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Thursday May 1, 2025

Page to Screen

6:30 – 7:45 pm

Page to Screen: Book to Film Adaptations with Sigrid Nunez and André Aciman

Joe’s PubManhattan

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7:30 – 9 pm

Hold Me In the Water

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Playwrights HorizonsHell’s Kitchen

Friday May 2

Gilded Wings – 1

3:30 – 9:30 pm

The Gilded Wings Gala

Art
Dance

3 Dollar BillBrooklyn

Seen, Heard, & Believed

6:30 – 7:30 pm

Seen, Heard, & Believed? Exploring Women’s Experiences in Healthcare

La MaMa’s Downstairs TheatreManhattan

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7:30 – 9 pm

Hold Me In the Water

Art
Comedy

Playwrights HorizonsHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 – 10 pm

SHARK BITE – Queer Comedy 8-Ball Competition

Comedy

Sunset Park

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8 – 10:30 pm

Coney Island USA Hosts Weekly Free RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party—The Only Weekly Drag Show in Southern Brooklyn

Free

Coney Island USABrooklyn

Towards a Trans Aesthetic

8 – 9:30 pm

Towards A Trans Aesthetic

LGBT Community CenterManhattan

9 – 10:30 pm

Combover Comedy

Otis & Finn BarbershopLong Island City

Saturday May 3

OFFICIAL POSTER LOVE WINS 2025

10:30 am – 9 pm

The Love Wins International Film Festival 2025

LGBT Network Hauppauge CenterHauppauge

Haudenosaunne NY event

11 am – 5 pm

NY | Haudenosaunee Family Fun Day

National Museum of the American Indian New YorkManhattan

Erased

12:30 – 2 pm

Erased: Media Erasure and Authoritarianism

Judson Memorial ChurchManhattan

Mothers, Sons, and Daughters The Complex Ties That Bind

3:30 – 5 pm

Mothers, Sons, and Daughters: The Complex Ties That Bind

La MaMa’s Downstairs TheatreManhattan

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7:30 – 9 pm

Hold Me In the Water

Art
Comedy

Playwrights HorizonsHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 – 9 pm

A Eulogy For Roman

Theater

Studio ExhibitLower East Side

Sunday May 4

OFFICIAL POSTER LOVE WINS 2025

10:30 am – 9 pm

The Love Wins International Film Festival 2025

LGBT Network Hauppauge CenterHauppauge

DG Photo

6 – 9:30 pm

The Debt Gala

The Bell HouseGowanus

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7:30 – 9 pm

Hold Me In the Water

Art
Comedy

Playwrights HorizonsHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 – 10 pm

Studio Apartment

Theater

JACKBrooklyn

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9:30 – 11 pm

Brooke Eden’s Giddy Up! Night

Dance
Free

Flaming Saddles SaloonManhattan

Monday May 5

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7:30 – 10 pm

Studio Apartment

Theater

JACKBrooklyn

Tuesday May 6

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7 – 8:30 pm

CRACKED OPEN

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Theatre RowManhattan

Wednesday May 7

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7 – 8:30 pm

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Theatre RowManhattan

Thursday May 8

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2 – 8 pm

LGBT Network Tee-Off for Pride, Golf Invitational

Fundraisers

The Rock Golf ClubWading River

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6 – 10 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

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7 – 8:30 pm

CRACKED OPEN

Theater

Theatre RowManhattan

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8 – 9:30 pm

Chucho Valdés: Irakere 50 feat. Emilio Frias

Music

Colden AuditoriumFlushing

Friday May 9

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11 am – 7 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

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5 – 10 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

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7 – 8:30 pm

CRACKED OPEN

Theater

Theatre RowManhattan

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8 – 10:30 pm

Coney Island USA Hosts Weekly Free RuPaul’s Drag Race Viewing Party—The Only Weekly Drag Show in Southern Brooklyn

Free

Coney Island USABrooklyn

9 – 10:30 pm

Combover Comedy

Otis & Finn BarbershopLong Island City

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