Tag Archives: LGBT Center

SATURDAY: Furball NYC @ LGBT Center

Doors open 8PM, $10. Always a hot sweaty good time.

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NYC LGBT Center Israel Flap Continues

Earlier this week the NYC LGBT Center canceled a planned Israel Apartheid Week meeting after gay porn kingpin Michael Lucas threatened to have the Center’s wealthy donors pull their support. Immediately after the event’s cancellation, a petition went online with a demand that the Center not let “wealthy bigots censor free speech.” Among the petition’s sponsors are well-known activists Cleve …

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LGBT Center Bows To Michael Lucas

This just in from the Lucas camp: We prevailed! Congratulations to everyone who stood with me in support of Israel. With your help it took only eight hours to accomplish our mission. The LGBT Center has decided it will not host the party by Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), scheduled for March 5th. According to an email I just received personally …

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HomoQuotable – Michael Lucas

“I’m preparing to organize a boycott that would certainly involve some of the [NYC LGBT] Center’s most generous donors. It was an inexcusable decision on the Center’s part to associate itself with a hate group like Israeli Apartheid Week, but there’s still time for them to reverse course and begin restoring their reputation.” “At first I thought this was a …

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SATURDAY: Furball NYC @ LGBT Center

Tomorrow is NYC’s Furball party at the LGBT Center in the West Village with DJs Corey Craig and Mark Lauque. It’s 3 floors of fur, 2 DJ’s, go-go bears, great music, cheap beer, hot guys and warm warm fur…and you and over 700 furry friends…So hit the dancefloor and shake it out before you hibernate for the winter! And it’s …

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Los Angeles LGBT Center Wins $13M Federal Grant To Help Gay Foster Kids

We needed this kind of great news today, we really did. Via press release: Today the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center was awarded a landmark $13.3 million, five-year grant from the Federal Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Administration on Children, Youth and Families to create a model program that will provide life-saving support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender …

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NYC LGBT Center Unveils Massive Replacement Rainbow Flag

Yesterday NYC’s LGBT Community Center had a ceremony to unveil a massive new rainbow flag after somebody taped a burned and torn flag to their front wall.

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SF LGBT Center Denies $1M Bailout Request From The City

The San Francisco LGBT Center has issued a statement denying yesterday’s SF Chronicle story claiming that they’d requested a $1M mortgage bailout from the city. Via their PDF: We do have $3.2 million in outstanding debt related to the construction of the building, which has been carried in a loan with First Republic Bank. After almost a year of very …

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SF LGBT Center In Financial Crisis

San Francisco’s LGBT Center is asking the city for a $1M “mortage relief” bailout so that it doesn’t go under. Eight years after opening with great fanfare, San Francisco’s city-subsidized, $12.3 million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is on the verge of foreclosure – and is asking the cash-strapped city for a $1 million line of credit to …

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VIDEO: Harold Ford At LGBT Center

Here’s NY1’s story on former Rep. Harold Ford’s appearance at the NYC LGBT Center, in case you wanted to see all the shouting. (Via – Towleroad)

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Former Rep. Harold Ford Booed Off The Stage At NYC LGBT Center

Former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN), who is considering running against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, had to cut his appearance at the NYC LGBT Center short last night when protesters in the audience repeatedly interrupted his speech. Via Gay City News: Some in the crowd were unabashed Gillibrand partisans and carried anti-Ford messages written on the back of “Gillibrand For Senate” signs. …

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SLIDESHOW: Broadway Backwards 5

On Monday night, official JMG staff photographer Dr. Jeff and I attended Broadway Backwards 5, the annual gender-reversal fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the NYC LGBT Center in which songs are performed by the opposite sex for whom they were written. Over 50 Broadway singers, dancers and a galaxy of Tony winners and nominees blew away the sold …

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Saturday: NYC Trocadero Reunion

This Saturday original Trocadero Transfer DJ Bobby Viteritti will spin a reunion party at Dance 208, the NYC LGBT Center’s dance party series. Dance:208 debuts another great new night: a tribute to San Francisco’s legendary gay nightclub from the day Trocadero Transfer with one of its original djs Bobby Viteritti. Trocadero was as famous in its day as The Saint. …

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Tomorrow: SNAXX 7th Anniversary, A Fundraiser For NYC’s LGBT Center

DJs Rich King and Gustavo’s long-running and popular SNAXX party celebrates its seventh anniversary tomorrow night with a special fundraiser for the NYC LGBT Community Center. A la Blowoff, the SNAXX party will soon be touring cities on the east coast for a series of monthly events. Friday’s party takes place at Rebel NYC at 251 W.30th. Doors open at …

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Orlando LGBT Center Vandalized

On Sunday homophobic slurs were painted on Orlando’s LGBT Center and a nearby gay-owned business. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Community Center of Central Florida — more commonly known as The Center — and a second nearby gay-owned business were targeted by vandals who spray painted with a swastika and the words “Gay Pawer,” “Die Fags,” “Go To Hell” and other …

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