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Wednesday Oct. 22, 2025

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Noon – 6 pm

Life is Drag by Rachel Rampleman

Art
LGBTQ+

SoMadFlatiron

R2R Postcard

7 – 8:30 pm

Miss Robusta’s Reel to Real: From Film to Footlights

LGBTQ+
Music

The Stonewall InnWest Village

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7:30 – 9 pm

TARRYTOWN – The legend of Sleepy Hollow, a new musical

the cell theatreChelsea

Thursday Oct. 23

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Midnight

Voices & Visions Performance Workshops

Dance
LGBTQ+

Ailey Extension

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Noon – 6 pm

Life is Drag by Rachel Rampleman

Art
LGBTQ+

SoMadFlatiron

Lesbian Lives Graphic

6:30 – 8:30 pm

Lesbian Lives Opening Program

The New School, The Auditorium, Room A10 Alvin Johnson/A. M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12 Street, New York CityNew York City

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7 – 8:30 pm

Masterclass With Alicia Graf Mack

Dance
LGBTQ+

Ailey Extension

Rachael Cutting Room

7 – 9 pm

Rachael Sage and The Sequins to Play Album Release Show at The Cutting Room (10/23)

LGBTQ+
Music

Cutting Room NYC

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7 – 8:30 pm

LGBTLOL – Queer Comedy Festival

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7:30 – 9 pm

TARRYTOWN – The legend of Sleepy Hollow, a new musical

the cell theatreChelsea

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9 – 10:30 pm

LGBTLOL – Queer Comedy Festival

Friday Oct. 24

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Noon – 6 pm

Life is Drag by Rachel Rampleman

Art
LGBTQ+

SoMadFlatiron

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1 – 2:30 pm

Responding to Authoritarianism

Proshansky Auditorium at the Graduate Center 365 5th Ave New York New York

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7 – 8 pm

Under the Rainbow @ The United Solo Festival

Theatre Row, 410 W 42nd Street, NY, NYHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 – 9 pm

TARRYTOWN – The legend of Sleepy Hollow, a new musical

the cell theatreChelsea

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8 – 10 pm

Bees Deluxe Brings Acid Blues to Harlem’s Shrine World Music Venue

Free
LGBTQ+

Shrine World Music Venue

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8:30 – 10 pm

LGBTLOL – Queer Comedy Festival

Saturday Oct. 25

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8 – 9:30 am

(BLACK) DYKE DECK (Workshop)

Auditorium 103 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Ethical Digitization Considerations: Preserving Lesbian Culture (Workshop)

Medium 110 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Let’s Process, a Lesbian Procession! (Workshop)

Medium 202 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Fat Lesbians: Intersectional Identities, Positive Representations, and Naked Photos (Workshop)

Medium 203 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Re-membering: The Lesbian Poetic Body (Workshop)

Free
LGBTQ+

Medium 214 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

The Sound Revolution: Sonic Practices for Lesbian Liberation Across Space and Time (Workshop)

Medium 302 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Empowering Lesbian Art & Artists (Workshop)

Medium 310 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Radical Imagination as Resistance: Dreaming the Future to Transform the Present (Workshop)

Small 201a LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Decentering Men and Redefining Lesbianism (Workshop)

Small 304 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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8 – 9:30 am

Radical Resonance: Queer Embodiment, Co-regulation, and Femifesto Writing (Workshop)

Small 305 LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011

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Noon – 2 pm

Queer Junk Journaling 101

Bureau of General Services—Queer DivisionWest Village

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4 – 5 pm

Brian De Lorenzo – Sammy & Sinatra at The Sands

LGBTQ+
Music

Don’t Tell MamaTheatre District

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7:30 – 9 pm

TARRYTOWN – The legend of Sleepy Hollow, a new musical

the cell theatreChelsea

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9:30 – 11 pm

LGBTLOL – Queer Comedy Festival

Sunday Oct. 26

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9:30 – 11 am

Lesbian NYC Walking Tour

LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St

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