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Gay Gotham: 20 Essentials of New York Cinema CEO Les Goodstein PRESIDENT & PUBLISHER Jennifer Goodstein EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paul Schindler ART DIRECTOR Michael Shirey EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVERTISING Amanda Tarley ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Jack Agliata Lauren Blair Laura Cangiano Jeanne Eisenhardt Allison Greaker Andrew Mark Jim Steele Julio Tumbaco
Gay Gotham, Gay City News’ 2016-2017 LGBT Resource Guide to New York City, offers a comprehensive directory of services, organizations, and opportunities for the community across the five boroughs –– as well as a special editorial focus. This year’s Resource Guide looks at 20 essential LGBT films about New York: The Boys in the Band, 1970......................................... 7 Carol, 2105............................................................... 8 High Art, 1998.......................................................... 9 Torch Song Trilogy, 1988...........................................10 Love! Valour! Compassion!, 1997...............................13 Longtime Companion, 1989.......................................14 Parting Glances, 1986...............................................17 The Normal Heart, 2014............................................18 Rent, 2005................................................................19 Angels in America, 2003.......................................... 20 Tongues Untied, 1989............................................... 21 Pariah, 2011............................................................ 22 Gun Hill Road, 2011................................................. 25 Appropriate Behavior, 2014...................................... 26 Saving Face, 2004................................................... 27 Paris Is Burning, 1990............................................... 28 The Skinny, 2012...................................................... 31 Shortbus, 2006......................................................... 33 Cruising, 1980......................................................... 34 Dog Day Afternoon, 1975........................................ 36
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The resource directory is presented in the following categories: Community Centers..................................................... 4 Social, Cultural & Professional Organizations................ 4 Sports & Recreation..................................................... 9 Political & Activist Groups.......................................... 12 Religious & Spiritual Organizations............................. 16 Health & Wellness Resources...................................... 22 Anti-Violence Support................................................ 27 People Of Color Organizations.................................. 30 Youth/ Family Resources.............................................. 31 Senior Services......................................................... 33 Gender Identity Services............................................ 34 Legal Services........................................................... 35 Key Government Contacts.......................................... 36 GAY GOTHAM 2016
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COMMUNITY CENTERS AUDRE LORDE PROJECT LGBT/ TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE OF COLOR CENTER
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER
147 W. 24th St., third fl., Manhattan 212-463-0342Â 85 South Oxford St. at Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn 718-596-0342 alp.org
208 W. 13th St. 212-620-7310 info@gaycenter.org/ gaycenter.org
QUEENS PRIDE HOUSE
347-542-8291 blog.bronxlgbtqcenter.org
76-11 37th Ave., ste. 206, Jackson Heights 718-429-5309 qphinfo@queenspridehouse.org queenspridehouse.org
BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER
STATEN ISLAND LGBT CENTER
4 Metrotech Center, ground fl. 347-889-7719 info@LGBTBrooklyn.org/ LGBTBrooklyn.org
25 Victory Blvd. at Bay St., third fl. 718-808-1360 silgbtcenter.org
BRONX LGBTQ CENTER
SOCIAL, CULTURAL & PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ARMENIAN GAY & LESBIAN ASSOCIATION
BI WRITERS ASSOCIATION
info@aglany.org/ aglany.org
fuscialadybug@netzero.com biwriters.org
ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP 110-112 West 27th St., ste. 600 212-494-0061 desk@aaww.org/ aaww.org
BAAD!, BRONX ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DANCE 2474 Westchester Ave. 718-918-2110 info@baadbronx.org/ baadbronx.org 4
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BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE (BAX) 421 Fifth Ave. at Eighth St. 718-832-0018 bax.org
BUTCH/FEMME SOCIETY 347-709-0561 bfsnyc@aol.com butchfemmesociety.freeservers.com
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CENTER FOR LESBIAN & GAY STUDIES (CLAGS) CUNY Grad Center, 365 Fifth Ave. at 34th St., rm. 7115 212-817-1955 info@clags.org/ clags.org
EMPIRE CITY MEN’S CHORUS info@empirecitymenschorus.org empirecitymenschorus.org
FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY EXCHANGE 212-459-4956. info@fsix.org/ fsix.org
FIREFLAG/ EMS 917-885-0127 fireflag.org
FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL 131 W. 35th St., eighth fl. exec@freshfruitfestival.com freshfruitfestival.com
GAY OFFICERS ACTION LEAGUE (GOAL) 212-691-4625 info@goalny.org/ goalny.org
HERITAGE OF PRIDE, INC. 154 Christopher St. at Greenwich St., ste. 1D 212-807-7433 nycpride.org
IMPERIAL COURT OF NEW YORK
LAVENDER LIGHT: THE BLACK & PEOPLE OF ALL COLORS LESBIAN & GAY GOSPEL CHORUS 70A Greenwich Ave. at 11th St., ste. 315 212-714-7072 lavenderlight85@gmail.com/ lavenderlight.com
LESBIAN & GAY BIG APPLE CORPS BAND 332 Bleecker St. at Christopher St., ste. K48 212-591-2886 info@lgbac.org/ lgbac.org
LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES 484 14th St, btwn. Prospect Park W. & Eighth Ave., Brooklyn 718-768-3953 lesbianherstoryarchives@gmail.com lesbianherstoryarchives.org
LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART 26 Wooster St., btwn. Grand & Canal Sts. 212-431-2609 info@leslielohman.org/ leslielohman.org
MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER NEW YORK secretary@mactny.org/ mactny.org
NATIONAL LESBIAN & GAY JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION NY@nlgja.org/ nlgja.org
NEW YORK AREA BISEXUAL NETWORK
icny.org
212-459-4784 info@nyabn.org/ nyabn.org
LAVENDER & GREEN ALLIANCE (MUINTIR AERACH NA HEIREANN)
NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN’S CHORUS/YOUTH PRIDE CHORUS
22-22 28th St., Astoria 718-721-2780 lavenderandgreenalliance@gmail.com lavenderandgreenalliance.org
Big Apple Performing Arts 561 Seventh Ave. at 40th St., ste. 803 212-344-1777 info@bapany.org/ bapany.org
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THE BOYS IN THE BAND Directed by William Friedkin, 1970
Opening Off Broadway for an extended run in April 1968, Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band” scandalized. The 1970 film adaptation, with a screenplay by Crowley, caused no less a stir, with some gay men saying its campy birthday gathering in pre-Stonewall New York was already hopelessly dated with painful dia-
logue like “You show me a happy homosexual and I’ll show you a gay corpse” and “If only we could learn not to hate ourselves quite so much.” Yet, nearly 50 later, “Boys”’ laser sharp dialogue and fearless exploration of internalized homophobia still resonate. Camp may have lost force, but new generations of gay men still recognize its sting.
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CAROL Directed by Todd Haynes, 2015
New Queer Cinema pioneer Todd Haynes directs Phyllis Nagy’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Price of Salt,” a 1952 novel noteworthy at the time for its happy ending to a lesbian love story. “Carol” is a gorgeous film with miraculous lead performances. Cate Blanchett plays the title character, a glamorous
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New Yorker who sparks unexpected attraction in Therese (Rooney Mara), a younger department store sales clerk with whom she has a chance encounter. Haynes told Gay City News, “It’s ultimately Therese’s story. Carol is the object of desire, and she pretty much maintains that position through most of the film because she’s not the one in danger, the way Therese is.”
QUEER URBAN ORCHESTRA
295 Madison Ave. at 41st St., 12th fl. info@thelara.org/ thelara.org
646-233-4113 info@queerurbanorchestra.org queerurbanorchestra.org
OUT PROFESSIONALS
STONEWALL CHORALE
info@OutProfessionals.org OutProfessionals.org
info@stonewallchorale.org stonewallchorale.org
PUBLISHING TRIANGLE: ASSOCIATION OF LESBIANS & GAY MEN IN PUBLISHING
WOMEN ABOUT
332 Bleecker St. at Christopher St.., ste. D36 publishingtriangle@gmail.com publishingtriangle.org
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212-642-5257 womenabout.org
HIGH ART Directed by Lisa Cholodenko, 1998
Syd (Radha Mitchell), a young woman who works for a high-art photography magazine, stumbles into an acquaintance with a once-famous photographer, Lucy (Ally Sheedy), who is her upstairs neighbor. As she becomes drawn into the hypnotic mysteries of Lucy’s home life, which include her
heroin-addicted lover Greta (Patricia Clarkson) and a steady stream of party hangerson, Syd sees career opportunities but also wrestles with the tug-of-war between her live-in boyfriend (Gabriel Mann) and Lucy’s undeniable allure. What Lucy can offer Syd comes only at an excruciatingly painful price.
SPORTS & RECREATION BIG APPLE RECREATIONAL SPORTS
CITY CRUISERS GAY MALE MOTORCYCLE CLUB
info@bigappledodgeball.com bigapplerecsports.com
clubinfo@citycruisers.com/ citycruisers.com
BIG APPLE SOFTBALL LEAGUE, INC.
climbcrux.org
CRUX NY’S LGBT CLIMBING CLUB
bigapplesoftball.com
DANCE TOGETHER NYC
BROOKLYN BLADES WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
500 Eighth Ave., btwn. 36th & 37th St. 877-864-3353 DanceTogetherNYC.com
info@brooklynblades.org brooklynblades.org
CHEER NEW YORK 888-671-7312 cheerny.org
FAST & FABULOUS CYCLING CLUB fastnfab@gmail.com/ fastnfab.org
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TORCH SONG TRILOGY Based on Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning play, “Torch Song Trilogy,” with a screenplay by Fierstein, stars the playwright as a struggling female impersonator, Matthew Broderick as his younger lover, Anne Bancroft as the mother who struggles to understand him, and Brian Kerwin as his sexually conflicted
ex. Charles Pierce, famed for his impersonations of Bette Davis, Carol Channing, Joan Crawford, and Joan Collins, is featured as one of Fierstein’s rival performers. Set before the onset of AIDS, the story instead wrestles with questions of gay men’s self-acceptance and family acceptance as well as the threat they face from violent bigots.
GOTHAM KNIGHTS RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB
NEW YORK CITY GAY BASKETBALL LEAGUE
gothamrfc.org
play@nycgaybasketball.org nycgaybasketball.org
Directed by Paul Bogart, 1988
GOTHAM VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE gothamvolleyball.org
NEW YORK CITY GAY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
GRAND SLAM BRIDGE GROUP
play@nycgayhockey.org nycgayhockey.org
914-665-8862
KNICKERBOCKER SAILING ASSOCIATION board@KSAsailing.org/ KSAsailing.org
METRO GAY WRESTLING ALLIANCE mgwa@metrowrestling.org metrowrestling.org
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NEW YORK GAY POOL LEAGUE nygpl.org
NEW YORK RAMBLERS SOCCER CLUB SportingActivities1@newyorkramblers.org newyorkramblers.org
OUT OF BOUNDS NYC/ TEAM NEW YORK jeffkagan@oobnyc.org/ oobnyc.org
OUT CYCLING outcycling.org
PROSPECT PARK WOMEN’S SOFTBALL LEAGUE info@ppwsl.org/ ppwsl.org
SIRENS NYC WOMEN’S MOTORCYCLE CLUB sirensnyc.com
SKI BUMS 347-542-8670/ ski-bums.org
TEAM NEW YORK AQUATICS mail@tnya.org/ tnya.org
TIMES SQUARE DANCE CLUB 212-749-4291 timessquares.nyc
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POLITICAL & ACTIVIST GROUPS ACT UP/ AIDS COALITION TO UNLEASH POWER
BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS
332 Bleecker St. at Grove St., ste. G5 212-966-4873 info@actupny.org
165 W. 46th St., ste. 1300 212-840-0770 info@broadwaycares.org broadwaycares.org
AMERICAN VETERANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS 718-849-5665 glbtvetsnyc@yahoo.com averny.tripod.com
ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE 116 E. 16th St., seventh fl. 212-529-8021 info@astraeafoundation.org astraeafoundation.org
FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES 104 W. 29th St., fourth fl. 212-475-2930 info@lgbtfunders.org/ lgbtfunders.org
GLAAD 104 W. 29th St., fourth fl. 646-871-8000/ glaad.org
Helping your dream of building a family through adoption become a reality (914) 939-1180 62 Bowman Avenue ♥ Rye Brook, New York 10573 Adopt@ForeverFamiliesThroughAdoption.org www.ForeverFamiliesThroughAdoption.org
FFTA is recognized since 2011 as a Leader in supporting and serving LGBT families by the Human Rights Campaign’s All Children-All Families Initiative
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LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! Directed by Joe Mantello, 1997
Terence McNally adapted his Tony-winning play for the big screen, with Broadway director Joe Mantello back to helm the film. Eight gay men spend a summer’s holiday weekends together in choreographer Gregory’s (Stephen Bogardus) upstate lakefront home. His boyfriend Bobby (Justin Kirk) is blind, Buzz Hauser (Jason Alexander) is a fussy
theater costume designer, Arthur (John Benjamin Hickey) and Perry (Stephen Spinella) are longtime boyfriends, John (John Glover) is a randy but caustic British dance accompanist, Ramon (Randy Becker) is his rough tradish companion, and James (also Glover) is John’s good-natured twin. Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day capture striking essentials about ‘90s gay male life in New York.
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LONGTIME COMPANION “Longtime Companion,” with a screenplay by Craig Lucas, tracks the lives, loves, and deaths of a close-knit group of gay men beginning on Fire Island in July 1981, when they first read in the Times about what later became known as AIDS. At first uncomprehendingly and then with staggering routineness, these 20- and
30-something New Yorkers confront illness and death in their circle. This first major Hollywood release about the epidemic was welcome despite criticism of its narrow focus on relatively well-off white men. With some allusions to activism, the film ends by evoking a community of love transcending a world unable or unwilling to contain the plague.
GAY & LESBIAN INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS (GLID)
LESBIAN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
glidmanhattan@gmail.com/ glidny.org
1001 G. St. NW, eighth fl. Washington 20001 202-627-6880 info@teamlpac.com/ teamlpac.com
Directed by Norman René, 1989
IRISH QUEERS 212-289-1101 irishqueers@gmail.com irishqueers.blogspot.com
JIM OWLES LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB 212-741-3677 jimowles@gmail.com/ jimowles.org
LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS OF BROOKLYN
LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS/ NEW YORK CITY nyc@logcabin.org/ logcabin.org
NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE 116 Nassau St., third fl. 212-604-9830 thetaskforce.org
LIDBrooklyn@gmail.com/ LIDBrooklyn.org
PFLAG NYC
LESBIAN AND GAY DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF QUEENS
130 E. 25th St., ste. M1 646-240-4288 info@pflagnyc.org/ pflagnyc.org
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STONEWALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 446 W 33rd St. 212-367-1155 stonewallfoundation.org
STONEWALL DEMOCRATIC CLUB OF NEW YORK CITY stonewalldemocraticclubnyc@gmail.com sdnyc.org
STATEN ISLAND STONEWALL One Lakeside Pl. near Clove Rd. 718-816-5508 sistonewall@yahoo.com/ sistonewall.org
TRANSPAC Transpacny.org
TREATMENT ACTION GROUP 261 Fifth Ave. at 29th St., ste. 2110 212-253-7922 tag@treatmentactiongroup.org treatmentactiongroup.org
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) 80A Fourth Ave. btwn. Bergen St. & St. Mark’s Place Brooklyn 718-802-9540 info@vocal-ny.org/ vocal-ny.org
RELIGIOUS & SPIRITUAL ORGANIZATIONS ARCOS IRIS LATINO/ A CRISTIANOS
BROADWAY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
c/o Metropolitan Community Church of New York 446 W. 36 St. RevEdgard@mccny.org mccny.org/about/ministries
2504 Broadway at 93rd St. 212-316-5700 broadwayucc.org
CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN
131 Remsen St., btwn. Henry & Clinton Sts. 718-522-2070 info@bhsbrooklyn.org/ bhsbrooklyn.org
257 W. 88th St. 212-787-7600/ bj.org
BELIEVE OUT LOUD 646-723-7826 jrowe@believeoutloud.com believeoutloud.com
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE
BROOKLYN SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE 53 Prospect Park W. at Second St. 718-768-2972 bsecdirector@yahoo.com/ bsec.org
PARTING GLANCES Directed by Bill Sherwood, 1986
“Longtime Companion,” three years later, enjoyed the big Hollywood platform denied “Parting Glances,” but the earlier film was a more carefully observed dayin-the-life story of a gay couple dealing with relationship complications while one of them remains deeply involved in the life and care of an ex (Steve Buscemi) with
an iconoclastic take on life undimmed by AIDS. The tight focus on a handful of scenes –– preparing for an evening out, poignant encounters between the ex-lovers, a farewell party, and a dinner party the next day –– allows real gay men of the ‘80s, listening to real Bronski Beat songs, to emerge. In his first major film role, Buscemi is magnetic.
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THE NORMAL HEART Directed by Ryan Murphy, 2014
Nearly 30 years after its stage debut, Larry Kramer’s semi-autobiogrpahical AIDS play hit the big screen, with Kramer writing the adaptation and Mark Ruffalo portraying him with stunning passion. Despite two decades of HIV infection being generally manageable, “The Normal Heart” lost none of its visceral punch, as Ruffalo’s
CATHOLIC LESBIANS c/o Church of St. Francis Xavier Mary Chapel, 55 W. 15th St. SFXGCGroup@gmail.com/ sfxavier.org
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE GROUP 347-201-0262 nycsgroup.com
Ned Weeks and Dr. Emma Brookner (Julia Roberts) exasperatedly scramble to draw urgent attention to the epidemic. The film –– featuring out actors Matt Bomer, Jonathan Groff, Joe Mantello, Denis O’Hare, Jim Parsons, Stephen Spinella, and B.D. Wong –– reflects all of Kramer’s scorching anger, but also his hope that in the face of death gay men will find themselves.
DIGNITY/ NEW YORK, GLBT AND STRAIGHT CATHOLICS 646-418-7039 info@dignityny.org/ dignityny.org
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BROOKLYN
CHURCH OF ST LUKE IN THE FIELDS
124 Henry St. at Clark St. 718-624-3770 info@firstchurchbrooklyn.org firstchurchbrooklyn.org
487 Hudson St. at Christopher St. 212-924-0562 stlukeinthefields.org
FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH IN BROOKLYN
CONGREGATION BEIT SIMCHAT TORAH 130 W. 30th St. 212-929-9498 cbst.org 18
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48 Monroe Pl. at Pierrepont St. 718-624-5466 garnett@fuub.org/ fuub.org
RENT Directed by Chris Columbus , 2005
Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel, Tracie Thoms, and Taye Diggs star in Stephen Chbosky’s film adaptation of Billy Aronson and Jonathan Larson’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock opera, based loosely on Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bo-
CHRIST CHURCH COBBLE HILL 326 Clinton St. at Kane St. 718-624-0083 cchf.tripod.com
JAN HUS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 351 E. 74th St. 212-288-6743 church@janhus.org/ janhus.org
JCC IN MANHATTAN –– LGBTQ PROGRAMS 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. 646-505-4444 info@jccmanhattan.org/lgbtq jccmanhattan.org/lgbtq
hème.” With East Village gentrification on the horizon, a group of young artistic types struggle with poverty as well as the devastation AIDS continues to wreak. Critics said the film failed to recapture the magic “Rent” brought to the stage, but with the late Larson’s memorable music, it is an artifact of a lost bohemian world in Lower Manhattan.
KOLOT CHAYEINU/ VOICES OF OUR LIVES c/o Church of Gethsemane 1012 Eighth Ave. at 10th St. Brooklyn 718-395-9950 kolotchayeinu.org
MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH 1 W. 29th St. 212-686-2770 marblechurch.org
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY CHURCH OF NEW YORK, 446 W. 36 St. 212-629-7440 mccny.org
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ANGELS IN AMERICA Directed by Mike Nichols, 2003
“Angels in America,” a six-hour HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner’s brilliant Broadway sensation, translates it dazzling fantasia feel to film. Kushner’s searing, expansive exploration of gay life and death amidst Reagan era indifference to AIDS’ explosion encompasses corrupt, closeted right-wing power broker Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), Ethel Rosenberg’s ghost
MIDDLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH 112 Second Ave. at Seventh St. 212-477-0666 middleinfo@middlechurch.org middlechurch.org
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(Meryl Streep) who haunts him, a gay man with AIDS (Justin Kirk) who is visited by an angel (Emma Thompson), the sick man’s faithless lover (Ben Shenkman), who leaves him and then takes up with a closeted Mormon protégé of Cohn’s (Patrick Wilson). Mary Louise Parker is Wilson’s drug-addled wife, and Jeffrey Wright reprises his unforgettable stage portrayal of nurse and drag queen Belize.
PARK SLOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 410 Sixth Ave. at Eighth St. 718-768-3093 parkslopeumc.org
RIVERS AT REHOBOTH CHURCH
15 Rutherford Pl. at E. 16th St quakerfinder.org
263 W. 86th St. 347-765-1630 admin@rivers-at-rehoboth.org rivers-at-rehoboth.org
PARK AVENUE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
RIVERSIDE CHURCH MARANATHA LGBT MINISTRY
1010 Park Ave. at 85th St. 212-288-3246 info@parkavenuechristian.com parkavenuechristian.com
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490 Riverside Dr. at 122 St. 212-870-6700 theriversidechurchny.org/ socialjustice/?maranatha
TONGUES UNTIED Directed by Marlon Riggs, 1989
Marlon Riggs’ remarkable montage of filmmaking styles used archival news footage, scenes of physical intimacy, storytelling, and poetry to challenge black gay men’s “silence” in the face of hostility from the larger society, the African-American community, and LGBT whites. Particularly memorable are loving scenes of black men kissing as
ST. ANN’S CHURCH OF MORRISANIA GAY AND LESBIAN MINISTRY
well as poetry performed by Essex Hemphill, who like Riggs would die of AIDS. Riggs embraced the black community’s proud civil rights traditions but also took on its homophobia. Public television’s 1990 screening of “Tongues Untied” sparked outrage on the right, which lingered into Pat Buchanan’s angry primary challenge to President George H.W. Bush two years later.
UNITY FELLOWSHIP OF CHRIST CHURCH NYC
295 St. Anne’s Ave. at 140th St., Bronx 718-585-5632 stannsb.dioceseny.org
2578 Atlantic Ave. at Georgia Ave. Brooklyn 718-385-2406/ ufcnyc@aol.com unityfellowshipchurch.org
ST. JOHN-ST. MATTHEW –– EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF STATEN ISLAND
283 Prospect Ave., btwn. Fifth & Sixth Aves., Brooklyn 718-768-0528 stjme@stjme.org/ stjme.org
STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE 30 W. 68th St. 212-877-4050 info@swfs.org/ swfs.org
312 Fillmore Street at Clinton St. 718-447-2204 unitarianchurchofstatenisland.org
VICTORIA CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH –– UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 144-64 87th Avenue, Jamaica 718-297-9733 vccny@hotmail.com/ VictoriaUCC.org
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PARIAH Directed by Dee Rees, 2011
Adepero Oduye is astonishing in her portrayal of Alike, a 17-year-old African-American girl living in Brooklyn and slowly coming to terms with her identity as a butch lesbian. Though she finds some consolation from her police officer father (Charles Parnell), who is
loving even if not fully ready to acknowledge his daughter’s sexual identity, Alike is fiercely at odds with her religious mother (Kim Wayans), who is uncompromising in her demand that she conform. Facing heartbreak at home and in her budding relationships, Alike weathers the storm to find her path to self-fulfillment.
HEALTH & WELLNESS RESOURCES AIDS Center of Queens County 161-21 Jamaica Ave., sixth fl., Jamaica 929-421-4630 acqc.org
ACRIA (AIDS COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE OF AMERICA) 575 Eighth Ave. at 38th St., ste. 502 212-924-3934 info@acria.org/ acria.org
ACSNYC (AIDS SERVICE CENTER NYC) 64 W. 35th St., third fl. 212-645-0875 info@ascnyc.org/ ascnyc.org
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AL-ANON FAMILY INTERGROUP OF GREATER NEW YORK 4 W. 43rd St., ste. 308 212-941-0094 info@nycalanon.org/ nycalanon.org
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NEW YORK INTERGROUP 307 Seventh Ave. btwn. 27th & 28th Sts., Rm. 201 212-647-1680 info@nyintergroup.org/nyintergroup.org
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION 120 Wall St. at FDR Dr., 29th fl. 212-363-3500 info@afsp.org/ afsp.org
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COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NETWORK
120 Wall St. at FDR Dr., 13th fl. 212-806-1600 information@amfar.org/ amfar.org
Locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx 60 Madison Ave. at 27th St., fifth fl. 212-545-2400 chnnyc.org
AMIDA CARE 14 Penn Plaza, second fl. 646-757-7000 info@amidacareny.org/ amidacare.org
GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER NATIONAL HOTLINE
APICHA (ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER COALITION ON HIV/AIDS)
888-843-4564 glnh.org
400 Broadway at Walker St. 212-334-6029 apicha.org
GAY MEN’S HEALTH CRISIS (GMHC)
BAILEY HOUSE, 1751 Park Ave. at 122nd St. 212-633-2500 baileyhouse.org
BOOM! HEALTH 540 E. Fordham Rd. at Lorillard Pl., Bronx 718-295-2666 Boomhealth.org
BRIDGING ACCESS TO CARE 2261 Church Ave., btwn. Flatbush & Bedford Aves, Brooklyn 347-505-5176 bac-ny.org/
CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER 356 W. 18th St. 212-271-7200 callen-lorde.org
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446 W. 33rd St. 212-367-1000/ 800-243-7692 gmhc.org
GOD’S LOVE WE DELIVER 166 Sixth Ave. at Spring St. 212-294-8100 glwd.org
HAITIAN CENTERS COUNCIL 3807-3809 Church Ave. at E. 38th St. Brooklyn 718-940-2200 hccinc.org
HARLEM UNITED COMMUNITY AIDS CENTER 306 Lenox Ave. at 125th St. 212-803-2850 harlemunited.org
HISPANIC AIDS FORUM 1767 Park Ave. at 122nd St., fifth fl. 212-868-6230 975 Kelly St. at Westchester Ave., ste. 402, Bronx 718-328-4188 hafnyc.org
GUN HILL ROAD Returning home to the Bronx after three years in prison, Enrique (Esai Morales) struggles with emotional estrangement from his wife Angela (Judy Reyes) and his teenage son Michael (transgender actress Harmony Santana), who has started down the road to gender transition and life as Vanessa. Angela is unreservedly protec-
tive of Vanessa, but Vanessa and Enrique contend with mutual fear facing off against each other. Vanessa’s battle to stay true to herself despite her father’s unwelcome intrusion and despair may be formulaic, but the performances are full of heart and conviction. Director Green’s debut feature film tells a story with characters too little seen even in LGBT cinema.
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24 W 25th St., ninth fl. 212-675-3288 latinoaids.org
HOUSING WORKS
c/o The Center, 208 W. 13th St. 646-556-9300 gaycenter.org/lci
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57 Willoughby St. at Lawrence St., second fl., Brooklyn 347-473-7400 housingworks.org
IDENTITY HOUSE 212-243-8181 identityhouse.org
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN IDENTITY (IHI) 322 Eighth Ave. at 26th St., ste. 802 212-243-2830 ihitherapy.org
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LESBIAN THERAPISTS REFERRAL NETWORK 212-206-1589 lesbiantherapist.com
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ADOLESCENT AIDS PROGRAM Bainbridge Ave. & Gun Hill Road, Bronx 718-882-0232 adolescentaids.org
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APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR Joking about the glut of films featuring bisexual Persians in Brooklyn –– not! –– out bi writer and director Desiree Akhavan told Gay City News, “I see a formula that works, and I latch on.” Akhavan stars in her story of Shirin, not out to her wealthy Persian immigrant parents and just broken up with her girlfriend. Trying
to bounce back, she dates men, women, and, on one occasion, a couple. Her inability to connect emotionally, Akhavan explained, is a reflection of the difficulty of being “visibly bisexual” in a culture where the word remains “taboo” and “some folks can’t handle the baggage of stepping into that ambiguous place.”
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SAVING FACE Directed by Alice Wu, 2004
This romantic dramedy is set in New York’s Chinese-American immigrant community. Wilhelmina (Michelle Krusiec), a young surgeon, withholds her identity as a lesbian from her family, even as her widowed mother (Joan Chen) faces ostracism for becoming pregnant without being married. Wil’s mom
is forced to leave her own father’s house in Flushing and move in with her daughter in Manhattan. As Wil struggles to hold on to her lover, who insists the two must be open, her mother stubbornly refuses to identity the father of the child she is carrying. Can mother and daughter ever get beyond the bonds of saving face?
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327 Seventh St. at Ninth St., second fl. Brooklyn 718-788-1775 caeny.org
240 W. 35th St. 212-714-1141 avp.org
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PARIS IS BURNING Directed by Jennie Livingston, 1990
With Madonna’s “Vogue” video the hottest sensation on the music scene, Jennie Livingston’s documentary about the ball tradition among black and Latino transgender women, gay men, and drag queens was, serendipitously, tailor-made for the cultural moment. Exploring the Harlem subculture of “houses,” overseen by “mothers” and sometimes “fathers,” and their fierce fash-
ion competitions, where “realness” was prized above all else, the film offered indelible profiles –– of Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Willi Ninja, Angie and Venus Extravaganza, Octavia St. Laurent, and baby-face Freddie Pendavis. Despite some criticism of Livingston for cultural appropriation, the film won wide praise and a Sundance Grand Jury Prize –– though no Oscar nomination.
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CIRCLE OF VOICES, INC. 891 Myrtle Ave. at Tompkins Ave. Brooklyn 718-975-0141 kaz@circleofvoicesinc.org circleofvoicesinc.org
DARI PROJECT dariproject@gmail.com/ dariproject.org
EAST COAST TWO-SPIRIT SOCIETY 917-681-5512 ec2ss.net
GAY ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER MEN IN NEW YORK (GAPIMNY) gapimny@gapimny.org/ gapimny.org
GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT (GMAD) 540 Atlantic Ave. at Third Ave., lower level, Brooklyn 718-222-6300 gmad@gmad.org/ gmad.org
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PUERTO RICAN INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP EMPOWERMENT (PRIDE) 24 W. 25th St., ninth fl. 212-675-3288, ext. 469 prideny1995@gmail.com/ prideny.org
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THE SKINNY Directed by Patrik-Ian Polk, 2012
Five Brown University college chums –– med student Magnus (Jussie Smollett), lesbian PhD student Langston (Shanika WarrenMarkland), trust fund baby Sebastian (Blake Young-Fountain), Kyle (Anthony Burrell), now living in LA and working in film, and Joey (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) –– reunite in New York for LGBT Pride Weekend. Their
adventures and misadventures provide the opportunity to explore each character’s strengths and weaknesses, how their pasts hold them back but also the potential their futures could hold, and what their relationships with each other mean to them. Wilson Cruz and Darryl Stephens, favorites on director Polk’s “Noah’s Arc” on Logo TV, also make appearances.
YOUTH/ FAMILY RESOURCES ALI FORNEY CENTER 224 W. 35th St., 15th fl. 212-222-3427 aliforneycenter.org
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FIERCE! FABULOUS INDEPENDENT EDUCATED RADICALS FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT 225 W. 34th St. 212-601-1938 info@fiercenyc.org/ fiercenyc.org
FOREVER FAMILIES THROUGH ADOPTION
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GAY, LESBIAN & STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK (GLSEN)
MCC NEW YORK SYLVIA’S PLACE
newyorkcity@chapters.glsen.org glsen.org/chapters/nyc
446 W. 36th St. 212-629-7440 mccnycharities.org/hys.html
GENERATION Q OF THE QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE
NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR LGBT HOMELESS YOUTH
718-440-9119 qchnyc.wordpress.com/ programs-services/youth-services
83 Christopher St. btwn. Bleecker St. & Seventh Ave. S. 718-300-0133 infor@newalternativesnyc.org newalternativesnyc.org
HEALTH OUTREACH TO TEENS (HOTT) c/o Callen-Lorde Community Health Center 356 W. 18th St. 212-271-7200 callen-lorde.org/our-services/hott
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE/ HARVEY MILK SCHOOL
PETER CICCHINO YOUTH PROJECT –– URBAN JUSTICE CENTER 40 Rector St. at West St., ninth fl. 877-542-8529 pcyp.urbanjustice.org
POINT FOUNDATION
2 Astor Place at Cooper Sq. 212-674-2400 hmi.org
1357 Broadway at 36th St., ste. 401 866-337-6468 thepointfoundation.org
JQ YOUTH IN THE ORTHODOX COMMUNITY
SAFE SPACE
551-579-4673 support@jqyouth.org/ www.jqyouth.org
89-74 162nd St., Jamaica 718-526-2400 safespacenyc.org
LIVE OUT LOUD
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45 W. 36th St., sixth fl. 212-378-4091 info@liveoutloud.info/liveoutloud.info
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TRINITY PLACE SHELTER 164 W. 100th St. 646-580-7045 tps@trinityplaceshelter.org trinityplaceshelter.org
SHORTBUS Directed by John Cameron Mitchell, 2006
In a fantastical storyline, a group of New Yorkers try to work through their relationship and sexual issues by visiting an artistic and sexual salon overseen by Justin Vivian Bond, playing vself. Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee), trying to overcome her inability to climax with husband Rob (Raphael Barker), forges a bond with dominatrix Severin
(Lindsay Beamish), while James (Paul Dawson) and Jamie (PJ DeBoy) consider opening up their monogamous relationship to Ceth (Jay Brannan). Much of the film was developed on an improv basis, and it raised eyebrows with its extensive unsimulated sex scenes. Yet for all its explicitness, the overwhelming feeling it evokes is one of sweetness.
SENIOR SERVICES SAGE: SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GLBT ELDERS 305 Seventh Ave. at 28th St., 15th fl. 212-741-2247 sageusa.org
SAGE HARLEM c/o Oberia D. Dempsey Multi-Service Center 127 W. 127th St. 646-660-8954 sageharlem@sageusa.org sageusa.org/nyc/centers/harlem-programs.cfm
SAGE-GRIOT INNOVATIVE SENIOR CENTER BROOKLYN 25 Flatbush Ave. at Fulton St., fifth fl. 718-246-2775 sageusa.org/nyc/thesagecenter-locations.cfm
SAGE CENTER BRONX c/o Union Community Health Center 260 E. 188th St. 718-960-3354 jcollazo@sageusa.org www.sageusa.org/nyc/centers/bronx.cfm
SAGE-Pride Center of Staten Island c/o Pride Center of Staten Island 25 Victory Boulevard at Bay St., third fl. 718-808-1360 psanders@sageusa.org sageusa.org/nyc/centers/statenisland.cfm
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CRUISING Directed by William Friedkin, 1980
A decade after “The Boys in the Band,” William Friedkin directed “Cruising,” a psychological thriller about an undercover cop (Al Pacino) infiltrating the West Village leather scene in search of a serial killer targeting gay men. Angered by the film’s sensationalizing of gay sexual culture, protesters disrupted production, and its original cut’s explicitness
led to an X rating and Friedkin’s decision to jettison 40 minutes. Critics suggested this contributed to “Cruising”’s incoherence, especially regarding the undercover’s budding attraction to both the sex and violence he immersed himself in. Others said Pacino was simply wildly miscast. Exploitive and deeply flawed, “Cruising” was also one of the highest visiblilty early gay-focused films.
GENDER IDENTITY SERVICES CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER 356 W. 18th St. 212-271-7200 callen-lorde.org
CROSSDRESSERS INTERNATIONAL nancylamar@aol.com/ cdinyc.org
GENDER IDENTITY PROJECT/ LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER 208 W. 13th St. 646-556-9300 genderidentityproject.org
DESTINATION TOMORROW 547 E. 146th St. at St. Ann’s Ave., Bronx 646-723-3325 destinationtomorrow.org
HOUSING WORKS 57 Willoughby St. at Lawrence St., second fl. Brooklyn 347-473-7400/ housingworks.org
JIM COLLINS FOUNDATION Funding gender-affirming surgeries jimcollinsfoundation.org
SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT 147 W. 24th St. 212-337-8550/ srlp.org
TRANSGENDER LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND 20 W. 20th St., ste. 705 646-862-9396/ transgenderlegal.org
TRANSPAC Transpacny.org
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LEGAL SERVICES AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP LGBT LAW PROJECT
125 Broad St. at FDR Dr., 18th fl. 212-549-2500 aclu.org/lgbt
7 Hanover Sq. at Water St., 18th fl. 212-613-5000 nylag.org/units/lgbt-law-project
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA
NEW YORK CITY BAR ASSOCIATION, COMMITTEE ON LGBT RIGHTS
5 Penn Plaza, Eighth Ave. at 34th fl., 16th fl. 212-807-8400 amnestyusa.org
HIV LAW PROJECT c/o Housing Works 57 Willoughby St. at Lawrence St., lower level, Brooklyn 212-577-3001 hivlawproject.org
IMMIGRATION EQUALITY 40 Exchange Pl. at William St., 17th fl. 212-714-2904 immigrationequality.org
LAMBDA LEGAL 120 Wall St. at FDR Dr., 19th fl. 212-809-8585 lambdalegal.org
LGBT BAR ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK 601 W. 26th St., ste. 325-20 212-353-9118 le-gal.org
LGBTQ COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE info@lgbtqcollabnyc.org lgbtqcollabnyc.org
42 W. 44th St. 212-382-6600 nycbar.org
NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (NYCLU) 125 Broad St. at FDR Dr., 19th fl. 212-607-3300 nyclu.org
OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL 80 Maiden Lane at Gold St., ste. 1505 212-430-6054 hello@outrightinternational.org outrightinternational.org
SOUTH BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES HIV PROJECT 105 Court St. fourth fl. 718-237-5500 sbls.org
SYLVIA RIVERA LAW PROJECT 147 W. 24th St. 212-337-8550 srlp.org
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DOG DAY AFTERNOON Directed by Sidney Lumet, 1975
Five years before his problematic turn in “Cruising,” Al Pacino was stone cold brilliant in “Dog Day Afternoon,” a bank heist tale based on John Wojtowicz’s reallife misadventures. In 1971, Wojtowicz wed Ernest Aron in a Greenwich Village ceremony, and the following year, with an accomplice, he held up a Brooklyn
bank in part to get money for Aron’s gender reassignment surgery. A daylong hostage drama ended with Wojtowicz’s arrest and his accomplice shot dead. The money he earned for the film’s rights to his story, however, paid for Aron’s surgery, and she lived as Elizabeth Eden until her 1987 death, when Wojtowicz was still in jail.
KEY GOVERNMENT CONTACTS FOR NEW YORK’S LGBT COMMUNITY EMERGENCIES: 911 DIRECTORY TO CITY AGENCIES: 311 NEW YORK CITY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 100 Gold at Frankfort St., ste. 4600 212-306-7450 nyc.gov/cchr
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US EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT COMMISSION –– NEW YORK DISTRICT OFFICE 33 Whitehall St. at Pearl St., fifth fl. 800-669-4000 eeoc.gov/field/newyork
NEW YORK CITY HIV/ AIDS Services Administration (HASA) 212-971-0626 nyc.gov/html/hra/html/services/hasa.shtml
AIDS INSTITUTE, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 518-473-2903 health.ny.gov/diseases/aids/general/about/
NEW YORK CITY CONFIDENTIAL STD CLINCS Locations: nyc.gov/html/doh/html/living/ std-clinics.shtml
NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT nyc.gov/nypd
NYPD LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER LIAISON UNIT Sgt. Michelle Martindale: 212-614-6748 Michelle.Martindale@NYPD.org nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/ community_affairs/lgbt.shtml
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LOCATING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY BOARD nyc.gov/html/cau/html/cb/cb.shtml
CITY COUNCIL Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito 212-788-7210Â
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PUBLIC ADVOCATE LETITIA JAMES 212-669-7250 pubadvocate.nyc.gov/ pubadvocate.nyc.gov/need-help
MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT GALE BREWER 212-669-8300 1 Centre Street at Brooklyn Bridge, 19th fl. manhattanbp.nyc.gov
BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT ERIC ADAMS Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St. at Court St. 718-802-3700 brooklyn-usa.org
QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT MELINDA KATZ Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd. 718-286-3000 queensbp.org
BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT RUBEN DIAZ, JR. 851 Grand Concourse at E. 161st St., third fl. 718-590-3500 bronxboropres.nyc.gov
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