Alvin Ailey Pride Is Fierce All Month Long
Pioneering dancer, choreographer, founder, and LGBT icon Alvin Ailey will forever be remembered for taking a stand for equality, shining a spotlight on social justice.
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Celebrate Harlem With A Renaissance Tour, A Drag Brunch And Vogue Dancing
The Black and LGBT community had a tremendous impact on not only the trajectory of the Harlem Renaissance but on the type of community Harlem would grow into as well.Continue reading
Health Department Announces First Citywide Initiative To Prevent And Control High Blood Pressure
The Health Department today announced “Take the Pressure Off, NYC!”, its first citywide initiative to prevent and control high blood pressure from Harlem to Hollis. Continue reading
Harlem’s Burnetta Jones, Hair Salon Owner And First Major Owner Of A Recording Studio (Video)
Genre Magazine writes that this story about I Was Born This Way starts in New York city, but has nothing to do with New York native Lady Gaga.Continue reading
Harlem Artist Tyler Wallach Paints Fabulous Luxury Products At Barneys New York
Out magazine reports that Tyler Wallach, the self-described "1988 lovechild of Keith Haring and Lisa Frank," was invited this weekend to Barneys New York to paint on luxury products for a live audience—a feat for the queer Harlem artist, who's been a local LGBTQ mainstay for several years.Continue reading
Atlanta: The Black Gay Pride Weekend & Pure Heat Community Festival (Photographs)
Atlanta Black Gay Pride, the country's leading LGBTQ annual pride marked it’s 21st year celebration with a roaring line-up occurring during the Labor Day holiday weekend.Continue reading
Harlem Pastor Adds TV Outside Church To Air Sermons
A controversial Harlem pastor known for his anti-gay sentiments added a TV to the message board outside his church so his sermons can be seen and heard by pedestrians.Continue reading
Harlem Fave Brandy Honored At Xscape Puerto Rico Memorial Day Event 2017 (Photos)
On May 31, 2017 celebrity ambassadors turned up the heat in Puerto Rico during Xscape Puerto Rico Arts & Cultural Music Festival at the official hotel partner, Wyndam Grand Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa. Continue reading
Harlem’s Rep. Adriano Espaillat Celebrates LGBT Pride Month
Today, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, a member of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, released the following statement in honor of LGBT Pride Month.Continue reading
‘After Stonewall’ At The Museum Of The City Of New York In Harlem (Update)
Trans people were at the forefront of the 1969 uprising at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn, but their stories have not always been central in film representations of LGBT life in the city. Continue reading
A Message From Uptown’s Ydanis Rodriguez
Dear friends and neighbors,
oday marks a turning point in our country's history. Over the past eight years, we've made strides; expanding the rights of the LGBT community, combating climate change with real commitments, furthering conversations on race and criminal justice reform and strengthening job growth at a consistent pace.Continue reading
“#GayGotham : Art and Underground Culture in New York” In Harlem
Our upcoming exhibition Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York brings to life the LGBT artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would greatly influence the definition and evolution of "modern" culture in New York City. #GayGothamContinue reading
Sharpton, Cuomo, de Blasio And Clinton Makes Appearance In NYC Pride Parade
Harlem based Rev. Al Sharpton made an unannounced appearance in the New York City Pride Parade on Sunday, marching alongside thousands of LGBT supporters two weeks after the massacre at a Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub.Continue reading
Harlem’s Melo Man And More At Puerto Rican Day Parade
NBA All Star and philanthropist and Harlem resident Carmelo Anthony will join Latin Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Ednita Nazario, Grand Marshal of the upcoming 59th Annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade.Continue reading
Target To Allow Transgenders To Use Bathroom Of Their Choice In Harlem
As some of you may know, Harlem has a Target store in East Harlem, what some of you may not know is that Target said on Tuesday, April 20th, 2016, is that transgender employees and customers can now use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, becoming the first big retailer to weigh in on an issue at the center of a heated national debate.Continue reading