BY SCOTT STIFFLER When onetime triumphant Shark Tank contestant Brandon Fay chose a decidedly compact Seventh Ave./W. 21st St. storefront as the downtown dispensary for his exceptionally good pizza and pasta, it was another gutsy move that paid off big-time… in due time, that is. Pasta by Hudson’s Chelsea location opened in November 2020—a […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Seemingly airborne when seen from a distance, the 23-strong Pride Puppets contingant was greeted with cheers and applause as it snaked its way down Seventh Ave. and into the heart of Chelsea. That sort of thing happens when you’re 10 feet tall and wear a sash bearing names like Harvey Milk, […]
BY TRAV S.D. | In honor of Pride Month, we featured a classic performer for each of the five calendar weeks of June, sequentially matched with L, G, B, T, and Q. Check back with us next year, as our series picks up with “+” I, A, and beyond. Following up on previous posts […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | We’ve watched them win four World Cups and Olympic gold medals and cheered them with a ticker tape parade in New York City’s Canyon of Heroes. “Even though all these accolades sound incredible, we don’t get paid very much,” admits player Jessica McDonald, shown doing pushups with her young son clutched […]
BY TRAV S.D. | In honor of Pride Month, we will be featuring one article per week on a different classic performer, one for each category: L, G, B, T, and Q! With only five weeks in June, that’s our limit. Check back with us next year, as our series picks up with “+” I, A, […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | When the pandemic shut down nightlife, filmmaker friends Elina Street and Erica Rose spent their evenings walking and talking, reminiscing about the things they enjoyed in the “before” times. Recalling a last drink shared at Brooklyn lesbian bar Ginger’s, the two began realized that even before the pandemic, the treasured dyke bars […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | It’s Pride month, when LGBTQs celebrate and commemorate in a big way—and this year, we might even leave this house to do so. As one of the gayest of the gays, I will honor this year’s Pride by digging back into my lavender-tinted memories and relating the 10 gayest moments of […]
REVIEW BY WINNIE McCROY | If you like your LGBTQ documentaries with a bit of history, a soupçon of mystery, and a hell of a lot of drag queens, P.S. Burn This Letter Please fits the bill to a gay tee. The 100-minute film follows director Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera’s exploration of a box of […]
BY GERLD BUSBY | Now that I’m 85 and have just emerged from a near-death experience after major surgery, I realize that being gay has absolutely nothing to do with sex. It has to do only with being present to myself as continuously as possible. When I think of my past as a gay man […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Dance With Us, June 25-27 | “I don’t make Gay Art. I make art. The metaphors of resilience, pride, strength, and community are central to my art-making. All is shaped inherently by a lived queerness.” Gwirtzman, a master teacher from Washington Heights currently on the faculty at Ithaca College, […]