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January 15 - 19

Silver Threads Celebration (Dolphin Beach Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida)

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January 10, 1977

Ellen Marie Barrett becomes the first openly lesbian cleric

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may 16, 2008 / friday

NY Photo Festival 2008

(Dumbo, Brooklyn) See the future of contemporary photography. Event Website

Note: this event runs May 14 - 18

GayFest NYC 2008

(Various Locations) This month-long event, benefiting the Harvey Milk High School scholarship fund, is the country's premier festival of new works by LGBT authors and playwrights. Event Website

Note: this event runs May 15 - June 15

EDWARD THE KING

(TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) (8pm and 2pm on Sundays) Beset by the duties of his birth and dominated by a heroic father, Edward looks forward to a life of apparent conformity and desperate subterfuge, until he meets Piers Gaveston in a dirty alley. It is love and rebellion at first sight. From then on, Edward steers a perilous course between desire and safety, which does not entirely end even when he becomes king, and faces not only the usual enemies of unconventional love, but his queen and her lover as well. Edward the King neatly straddles the fourteenth and twenty-first centuries, which manage to appear almost equally violent and inhospitable to love. Harvey Milk High School ($18.00) (212-352-3101) Event Website

Note: this event runs May 14 - 18, and 20 - 24

Romantic Notions- Cabaret show

(Don't Tell Mama, 343 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) (7:00) Edd Clark, 2005 Bistro Award winner for 3 Tenors in Search of an Act, and 2007 MAC nominee for Sue and Edd�s FABULOUS Christmas in his first solo show ROMANTIC NOTIONS, reservations recommended. Romantic Notions explores different looks at the experience we call love, with terrific new arrangements and musical direction by Bistro Award Winner and MAC nominee Paul Stephan, and songs by Stephen Sondheim, Walter Marks, Amanda McBroom, Portia Nelson and others. ($10 cover/2 drink minimum) (212-262-1151) [email protected] Event Website

Note: this event runs May 13, and 16

Pinchbottom's BALLS! sporty burlesque

(Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church Street, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013) (10pm/11:45pm) You've never seen sports like you'll see them in BALLS! sporty burlesque. The boys and girls of Pinchbottom, the "Best Burlesque" in town (New York Magazine, The Village Voice), take on athletics in an evening of olympic bump and grind that will make cheerleaders out of sports fans and non-fans alike. It's a whole nude ballgame! Starring Anita Cookie, Bastard Keith, Clams Casino, GiGi La Femme, Harvest Moon, Julie Atlas Muz, Little Brooklyn, Naughtia Nice, Roja Rouge, Scott Rayow, and "Mr. Exotic World" 2006 Tigger! ($15) (212.352.3101) Event Website

Note: this event runs May 16 - 17

Cooperative Village - One Women Show

(School for Music and Art,, 74 Warren Street, New York, NY 10007) (8:00pm) When Frances finds a body in the laundry room of her building in the Lower East Side's Cooperative Village, it sets in motion a bizarrely comic yet terrifying chain of events. ($10.00)

Note: this event runs May 8 - 10, 15 - 17, 22 - 24, and 29 - 31

Center Bingo

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (7pm) Join the Center and Trai La Trash for Bingo. Join the fun and stake your claim to the $500 Jackpot! Event Website

Note: this event runs May 16, June 27, July 25, and August 22

Ongoing Events

through May 17

Running

(Milk Can Theatre Company, 311 West 43 S, New York, NY 10036) Three gay men, a widow, and a funeral set the stage to answer the questions -- can we escape our past? What happens when we have to confront the lies we tell ourselves? Running not only tackles the issue of coming out about ones sexuality, but also what everyone must face when confronting the truth about ourselves. ($18/$15) [email protected] Event Website

This event runs May 2 - 17

through May 24

Queer Batman: A Renaissance

(Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, 508 West 26th St, New York, NY 10001) A group exhibit of artists, Mark Demott, Daniel Wheelter and Samira Abbassy, Mark Chamberlain present superhero creations of your dreams. Event Website

This event runs May 2 - 24

through May 24

F*ck Me, B*at Me, L*ve Me

(Kraine Theatre, 85 East 4th St, New York, NY 10003) (Thu - Sat 8pm) This is the story of Travis and Tommy, a gay couple, and how they confuse their own personal problems with the problems in their relationship. Travis uses Sam, their paperboy, to work out his frustrations. Tommy seeks escape with Max, his outside lover. All four are seeking a connection with another human being, as they use sex to make that connection. ($18) (917-224-0071) Event Website

This event runs May 8 - 24

through May 26

The Butterfly Conservatory

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) Celebrate the 10th annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies. Event Website

This event runs January 1 - May 26

through May 28

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe

(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai�s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Event Website

This event runs February 22 - May 28

through June 1

2008 Biennial Exhibition

(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This will be the 74th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Event Website

This event runs March 6 - June 1

through June 15

Darwin's Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) During this Garden-wide celebration of Charles Darwin's life and his groundbreaking work, explore his theories of evolution and natural selection. Event Website

This event runs April 25 - June 15

through June 15

South Pacific

(Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th St, New York, NY 10023) During World War II in the South Pacific, love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart. Event Website

This event runs March 1 - June 15

through June 15

GayFest NYC 2008

(TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) This month-long event, benefiting the Harvey Milk High School scholarship fund, is the country�s premier festival of new works by LGBT authors and playwrights. Event Website

This event runs May 14 - June 15

through June 22

Top Girls

(Biltmore Theater, 261 West 47th St, New York, NY 10036) Set at the Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, this play tells the story of Marlene, an ambitious career woman who has just been appointed head of the firm. (Top Girls) Event Website

This event runs April 15 - June 22

through July 13

Sex in Design/Design in Sex

(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) Highlights the best and most compelling sexually inspired contemporary designs from around the world. Event Website

This event runs January 31 - July 13

through July 13

Amazonia Design, Fashion and Sustainable Economy

(World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10281) Objects by contemporary designers from the Amazon region who utilize raw materials in their work. Event Website

This event runs April 17 - July 13

through July 18

Takashi Murakami

(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist�s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. ($10/$8) Event Website

This event runs April 5 - July 18

through August 10

Playing the Building

(Battery Maritime Ferry Building, 10 South St, New York, NY 10004) David Byrne's massive installation in the historic Battery Maritime Building features an organ that triggers sounds from its metal beams, pipes and electrical conduits that invites you to play along. Event Website

This event runs May 1 - August 10

through August 31

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

(Winter Garden, World Financial Center) This colorful crocheted panoply of kelps, corals and anemones is an homage to Earth�s endangered coral reefs. Event Website

This event runs April 5 - August 31

through September 7

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This special exhibition traces Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography from 1970 to 1975. Included are self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, and portraits of lovers and friends including Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Marianne Faithfull. Many of these small, intimate photographs convey tenderness and vulnerability. Others depict a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. Unlike the highly crafted images Mapplethorpe staged in the studio and became famous for, these disarming pictures are marked by spontaneity and invention. Event Website

This event runs May 3 - September 7

through September 28

Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word and Reality

(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection. Event Website

This event runs January 1 - September 28

through December 31

Oscar Wilde in NYC Guided Walking Tour

(By Request) This tour is based on new and unique research into the people and places Oscar Wilde visited in the NY of the gilded age. Event Website

This event runs January 1 - December 31

Recurring Events this Friday

Service & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)

(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) The world's oldest and largest not-profit agency dedicated to serving LGBT senior citizens. Activities include Daytime Discussion, Art Studio, 75+, Support Group, Scrabble & Bridge and Women's and Men's activities. Event Website

This event runs Monday through Friday

CBST Shabbat Services

(CBST, 296 9th Ave, at 28th St, New York, NY 10001) (7pm) Event Website

This event runs Fridays

Flirt at Rififi

(Rififi, 332 E. 11th St, Between 1st and 2nd Ave., New York, NY 10003) (11pm) The Only Free, Gay AND Lesbian Friday night dance party in NYC. The night at Rififi features hot Go-Gos, the best DJs, crazy drink specials and NO cover charge. (Free)

This event runs Fridays