Event
    • Business Events
    • Games
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • Jobs
  • News
    • All
    • Arts
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
    • Local Events
    • Post an Event
    • Business Events
    • Games
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • News
  • All
  • Arts
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
  • Local Events
  • Post an Event
  • Business Events
  • Games
  • Jobs
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts

About the Author

Steve Erickson

Charlie (Joe Locke) and Nick (Kit Connor) in the second season of "Heartstopper"

Second season of ‘Heartstopper’ returns to the drama of coming out

By Steve Erickson
"Kokomo City" opened July 28 at IFC Center.
Cinema

‘Kokomo City’ gives Black trans sex workers a platform to speak with frankness

By Steve Erickson
Big Freedia's latest album, Central City, comes more than two decades after her first single came out in 1999.
Music

July music: Big Freedia, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and Greta van Fleet

By Steve Erickson
"Afire" has opened at IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center
Cinema

In ‘Afire,’ a vacation in the woods coincides with climate change

By Steve Erickson
In "Biosphere," the end of the world opens up new possibilities for its sole characters, former president Billy (Mark Duplass) and his advisor and lifelong friend Ray (Sterling K. Brown), as they live together under a dome.
Cinema

In ‘Biosphere,’ a new world opens up after the apocalypse

By Steve Erickson
Intersex activists Alicia Roth Weigel, River Gallo, and Sean Saifa Wall in "Every Body."
Cinema

‘Every Body’ brings visibility to intersex community

By Steve Erickson
"Eldorado" arrived on Netflix on June 28.
Cinema

‘Eldorado’ examines LGBTQ nightlife in 1920s Berlin

By Steve Erickson
“Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy” opens on June 23 at Film Forum.
Cinema

‘Midnight Cowboy’ documentary: Putting a classic in context

By Steve Erickson
"Social Lubrication" is Dream Wife's third album.
Music

June LGBTQ music: Janelle Monae and Dream Wife 

By Steve Erickson
“Brooklyn 45,” directed by Ted Geoghegan, streams on Shudder and AMC+ June 9.
Cinema

‘Brooklyn 45’: a gay veteran stares into the abyss

By Steve Erickson
A scene from "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne."
Cinema

Looking back on Udo Kier’s career across 200 films

By Steve Erickson
Brandy Clark
Music

May LGBTQ music: Brandy Clark and Alex Lahey

By Steve Erickson
Monica (Trace Lysette), a trans woman, returns to her hometown to help take care of her dying mother (Patricia Clarkson) in "Monica."
Cinema

‘Monica’ goes through the motions of family matters — from a distance

By Steve Erickson
“You Can Live Forever," directed by Sarah Watts and Mike Slutsky, opens May 5 at Village East by Angelika.
Cinema

When a teenage lesbian couple tries to ‘Live Forever’

By Steve Erickson
"Dry Ground Burning," directed by Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queiros opens April 21 at BAM.
Cinema

‘Dry Ground Burning’: a song of oil and prison

By Steve Erickson
Vincenzo Natali’s “Splice” is one of two features on the bill at Anthology Film Archives’ “Cinema of Gender Transgression” series
Cinema

‘Cinema of Gender Transgression’ returns — and resonates

By Steve Erickson
1 … 7 8 9 … 19

Jobs in New York

Add your job

  • Oso’s PetsRetail Sales Associate
  • United Care ABAChild Support Specialist Behavior Technician
  • Active PodiatryReceptionist

View all jobs…

LGBTQ+ events in NYC

Post an Event

Wanna win a $50 bar tab and show your sm
Tomorrow, 8 pm

Queer Trivia Extravaganza @ Good Judy
good judy

Get ready to witness an unforgettable ni
Feb. 26, 9:30 pm

Superstar Open Set
Pink Metal

From the creators of “Brag Drunch,” one
Feb. 27, 8 pm

SHE ATE! The Drag Dinner Experience
Branded Saloon

Southern Brooklyn’s only weekly drag sho
Feb. 27, 8 pm

All-Ages RuPaul’s Drag Race Watch Party in Coney Island
The Red Doors Bar and Grill

Beam up with To Proudly Go for the viewi
Feb. 28, 6 pm

Star Trek Starfleet Academy Viewing Party
Industry Bar

From ancient melodies to contemporary ch
March 7, 3 pm

Miss Robusta’s Emerald Anthems
The Stonewall Inn

View All Events…

Sign up for our regular & breaking news updates.

Subscribe

Arts

  • Lambda Lounge and Club Lambda are owned by 2022 Impact Award winners Charles Hughes and Richard Solomon. Brooklyn-based Club Lambda set to permanently close
  • “Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It," directed by Paris Barclay, opens Feb. 20 at Film Forum. ‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’ charts the rise and fall of a troubled gay musician
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.” The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages

Crime

  • Bomb threats, sent via email, targeted the New York University campus on the morning of Jan. 22, the school announced. Anti-LGBTQ bomb threats target NYU, prompting NYPD to increase security
  • The person suspected of voicing anti-LGBTQ slurs and attacking an individual on a 6 train on Jan. 10. Man suffers anti-LGBTQ subway attack after kissing trans partner: police
  • Police tape surrounds a vehicle after its driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 7, 2026. ‘They killed my wife’: Outrage follows fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
  • Report details allegations of police harassment against LGBTQ New Yorkers
  • President Donald Trump said he commuted George Santos' prison sentence in a Truth Social post.Santos is back with a ‘large slice of humble pie’ following Trump’s commutation

Perspectives

  • The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 10. We will not be erased: Donald Trump’s theft of our Rainbow Flag won’t fly
  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • A banner at the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March. Four decades in, Black communities are still paying the highest price from HIV — and inaction is not an option
  • Mark Milano. Remembering Mark Milano, a committed activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone

LGBTQ+ events in NYC

New York’s Job Board

More from Around NYC

Jonathan Portee_BAV0851
Brooklyn Paper

At Caveat, Laibson’s tech-heavy Chekhov adaptation The HARMNF examines digital-age alienation

PXL_20250821_130523531
Bronx Times

Congress Members demand Con Edison response to dielectric fluid leaks into Bronx River

New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, speaks during a news conference, to announce criminal justice reform in New York City, U.S., May 21, 2021.
Caribbean Life

James wins major victory against Trump’s tariffs

actors performing on a theater stage
AMNY

REVIEW | ‘Marcel on the Train’ finds the bravery behind the beret

  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Networking Events
  • Advertise
  • © Gay City News 2026. Schneps Media
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sections
  • Jobs
  • Games
  • Events
  • Contact