Film screenings, seminars, community forums, performances and parties. More...
August 9 / Saturday
Fire Island Black Out
An annual social networking event for the LGBT community of color, which takes place every summer... More...
August 23 - 24
2nd Annual 5-Boro Dance Challenge
Same-sex competitions will take place in Ballroom, Latin, Country, Swing, Showdance, Salsa, Hustle... More...
July 2 - 7
HOTEL POOL
(Swimming Pool at 23 Rector St)(8pm) With vibrant wit and all-out physicality, Headlong Dance Theatre transforms the sanitized space of 225 Rector Street's pool into a site for dreams and longing. RSVP required: www.lmcc.net/sitelines. (Free)Event Website
May 30, June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 4, 18, 25, August 1, and 8
Good Morning America Concert Series
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018)(7 – 9am) Another great season of talent free to the public. May 30: Usher; June 6: Ashanti; June 13: Cyndi Lauper; June 20: Boyz II Men; June 27: Maroon 5; July 4: Chaka Khan; July 18: Miley Cyrus; July 25: Feist; August 1: Cast of Broadway’s Rent; August 8: The Jonas Brothers. For a complete listing, visit them online. Event Website
May 30, June 6, 13, 20, 27, July 4, 11, 18, 25, August 1, and 29
Toyota Concert Series on TODAY
(Window on the World Studio, 50th St btwn. 5 & 6th Aves)(7am) Enjoy free performances being taped Live for TV. May 30: Donna Summer; June 6: Chris Brown; June 13: Kenny Chesney; June 20: Rihanna; June 27: Cold Play; July 4: Ashlee Simpson; July 11: Rascal Flatts; July 18: Natasha Bedingfield; July 25: Miley Cyrus; August 1: Sheryl Crow; August 29: Paula Abdul. Event Website
July 3 - 7
2007 Liberty Open
(USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens) Tennis tournament that is open to all players. Event Website
July 4 / Friday
Independence Day
(Various Locations) NYC’s many activities include tall ships sailing up the Hudson and a Macy’s fireworks extravaganza over the East River. Event Website
June 7, 10, 21, 28 - 29, 1 - 2, and 4
The Rarest of Birds
(Wings Theater, 154 Christopher St, New York, NY 10014)(8pm) An intimate peek into the psyche of Montgomery Clift. The Rarest of Birds conveys Clift's importance as a great leading man in Hollywood as well as his personal suffering as individual who never came to terms with his homosexuality. ($18)Event Website
July 5 / Saturday
Manhattan Island Marathon
(Battery Park City) Team New York Aquatics joins this 28.5 Mile swim. Event Website
May 25, June 1, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, September 7, 14, 21, and 28
15th Annual Harlem Meer Performance Festival
(Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Central Park at 110th St)(2 - 4pm) The best in local emerging and established Latin, Jazz, World and Gospel. June 22: Sarah MacLawler (Blues and Jazz); June 29: Frankie Morales & Mambo of the Times Orq. (Salsa); July 13: Raquel Lima (Brazilian); July 20: Flamenco Vivo Carlotta Santana II (Flamenco); Aug 10: Pablo Mayor Folklore Urbano (Mod. Columbian); Aug 24: Charles Moore Dance Theatre (African Dance); Aug 31: Zon Del Barrio (Salsa). Continues all summer, through the Fall. Event Website
June 29, July 6, and 13
Rob Stapleton's "The Big Show"
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014)(8:00 PM) Don’t miss your chance to catch Rob as he shows off his legendary wit. Born and raised in the Bronx, Rob's versatile style has made him a favorite on BET's ComicView and Comedy Central's Comic Groove. . Stapleton’s television credits include sketch writing for Tracey Morgan, and their pieces have aired on Saturday Night Live. He's also appeared on VH1's Most Shocking Moments series Rob has recently filmed a Laffapolooza comedy festival DVD in Atlanta hosted by Jamie Foxx. ($12 Advance/$15 Day of show)(212-524-2500)dwilbur@comixny.comEvent Website
July 7 / Monday
The Found Footage Festival
(Comix, 353 west 14th street, New York, NY 10014)(8:00 PM) One part kitsch, another hilarious commentary, the Found Footage Festival is sure to be a reel good time.
The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event that compiles more than an hour's worth of footage from videos found at garage sales, thrift stores, warehouses, and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Pickett and Prueher host each screening in-person, and provide their unique observations about the obscure found videos. ($15 Advance/$20 Day of show)(212-524-2500)dwilbur@comixny.comEvent Website
July 7 / Monday
CLAGS Presents: Queer Migrations
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011)(6pm) Population movement has been crucial to the formation, growth, and sustenance of many queer communities in the United States. However, migration has only recently become a central and exciting theme in studies of queer life in this country and elsewhere. This Seminar in the City will introduce participants to this growing body of scholarly inquiry through the discussion of selected case studies with past and contemporary relevance. The main goal will be to understand the importance and interaction of sexuality with traditional and emerging themes in the migration literature such as ethnic/racial incorporation, transnationalism, and homeland politics. Facilitated by Carlos Ulises Decena, Rutgers University. Event Website
June 16, 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, and 18
HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival 2008
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018)(Lawn opens 5pm; Showtime at Dusk) June 16: Dr. No; June 23: Bride of Frankenstein; July 7: The Man Who Came to Dinner; July 14: Fail Safe; July 21: Arsenic and Old Lace; July 28: The Apartment; August 4: Lifeboat; August 11: The Candidate; August 18: Superman. Event Website
July 7 / Monday
Expatriate PREVIEW
(Culture Project, 55 Mercer St., New York, NY 10013)(8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) Culture Project's Women Center Stage presents: EXPATRIATE by LENELLE MOÏSE, a brand new two-woman play with music about race, friendship, art, and fame. Claudie and Alphine are sophisticated and sexy African-American performing artists and longtime sister-friends. Disillusioned by grief, homophobia, and "the black glass ceiling," they flee to Europe to heal and realize their starved American dreams.EXPATRIATE is an engaging exploration of black womanhood, friendship, sexuality, and freedom. With only a JamMan loop machine at their feet, real-life rising stars Lenelle Moïse and Karla Mosley weave the story of singing group Black Venus's rise to fame. ($25 Previews, $45 Regular)((212) 352-3101)Event Website
June 16, 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, and 18
2008 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018)(5pm) Bring a blanket, settle in and enjoy classic films in the great outdoors of Midtown. Event Website
July 8 / Tuesday
Free New York Philharmonic Concert in Richmond County Bank Ballpark
(Richmond County Bank Ballpark, at St George, Staten Island, NY 10301)(8pm) Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K.125a, Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Elgar: Enigma Variations. Followed by fireworks. Event Website
June 24, July 8, 22, and August 5
Naumberg Orchestral Concert
(Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park at 72nd St, New York, NY 10023)(7:30pm) Since 1905, the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts has continuously presented free, outdoor classical music concerts to New Yorkers of all walks of life. Event Website
July 8, 15, 22, 29, and August 5
Self-Defense for Women and Transgender People
(The Center for Anti-Violence Education, 327 7th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215) For adults only. (sliding fee scale)(718-788-1775)Event Website
June 21, July 8, 15, 22, and 29
50th Annual Washington Square Music Festival
(Washington Square Park, 5th Ave at Washington Sq North, New York, NY 10003)(8pm) A free outdoor classical and Music of the Americas concert series is celebrating its 50th season by presenting five evenings of great music under the stars performed by musicians who regularly play in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan and New York City Opera orchestras and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Free)Event Website
July 9, 16, 23, 30, and August 6
PACT (Power Action Change for Teens)
(The Center for Anti-Violence Education, 327 7th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215) Self defense for teen women and Trans youth. (sliding fee scale)Event Website
July 9 - 10
Melissa Etheridge in Concert
(WAMU Theater, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001)(8pm) Melissa is touring with her ninth studio album, The Awakening. ($39.50 - $104.50)Event Website
July 10 / Thursday
"T" At 'On The Border Music Series'
(Border Burrito, 81 3rd Ave. @ 11th St., New York, NY 10079)(10:00 pm/11:00 pm) Tara Grieco is T. Come welcome emerging NYC LGBT community original singer-songwriter, T, as she makes her first appearance at one of NYC's newest and most promising original live music venues!
www.myspace.com/tradio
www.myspace.com/borderburritonyc (FREE)(212-777-8000)Event Website
July 10 / Thursday
Free New York Philharmonic Concert in Cunningham Park
(193rd St Field, Cunningham Park, Queens)(8pm) Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K.125a, Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Elgar: Enigma Variations. Followed by fireworks. Event Website
July 10 / Thursday
“Earthly Powers”
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) Discussion of Anthony Burgess’ 1980 novel. This study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, a popular
novelist and a Faustian priest. Event Website
July 10, 17, 24, 31, August 7, and 14
Broadway in Bryant Park
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018)(12:30 – 1:30pm) Songs from current Broadway shows sung by the stars themselves. Event Website
July 11 / Friday
Free New York Philharmonic Concert in Van Cortlandt Park
(Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx)(8pm) Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K.125a; Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor; Elgar: Enigma Variations. Fireworks following. Event Website
July 12 / Saturday
New York Liberty vs. Detroit
(Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001)(7:30 pm - 9:30 pm) Help the New York Liberty "Raise The Game" as they take on the brightest and best that the WNBA has to offer! (Seats start at $10)(212-465-6080)nyliberty@thegarden.comEvent Website
July 12 / Saturday
Broadway Barks 10
(Times Square Shubert Alley, btwn 44 & 45th Sts) Thousands of theatre fans and animal lovers gather to encourage people to adopt pets from area shelters while spreading the message about the importance of spaying and neutering. Event Website
July 12 / Saturday
Murray Hill's 8th Annual MISS LEZ PAGEANT
(Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th St, New York, NY 10018)(10pm) A wildly provocative, insane, jaw-dropping alternative beauty pageant for queer womyn in NYC that takes the traditional, "straight" and out-dated beauty pageants and turns it upside down, inside-out, outside-in, by giving queer womyn the chance to interpret what beauty and a pageant means to them. The five contestants representing the different "scenes" in the community are MISS SNAPSHOT (Trina Rose), MISS I HEART BROOKLYN GIRLS (Cherry Bomb), MISS CHOICE CU*TS (Scout Durwood), MISS VICTORIA (Laryssa Husiak), and MISS WILDCARD (Sequinette). There will be guest performances, celebrity judges, go-go dancing, beer and DJ's to keep the party going post-pageant. ($15 adv / $20 door)Event Website
July 13 - 14
Bastille Day on 60th St
(60th St btwn Lex & 5th Aves) Bastille Day brims with the sights, sounds and flavors of French culture. Culminates Monday night with the Bal du 14 Juillet. Event Website
July 13 - 15
Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown
(Stage Left Studio, 438 W 37th Street 5A, New York, NY 10018)(7:30 (8:30 July 14th and 15th)) After her untimely demise, the spirit of a young southern debutante finds herself trapped in the body of a gay New Yorker on his way to Provincetown, Massachusetts for a birthday vacation. ($15)Event Website
July 14 / Monday
Free New York Philharmonic Concert in Prospect Park
(Prospect Park, West at 15th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215)(8pm) Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Sibelius: Finlandia Followed by fireworks. Event Website
July 15 / Tuesday
Fennesz / Sakamoto
(Winter Garden, Bordered by Vesey St, West St, Liberty St & Hudson River, New York, NY 10007)(9pm) Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto will perform from their album, Cendre. Event Website
July 15 / Tuesday
Free New York Philharmonic Concert in Central Park
(Central Park, 58th St, New York, NY 10155)(8pm) Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Sibelius: Finlandia. Followed by fireworks. Event Website
July 16 / Wednesday
OP MEMBERS' ROOFTOP MIXER
(The Delancey, 168 Delancey St, New York, NY 10002)(6pm) LOWER EAST SIDE'S COOLEST CLUB HOSTS OP MEMBERS-ONLY MIXER AND BBQ TO CELEBRATE OP'S 25TH YEAR. Open bar from 6-8pm (cash bar until 9pm). And an urban barbecue starting at 7pm. Limited space. Tickets sales are limited to 2 tickets per Member. ($30)Event Website
July 17 / Thursday
New York Liberty vs. Washington
(Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001)(7:30 pm - 9:30 pm) Help the New York Liberty "Raise The Game" as they take on the brightest and best that the WNBA has to offer! (Seats start at $10)(212-465-6080)nyliberty@thegarden.comEvent Website
July 18 / Friday
Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las
(South Street Seaport, 19 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038) Mary was 15 when she and her sister Elizabeth (Betty) began singing with identical twins Margie and Mary Ann Ganser in their neighborhood of Queens. They shot into the charts with hits like “Leader Of The Pack”. Event Website
July 18 - 20
Pinchbottom declares WAR!
(Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church Street, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013)(Fri & Sat at 10pm, Sun at 7 pm) DATELINE: THE OVAL OFFICE - When beleaguered President JONNY PORKPIE decides that NASTY CANASTA and the Pinchbottom Burlesque Organization are stockpiling "Weapons of Ass Destruction", he attempts to raise his approval rating by ordering an immediate invasion of their home base... New York City. In response, PINCHBOTTOM DECLARES WAR and Drill Sergeant Canasta whips her Burly-Q Commandoes into fighting form with a rigorous basic training regimen. ($ 15)Event Website
July 18 / Friday
RIDE THE RAINBOW MASQUERADE BALL CRUISE
(Paddle Wheel Queen, Skyport Marina 23rd Street off the FDR Drive, New York, NY 10016)(11pm - 4am) 3 Levels, 2 Dance Floors, 4 of the hottest NyC DJ's spinning the best of latin, house, reggae, hip hop and much more, Live Go-Go Dancers!!! Entrance includes, hot latin food buffet, goodie bag, entertainment and more!! ($40 ADVANCE TICKETS)(917-418-6885)LAREINITA21@AOL.COMEvent Website
