Plus, watch Kesha, Bob the Drag Queen, and more walk the Center Dinner
red carpet live.
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Updates from The NYC LGBT Community Center
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Each year in late April, The Center proudly celebrates Lesbian Visibility Week with dynamic programming honoring the voices and contributions of lesbians and non-binary people. Lesbian Visibility Week is a time to recognize the impact, leadership, and creativity of individuals making a difference in our community. Join us in celebrating all that lesbians and non-binary people bring to the LGBTQ+ community. | |
| | | Lesbian Visibility Week Events | | | | | Coast-to-Coast Flag Raising in Collaboration with Curve
Starting Monday, April 21, 2025
Stop by The Center, take a photo with our Lesbian Flag, and tag us on Instagram!
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| | Lesbian Day of Visibility Forum:Visibility Through Voices
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 1-4 p.m.
SAGE Center Harlem
220 West
143rd Street
Join us for an intergenerational forum for the lesbian community and allies presented by HarlemYES, Inc.; Masculine Identified Lesbians of Color Collective, SAGE Center Harlem, and The Center. The event includes a brunch, mixer, panel discussion featuring The Center’s CEO, Dr. Carla Smith, Q&A, and live entertainment.
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| Watch the Stars of Center Dinner 2025 | | | | | Center Dinner Live Red Carpet Coverage
Beginning at 6 p.m. on The Center’s IG Live
Tonight, join us virtually for the star-studded red carpet of Center Dinner, The Center’s glitziest gala of the year. Catch the likes and lewks of Kesha, Fire Island’s Tomás Matos, Bob the Drag Queen, and more.
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Immigration Town Hall
Monday, April 28, 2025, 6-8 p.m.
In this Immigration Town Hall event in partnership with Immigration Equality, experts will help with navigating the changes and expectations in the evolving immigration landscape.
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| | | | | Now Available: The Center Lobby Operating Space RFP
Our lobby operating space is now available! You may have noticed that our former café space is now vacant. With the new vacancy, The Center is excited to explore new possible uses of this space. This could be a new vending opportunity or other service to support our diverse community while contributing to a welcoming lobby environment. Have an idea for what should come next? Review our RFP!
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| The Whitney Adult Art Making Classes
Weekly on Thursdays, April 10 - May 8, 2025
This series of art making workshops is designed to connect participants with their own creativity while engaging with the Whitney Museum of American Art's collections and exhibitions. No experience necessary, Space is limited.
Grab Your Spot | | | | | Keys to Success with Tattoo Artist Rob Vintage
April 29, 2025, 4:30-6 p.m.
Last Tuesdays of the month
April’s queer professional speaker series features Rob Vintage (He/They), a dedicated tattoo artist whose journey into the creative world began after transitioning from military service.
*Food and metro cards provided.
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| | | Youth Substance Use Recovery Services
Ages: 13-25
The Center’s Youth Substance Use & Recovery Services is a harm reduction based program. The program accepts all insurances and will never turn away anyone for lack of funds.
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Featured Youth Recovery Group: Weekly Writing Circle
Ages: 13-25
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 5-6 p.m.
Weekly on Thursdays
Journal quietly and collectively share space and listen to music, then participate in a healing group discussion at the Youth Recovery Writing Circle.
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| | Sobrie-tea Party
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 4-7 p.m.
For LGBTQ+ youth and allies ages 13-22
*Optional dress code: tea party attire in pastels
Enjoy some delicious tea
and tea snacks in a fun, sober environment at our Youth Sobrie-tea Party event! Join us for activities including games, letter writing to our past and future selves, button making, and meditation.
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The Coalition for Radical Advocacy and Empowerment (CRAE)
Looking for opportunities for LGBTQ+ activism? Join The Coalition for Radical Advocacy and Empowerment, a network of organizations and youth dedicated addressing the critical intersection of LGBTQ+ youth homelessness and substance use.
Learn More About CRAE | | | | | Youth Pride Chorus Spring Concert:The Best of Me
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 8-9:30 p.m.
Experience songs that focus on the best in all of us and what it means to be fully human. This performance features an original song penned by the singers themselves, along with uplifting music that embodies joy and individuality.
Register | | | Library Staff Picks for Lesbian Visibility Week | | | | | 1. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"The Well of Loneliness," a 1928 novel by Radclyffe Hall, is a
landmark work of lesbian literature that follows Stephen Gordon, a woman with a masculine presentation, as she navigates her identity and sexuality, facing societal rejection and ultimately finding love with another woman. | | | | | 2. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
"Rubyfruit Jungle" by Rita Mae Brown is a coming-of-age novel, following Molly Bolt as she navigates her sexuality and life as a lesbian in 1950s America, becoming a landmark work in LGBTQ+ literature.
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3. Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles
"Chelsea Girls" by Eileen Myles is an autobiographical novel that vividly recounts Myles's volatile 1960s adolescence, her alcoholic father, her lesbian identity, and her pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York, told in a raw and lyrical voice.
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| | | Events at The LGBTQ+ Bookstore | | | | | Griffin Hansbury in Conversation with Eileen Myles (In Person & Live-Streaming)
April 10, 2025 7-9 p.m.
BGSQD is Located on The 2nd Floor of The Center
Celebrating the paperback launch of his Stonewall Award-winning novel Some Strange Music Draws Me In, Griffin Hansbury will read and talk with acclaimed author Eileen Myles.
See More Details | | | | | Lesbian Book Club: April Edition
April 12, 2025, 11 a.m-12 p.m.
Second Saturdays of the Month
BGSQD is located on the 2nd Floor of The Center
BGSQD’s monthly Lesbian Book Club discusses classic, contemporary, revealing and visionary fiction and non-fiction by and/or about lesbians. This month, the group will be discussing Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend by Jackie Kay.
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