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Over the past few years, Bed-Stuy has become a hotbed of innovative dance music and party culture. On May 7, we bring some of the Brooklyn neighborhood’s most groundbreaking party collectives and DJs together at Sugarhill. Juliana Huxtable’s bold creative vision has brought her art and performance pieces to New York’s MoMA, New Museum and the Guggenheim, after co-founding the women-led Shock Value party in 2014. She’s joined on the bill by Tygapaw, the DJ...
American dance music’s gay underground is a scene without a center, led by parties and promoters whose participation in a national network is often secondary to their status as pillars of a local scene. However, these crews remain like-minded in their pursuit of transcendent experiences to be found in quality electronic music, placing traditional and future-facing house, techno and disco at the emotional center of the gay clubbing experience. In doing so, these parties are...
For 28 years The Townhouse, has been serving the community with its upscale, yet unpretentious ambience, included is a cocktail bar, for meeting and chatting, a piano bar with some of the best and most popular pianists in the city, and now a brand new, completely renovated club room “All under the same roof”! Something for everybody. Get Out! Magazine spoke to the Management about the new edition to the already successful establishment. So, you...
In the last few decades Chelsea has seen many iconic gay venues close, including Roxy, Rawhide, Splash and most recently G Lounge. Since then the trend has been for all new bars and nightclubs to open uptown in Hell’s Kitchen. But there is new life coming back to a familiar place in Chelsea. Get Out! magazine spoke to Michael McGrail and two of his partners, Facundo Rodriguez and Franco DiLuzio, about the grand opening of...
This February, the Pride Center of Staten Island is highlighting its HIV Awareness and Prevention initiatives. For the month of February, the Pride Center has set the goal of reaching over 50 participants for private and confidential HIV testing. All services related to HIV Awareness and Prevention month are available throughout the year at the Pride Center, located at 25 Victory Blvd, (3rd. Floor), Staten Island NY, 10301. As part of the HIV Awareness and...
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Cast Announcement Emmy® Award-winning host RuPaul is taking the new season of Logo’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to the nines with the highly anticipated return of the groundbreaking competition series and revealing the next royal court of Queens set to compete for the crown. “‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Season 9,” said executive producer RuPaul Charles. “Now more than ever!” Coming this spring, the season nine premiere extravaganza features a shocking opening that will go...
TALK ABOUT GAY SEX is the brand new provocative, hilarious, informative and conversational podcast with host, Steve V. Rodriguez, sidekicks, Jeremy Ross Lopez and Steve Carpenter. Rodriguez is joined weekly by one of his two sidekicks along with a very special guest who has a large following in the lgbtq community. Special guests include social media celebrity and cabaret singer, Gregory Nalbone. Nalbone has 360,000 followers and growing on Instagram. Other guests include Lucas Entertainment...
Big Ben was, in my eyes, a moneymaking machine, not just for his own businesses but for many in the nightlife scene. With that comes a love and hate relationship with many, and seeing the responses on social media following his recent passing, this tenuous relationship is as apparent as ever. The Big Ben I knew was a softhearted, kind man who always had a smile on his face. His demeanor was all the more...
If you’ve ever spent a night out on the town at one of New York’s dozens of LGBT bars, clubs, events, parties or parades, chances are you’ve seen Jeff Eason: camera in hand, quietly capturing the exuberance of this city’s gay nightlife. Eason is not just a talented, award-winning photographer with six Get Out! Magazine Awards, four Odyssey Awards and seven Glam Awards under his belt. And he’s not just a hard worker – he...
I remember the first time I went to G-Lounge. It was 2012, the year I moved into the city. I showed up here with no money, no job prospects and no friends. I wanted to be a writer: This is where writers come to write, isn’t it? I managed to make one friend via random Facebook friend requests, Paq. Paq had lived here ages, and (unlike all of my other random Facebook friend requests) actually...