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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

THE WIDE WORLD OF LESBIAN CATS
ON VIEW THROUGH FALL 2019

The Wide World of Lesbian Cats excavates a history of cat memes in lesbian, feminist and queer cultural productions from the 1970s to the present.

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CARIBBEAN EQUALITY PROJECT PRESENTS: “QUEER CARIBBEANS OF NYC | STONEWALL 50”
ON VIEW SEPTEMBER 7-OCTOBER 13, 2019

“Queer Caribbeans of NYC | Stonewall 50” is a multimedia exhibition that will showcase the racial and cultural intersection of Caribbean LGBTQ rights activists. The exhibit will contribute to New York City immigrant history by expanding on Caribbean immigrant and first-generation American experiences using queer narratives.

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SECOND TUESDAY LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS “SORTED: GROWING UP, COMING OUT, AND FINDING MY PLACE (A TRANSGENDER MEMOIR)” BY JACKSON BIRD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2019, 7 P.M.

“Sorted” is an unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-20s.

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IN MY MIND MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE: OUR VIEW FILM FORUM
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019, 7 P.M.

In My Mind, a mental health conference for, about and by LGBTQ+ peoples of color, celebrates its fifth anniversary with the Together We Are reception (open to registered conference attendees) and the Our View Film Forum of film shorts by LGBTQ+ filmmakers (open to the general public from 7-8:30 p.m.) at The Center. For more information visit inmymindconference.com.

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RAINBOW BOOK FAIR
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2019, 12-6 P.M.

Join us for the Tenth Annual Rainbow Book Fair, the largest LGBTQ book event in the country. Once a year, thousands of people get together in New York City to mingle, get to know each other, enrich, broaden and even extend their lives through the amazing medium of LGBTQ books.

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NEW MASCULINITIES FESTIVAL
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2019,

Now in its seventh year, the New Masculinities Festival brings together theatre, dance, poetry, music, performance art and more to interrogate mainstream masculinity and build possibilities for new gender futures.

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NEWFEST: THE 31ST ANNUAL NEW YORK LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 23-29, 2019
EVENTS AT THE CENTER ON OCTOBER 26-29

NewFest’s annual celebration of the year’s best LGBTQ film and media—narrative features, documentaries, shorts programs, episodic showcases and special events—has grown to become a vital part of New York City’s cultural landscape.

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OPEN REHEARSAL: HEARTBEAT OPERA PRESENTS ITS SIXTH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN DRAG EXTRAVAGANZA “HOT MAMA: SINGING GAYS SAVING GAIA”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2019, 7 P.M.

Heartbeat Opera, “one of the most agile and dynamic companies on New York’s indie opera scene” (Opera News), brings its beloved annual tradition of opera-drag-pastiche to The Center for the first time, celebrating Mother Earth in all her beauty and biodiversity.

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TEATRO CÍRCULO AT THE CENTER PRESENTS: TRANSMISSION
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2019, 7 P.M.

As part of Hispanic/Latinx Heritage month, The Center is partnering with Teatro Círculo to present TransMission, a groundbreaking story about transgender womanhood written and performed by Barbra Herr.

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CENTER READS “ERNESTO” BY UMBERTO SABA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2019, 8 P.M.

Join The Center’s book club as we discuss “Ernesto” by Umberto Saba. “Ernesto,” a tender and complex tale of sexual awakening by one of Italy’s most admired poets, is a classic of gay literature.

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OUT TONIGHT! A POLE RETELLING OF BROADWAY’S RENT
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2019, 5:30 P.M.

This pole dance theater rendition of RENT, the multi-award-winning Broadway musical, tells the story of struggling artists living in the Lower East Side of New York City at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the late 80’s/early 90’s.

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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS JAMES POLCHIN
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019, 7 P.M.

James Polchin’s “Indecent Advances” is a skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall.

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LUNICORNS: WALKING AND GROWING TOGETHER
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2019, 3 P.M.

Lunicorns wants to invite you to an evening of readings, performance, mingling and a presentation of the short documentary “Quiero Vivir” by Sol Aramendi. Lunicorns is the first Latinx LGBTQ collective from Staten Island, centered in the voices of transgender individuals. It was created at La Colmena Community Job Center.

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CENTER READS “THE PRICE OF SALT” BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2019, 8 P.M.

Considered to be the first lesbian pulp novel to break the pulp publishing industry-enforced pattern of tragic consequences for its lesbian heroines, “The Price of Salt” was written under the pseudonym of Claire Morgan by Patricia Highsmith, the author of “Strangers on a Train” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

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CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE AT THE CENTER PRESENTS:
TOSHI REAGON AND BIGLOVELY
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020, 7 P.M.

The Center welcomes its new community partner Carnegie Hall Citywide and we invite you to join us for this special inaugural concert with vocal talent Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely!

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