Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture explores the queer creative networks that sprang up in the city over the 20th century. Join us for a series of programs that reveal this often hidden history and celebrate the power of artistic collaboration to overcome prejudice.
Documenting LGBTQ Life
Directors Rodney Evans, Michelle Memran and Conrad Ventur discuss how film can represent and preserve LGBTQ history.
Making the Queer Scene
A group of writers, artists, performers, and activists discuss the historical and ongoing importance of queer nightlife in New York.
Ungendering Fashion
Explore the blurring of conventional understandings of gender through the lens of fashion.
Queer Art at the Edge
Join three leading queer artists as they talk about the ways in which LGBTQ identity and community shape their work.
Hidden Bernstein
Explore Leonard Bernstein’s hidden personal life with two scholarly experts and enjoy a performance by singer and actress Lea DeLaria.Co-Sponsors
The programs in our Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York series are co-presented by the Big Gay Mens' Organization NYC, the Bureau of General Services Queer Division, the Hetrick-Martin Institute, Irish Queers, the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Men of All Colors Together/NY, the Metropolitan Community Church of New York, the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, Oscar Wilde Tours, the Queens Center for Gay Seniors, the Queens Pride Lions, and SAGE.
