Bushwick Is Burning: Underground Trap Raves Keep It Weird
It’s 3 a.m. at Passion Lounge, the heavily mirrored club on Broadway previously known as Angels, and the roving underground party known as Ultra Velvet is in full swing. Brooklyn rapper Dai Burger...
View ArticleKeith Haring’s NSFW Bathroom Doodles On Display at Relaunched LGBT Community...
Deborah Kass, “Deb,” 2012. Screenprints, edition of 60, 24 x 24 inches each. Some of the city’s most colorful characters flocked to The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center last...
View ArticleDirty Looks Sets Sight on Art House Theaters, Leather Bars, and Bathhouses of...
A “roaming screening series” has set up shop in venues across New York City and unofficially dubbed July queer cinema month. Maybe you’ve seen the posters around town for Dirty Looks: On Location,...
View ArticleDagger, The Queer Lesbian Party Where Straight Dudes Pay to Play
(Photos: Maggie Craig) Even the most jaded of after-hours ravers probably haven’t seen this pricing scheme before: for women, entry to Dagger is $5 at the door before midnight and $10 after; meanwhile...
View ArticleQueer and Trans Punk Fest Aims to ‘Break Down All Those Boxes’
Adult Mom (Photo: Richard Gin) Freak Out! Fest, a queer and trans punk music festival, is making its debut in Bushwick and the Lower East Side this weekend with over 20 bands playing shows at Silent...
View ArticleForget Water on Mars, It’s a ‘Queer Feminist Cyborg Epic Time Travel Thing’
(Photo: Alex Escalante) A “queer feminist cyborg epic time travel thing” has taken residency at the Loft on Classon for a three-week festival that presents the culmination of the ETLE Universe, a...
View ArticleQueer Film Happenings Galore, From Eisenstein’s Outing to Out-There ’70s Porn
By the looks of things, October’s becoming something of a de facto Queer Film Month in New York City. Which is way cool, we’re always happy to see queer goings-on about town beyond Pride Month. And...
View ArticleHouse of Yes Threw an Election Party at the End of the World
(Photo: Nicole Disser) The mood was shifting just as I made my way toward House of Yes around 10 pm last night. Commentators on NBC, CNN, and anywhere else were starting to look flustered– especially...
View ArticleAn Art Show Where Queer Bodies are Phantasmagoric, Vanishing, and Void
(Flyer via Osman Can Yerebakan) Queer-themed art shows are having a moment right now, and we can only expect that trend to continue as we enter a time of uncertainty about the future of LGBTQ rights in...
View ArticleArt This Week: Chapels, Cryptids, Self-Portraits
(image courtesy of Cooler Gallery) Chiaozza Chapel Opening Tuesday, February 13 at Cooler Gallery, 7 pm to 10 pm. Everyone’s favorite Navy Yard industrial icebox turned gallery is at it once again with...
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