Tag Archives: LGBT Community Center

Tonight: Town Hall Meeting On Marriage Equality In New York

Tonight at the LGBT Community Center in NYC there will be a town hall meeting on the state of the marriage equality movement in New York. “What’s Next for Marriage Equality in New York?” Town Hall to discuss what’s next? How will we achieve marriage equality in 2009? Time and PlaceDate: Monday, November 24, 2008Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pmLocation: The LGBT …

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Saturday: Furball @ The LGBT Center

This Saturday at the NYC LGBT Center: DJ Quentin Harris will bring the bears out of their caves with his mixing magic. Be warned…fur ahead! Join Dance 208 as we celebrate everything furry. Fur Ball is back! Enjoy the fur attack. There are two floors of dancing, (SPIT Lounge with DJ Mike Grimes and Paul Short) go-go bears, cheap beer, …

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Today: LGBT Career Fair

Out To Work, the LGBT Career Fair, takes place today at the LGBT Community Center in the West Village. Exhibitors include the NYPD, the NYFD, UPS, Commerce Bank, five agencies of the MTA, ConEd, and many others. Admission is free with your resume.

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New York Primary Deadline Is Friday, Register To Vote Online Via LGBT Center

This Friday, August 15th, is the deadline to register for New York’s September 9th primary. The NYC Gay & Lesbian Community Center has a goal of registering 2000 new LGBT voters by then. You can register to vote online via their site. All of New York’s 29 seats in the House of Representatives are in contention, as are all 436 …

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25 Years Of NYC’s LGBT Center

There’s a great story in the NYTimes today commemorating the 25th anniversary of NYC’s LGBT Community Center. There’s also a fun 17 photo slide show of the Center’s history, including a copy of the above story written 25 years ago by the author of today’s piece, David W. Dunlap. Dig the headline!

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June 1970: The Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March

Richard Davis at the NYC Gay & Lesbian Community Center sends us this wonderful clip about the very first gay pride march in June 1970: The Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March. Watch members of SAGE reminisce. It’s lovely. Watch the entire show here. Tomorrow night the SAGE members featured in this clip will appear on a panel to discuss …

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Good Work Wednesday

A Chinese auction at NYC Eagle this Saturday will benefit Braking The Cycle and the NYC LGBT Center. Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 10pm, Team Eagle is hosting a fundraising auction at the Eagle with some great items on the block including, a Poker Party for 8, an LAPD Helmet, Movie Bundle from HERE TV, Private cooking lesson for 4 …

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Broadway Backwards 3

In which my journey towards full-blown theater queenapproaches Platinum Level…. Last night I attended the fantastic Broadway Backwards 3, the annual benefit for the NYC LGBT Community Center in which Broadway stars perform classic musical theater numbers from a gay perspective – changing pronouns or singing numbers written for characters of the opposite sex. The cast (and the audience!) was …

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Money Talks For LGBT Rights

At a press conference at the NYC LGBT Community Center, today New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. announced that he will use the power of the NYC Pension Funds to pressure two dozen Fortune 1000 companies to offer sexual orientation and gender identity protections to their employees. Thompson oversees the New York City Employees’ Retirement System, New York …

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Furball: Saturday, November 3rd

The NYC LGBT Community Center holds their Furball dance tomorrow. Come out and get sweaty with 600+ hairy menz dancing on two floors to DJs Man Parrish and Jack Reina. (I’m going, duh!) I went to the last one and had a fantastic time. Their sound system and dance floor is as good as some clubs around town. Also of …

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LGBT Center Gala Surpri$e

At last night’s Garden Party, the NYC LGBT Community Center’s annual Pride kick-off gala, the audience got a wonderful surprise when Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer (above, right) announced a $1 million grant to the center’s capital improvements fund. Nice, huh? But heads really swiveled when City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (above, left) announced an additional $8 million dollar grant …

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