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ARTS & CULTURAL PROGRAMS

The Center is your cultural home base, and has been at the heart of New York City’s LGBT community since our earliest days. From our long-running Second Tuesday lecture series to premieres, panels and performances, we attract notable public figures from the arts, politics and academia to create, connect and celebrate with you.

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Upcoming Events

CALL FOR #NEWFEST2021 FILM SUBMISSIONS
FESTIVAL WILL TAKE PLACE OCTOBER 15-26, 2021*

Calling all filmmakers! Submissions for #NEWFEST2021 are officially open! Submissions can be made at filmfreeway.com/newfest. Founded in 1988, The New York LGBTQ Film Festival is one of the world’s largest and most respected annual celebrations of the year’s best queer films from the U.S. and abroad.

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SECOND TUESDAY: JULIE MEHRETU
THURSDAY, MAY 11, 2021, 6:30 P.M. ET

In conjunction with the mid-career survey of the Abstract printmaker and painter Julie Mehretu at The Whitney, The Center is pleased to present a special Second Tuesday presentation with the artist herself. Named among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2020, Julie Mehretu is an Abstract printmaker and painter.

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A NIGHT FOR QUEER MAGIC:
“HOMOSCOPES” EXHIBITION OPENING
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021, 6:00 P.M. ET

Join The LGBT Community Center Archive and Sinister Wisdom for an evening celebrating Queer Magic, Astrology, and Tarot, to mark the opening of the exhibition “Homoscopes: Queer Spirituality & Symbolism in 1970s Lesbian Print.”

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
IN MY MIND CONFERENCE
SUBMISSIONS DUE BY MAY 31, 2021

The theme for this year’s virtual In My Mind Conference, “Youth Mental Wellness – Resilience In Uncertainty,” acknowledges and reflects on the challenges facing many young community members, and works toward strengthening resources for them.

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SECOND TUESDAY: SARAH SCHULMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN THRASHER
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2021, 6:30 P.M. ET

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993” is the most comprehensive political history of ACT UP and American AIDS activism ever collected. At this event, Schulman will talk about the book with AIDS- and political-activist Steven Thrasher.

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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS: JOHN PAUL BRAMMER IN CONVERSATION WITH GREG MANIA
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 2021, 6:30 P.M. ET

Join us as we sit and talk with John Paul Brammer, author of “¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons,” about his book along with writer, comedian, and award-winning screenwriter Greg Mania.

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