News from the past week:
Arts Education and Graduation Rates (New York Times)
Lanes for Buses Only, and New M.T.A. Chief Means It (New York Times)
Ruling Eases Transgender Name-Change Process (City Room)
Competing visions spark turf war in Longwood Park (Hunts Point Express)
Green Energy Alternatives: The Theme Park — It’s Happening, on Ward’s Island (gbNYC)
Hot for farmer! (New [...]
News from the past week:
Fake New York Post: The Yes Men’s Latest Takes On The Environment (Huffington Post)
Climate Change Is on the Map, and in the Spotlight (City Room)
Primary Results Show Progress for Gay Candidates (City Room)
Concepts Run Wild at Dutch-American Bike Slam (City Room)
Green Taxi Case Heads Toward Showdown (City Limits)
41 Cooper Square: Thom [...]
If you’ve ever watched NYC’s five-hour, 60-block Pride parade, you’ve probably been blown away by the number and variety of groups marching. Just how many organizations are there in New York that specifically work with the LGBT community? Idealist currently lists 148 organizations that match the criteria, but I’m sure there many others that aren’t [...]
News from the past week:
Revisiting 1969 and the Start of Gay Liberation (City Room)
Green Space, Elevated (The Sustainable Cities Blog)
Teens take smoking crusade to stores (Hunts Point Express)
A Powerful Lesson from the Do Something Awards (Entry Level Living)
Harlem Youth Exposes Teen Homelessness at Human Rights Watch Internation Film Festival (RaceWire)
To breathe free (RaceWire)
Eyes on the [...]
News from the past week:
Super Marketing: Better Food Choices May Be Ahead (City Limits)
N.Y. Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill (New York Times)
Group Bicycling Goes to Court (City Room)
Nonprofit Leader Says She Was Fired for Backing Bloomberg (City Room)
New York Ponders Its Place in an Electric-Car Future (City Room)
City Home Sharing Program Promotes Aging in Place [...]
May 1-3: Sprout Film Festival, 26 films featuring accurate portrayals of people with developmental disabilities and the issues that face this population.
May 4-June 4: Dawning of a New Day Juried Art Exhibition, featuring emerging artists examining and exploring contemporary Black America.
May 7: A.R.T. Trivia Night Fundraiser, benefiting Art for Refugees in Transition.
May 7-28: North Korean [...]
No matter what you think of reality TV and the Real World: Brooklyn series, you have to admit it’s kind of cool that three members of the cast were volunteer interns at the LGBT Community Center during the show.
For Katelynn’s internship, she created a new section of the Center’s website called the Gender Identity Project [...]
Kick off the month of March with the St. Pat’s for All parade this Sunday, March 1, in Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens. This annual parade began in 2000 as an alternative to Manhattan’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, which has typically banned LGBT organizations from marching.
A Daily News article from last year tells the story of [...]
LGBT history can be a tricky subject, depending on how you define it. Perhaps it starts with ancient Greek poet Sappho’s writings or maybe when the Roman Emperor Hadrian built a temple to his lover. Or maybe it didn’t really start until a homosexual identity was forged in the 20th Century.
The study [...]
There are a lot of LGBT cultural events going on here in NYC. There are a lot of Chinese cultural events, too. And we know there are an overwhelming number of film festivals. But very rarely do all three of these elements converge at the same time, in the same place, with both “Chinese” and [...]
