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Steve Erickson

Here's a still of Jonny, the protagonist. Credit should go to Shudder. Jonny (Kiah McKernan) in "Perpetrator."
Cinema

‘Perpetrator’ spills blood and guts in a high school world

By Steve Erickson
Lio Mehiel in "Mutt."
Cinema

‘Mutt’ review: Trauma overshadows a day in the life of a trans man

By Steve Erickson
Jaboukie is known for his work in comedy — and his music builds off his experience in that area.
Music

August LGBTQ music: Shamir and Jaboukie

By 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
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Photographer Kennedi Carter will be join
Today, 6:30 pm

The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Kennedi Carter and Adraint Khadafhi Bereal
International Center of Photography (ICP)

Set in Iowa the year before marriage equ
Today, 7 pm

Our House
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre @ A.R.T./New York Theatres

Viral Drag King Maxxx Pleasure is back w
Today, 7:30 pm

Guilty Pleasures
Cmon everybody

Target Margin Theater’s anchor pro
Today, 7:30 pm

This is Real
Target Margin Theater

DIFFA will be hosting its highly anticip
Tomorrow, 6 pm

DIFFA Angels & Demons Gala
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

Get ready to witness an unforgettable ni
Tomorrow, 9:30 pm

Superstar Open Set
Pink Metal

From the creators of “Brag Drunch,” one
March 20, 8 pm

SHE ATE! The Drag Dinner Experience
Branded Saloon

Southern Brooklyn’s only weekly drag sho
March 20, 8 pm

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

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Arts

  • HOMAGE 1 (HOMENAJE 1), 2026. Beauty and the Bestial: Exhibition confronts the ugly truths of Fire Island’s past and present
  • Ignorance = Fear _ Silence = Death by Keith Haring, 1989 copyright © Keith Haring Foundation, Poster House Collection. The visual fight: How posters chronicled NYC’s AIDS crisis
  • Angelo Madsen is the director of "A Body to Live In." Q&A: Trans director Angelo Madsen on Fakir Musafar and ‘A Body to Live In’
  • Anjimile's “You’re Free To Go” debuts March 13. March LGBTQ music: Morrissey’s ‘Make-up Is a Lie’ and Anjimile’s ‘You’re Free To Go’
  • Eloy Pohu in "Enzo." Overview of LGBTQ-themed films at Rendez-vous with French Cinema

Crime

  • Aljo Mrkulic was sentenced for murdering Christopher Rodriguez, assaulting cops, and setting an apartment ablaze in 2020 at the Acacia Gardens affordable housing complex, which is located at 409 E. 120th St. in Harlem. Queens man sentenced for killing partner, assaulting cops in 2020 arson case
  • 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

Perspectives

  • The Harlem United team on National HIV Testing Day in 2025. Confronting the unequal burden of HIV and AIDS on women of color: Equity cannot wait
  • Bringing awareness to the nationwide attacks on trans youth. In dangerous waters, LGBTQ youth need our support now
  • 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

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