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New Yorks Broadway FLEA MARKET & AUCTION Sept. 25
Broadway dreams can come true as you find showbiz treasures, meet the stars and bid on once-in-a-lifetime items and experiences at the 25th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction. Make your plans now to spend Sunday, September 25 with Broadway Cares and thousands of other theatre fans in Times Square and along West 44th Street for those one-of-a-kind keepsakes. This not-to-be-missed event for any serious Broadway theatergoer is free and open to the public and has been called one of the “Best Once-a-Year Markets” in New York City. From photos with your favorite Broadway star to buying that lost cast recording, signed show posters and Playbills, rare costume sketches or special gift for a theatre-lover you can’t find anywhere – this year’s Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction promises to offer something for everyone. Autograph Table & Photo Booth | Grand Auction Pre-Bids New for 2011 are special “flash auctions” which feature instant experiences with Broadway stars live on the Grand Auction stage, including: Among the shows signed up for tables are The Addams Family, Anything Goes, The Book of Mormon, Follies, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins, The Phantom of the Opera, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rock of Ages, Sister Act, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Wicked and Cirque Du Soleil’s Zarkana, as well as Actors’ Equity Association, The Actors Fund, Broadway Impact, The Broadway League, Givenik, Paper Mill Playhouse, Seth’s Broadway Chatterbox and United Scenic Artists. You also can place early bids now on dozens of unique theater items and experiences that will be offered throughout the day in the silent auction and in the day’s exciting finale, the live auction. Online pre-bidding ends at 12 pm ET on Saturday, September 24. For the first time ever, the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction will encompass all of 44th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, and will stretch across Broadway into Times Square, filling the wide pedestrian plaza between 43rd and 44th Streets.. “We look forward to turning this year’s construction challenge into a golden, sun-drenched opportunity to expand into Times Square’s wonderful pedestrian plazas,” BC/EFA executive director Tom Viola said. “Filling Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets, there will be booths overflowing with theatrical memorabilia and at the end of the afternoon the Grand Auction. I hope you will take the few steps across Seventh Avenue with us, as you enjoy the high energy and activity that every year stretches down 44th Street to Eighth Avenue. Whatever the terrain, the best of Broadway shows up for the Broadway Flea Market. I hope you will too!” Dozens of tables from Broadway’s most popular shows will set up shop for what Time Out New York calls one of the “Best Once-a-Year Markets” in New York City. Fans can buy that lost cast recording, signed show posters and Playbills, rare costume sketches, props and special gifts theatre-lovers can’t find anywhere else. Silent auction lots offered every half-hour will give way to the live Grand Auction at the end of the day featuring a collection of unique items and experiences that will offer something for everyone. One of the most popular sites at Broadway’s “one-day sale” is the Celebrity Autograph Table at which your favorite stars from Broadway and Off-Broadway sign autographs and pose for photos in exchange for donations to BC/EFA. Last year, some of the big prizes at the grand auction included a chance to appear in “Wicked” that sold for a whopping $16,500 and a tank top worn by Daniel Craig in “A Steady Rain” and signed by Craig and co-star Hugh Jackman that fetched $6,500. The auction and market, which cost about $60,000 to produce, plus three other Broadway Cares/Equity Fight AIDS events – the Easter Bonnet Competition, Gypsy of the Year and Broadway Bares – helped the group last year award some $10 million in grants to The Actors Fund and to more than 400 AIDS and family service organizations.
Times Square & West 44th Street, NYC
• Spamalot karaoke with Tony Award-nominated Spamalot star Christopher Sieber
• An on-the-spot appearance in the hit Web series “Side by Side by Susan Blackwell“
• A coaching session with Chicago star Kara DioGuardi, former American Idol judge and head judge on Bravo’s Platinum Hit
• Your favorites tunes sung especially for you by Rent star Anthony Rapp and Wicked star Julia Murney
• Your outgoing voice mail message recorded in the voice of the diva of your choice by singer and comedian Christine Pedi, known for her spot-on impersonations.
It’s a flea market like no other!
Some of the celebrities this year willing to sign autographs for a $25 donation – or pose for a photo for $10 – are Adam Godley, Nick Adams, Patina Miller, Sutton Foster, Tony Sheldon, Rory O’Malley, Alice Ripley, Annaleigh Ashford, Josh Gad, Joyce DeWitt, Nikki M. James, Patrick Page, Victoria Clark, Roger Rees, Adam Pascal, Montego Glover, Beth Leavel and Charles Busch. (All appearances subject to change.)
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all kinds of cool things – like
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Broadway Premiere of “8” – All-Star Cast Reading
LAST NIGHT,
Broadway was buzzing, like it has not buzzed in a long time!
The American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) and Broadway Impact launched the all-star Broadway premiere of “8” to a packed and enthusiastic audience.
The play, which chronicles the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8, was written by AFER Founding Board Member and Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black and directed by Tony Award-winning actor and director Joe Mantello.
The production is an unprecedented account of the Federal District Court trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case filed by AFER to overturn Prop. 8, which eliminated the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry in California. Prop. 8 was ruled unconstitutional in August 2010.
The premiere featured an all-star cast
including Academy, Tony and four-time Emmy Award nominee Bob Balaban;
Emmy and Tony Award winner and two-time Golden Globe Award nominee Ellen Barkin; acclaimed “White Collar” television star Matt Bomer;
Emmy Award-winning journalist Campbell Brown;
Golden Globe Award winner and four-time Emmy Award nominee Anthony Edwards;
Academy and Golden Globe Award winner and Tony nominee Morgan Freeman;
Tony Award nominee Jayne Houdyshell;
award-winning Broadway, television and film star Cheyenne Jackson;
celebrated playwright and gay rights activist Larry Kramer;
Academy, Emmy and two-time Golden Globe Award winner Christine Lahti;
two-time Academy Award-nominated, multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning, two-time Tony Award-winning actor John Lithgow;
Tony Award nominee and Broadway Impact Co-Founder Rory O’Malley;
two-time Emmy Award-winning, Academy and multiple Golden Globe-nominated director and actor Rob Reiner;
Broadway star Kate Shindle;
Emmy Award winner Yeardley Smith;
two-time Tony Award winner Stephen Spinella;
and Emmy Award winner and three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Bradley Whitford.
The cast of “8” also featured Tony Award nominee K. Todd Freeman, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Ken Leung and Ben Rosenfield.
The “8”premiere attracted a sell-out crowd with more than 80 people lined up outside the theatre this morning to snap up the remaining tickets; some camped out overnight. Opinion and political leaders, philanthropists, business leaders and actors turned out to support “8,” including …
Lieutenant Dan Choi, Chace Crawford, Anna Deavere Smith (Pulitzer Prize winner), Fran Drescher, Adrian Fenty (former Mayor of Washington DC), Celia Keenan-Bolger, Laurene Powell Jobs, Joel Klein (Executive Vice President of News Corporation), Judith Light, Dan Loeb (CEO, Third Point Capital),Sir Deryck Maughan (Partner, Kohlberg, Kravis & Roberts), Stuart Milk, Stephen Pasquale, Christine Quinn (NY City Council Speaker), Rt. Rev. Bishop V. Gene Robinson, Barbara Walters, and Brian Williams.
WOW!
Black, who penned the Academy Award-winning feature film Milk, based “8” on the actual words of the trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom drama and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families.
AFER and Broadway Impact will now license “8” to schools and community organizations nationwide in order to spur action, dialogue and understanding. AFER and Broadway Impact will coordinate these staged readings across the country, so that “8” will live on beyond its September premiere.
Initial Casting for Broadway Staged Reading of Dustin Lance Black’s New Play “8” Sept. 19th Event
This past week, the American Foundation for Equal Rights in partnership with Broadway Impact announce initial casting for the highly anticipated one night only staged reading of “8,” a new play chronicling the historic trial in the federal legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8. Black, who penned the Academy-Award winning feature film Milk, based “8” on the actual words of the trial transcripts, first-hand observations of the courtroom drama and interviews with the plaintiffs and their families. The new play will have its world premiere on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York City on Monday, September 19, 2011 for an exclusive, one night only fundraiser to benefit AFER. Additional casting for the all-star benefit will be announced soon. Following the New York debut on September 19, AFER and Broadway Impact will license “8” to schools and community organizations nationwide in order to spur action, dialogue and understanding. AFER and Broadway Impact will help produce these staged readings across the country, so that “8” will live on beyond its September premiere. The story for “8” is framed by the trial’s historic closing arguments in June 2010, but features the best arguments and testimony from both sides of the issue. Scenes include reenactments of many of the well-documented jaw-dropping moments of trial, such as the admission by Proposition 8 supporters’ star witness David Blankenhorn that “we would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.” The video of the trial has been kept under seal due to a federal protective order. AFER’s attorneys have filed a motion asking the court to make the full and unedited recordings available for all to see (Hearing scheduled for August 29th before Judge Ware at US District Court), but there is no guarantee that the footage will ever be available for viewing and this is precisely the reason Black wrote “8.” Proceeds from the September 19 reading will go directly to the fight for full federal marriage equality and to support educational efforts on the freedom to marry nationwide.
The play is written by AFER Founding Board Member and Academy Award-winning writer Dustin Lance Black and will be directed by two-time Tony Award-winning actor and director Joe Mantello.
Anthony Edwards, Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Christine Lahti, Rob Reiner, Yeardley Smith and Marisa Tomei will appear in the auspicious one night only event
September 19, 2011.
The production is an unprecedented account of the Federal District Court trial of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case filed by AFER to overturn Proposition 8, which eliminated the right to marry for gay and lesbian couples in California.
AFER prevailed in federal district court when, based on the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Judge Walker concluded that California had no rational basis or vested interest in denying gays and lesbians marriage licenses and thus found Proposition 8 “unconstitutional” on August 4, 2010. It is currently under appeal by the anti-marriage Proponents and is being expedited through the courts system at a relatively rapid pace.
Unfortunately, the American public was not given a chance to witness the historic trial because the Proponents of Proposition 8 launched a number of desperate attempts to forever hide the trial videotapes. Although the trial proceedings were open to the public, and all courtroom testimony and events were thoroughly documented, the trial video most vividly compares the weakness of the Proponents’ arguments to the well-reasoned, valid and constitutionally-based arguments and evidence put forth by AFER’s renowned legal team, plaintiffs and expert witnesses.
For more information including how to buy tickets, visit: www.afer.org/broadway8
For information on how your local theater can produce “8,” visit: www.BROADWAYIMPACT.com
Follow “8” on Twitter: @8theplay or on Facebook.
An eco friendly Public Pool for New York Citys Hudson River
A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone! What a cool idea!
+ Pool is our initiative to build a floating pool for everyone in the rivers of New York City, and they need your help. “With your support, we can make it possible to swim in clean, natural river water here in the city.
The most important aspect of + Pool’s design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls – like a giant strainer dropped into the river. The concentric layers of filtration materials that make up the sides of the pool are designed to remove bacteria, contaminants and odors, leaving only safe and swimmable water that meets city, state and federal standards of quality. This pool will be the first of it’s kind, which is of course very exciting, but really we just want to be able to swim in the river.
The most important aspect of + Pool’s design is that it filters river water through the pool’s walls – like a giant strainer dropped into the river. The concentric layers of filtration materials that make up the sides of the pool are designed to remove bacteria, contaminants and odors, leaving only safe and swimmable water that meets city, state and federal standards of quality. This pool will be the first of it’s kind, which is of course very exciting, but really we just want to be able to swim in the river.
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I’m From Driftwood Rooftop BBQ Party July 9
is now an official
501(c)(3) non-profit
organization!
Help celebrate by stuffing your face with Texas style BBQ and an open bar at the beautiful art gallery space and outdoor rooftop of Casa de Costa.Music, DJ and more!
RSVP by donating $50 and type “BBQ” in the “Add special instructions to the seller”
box on the final page: I’mfromdriftwood/support
…
Be sure to RSVP soon; ticket price goes up to $75 at the door.
RSVP on FACEBOOK
*Raffle Items
*Silent Auction items
*Open Bar, including specialty drinks by El Dorado Rum
*Unlimited BBQ
Saturday, July 9, 6 – 10pm
Casa de Costa Gallery Space and Rooftop, 11 Stone St, 6th Floor, NYC
Hope to see y’all there!
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Live Out Loud 3rd Annual Pride in the HAMPTONS June 25th
Dedicated to empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, Live Out Loud is a nonprofit organization that connects LGBT youth with role models and leaders in the LGBT community.
The event will take place at the waterfront home of Bruce T. Sloane (21 North Bay Lane) in East Hampton from 6:00 to 8:30 PM and will include a cocktail reception, dancing, and a silent auction.
Guests will be treated to hors d’oeuvres from Brent Newsom Caterer.
The event is expected to draw a dynamic group of more than 300 leaders in business, arts, politics, community, and culture who are committed to Live Out Loud’s mission of empowering lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth by providing scholarships, after-school programming, rolemodels and leadership opportunities.
Tickets start at $125, $150 at the door. To purchase, please contact Leo Preziosi, Jr., at 212.651.4236
or visit Liveoutloud.info.
About Live Out Loud
Dedicated to empowering, mentoring, and celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, Live Out Loud is a non-profit organization that produces panel discussions, lectures, and workshops that connect LGBT youth with role models and leaders in the LGBT community. Founded in 2001, Live Out Loud presents programs at metropolitan area high schools and universities featuring panelists from every walk of life, including actress Cherry Jones, author Eric Marcus, director John Cameron Mitchell, and New York Times columnist Stuart Elliott.
Night of a Thousand Judys June 13 Joes Pub
Photo Credit: Christian Coulson
The critically acclaimed gay monthly comedy/variety show “The Meeting,” hosted by fellow “Adaumbelle’s Quest“ participant Justin Sayre will present a very special June edition called “Night of A Thousand Judys” on Monday, June 13 at 7pm at Joe’s Pub in NYC to benefit the Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to homeless LGBT youth. AFC’s goal is to provide homeless LGBT youths, aged 16-24, with the support and services they need to escape the streets and begin to live healthy and independent lives.
Celebrating one legend at one legendary location, this edition of “The Meeting” is dedicated to the one and only Judy Garland and is being presented at Joe’s Pub, one of NYC’s famed showcase venues for live music and performance.
“Night of A Thousand Judys” will feature special skits, tributes and songs from Judy’s storied career presented by a host of accomplished performers including the host of “The Meeting,” Justin Sayre as well as Jackie Hoffman (“Hairspray,” “Xanadu,” “The Addams Family”), Kim Smith (award winning cabaret singer), Lady Rizzo (Grammy winning singer and chanteuse), Summer & Eve (the folk-musical comedy band featuring NADIA QUINN of “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson”), Natalie Joy Johnson (“Legally Blonde,” “But I’m A Cheerleader”), Cole Escola (Logo TV’s “Jeffrey and Cole Casserole”), Jeff Hiller (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” “30 Rock”) and more special guests to be announced!
“The Meeting” is produced by Adam Rosen and Dan Fortune and this special edition will be directed by Ben Rimalower (“Project: Lohan,” “Leslie Kritzer Is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches”).
“Night of A Thousand Judys” will be on Monday, June 13 at 7pm at Joe’s Pub in NYC (425 Lafayette Street). Tickets are $25 and benefit The Ali Forney Center. Click here for tickets!
Broadway Bares XXI MASTERPIECE June 19th
MASTERPIECE
will be held on
Sunday, June 19
with two performances
at 9:30 pm & Midnight
at Roseland Ballroom,
239 West 52nd Street
in New York.
A benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, BROADWAY BARES XXI: MASTERPIECE will offer up a modern-day burlesque show packed with museum-quality human canvases that would make an art critic blush.
It’s been said that “all art is erotic” and 200 of Broadway’s sexiest bodies will prove that to be true as the 21st edition of BROADWAY BARES takes you inside an auction too hot for Sotheby’s and Christie’s.
The most delectable dancers in New York will emulate the art world’s seductive nudes and give life to history’s sultriest sculptures. Handle these masterpieces with care or fig leaves, sunflowers and water lilies just might fall off into the crowd. Get your bidding paddles ready before these Broadway bodies of art are “going, going, gone.”
To see the New York Times’ exclusive first look at the posters for this year’s BROADWAY BARES and to read an interview with BARES photographer Andrew Eccles.
BROADWAY BARES XXI: MASTERPIECE is produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, executive produced by Tony Award-winner Jerry Mitchell (Catch Me If You Can, Legally Blonde) and will again be directed by Josh Rhodes (Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, The Drowsy Chaperone, Working at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago).
BROADWAY BARES, the hotly anticipated annual event combining the naughtiness of burlesque and the razzle-dazzle of Broadway, has been a smashing success since its inception in 1992. The event features the hottest male and female dancers on Broadway and has become one of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ signature events. The first Broadway Bares featured seven dancers performing choreographed stripteases on a bar and raised more than $8,000. In all 20 editions, BROADWAY BARES has collectively raised more than $7.5 million for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Tickets can be purchased online at Broadwaycares.org or by calling 212.840.0770, ext 268. For more information and merchandise, visit Broadwaybares.com.
Win a Date Night with Ronnie Kroell
Dear Friends,
Recently I have learned that more and more of my friends, family, and fans have been diagnosed with Cancer. I cannot even begin to tell you how upset I have been over this. How have we not been able to stop this heartless and non-discriminating predator?
Although Cancer can be one of the most
challenging of adversities to overcome – those who are personally living with it, are some of the strongest people I know! I truly admire the attitude that my own friends have taken on and the determined mind-set they have chosen to battle this beast.
I personally have participated in the Relay for Life, donated funds and time to this cause, and supported close friends that are winning their personal battles, BUT now more that ever I feel the need to do something BIGGER. SO, I am looking to all of you for support…
Below, you will have the opportunity to bid on a “Date Night” with yours truly that comes with an autographed copy of PLAYGIRL Magazine and a one of a kind photo-soap. Please share it with your networks of family, friends, and colleagues. If you feel so compelled, bid on it yourself too.
Thanks for your time and support of this important cause; together we will beat Cancer.
Ronnie
The bidding started at $250.00 and is up to $900 as of this morning!!
Bids must increase by a minimum of $50 increments. All bids must be made in the comment section of Ronnies blog site. This auction will end on June 1, 2011 at 5PM EST. Proceeds will benefit The American Cancer Society. –
Scott Herman Meet and Greet benefit May 19th
Personal trainer,
actor and model
Scott Herman
(The Real World: Brooklyn)
is one of the 2,500 people who will pedal from San Francisco to Los Angeles with AIDS/LifeCycle (ALC), the world’s largest annual HIV/AIDS fundraising event, this June.
Leading Team “Scott Herman Fitness,” he’ll pedal 545 miles over seven days to help raise millions for the life-saving HIV/AIDS-related services of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
at 9:00pm – 12:00am
SCOTT will be hosting a little
benefit meet-and-greet at
Check out the Facebook page
If you can’t make it, but want to support Scott on his ride go to
AIDS LIFECYCLE.
Gaylifenyc.org Covers Gayfestnyc Spring Gala
He reminds us, (especially the youngins!) of our journey from the 50’s. A time when most hid in the closet. Mixner tells the stories of horror faced by the GBLT Community in the past, like the fact over 4,000 needless lobotomies were performed on homosexuals.
He tells of the the strives we’ve made and the people we have lost. And what we need to do – every GBLT person, friend and parent needs to see this video!
Gaylifenyc.org also interviews the stars at the Center Dinner Gala, Angela Lanbury and Alan Cumming and Awardee Broadway Producer, Tom Kirdahy plus much more. So many great messages about being safe from HIV.
Don’t miss these awesome videos!
Thanks to GAY LIFE NYC.org
Best Gay New York.com
Kathy Griffin…Wants a TONY! Special meet-and-greet March 17th
KATHY GRIFFIN is a collector! She wants one award from every possible category!
Unfortunately for her, she will not get a Tony anytime soon. Her one-woman shows in NYC March 11 -19th – a total of eight shows, does not qualify for a nomination. 🙁
Double Emmy Award Winner Kathy Griffin is clever and creative, no doubt! Every night there will be fresh material due to the revolving door of pop culture, political and celebrity missteps. If you are in the market for an evening of laughter, swearing and negativity you’ve found the right show!
Griffin may be known as the quintessential D-list diva, but not afraid to dish on everyone from Lindsay Lohan to Cher. She has shopped for bikinis with Paris Hilton, screamed and cheered alongside the “Clay-mates,” and allegedly had a serious romantic relationship with Levi Johnston. You won’t, however, catch her riffing on the Jews, the lesbians, or Barbara Walters – this divine diva knows her limits! Kathy Griffin is a multi-faceted performer whose rapid-fire wit has garnered her multiple Emmy Awards and two Grammy Award nominations for Best Comedy Album.
CHECK THIS OUT!
Now is your chance. Gaylifenyc.org and BestGaynewyork.com has an amazing one night offer for you.
March 17th, come see Kathy Griffin on Broadway and then she will do a Talk Back with you – the audience!
This is one night only– a few tickets left!
BestGayNewYork.com and Gaylifenyc.org has secured the secret code to get this amazing offer.
Join Kathy for a very special evening!!! And we want to thank Kathy for all her support of our rights and the gay community in general!
Kathy Griffin Special Link March 17th show.
Belasco Theatre
111 West 44th Street (Between Broadway and 6th Avenue)
New York NY 10036
Folsom Street East presents: A Fetish for Fashion February 12
For those of us who prefer our roses thorny and our candy hard,
Folsom Street East proudly presents
A Fetish for Fashion,
our first annual runway show and charity auction to benefit the LGBT Community Center. We invite you to join us on the 3rd floor of 208 West 13th Street on Saturday, February 12th for an evening of polymorphously provocative fetishwear from The NY Eagle Shop, The Leather Man, Wonderwear, and ManSkins NYC.
The night’s festivities will also include a special appearance by #1 Billboard charting artist Sylvia Tosun , who will be performing her new single, “World Keeps Turning.”
We can’t think of a better way to kick off Fashion Week in NYC — and support a worthy cause — than with a runway presentation showcasing some of the city’s fiercest leather/fetish/kink-wear designs.
In addition to the runway presentation, this year’s event will also include a cocktail reception and silent auction of luxury adult items to benefit The Center – including our own “Million-Dollar Jock,” which would make even the bravest Victoria’s Secret model blush and turn in her wings.
Doors open at 7pm on Saturday night, with the show kicking off around 8pm.
Admission for the cocktail reception, auction, and fashion show is $10 for standing room and $15 for seats (while they last) and includes one drink ticket.
The after-party will be held at the NY Eagle on 28th Street, with drink specials throughout the evening for fashion show attendees presenting their FSE wristband.
Best Gay New York.com
Relive Studio 54….Gold and Glitter Event February 4th
With the Full Force and Sex Appeal
of Studio 54’s Hedonistic
Era of 70s Disco…
A pulsating collective of nearly 1,000 of New York City’s creatives are anticipated to attend Love That Fever’s 1st Annual Gold & Glitter: A glamorous night filled with seductive visual art and hypnotic transcendental beats with a portion of the night’s proceeds to benefit The East African Center (EAC).
The metallic event will feature both multimedia visual and performance art from a bevy of over twenty five acclaimed virtuoso DJs , VJs and performers on Friday, Feb. 4 2011 at the REBEL 251 West 30th Street, NY, NY, 10001.
Headliners include, French-Algerian DJ Reda Briki, Tim Fielding, Mia Dangerfield and France’s own Sid Vega, will penetrate the sound of disco infused with deep energetic house, into your soul while Gaeten VJs Static, Philly and Kurt Ritta, NYC project stills and fast-frame art throughout the night.
Love That Fever is a multimedia international event production company founded in 2010 specializes in interactive and participatory artistic productions. Co-founder and partner JJ Relph hopes that the night of jewels, afros, tuxedos, exotic fau furs, and disco balls will inspire a vestige of change in the way patrons of NYC’s arts collective gay and lesbian scene defines the word “expression” — all while contributing to the efforts of the EAC’s Journey of empowering women and children. The EAC is a non-profit organization that helps communities achieve empowerment by increasing literacy for women and children, improving health status, and eradicating poverty.
JJ Relph stated “this will be a night were fantasies come to life, the lines between sexuality become very fluid and boys who like boys who like girls who like girls who like boys will all meld into one. New York’s party scene is very divided along gender and sexual orientation lines this is the party were you get to leave your label at the door, and come and have fun and see what happens.”
Gold & Glitter will also feature a variety of glitz and glam treats throughout the night from, BUILT2BURN Disco Fashion and makeovers, and Gold & Glitter body painting, MC Christopher Hardwick – serving as the flamboyant “Steven Rubell” of Studio 54, Suck My Lemons Photo-booth by Page, ANIMUS — all while while jewel-covered men and women known affectionately as the FEVER DOLLS, fulfill your every need, and Drag queens will give you LIP.
For more information on showcasing
or volunteering, contact
JJ Relph at 646.318.0000 or e-mail lovethatfever@gmail.com..
Photo: Behold Love That Fever producers from left to right JJ Relph, Annie Vainine, DJ Reda Briki,
photo credit Jazz Wall
LOVE THAT FEVER
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FCKH8 Male Model Calendar and Shirts
40,000 T-shirts
over $250,000 for queer youth suicide prevention and the fight for marriage equality!
WOW!
This is even bigger than NOH8 !
The latest F-word-filled viral video from FCKH8.com
features a cross section of people, including a 5-year old child, drag queens and an old woman, Pussycat Doll Jessica Sutta and YouTube sensation “Kelly” (known for her over 40-million-viewed video “Shoes”) using the forbidden four-letter word to take “Homo H8ers” to task.
The no-holds-barred clip shows people wearing purple and white T-shirts that read “FCKH8”, “Don’t B H8N on the Homos” and “STR8 AGAINST H8.” The T-shirts are sold on the video’s website starting at $13 each, with $5 going directly to organizations offering vital counseling & suicide prevention programs. The website also sells bumper stickers, hoodies, wristbands and buttons to help spread its message. Which are all selling like crazy!
The website’s message and fundraising T-shirts have found support from some of Hollywoods biggest gay names with Ellen Degeneres and wife Portia deRossi snagging pins and stickers reading “Some Chicks Marry Chicks. Get Over It” and Glee’s Jane Lynch posing for photos to promote the fundraising T-shirt with the same slogan. Glam rocker Adam Lambert tweeted the video’s link to almost a million fans saying, “It’s for a good cause. Sometimes fire w/ fire is a great way to illustrate a point.”
The controversial but humorous video rails against anti-gay bigots at home, church and school with lines like, “You bully your kids, you bury your kids“, “Preaching FCKed up hate has a lot to do with the suicide rate”, and a little 4 year-old girl exclaiming, “If I grow up lesbo, do you want me to FCKing get gay bashed?”
JUST OUT!
STR8 Against H8″ 2011 Charity Calendar and Sexy Behind the Scenes Video Shows What It Looks Like When “STR8 Guys Take It Off So the Homos Can Get Their Rights On” .
What happens when the gay rights activists at FCKH8.com get their hands on a dozen or so straight dudes? The “STR8 AGAINST H8” 2011 Charity Calendar shows homo-friendly straight guys stripped down and oiled up looking picture-perfect sexy for a good cause. The FCKH8.com website sells the 13-month charity calendars online and also features a 4 minute behind the scenes video featurette that captures all the sexy shenanigans that happened during the photo shoot. The hot and humorous “making of” video features athletic, good-looking half-nude straight models in compromising positions and pushes the line with straight men’s “junk” needing to be blurred out.
“These guys are more than just good-looking, they are helping out a good cause,” says director Luke Montgomery. “Who hasn’t wanted to get their hands on some hot straight boys walking around in just their underwear and jockstraps? We loved every minute of it and it shows in the calendar’s sexy photos.”
GET YOUR FCKH8 STUFF TODAY !
BE A PART OF THE MOVEMENT!
Nathan Manske and Michelangelo Signorile at The Center Dec. 10th
50-state Story Tour
arrives in NYC!
By the time the IFD crew reaches NYC, they will have visited 36 states in 3 months, collecting and sharing true LGBTQ stories from small towns and big cities all across America.
Listen to stories from ImFromDriftwood.com.
See Video Stories collected from the road.
Hear about the adventure they’ve had along the way.
**Introduction by OutQ radio host Michelangelo Signorile
**Reading by Jay Blotcher
7-8: Drinks and snacks
8-9:30: Reading and Screening
The LGBT Center 208 West 13th St., Room 310
This will also be your first chance to purchase the ImFromDriftwood.com book, a compilation of the best stories from the site.
Best Gay New York
Gay & Lesbian Big Apple Corps Symphonic Band December 4th
As one of the first gay bands in the world, the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corp’s is a non-profit, 501c3 organization dedicated to promoting equality and social acceptance through music. LGBAC is the premier ensemble for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender musicians, and their friends, within the New York City metropolitan area.
The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corp’s Fall season begins with “Come Follow the Band !” on December 4 at Symphony Space .
Take a musical journey that will keep your toes tapping to Broadway show tunes, familiar works for band, and other favorites. Come hear the LGBAC present music for band from Mendelssohn to the Beatles, with some Holst, Grainger, Richard Rodgers show tunes, Corigliano, and others.
Special guests include Conductor Jonathan Strasser and Host Raphael Miranda from WNBC 4.
The band will also honor Pulitzer Prize- and Academy Award-winning composer John Corigliano with the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps Profile in Leadership Award for his exemplary contributions to music and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
Tickets are available from the Symphony Space box office (ONLINE or 212.864.5400).
The concert is approximately two hours and there is one 15-minute intermission.
Ronnie Kroell Presents An Evening with Miss New York November 12
and conversation
with Miss New York!
in support of the Miss New York Organization and the Children’s Miracle Network! This will be one of a few parties before Claire goes to Miss America, and we’d love to see you! AND your friends!! So bring them all!!
Friday, Nov 12 6:30-9:30
La Pomme Nightclub
Tickets at Miss New York
ONLY $10 and VIP $150
“It has truly been my honor to open and lead conversations about equality,
fairness, respect and the freedom to love and be loved.
This is not about us vs. them, it is about WE – as human beings.
This battle is not one of gay rights; it is about human rights.
In fact, it is not even about rights, it is simply about equality.
Bullying has become an epidemic that has plagued our schools and is spreading wildly
over the internet and mobile technology. It has to stop.
The more visible we all are in schools, in sports, on television,
in office and in the pews, together, we are literally saving lives.”
– Claire Buffie, Miss New York 2010
Can’t come? Still make a donation at Miss New York /
We’ll also have Claire’s Miss America “I ♥ Miss New York” Tshirts on sale
Ronnie Kroell and a host of other fabulous people are behind this event! Senator Thomas K. Duane, New York, Joy Behar, The View & Joy Behar Show, Leanza Cornett Steines, Miss America 1992, Randy Jones, The Village People, Andy Cohen, Bravo Network VP, DeMarko Majors, LOGO Network Reality Star, Josh Vandiver & Henry Velandia, Activist Couple, Doric Wilson, Playwright & Stonewall Veteran, Dave Koz, Musician & Radio Host!
See Claire on Gay Rights !
Find Clair on Facebook !
Best Gay New York.com
“It Gets Better” Broadway sings for the Trevor Project
This is really
something cool!
Broadway stars
rock out in a celebration of life,
in the wake of LGBT
suicides across the nation.
The song, It Gets Better, is available NOW on iTunes, with all download proceeds benefiting The Trevor Project .
Please SHARE this original song and video to help send a message of hope and support.
The Stonewall Swim August 21st
On August 21,
fifty (50) LGBT athletes
will take a daring plunge into
the Great South Bay.
They will swim from Sayville to the Fire Island Pines (approximately 3.5 miles!) to raise money for the Stonewall Community Foundation . These disciplined athletes have been training for months and your support is needed!
Stonewall was begun as a collection of advised-funds and endowments by like-minded donors concerned about creating a vibrant and healthy lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Today, Stonewall is a full service community foundation seeking the participation of everyone interested in bettering our community.
Since 1990, the foundation has distributed more than $14 million in grants. Grantmaking from Stonewall’s general fund concentrates on the needs of organizations in the five boroughs of New York, while Donor-advised funds support a variety of organizations locally and throughout the country.
Stonewall supporters envision a community of shared resources where donors, funders and organizations work together, joined by a commitment to strengthen one another. Stonewall is dedicated to increasing charitable giving within the community today while building a strong endowment for tomorrow.
CHARLIE FINLAY is a newly elected board member –
He says, “My role will not be as a swimmer this year (I will be kayaking across the bay with a team to monitor the swimmers). I have committed to raising $2,500 for this event, and I ask that you please help me reach my fundraising goal by sponsoring me — just follow these 5 simple steps:
1. Go to: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/shopping_cart/merchandise.cfm?c=1535
2. Click “Add to Cart” in the “Sponsor a Fundraiser” line (second to last item)
3. Choose my name CHARLIE FINLAY from the “Fundraiser” drop-down menu (very important!)
4. Enter the amount of your donation, then click “Proceed to Checkout”
5. Enter your contact information, followed by credit card information, and click “Submit.”
PLEASE HELP THIS GREAT CAUSE!
