Posts Tagged ‘LGBT’

Queen City Pride Picnic

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

Start your day at the Hudson Valley PRIDE March and Festival in New Paltz and then keep the energy going with the summer’s biggest, gayest, and most fabulous BYO picnic & dance party at Poughkeepsie’s Locust Grove Historic Estate.

Back for its 9th year, the Queen City Pride BYO summer community picnic starts at 5pm and promises a memorable family-friendly afternoon packed with live music, drag performances, games and dancing. What are you waiting for? Now is the time to start planning for the most fabulous picnic of the summer!

 

BYO Picnic

Ready your favorite blankets and pack up your basket for the most fabulous picnic of the summer. Creativity, uniqueness, noms and tastiness are all encouraged as you set up the ultimate al fresco spread. As always this event is 100% BYO. We will not have a bar or food vendors set up on site, so be sure to pack everything you’d like to enjoy. Alcoholic beverages are permitted (and encouraged) for those 21 and over. Small, tabletop propane barbecues and sterno warmers are permitted, otherwise no open flames, please.
 
The entire family is invited to join, please just keep any dogs on leashes and be a considerate neighbor and clean up after your pet.
 

Activites, Drag Show + Dance Party

More details will be announced as we get closer to Pride season.
 
Cover for the Queen City Pride Picnic is $10 person (kids under 14 are free).

Rockland Pride

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

The Rockland Pride Center celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month with a festival in downtown Nyack on Sunday, June 11, 2017.

Sign up as a vendor: https://rockland-pride-center.networkforgood.com/events/2316-rockland-pride-sunday-vendor-space

New Paltz LGBTQ Pride March & Festival

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

Mark your calendars, because June 2017 is going to be our biggest Pride Month yet and there’s so many ways to get involved! Download your Pride Month calendar here.

 

Be a Pride Sponsor        Vendor Registration        Register to March

 

Download the 2017 Pride Guide

 

The Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center has selected best-selling author and LGBT activist Tim Murphy as Grand Marshal for the Pride March and Festival in New Paltz, taking place on Sunday, June 4. The March and Festival are the centerpiece of a month of special cultural and social events organized and sponsored by the Center.

LOFT Pride

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

LOFT Pride 2017

Service Providers: Join Your Colleagues for “Health Cares” an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Conference

Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

Several Dutchess County providers are banding together to present “Health Cares: A Conference for Providers” on Friday, April 28, 2017 from 9 am to 3 pm at Vassar College. The conference will focus on the LGBTQ+ community and access to healthcare.

The keynote speaker will be Yonah EtShalom, a nurse practitioner. They are the founding program director for Transgender Health Services and they have long been an advocate for transgender health issues and public health education programs. The conference will also cover cultural competency,  trans experiences in healthcare, intimate partner violence, and barriers to health care.

There is no cost to attend, and lunch will be provided. Registration is required: contact Emily Berkowitz at: emilyb@gracesmithhouse.org, or register online at: www.tinyurl.com/HealthCaresDC.

The conference will be held in Ely Hall-Aula at Vassar College, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie.

Health Cares: A Conference For Providers on Education, LGBTQ+ and Healthcare

Tuesday, February 28th, 2017

Health Cares: A Conference for Providers

Testing All Queens! Drag Show, Dinner & Fundraiser

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Testing All Queens 2016SUNY New Paltz’ Queens & Kings of New Paltz, an on-campus drag club, presents the 2nd Annual “Testing All Queens!” drag show fundraiser on Saturday, December 3rd from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in the Student Union Building. This outrageously fun holiday-themed event features performances by future drag all-stars, dinner by Pasquale’s, DJ music by Dangerboy, and a guest speaker from Love Heals. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for non-students, all to benefit HVCS. Our Project INFORM team will be on hand with sexual health info, condoms, lube and other goodies, too.

Last year’s event was a ton of fun, and we were so inspired by these talented drag kings and queens that we wound up hiring them for our other drag events later in the year! This is one event you don’t want to miss!

Plus: there’s a just-added afterparty! Village Pizza hosts the fun with drink and food specials and another surprise drag show at midnight.

Testing All Queens Afterparty

SUNY New Paltz Drag Club Presents “Testing All Queens!” on Dec 3

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Testing All Queens 2016SUNY New Paltz’ Queens & Kings of New Paltz, an on-campus drag club, presents the 2nd Annual “Testing All Queens!” drag show fundraiser on Saturday, December 3rd from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in the Student Union Building. This outrageously fun holiday-themed event features performances by future drag all-stars, dinner by Pasquale’s, DJ music by Dangerboy, and a guest speaker from Love Heals. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for non-students, all to benefit HVCS. Our Project INFORM team will be on hand with sexual health info, condoms, lube and other goodies, too.

Last year’s event was a ton of fun, and we were so inspired by these talented drag kings and queens that we wound up hiring them for our other drag events later in the year! This is one event you don’t want to miss!

 

GLAAD’s Spirit Day to Fight LGBT Bullying

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

LGBTQ youth are bullied at much higher rates than other students. Let’s show them they’re not alone and stand against bullying by going purple this October 20th. Take the pledge today! Learn more at GLAAD.org.

GLAAD’s Spirit Day to Fight LGBT Bullying

Thursday, October 20th, 2016

LGBTQ youth are bullied at much higher rates than other students. Let’s show them they’re not alone and stand against bullying by going purple this October 20th. Take the pledge today! Learn more at GLAAD.org.