Chicago’s Legendary Club LaRay
One of the city’s most exciting, most creative Black queer dance clubs in the 1980s. Opened in 1986, Club LaRay was located at 3150 North Halsted in Chicago. The club, […]
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FLUXX by Osadolor
Part of BAM Film 2025, FLUXX takes place Thursday, October 23, 2025 at Brooklyn’s hub for cutting-edge creativity and connection. FLUXX is a unique one-night-only cinematic program curated by the […]
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House
Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement. On Thursday, August 21, 2025, watch […]
House of Avant Garde Screening in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will screen Having a Ball on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Having a Ball! profiles the supportive, hugely creative LGBTQ+ family that formed around Chicago’s House […]
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
New book by Bob the Drag Queen! An inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop. […]
The House of Hidden Meanings
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of […]
The History of Queer Dance
The revolutionary history of ball culture in the LGBTQ community is not just about fabulous dance styles. It’s a profound intersection of sexuality, race, and gender nonconforming individuals defiantly living […]
How We Created Voguing
The Black and Latino LGBT community created voguing. Willi Ninja, considered the godfather of vogue, drew inspirations from some unlikely sources such as mimes and martial arts. Willi Ninja is […]
Ballroom Culture: the Language of Vogue
Ronald Murray, also known as Father Ron ‘drama,’ is a founding father of the House of Xclusive Lanvin. One of the curators of the House, and a visible figure not […]
Marsha
The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most […]