Tag Archives: NYC

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the sixth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …

New York City Gay Bloggers & Digital Activists invite you to join us in this year’s NYC Pride March. We had a great group last year and this year we’ve been promised a spot near the front of the parade. (Unlike last year when our ass-end section of the parade didn’t start moving until almost 2pm.) I’ll post the time …

A NYC private school for special needs kids has put on a student production of La Cage Aux Folles. While the show itself is fairly G-rated, the idea of ten year-olds performing in drag has gotten the New York Post’s vile Andrea Peyser screaming. “Dad, do I have to wear a dress to school?” No joke. These conversations went on …

Using 2008 IRS data, Forbes Magazine has created a fascinating interactive map showing which cities are gaining or losing populations and where people are coming from/going to. Detroit, Los Angeles, and Miami appear to be suffering the greatest exoduses, with New York City remaining fairly unchanged. Red lines are outbound, black lines are inbound. You can click on every county …

The exhibit runs June 24th – Sept. 30th. More details here.

David Sigal’s documentary Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market, premieres next Thursday, June 24th, at the NYC Food Film Festival. Get tickets here. Openly gay and openly HIV+ Florent Morellet’s namesake Meatpacking District restaurant was long the post-clubbing meeting place for a spectacular hodge-podge of NYC’s nightlife denizens, celebrities, and activists. The restaurant was forced out of business last year …

Rock your hump day cubicle with this soulful house vocal mix from NYC’s DJ Bill Pfeiffer. Setlist. Podcasts. Facebook. UPCOMING GIGS: Sugar Daddy @ Rush, NYC, June 25th. PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Mike “Monk” Ponsades. DJ Steve Sherwood. DJ Pete Savas. DJ Jeff Jackson & DJ Disco Connie. DJ Phillip Kimball. DJ Paul Ferrer. DJ Shane Stiel. DJ Paul Goodyear. …

Last night a free concert by Canadian rapper Drake drew several times the capacity at Manhattan’s South Street Seaport, prompting the NYPD to cancel the show over safety concerns. You can guess what happened next. Lots more videos at Gothamist.

Changes to NYC’s subway lines have resulted in the above new signage. MTA officials say they were unaware that “FML” has become internet shorthand for “Fuck my life.” They say they will redesign the signs. (I always thought the lines should appear in alphabetical order anyway.) The Second Avenue subway will be called the T line, opening the possibility for …

Yesterday a couple of hundred (mostly) naked bike riders rode from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the Christopher Street piers and then to the United Nations as part a protest against BP. Cops made no arrests.

Get your weekend rolling with this smooth-funky electro-disco mix from NYC’s DJ Mike “Monk” Ponsades. Setlist. Podcasts. Website. Facebook. UPCOMING GIGS: Tonight @ NYC Eagle, 10PM. This is Mike’s NYC debut, so check out the mix then come hear him in person! PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: DJ Steve Sherwood. DJ Pete Savas. DJ Jeff Jackson & DJ Disco Connie. DJ Phillip …

An all-girls Catholic high school in Manhattan will be closing this month, after which the city will take over the building to create an arts magnet middle school. But under the city’s lease agreement with the Archdiocese of New York, the new school is forbidden from teaching any of the sex and HIV education classes required by state law. Under …

Citibank ATM vestibule, First Avenue, 8:30am MAN ON CELL: OK, fine. Fine! I’ll go without you. But you know what, Ed? No matter how much time you spend at that fucking gym, tomorrow morning when you get up you are still going to be 47 years old. You spend so much time trying to look good, nobody actually sees you.

Out Of Annapolis, a documentary about the LGBT alumni of the Naval Academy, continues the rounds of the nation’s gay film festivals with a New Fest screening tomorrow at 2:30PM in Manhattan.

A just-opened Queens residence for clients of the Ali Forney Center, which serves the city’s homeless LGBT youth, was defaced with anti-gay graffiti yesterday. Via press release: The Ali Forney Center’s newly opened shelter for homeless LGBT youth in Astoria Queens was defaced last night with anti-gay graffiti. At 6am this morning, two of the residents of the shelter discovered …

On Monday my local companion Aaron and I attended Green Day’s American Idiot musical, which we both enjoyed a lot more than we had expected. I’m not big fan of Green Day (but I’m not not a fan either), so I was surprised to recognize about half of the songs. Standouts in the cast were Stark Sands, who was so …

“Oh, I don’t care if she’s openly gay. What do I care about that! I disagree with Christine Quinn on gay marriage. She has been very supportive of Catholics in other areas. I’ve been involved in coalitions with Protestants and Jews and occasionally with Muslims and Hindus. I think Christine Quinn has shown herself to be a very good Catholic, …

More and more NYC restaurants are doing away with taking reservations, citing the costs of hiring reservationists and the membership fees paid to online table booking services. The easy button for many restaurateurs is OpenTable.com, which allows diners to make reservations 24/7 online. “The average restaurant spends $1,500 to $2,000 a month on OpenTable,” said Mr. Brown, of Ed’s Chowder …

New York City’s annual leather street festival, Folsom Street East, is next Sunday, June 20th. Inspired by San Francisco’s legendary Folsom Street Fair, FSE was founded in 1997 by former Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA) chair John Weis and a cohort of similarly-minded New York City leathermen. “I thought that having a fun day in the sun for the SM/leather …

It turn out that the Manhattan sidewalk “tourist lane” I told you about a few weeks ago was actually the work of pranksters Improv Everywhere. Of course. Posing as city workers, they even got people to abide by the lanes.