Imani Henry, Change Agent
Imani Keith Henry, MSW, MPA, is a diversity trainer and organizational development consultant. He is the principal of OD for the People. Philosophically rooted in the client-centered modality of harm reduction psychotherapy, Imani has worked as a social service worker…
TransVisible! Dance! Be Cute! Design Africa! Opentoe Peepshow!
Queer artists bare all at the Opentoe Peepshow. The “Be Cute” party will be très adorbs. “The Messiah Complex” play might just be the salvation of theatre. These are just three of the events going down in town this weekend….
Frankie Knuckles: Pour That Baby Powder Like Libation
Frankie Knuckles has left us. Our Starchild of Disco, who has spun galaxies of beats and sweat-trances of love and sex for all to live. Knuckles, “The Godfather of House Music,” has shuffled off this mortal coil and has merged with…
Dr. Scout On LGBTQ Health Equity and the Affordable Care Act
Dr. Scout is the director of the Network for LGBT Health Equity at CenterLink and an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He is a frequent public speaker and cultural competency trainer who specializes in…
Kunst! March! Stoning! Dance!
If you were wondering where to alight after emerging from your winter cocoon, wonder no more! We got you. Spring into spring with these NYC cultural events and fun times. Come out, come out wherever you are! Thursday March…
Alphie Jacqlene, Style Chameleon
Alphie Jacqlene is a drag performer from way back. “I’ve been dressing in females’ clothing since I was in diapers,” he remembers. “One of my hobbies was waiting for my mother to go to work and dress her up in…
Happy Birthday, Bayard Rustin!
Happy birthday to Bayard Rustin. Here was a man who ferociously tended a diverse ecosystem of struggle–as an anti-war warrior, civil rights activist, labor rights crusader, human rights monitor, and gifted strategist. As Martin Luther King, Jr.’s chief adviser, Rustin…
Lorraine Hansberry: One + Love Celebrates Queer Women’s History Month
“I was born black and female,” said the trailblazing playwright Lorraine Hansberry. Her Raisin in the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be performed on Broadway. She won a New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award in…
HIV/AIDS Activist Mike Tikili Acts Up (Part 2)
Mike Tikili is a community organizer of Nigerian descent who was raised in Brooklyn and Guyana. He became involved with Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) through his work with QUEEROCRACY, a grassroots activism group that focuses on global health,…
HIV/AIDS Activist Mike Tikili Acts Up (Part 1)
Mike Tikili is a community organizer of Nigerian descent who was raised in Brooklyn and Guyana. He became involved with Health Global Access Project (Health GAP) through his work with QUEEROCRACY, a grassroots activism group that focuses on global health,…
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