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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

DIFFERENT STROKES/DIFFERENT FOLKS: QUEER ARTISTS OF COLOR PAINT THE 21ST CENTURY
PROPOSALS DUE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This exhibition seeks to unite BIPOC artists that identify on any part of the queer spectrum, challenging static notions of who is “allowed” to claim the queer identity as well as what it means to be a LGBTQ+ BIPOC artist producing work today.

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FATHERLAND: CULTURE, VIOLENCE, AND THE PERUVIAN LANDSCAPE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021, 6:30 P.M. ET

Join us for a talk with artists Juan Jose Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek about their “Fatherland” series, a body of work that documents the sites of violent hate crimes throughout Peru’s cities, deserts, the Andes, and deep within the jungles of the Amazon. The series underscores the dangerous effects of patriarchy and intolerance, and examines how these constructs create the toxic environments that threaten LGBTQ lives.

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CENTER READS: “THE GREAT BELIEVERS” BY REBECCA MAKKAI TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2021, 7 P.M. ET

Join The Center’s monthly book discussion group as we discuss the novel “The Great Believers” by Rebecca Makkai.

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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS: BRYAN WASHINGTON IN CONVERSATION WITH PAMELA SNEED
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021, 6:30 P.M. ET

Join author Bryan Washington and poet, performer, visual artist, and educator Pamela Sneed as they discuss Washington’s debut novel, “Memorial.”

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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS: “HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES” BY SAEED JONES
TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021, 7 P.M. ET

Join The Center’s monthly book discussion group to talk about “How We Fight for Our Lives,” a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.
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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS QUEERING LOCKSDOWNS: NYC AFTER THE PANDEMIC
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021, 7 P.M. ET

Writers Jeremiah Moss and Jen Jack Gieseking sit in conversation about the future of NYC’s queer spaces after the COVID-19 lockdown. What has happened in the past? How will spots where LGBTQ people gather be different after 2021?

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CENTER READS “LEADING MEN” BY CHRISTOPHER CASTELLANI
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2021, 7 P.M. ET

Join The Center’s monthly book discussion group as we discuss the 2019 fictionalized biography of Tennessee Williams. What keeps two people together and what breaks them apart? Can we save someone else if we can’t save ourselves? Like “The Master” and “The Hours,” “Leading Men” seamlessly weaves fact and fiction to navigate the tensions between public figures and their private lives.

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