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Anti-Prom 2011
Check out great coverage of this year's Anti-Prom on Fox 5 News and in the New York Times: Hundreds of New York Teens Attend 'Anti-Prom': MyFoxNY.com
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Queering Fiction: LGBTQ in YA Literature
Boy meets Boy while wandering in the Vast Fields of Ordinary? Kicked OutTales from the Closet? From Glee to DADT to It Gets Better, what’s happening in the world of LGBT youth? Here from authors and...
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Anti-Prom Designs
In case you missed the runway fashion show at this year's Anti-Prom, the fabulous designs of the students from the High School of Fashion Industries are on view in the Fifth Avenue window of the...
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“Gay Power to Gay Lovers”
Remember, marriage equality passed in New York last night because of 40 years of political activism. Pictured above is GAA's Jim Owles with "Gay Power to Gay Lovers" wedding cake at the Gay Activist...
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AIDS in Oral History: Doctors and Activists Look Back on 30 Years of the...
To mark the 30th anniversary of the first documented case of HIV/AIDS, the Mid-Manhattan Library, the Columbia Center for Oral History and the HIV Story Projectare co-sponsoring a special program....
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Celluloid activist : the life and times of Vito Russo
If you haven’t already, make sure to check out Michael Schiavi’s new biography of Vito Russo: Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo. As Schiavi eloquently glosses—“Twenty years after...
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Navy Discharge Letter, 1914
Given today's historic repeal of DADT, it important to remember just how long exclusion from military service has been affecting LGBT people in the U.S. It is often thought that exclusion of gays and...
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It Gets Better
In case you need some inspiration this National Coming Out Day, check out It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating A Life Worth Living edited by Dan Savage and his partner Terry...
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Remembering Frank Kameny
"We all know that Gay is Good. It's up to us to get out there and make it better---much better!"
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Scenes from a Jamaican Childhood
Tomorrow, November 1st at 6pm, join Thomas Glave (English, General Literature, and Rhetoric, SUNY Binghamton) at the CUNY Graduate Center for this year's Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture....
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Booktalking "How They Met & Other Stories" by David Levithan
The way that I have been inspired to read teen literature tends to be from meeting authors, listening to them talk about their work, and then getting curious about what they wrote. This happened to me...
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Hello from LGBT@NYPL
Hello, all. Thank you for keeping an eye on what's going on at the LGBT initiative at The New York Public Library. My name is Dennis Orlov, I am a 30-year old recent transplant from Portland, Oregon. I...
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The Writings of Samuel R. Delany
“Things have made you what you are... What you are will make you what you will become.”—Samuel R. Delany, Dahlgren(Whatever. You wish you could grow a beard like that...)Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., a.k.a....
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"I Remember..." Joe Brainard
Joe Brainard was born in 1941 in Salem, Arkansas and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A gentle, unathletic stutterer, Joe exhibited artistic talent from an early age. It was his way of dealing with the...
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Edmund White in Real Life and Fiction
"Is that what we are: libertines?""It's what I am," Jack said, "and what you aspire to be."Jack Holmes and His Friend.Edmund White, born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1940. When he was 7, his parents divorced...
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Booktalking "Gravity" by Leanne Lieberman
Gravityby Leanne Lieberman, 2008Ellie, a 15-year-old Orthodox Jew, is happy to go to Bubbie's (her grandmother's) cottage this summer to learn about the flora and fawna. There, she meets Lindsay, a...
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June Happenings: "Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution"
Not that there is not enough already going on in your busy summer life...But Wednesday, June 6th at 7:00p.m. in the Trustees Room of Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (476 Fifth Ave) you are joining Linda...
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Pride! Book Suggestions for Teens
Let's keep the momentum of NYC's 2012 Gay Pride Parade going with a list of LGBTQ-themed books for young adults. New and old, NYPL has titles your teens are going to love, if they don't already. Please...
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VITO: The Life of Gay Activist Vito Russo
Tonight at 9pm, HBO will premiere Jeffrey Schwarz's new documentary VITO: The Life of Gay Activist Vito Russo. Extensive research for the film was undertaken at the New York Public Library using Vito...
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