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LGBT
AIDS Walk NY 2008
(Central Park, 58th St, New York, NY 10155) Round up your Team, be a Star Walker, experience the day as a Volunteer, cheer on the walkers and reflect on love's enduring power. Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
Cinemarosa's 4th Anniversary Celebration
(Queens Museum of Art, Rushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368) (3pm) A presentation of film shorts by local filmmakers from the 5 boroughs. Q&A panel with filmmakers and light refreshments served. Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
NY Photo Festival 2008
(Dumbo, Brooklyn) See the future of contemporary photography. Event Website
Note: this event runs May 14 - 18
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
GayFest NYC 2008
(Various Locations) This month-long event, benefiting the Harvey Milk High School scholarship fund, is the country's premier festival of new works by LGBT authors and playwrights. Event Website
Note: this event runs May 15 - June 15
SportsWoman's Interest
Season Opener New York Liberty vs Connecticut
(Madison Square Garden, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001) (4:00 pm - 6:00 pm) Help the New York Liberty "Raise The Game" as they take on the brightest and best that the WNBA has to offer! (Starting at $10) (877-WNBA-TIX) [email protected] Event Website
Arts & EntertainmentOrganizations
Empire City Men�s Chorus and Astoria Symphony
(LaGuardia College Performing Arts Center, 31-10 Thomson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11373) (3 PM) The World Premiere of David Del Tredici�s �Queer Hosannas�, Stefan Weisman�s �David and Jonathan,� and works of Lee Hoiby, Arnold Schoenberg, Randall Thompson, Brahms and Mozart ($12-18) Event Website
Arts & Entertainment
EDWARD THE KING
(TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) (8pm and 2pm on Sundays) Beset by the duties of his birth and dominated by a heroic father, Edward looks forward to a life of apparent conformity and desperate subterfuge, until he meets Piers Gaveston in a dirty alley. It is love and rebellion at first sight. From then on, Edward steers a perilous course between desire and safety, which does not entirely end even when he becomes king, and faces not only the usual enemies of unconventional love, but his queen and her lover as well. Edward the King neatly straddles the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries, which manage to appear almost equally violent and inhospitable to love. Harvey Milk High School ($18.00) (212-352-3101) Event Website
Note: this event runs May 14 - 18, and 20 - 24
Ninth Avenue Food Festival 2008
(9th Ave from 37th St to 57th St) (9:30am - 6:30pm) The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival in May has become a favorite weekend for New Yorkers since it began in 1973. From 37th Street to 57th Street, Ninth Avenue closes to cars and the festival takes over. More than a million people visit the festival each year. Event Website
Note: this event runs May 17 - 18
Ongoing Events
through May 24
Arts & Entertainment
Queer Batman: A Renaissance
(Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, 508 West 26th St, New York, NY 10001) A group exhibit of artists, Mark Demott, Daniel Wheelter and Samira Abbassy, Mark Chamberlain present superhero creations of your dreams. Event Website
This event runs May 2 - 24
through May 24
Arts & Entertainment
F*ck Me, B*at Me, L*ve Me
(Kraine Theatre, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY 10003) (Thu - Sat 8pm) This is the story of Travis and Tommy, a gay couple, and how they confuse their own personal problems with the problems in their relationship. Travis uses Sam, their paperboy, to work out his frustrations. Tommy seeks escape with Max, his outside lover. All four are seeking a connection with another human being, as they use sex to make that connection. ($18) (917-224-0071) Event Website
This event runs May 8 - 24
through May 26
Arts & EntertainmentYouth & Family
The Butterfly Conservatory
(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) Celebrate the 10th annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - May 26
through May 28
Arts & Entertainment
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai�s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Event Website
This event runs February 22 - May 28
through June 1
Arts & Entertainment
2008 Biennial Exhibition
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This will be the 74th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Event Website
This event runs March 6 - June 1
through June 15
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
GayFest NYC 2008
(TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) This month-long event, benefiting the Harvey Milk High School scholarship fund, is the country�s premier festival of new works by LGBT authors and playwrights. Event Website
This event runs May 14 - June 15
through June 15
Arts & Entertainment
Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure
(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) During this Garden-wide celebration of Charles Darwin's life and his groundbreaking work, explore his theories of evolution and natural selection. Event Website
This event runs April 25 - June 15
through June 15
Arts & Entertainment
South Pacific
(Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th St, New York, NY 10023) During World War II in the South Pacific, love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart. Event Website
This event runs March 1 - June 15
through June 22
Arts & Entertainment
Top Girls
(Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) Set at the Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, this play tells the story of Marlene, an ambitious career woman who has just been appointed head of the firm. (Top Girls) Event Website
This event runs April 15 - June 22
through July 13
Arts & Entertainment
Amazonia Design, Fashion and Sustainable Economy
(World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10281) Objects by contemporary designers from the Amazon region who utilize raw materials in their work. Event Website
This event runs April 17 - July 13
through July 13
Arts & Entertainment
Sex in Design/Design in Sex
(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) Highlights the best and most compelling sexually inspired contemporary designs from around the world. Event Website
This event runs January 31 - July 13
through July 18
Arts & Entertainment
Takashi Murakami
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist�s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. ($10/$8) Event Website
This event runs April 5 - July 18
through August 10
Arts & Entertainment
Playing the Building
(Battery Maritime Ferry Building, 10 South St, New York, NY 10004) David Byrne's massive installation in the historic Battery Maritime Building features an organ that triggers sounds from its metal beams, pipes and electrical conduits that invites you to play along. Event Website
This event runs May 1 - August 10
through August 31
Arts & Entertainment
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
(Winter Garden, World Financial Center) This colorful crocheted panoply of kelps, corals and anemones is an homage to Earth�s endangered coral reefs. Event Website
This event runs April 5 - August 31
through September 7
Arts & Entertainment
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This special exhibition traces Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography from 1970 to 1975. Included are self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, and portraits of lovers and friends including Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Marianne Faithfull. Many of these small, intimate photographs convey tenderness and vulnerability. Others depict a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. Unlike the highly crafted images Mapplethorpe staged in the studio and became famous for, these disarming pictures are marked by spontaneity and invention. Event Website
This event runs May 3 - September 7
through September 28
Arts & Entertainment
Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word and Reality
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - September 28
through December 31
LGBT
Oscar Wilde in NYC Guided Walking Tour
(By Request) This tour is based on new and unique research into the people and places Oscar Wilde visited in the NY of the gilded age. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - December 31
Recurring Events this Sunday
LGBTSports
Metro Wrestling Practices
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (2 - 5pm) Metro Wrestling is New York City's gay freestyle wrestling club. Gay, straight, male or female, all are welcome to attend. Event Website
This event runs every 2nd, 3rd and 4th and 5th Sunday
Spiritual
Dignity New York Weekly Liturgy & Social
(St. John's in the Village Church, 222 W 11th St, New York, NY 10014) (7:30pm) Event Website
This event runs Sundays
Spiritual
Metropolitan Community Church of NY Services
(MCCNY, 446 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) (9am, 11am & 7pm) Event Website
This event runs Sundays
LGBTSocial
Starlette Sunday
(Angels and Kings, 500 East 11th St, New York, NY 10009, Venue Website) (8PM - 3AM) Starlette Sunday is a glam affair catering to a mixed lesbian and bisexual crowd. This sexy long-running party is one of the hottest nights for women in New York City. Starlette Sunday features delicious cocktails, visuals, the best dj's playing dance tracks, and lots of eye candy. (Free) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs Sundays
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
CINEMAROSA
(Queens Museum of Art, Rushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY 11368) (3 � 5pm) Monthly film/video showcase series that presents screenings of fiction and documentary works dealing with issues related to the LGBT community. Event Website
This event runs every 3rd Sunday