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Center Happenings
Updates from The NYC LGBT Community Center
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[Image alt text: Resilient Voices: Celebrating Black Femmes in Art] < [link removed] >
Join us in honoring the strength, beauty, and creativity of Black femmes as they reshape narratives and inspire future generations. The Center’s new exhibition Resilient Voices: Celebrating Black Femmes in Art, on view now,is not just a showcase but a call to recognize and celebrate the vital role of Black femmes in the art world and beyond. Through a carefully curated selection of pieces, the exhibition highlights both established and emerging artists, showcasing their innovative approaches to storytelling using visual art as a vehicle for self-expression.
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**Opportunities for All
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Keys to Success: Sofía Viera
February 25, 2025, 4:30-6 p.m.
This month’s Keys to Success guest speaker is Sofía Viera (she/they), a lesbian non-binary journalist from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. They write about queerness, Puerto Rico, Latinidad, music, and culture in publications including Remezcla, Refinery29’s Somos, Women’s Health, PS (Popsugar), Teen Vogue, and NYLON. *Food and metro cards will be provided!
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Free to be Youth Project Legal Clinic
February 5, 2025, 4-6 p.m.
*Clinic is held every second Wednesday of the month
Ages: 13-22
Come get free support with issues such as Legal Name Change and Document Replacements, Immigration, Employment Authorization, Snap Benefits, Housing & Shelter Advocacy, Transit Tickets, Criminal Law and Warrant checks.
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Apply to be an Activist-In-Residence Fellow!
Deadline: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Applications are now live for The Center's Activist-in-Residence Fellowship, an opportunity for established or emerging activists with bold, cutting-edge ideas for advancing LGBTQ+ rights to invest in their political projects and bring visibility to timely issues facing LGBTQ+ people in New York. *Fellowship includes a stipend of $15,000.
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**Find Your Chosen Family
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Center Youth: Proud & Empowered
February 11-27, 2025
Weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4-6 p.m.
Ages: 13-22
Make new friends while learning coping skills to manage the process of coming out, including life and school stress, how to navigate relationships with family and peers, explore spirituality/religion and develop empowerment and advocacy skills.
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Rainbows
February 12 - April 16, 2025
Weekly on Wednesdays, 5:30-7p.m.
Join this peer-support group that welcomes anyone under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella to build a sense of community, self-confidence, and express feelings through art and writing activities. Each session will focus on a different color and meaning from the original 1978 pride flag created by Gilbert Baker.
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**Dance Your Heart Out
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Dance: 208
Friday, February 14, 2025, 7-10 p.m.
This Valentine’s Day, host Joe Fiore and DJ Ted Snowdon are bringing back the nostalgia of our Center Dances with the return of "Dance: 208." It will be a revitalized evening of dance classics designed for community members over the age of 40. *Open bar and coat check included with ticket purchase of $20.
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Love Yourself Valentine's Dance
Friday, February 7, 2025, 5-8 p.m.
Ages: 13-22
This year’s Love Yourself Valentines Dance is all about exploring, expressing and loving our diverse genders, in all of their glory! Food and refreshments will be served. Open to LGBTQ and allied youth 13-22 years old.
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**Get Literary
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The Center's Library is Back!
Weekly on Sundays, 10-4 p.m.
Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library (4th floor)
At long last, The Center's library is back and more queer than ever. The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library is the only LGBTQ+ dedicated, free, circulating library in New York. The PPVR Library is committed to acquiring, maintaining, and making accessible a collection of literary, artistic, and intellectual works by, for, and about LGBTQ+ people. The Library promotes research, exploration, and discovery.
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OUTspoken: A tribute to Nikki Giovanni
February 1, 2025, 6-8 p.m.
Livestreaming & In-Person in BGSQD, The Center's Bookstore (2nd floor)
In celebration of Black History Month, The Publishing Triangle and BGSQD present a special OUTspoken Reading Series event celebrating the life of acclaimed Black lesbian poet, commentator, activist and educator, Nikki Giovanni.
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Jill Johnston in Motion: Clare Croft In Conversation with Ksenia Soboleva
February 6, 2025, 7-8:30 p.m.
Livestreaming & In-Person in BGSQD, The Center's Bookstore (2nd floor)
Clare Croft reads from her new book, Jill Johnston in Motion, which focuses on the dance critic turned lesbian provocateur Jill Johnston. Following the reading Croft will be in conversation with Ksenia Soboleva. In conjunction with “Archives Onstage: The Essential Jill Johnston” at NYU Skirball.
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The Sexual Evolution: The Inherent Queerness of Animals
February 8, 2025, 3-4 p.m.
Located in BGSQD, The Center's Bookstore (2nd floor)
In The Sexual Evolution: How 500 Million Years of Sex, Gender, and Mating Shape Modern Relationships, biologist Nathan H. Lents argues persuasively that many of our supposedly modern ideas about gender and human sexuality are, in fact, deeply rooted in our animal ancestors.
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How Pornographers Conspired to Kill Romance
February 14, 2025, 7-8 p.m.
Located in BGSQD, The Center's Bookstore (2nd floor)
The die-off of romance among the younger generations is palpable, but what if the trends we are witnessing today began under parents’ and even grandparents’ generations? Drs. Sabrina Strings and Serene Khader discuss the little-known crusade during the mid-20th century movement era to undo romance as a backlash to feminism.
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**The Center in the News
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How The Center Will Protect Queer Immigrants
The Center remains steadfast in our commitment to protecting the safety and well-being of all visitors regardless of immigration status. ICE agents will not be allowed to enter The Center without a judicial warrant or subpoena. We are dedicated to maintaining The Center as a safe, accessible space for everyone who relies on our services, programs, resources, and community spaces.
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