Hello Darlings! 🌈 Spooky season is upon us, and NYC’s queer scene is getting delightfully wicked! We’ve got tricks, treats, ticket giveaways, and enough fabulous nonsense to wake the dead.

Ready to rave like it’s 2012? The Golden Age of EDM Party takes over Le Poisson Rouge on Friday, 10/23, with NYC nightlife veteran DJ Tokyo Rose spinning throwback bangers and you can win a pair of tickets!

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• RuPaul’s Drag Race favorite Shuga Cain brings Orgullo y Opulence to Lincoln Center on Friday, 03/12. With queer mariachi artist Mary Alfaro Velasco joining the festivities, it’s a free celebration of drag, live music, and Latine LGBTQ culture with plenty of fabulous flair.

• The Danish Girl in Concert brings a new trans-centered musical to Lincoln Center on Friday, 11/20, courtesy of Breaking the Binary Theatre.

• Princess Diana rises from the dead and gets gloriously ridiculous with a drag and puppet filled show called Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story at SoHo Playhouse on Wednesday, 12/02.

• On Tuesday, 12/01, World of Red Ball 6: Reflections of Red brings ballroom history and culture to The Center for its signature World AIDS Day event.

GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN!

Halloween is the one weekend a year when NYC’s queer nightlife gets even more outrageous than usual! With so much queer spooky, sexy, and spectacular nonsense to choose from, it was hard to narrow it down, but these are our top five picks for a wicked good time.

• 10/30 - SYNTHICIDE @ GOOD ROOM

• 10/30 - WITCHSLAP @ XANADU

• 10/30 - ZOMBIE PROM @ HOUSE OF YES

• 10/31 - FEVER X FRISKY - ELSEWHERE

• 11/1 - JMV’S BUFFY BURLESQUE @ CLUB CUMMING

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THIS WEEKEND

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• Did you know Central Park’s famous Bethesda Fountain was designed by a lesbian? Sculptor Emma Stebbins created the iconic Angel of the Waters in 1873, giving NYC one of its most recognizable landmarks and a little queer history hiding in plain sight!

• Historian Marc Zinaman spent years tracking down the addresses of NYC’s vanished queer clubs, bars, and gathering places, turning his obsession into Queer Happened Here, a fascinating map of the city’s fabulously scandalous past.

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