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Theater

Feeling a Bit Jumpy

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE
Mankind

December 15, 2017 – January 28, 2018
Mainstage Theater
Written and Directed by Robert O’Hara
Theater

Pregnant Pause

BY DAVID KENNERLEY
VAZANTE – © Ricardo Teles/Courtesy of Music Box Films
Cinema

Original Sin

BY STEVE ERICKSON
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Cinema

Uncivil Society

BY STEVE ERICKSON
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Music

Following in Fellow Travelers’ Footsteps

BY ELI JACOBSON
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Theater

Cape Cod’s New Impresario

BY DAVID NOH
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Books

Reading Mark Merlis With Affection

BY PAUL SCHINDLER
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Cinema

Navigating Spaces Off the Map

BY GARY M. KRAMER
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Cinema

Under the Lens and Now Under Fire

BY GARY M. KRAMER
The Metropolitan Opera production of Thaïs, 11/6/17. Photo by Chris Lee
Music

Mostly Met

BY DAVID SHENGOLD
Galleries

When the City Truly Never Slept

BY TEQUILA MINSKY
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Cinema

How Philly Became Lower East Side Queen

BY GARY M. KRAMER
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Theater

Love, Lucre… and Laughs

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE
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Cinema

A Memorable Year for Queer Cinema

BY GARY M. KRAMER
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Cinema

The Year in Film: 2017

BY STEVE ERICKSON
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Theater

Mark of Distinction

BY DAVID KENNERLEY

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Homage: Queer lineages on video presents
Tomorrow, noon

Homage: Queer lineages on video
Wallach Art Gallery

For the first time, The Heckscher Museum
Tomorrow, noon

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

National Queer Theater and Arts Project
Tomorrow, 8 pm

“Pizza and a Play”, The Cherry Picked Playreading Series
Arts Project of Cherry Grove Community House & Theatre

Free to play. Cheap to drink. Impossible
Aug. 20, 7 pm

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

Fredrick Earl Mosley, together with Dudl
Aug. 21, all day

Hearts of Men Workshop
Ailey Extension

Everything You Always Wanted to Know Abo
Aug. 22, 7 pm

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Richard Skipper But Were Afraid To Ask
Laurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Cafe

Nori Reed is an iconic LA based comedian
Aug. 22, 7:30 pm

Nori Reed
Union Hall

New York Laughs in Wagner Park! August 2
Aug. 22, 8 pm

NY Laughs: Comedy Under the Stars
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Arts

  • Upon entering Oberon, patrons are greeted by a collection of mirrors and a sign introducing the space. Oberon, a new queer cocktail bar, opens in Williamsburg 
  • “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

Crime

  • The front of a white brick building representing the Middletown Police Department on a sunny day. DA: Middletown man lured Grindr date to his home in brutal stabbing attack
  • 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

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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