Announcements New Women Space for LGBTQ+, Kink, and Activism Is Here to Stay Pussy Plate painting gathering hosted by @metgodshesblack at New Women Space. Courtesy of @NewWomenSpace.WILLIAMSBURG — A community-based organization for women, femme, and queer folx has transformed from a pop-up into a permanent home for events and workshops in North Brooklyn. New Women Space (NWS) originated in 2016 with founders Melissa
Arts & Culture Middle Eastern and North African DJs Create Space in Brooklyn Nightlife People dancing at Yalla! Party. Fabian Gomez/Yalla!Middle Eastern and North African (MENA)-focused parties in Brooklyn are creating a wave in the local nightlife. DJs and party-goers alike are now making their own spaces to celebrate their roots, and bring together communities where they feel safe to be
Arts & Culture The Category Is: Bushwick Realness—Making Queer Ballrooms Accessible Again. A contestant walk a category. Tim Tobias/OTA.BUSHWICK — Get ready to vogue and strike your best pose at Open to All, a new mini ball series in Bushwick that sets ballroom politics aside in order to foster inclusivity in the true spirit of ball culture. In the early ‘90s,
comic convention Kensington Graphic Artist To Be Featured At The City’s First Queer Comic Convention This Saturday, June 13 Image via Flame ConExciting news! Kensington’s own Jennifer Camper, a cartoonist and graphic artist, will be one of the artists featured at Flame Con, the city’s first queer comic convention at Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope this Saturday, June 13. Camper writes on her website that her
Ariel Speedwagon Things To Do In Ditmas Park This Weekend Photo via Scott SharrardHappy Thursday, neighbors! This weekend, you can check out all the shopping and food deals in the Church Avenue Sidewalk Sales & Dining Days, check out the Gregg Allman Band’s guitarist, Scott Sharrard, at Bar Chord, go to an Easter egg hunt at the Cortelyou greenmarket,
August 16 Neighbor Sarah Jenny’s Final Hey Queen! Parties Named As Time Out New York Critic’s Pick Many congratulations to neighbor Sarah Jenny, who runs the South Brooklyn Queers meetup (and is a devotee of the Cortelyou greenmarket), for her Hey Queen! multi-gender queer dance party being named as a Time Out New York Critic’s Pick! “The second-to-last (wahhhh!) edition of this long-running party features the
