The 18th Tribeca Film Festival is set to explore activism in the arts with the first Tribeca Celebrates Pride this Saturday 4th May at the Tribeca Festival Hub at Spring Studios, New York. The day long event will honour the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, including on stage interviews with LGBTQ+ creatives including Neil Patrick Harris, John Cameron... Continue Reading →
As the final film in Queer|Art|Film's Winter's A Drag series at New York's IFC Center, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar screens tonight Monday 8th April 2019, presented by Untitled Queen. Directed by Beeban Kidron from a screenplay by Douglas Carter Beane, the film stars Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze and John Leguizamo as... Continue Reading →
As part of New York's LGBTQ film festival NewFest's monthly Coming Out Again series at The Quad cinema, filmmaker and actor John Cameron Mitchell will present director Douglas Hickox's 1970 dark comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane, based on the play by Joe Orton. Mitchell, who can be seen in the new Hulu series Shrill, describes Sloane on the Quad... Continue Reading →
Friday 8th March saw the premiere performance from the all-male burlesque troupe Members Only Boylesque at The Laurie Beechman Theatre, New York City. The monthly residency at the Beechman promises a night filled with "Boys, Bulges and Booty" with creators Milo Pony and Twinky Boots and their rotating cast of performers. The details: Upcoming Members... Continue Reading →
As part of the New York Public Library's (NYPL) Stonewall 50 exhibition and related series of events, this Thursday 14th March 6 - 8pm The Drag March & Other Tales of Glamour and Resistance: A Storytelling Workshop will take place at Tompkins Square Library, East Village. Open to all, its the first in a series of... Continue Reading →
Opening Monday 11th March, Metanoia: Transformation Through AIDS Archives and Activism runs at The Center, New York City, through 29th April 2019. Examining community responses to the AIDS crisis, the archival exhibition aims to demonstrate that "HIV/AIDS is a powerful agent of change and that transformation happens through community, activism, words, sex, care and the... Continue Reading →
