Sentences with phrase «gay centers of the city»

Printed in black are Chelsea, SoHo, and Greenwich Village, the gay centers of the city.

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In addition to seeking cooperation, from gay movements in mainline Christian bodies, such as Dignity (Roman Catholic) and Integrity (Episcopalian), the group has invited Ralph Blair, director of the Homosexual Community Counseling Center in New York city.

Board Leader: Michelle Lopez, President Board Leader: Dakarai G. Larriett, M.B.A., Vice Chair Main: 718-292-4368 Fax: [phone] Hotline: [phone] • The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center - NYC New York, New York 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011 www.gaycenter.org Contact Information General Email: [email protected] Executive Director: Glennda Testone, Executive Director Board Leader: Mario J. Palumbo, Jr., President Board Leader: H. Gwen Marcus, Esq., Board Co-Chair Board Leader: Paul Gruber, Board Co-Chair Main: 212-620-7310 Fax: [phone] Hotline: [phone] Helpline: 212-620-7310 • Queens Community House 108 - 25 62nd Drive Forest Hills NY 11375 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.queenscommunityhouse.org/ • Queens Lesbian & Gay Community Center, Inc. 76 - 11 37th Ave, Suite 206 Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Phone: [phone] Website: http://www.queenspridehouse.org/ • Queens Rainbow Community Center, Inc. 30 - 74 Steinway Street, 2nd Floor Astoria, NY 11103 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.queenspride.com/ • The Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley 875 E Main St. Suite 500 Rochester NY 14605 Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] Website http://www.gayalliance.org/ • VCS Community Change Project 77 South Main Street New City, New York 10956 Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Website: http://www.vcs-inc.org/ • Center Lane (LGBT Youth) 845 North Broadway White Plains, New York 10603 - 2427 914-761-0600 Contact: James Stewart, Director, Center Lane Phone: [phone] Email: [email protected] www.centerlaneny.org / • Pride for Youth 2050 Bellmore Ave. Bellmore, NY 11710.

Other commission members were Scott P. Campbell, executive director of the Elton John AIDS Foundation; Rose Harvey, commissioner of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Thomas Krever, CEO of the Hetrick - Martin Institute; Kelsey Louie, CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis; Christine Quinn, the former City Council speaker who is now CEO of Women in Need; Melissa Sklarz, development director at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Glennda Testone, executive director of the LGBT Community Center.

The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.

At the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights, legislators and constituents discussed the best strategy to use to pass a pro-LGBT marriage bill in 2011, partly in response to the recent suicides by teenagers who were gay or perceived to be gay and the recent hate crimes against gay people in the city: an assault of a bartender at Julius Bar in Manhattan Oct. 11 and an attack on three gay men in the Bronx by nine attackers Oct. 3.

The awards ceremony honored Jerry Mitchell, Tony Award - winning choreographer and director of the musical Kinky Boots; Paul Kelterborn and Christopher Tepper, the founders of the New York City AIDS Memorial; Thomas Roberts, an anchor for MSNBC; and Glennda Testone, the Executive Director of the New York City Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Centgay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community CenCity Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community CentGay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Centgay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Cencity only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Community Center.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With Manhattan's massive Pride Parade just two days off, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn appeared outside the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on the morning of June 28 to announce a host of LGBT initiatives she pledged to purse if elected mayor in November.

Researchers focused on the city's central region, including the Hillcrest neighborhood, the center of the city's gay community and an area of high HIV incidence.

As the gay community sought to define itself, it's not surprising that sex, once furtive and approached with no small amount of fear and shame, suddenly became openly and publicly celebrated and sought after, and in a handful of American cities, the gay scene became the center of a wildly celebratory orgy that lasted until 1981, when the discovery of AIDS led many men to reexamine their sexual habits.

Hitomi Iwasaki, Queens Museum of Art, NY Cities, Art, Recovery, Cur, Erin Donnelly, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NY, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Asian Art Festival, Poncheon, Korea 739 feet running wall, Gwangju Contemporary Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea (catalog) Wear Me Out, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles Home and The World, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, NJ Characters: Scene I and Scene II, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, NJ, Silvermine Guild Arts Institute, CT Fatal Love, Queens Museum of Art, NY (catalog)

2006 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Artist Lecture Mass Art, Boston, MA, Visiting Artist Lecture Pratt University, NY, Visiting Artist Lecture Gods, Monsters, and Divas Lesbian Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center, NY City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, Guest Artist Lecture Fuel for the Fire: Intersections of Arts and Activism, Amnesty International family Project, NY Meeting Artists» Needs: The Elevator Speech, CUE Art Foundation, NY University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Visiting Artist Lecture Columbia University Asian American Studies, NY, Visiting Artist Lecture

2007 PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA I Remember Heaven: Jim Hodges and Andy Warhol, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Like Colour in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA Ensemble, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, USA; curated by Christian Marclay Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington D.C., USA New Prints 2007, IPCNY, New York, USA 2006 Shiny, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA; curated by Jack Pierson Artpeace at the Schoolhouse: For Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA 2005 Art inside the Park, Memorial Park, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA Landscape Confection, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; toured to Hayward Gallery, London, England Visual Music: 1905 - 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

Four exhibitions in a year is rare exposure for an artist in New York City, yet Yevgeniy Fiks (b. 1972 Moscow) has accomplished just that: The Lenin Museum, a solo exhibition exposing the duplicity of expediency and erasure in the instrumentalization of gay culture in Soviet Russia, currently on view at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, and three collaborative projects, which confront issues of representation within historical practices of commemoration and identity formation within the public sphere.

Visions of Excess,» Exhibition Hall of Museum of Decorative Arts and Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, September 30, 2010 — January 2, 2011 «Trust,» Media City Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art; traveled to Gyeonhuigung Annex of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of History, and the Simpson Memorial Hall, September 7 — November 17, 2010 «Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection,» San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, July 22, 2010 — March 14, 2011 «Housed,» The Alice Austen House Museum, Staten Island, NY, July 1 — September 5, 2010 «Swell, Art 1950 — 2010,» Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Metro Pictures, and Nyehaus Galleries, New York, June 30 — August 6, 2010 «Ars Homo Erotica,» National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, June 11 — September 5, 2010; catalogue «Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present,» Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, June 10 — September 27, 2010; catalogue «The Tattoo Show,» The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, New York, NY, June 3 — September 7, 2010

Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Birmingham Museum of Art, AL Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Library of Congress, Washington, DC Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY Long Beach Museum of Art, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV New Orleans Museum of Art, LA NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, FL Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Perez Art Museum Miami, FL Saint Louis Art Museum, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Seattle Art Museum, WA Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Si Shang Art Museum, Beijing, China The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Tate, London, UK Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

We include the first openly lesbian judge in the nation; the first openly gay and lesbian appellate judges in California history; the founder of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; founders and former executive directors of Equal Rights Advocates and the East Bay Children's Law Offices; a former chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, as well as several other former public defenders; a former California labor commissioner; a former chief deputy attorney general; and a former chief deputy city attorney and the lead counsel who successfully argued the historic gay marriage case that changed lives in our community forever.

That nonprofit agency started in the early 1970s, and was itself a spin - off from Gay House, a drop - in center and help line, that was part of the early gay liberation movement in the Twin CitiGay House, a drop - in center and help line, that was part of the early gay liberation movement in the Twin Citigay liberation movement in the Twin Cities.

Mount Gay, WV has two mental health counseling schools within a 100 - mile radius of its city center.

Daniel is a former director of mental health services at Gay Men's Health Crisis and The Door, A Center of Alternatives (youth agency) in New York City.