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Make the most of gasp + ghouls season with these spooktacular local Halloween events.

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BGHV + Come Out Central NY are Organizing New York State’s First Ever Conference for Pride Organizers

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Thursday Oct 17th

Cold Spring LGBTQ+ Haunted Happy Hour!

Barber & Brew
69 Main St., Cold Spring, NY

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Friday Oct 18th

Sabbath Queen at Woodstock Film Festival

Upstate Films (Saugerties): Orpheum Theatre
156 Main St, Saugerties, NY 12477

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Friday Oct 18th

Woodstock Film Festival Presents: Trans Storytelling Panel

Kleinert / James Center for the Arts
334 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY 12498

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Friday Oct 18th

Beers, Bingos & Babes at Lasting Joy Brewery

Lasting Joy Brewery
485 Lasher Road Tivoli, NY 12583

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Friday Oct 18th

GYSPY

Highland High School
320 Pancake Hollow Road, Highland, NY 12528

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Friday Oct 18th

Leather + Harness Night

Unicorn Bar
224 Foxhall Ave, Kingston, NY 12401

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Friday Oct 18th

The Road to Jerusalem

Shadowland Stages
157 Canal St, Ellenville, NY 12428

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Friday Oct 18th

Time Warp: Rocky Horror Live Experience

Barton Orchards
63 Apple Tree Ln, Poughquag, NY 12570

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Friday Oct 18th

Yas Diva presents The Witches Ball

The Roosevelt Bar
288 Main St, Beacon, NY 12508

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Friday Oct 18th

Enter the Third Dimension Hosted by Stephanie Ibarra & Anna Torzullo

The Avalon Lounge
29 Church Street, Catskill, NY 12414

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Thursday Oct 17th

Woodstock Film Festival Presents: Sabbath Queen

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Molly Houses, Homosexuality, and the Colonial World at Kingston’s Old Dutch Church

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Empire State of Pride

A one day conference for Pride organizers from across New York State focused on the opportunities for economic growth, tourism buzz and LGBTQ+ community building. Produced by Big Gay Hudson Valley and Come Out Central NY.

Friday November 8th (SKY Armory, Syracuse)

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HUNG With Care: A Queer Holiday Burlesque Spectacular!

Make your yuletide just a bit gayer with the beloved holiday tradition! The 12th season – hosted by Paige Turner – promises even more of the scintillating surprises, delights, and twisted merriment that audiences have come to love since 2012.

Black Friday November 29th (City Winery Hudson Valley, Montgomery)
Saturday November 30th (Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale)
Sunday December 1st (Lark Hall, Albany)

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A John Waters Christmas

Waters is touring on his slippery sled of sewage with his comedy bag of tricks; It’s a John Waters Christmas and you better watch out!

Monday December 16th (Old Dutch Church, Kingston)

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HUNG With Care 2024: Make the Yuletide Gay with Queer Holiday Burlesque Starting Black Friday

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Hop in for a scintillating sleigh ride of singing, dancing, burlesque & more as the annual yuletide tradition hosts performances in Montgomery, Rosendale & Albany over Thanksgiving Weekend.

Meet the Cast of HUNG With Care’s 2024 Season

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HUNG With Care’s 2024 cast features some of nightlife's best + brightest cabaret stars with showbiz spitfire Paige Turner serving as the show's emcee.

BGHV Joins WAMC’s The Roundtable to Discuss Current Issues Affecting the LGBTQ+ Community

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BGHV's Stephan Hengst + a panel of other statewide experts discussed progress, visibility, backlash, and how LGBTQ rights have increasingly been used as political tools.

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Long before Stonewall and the LGBTQ+ movements, an

Long before Stonewall and the LGBTQ+ movements, and even before the founding of the United States, when America was an English colony, there existed a place for LGBTQ+ people called Molly Houses.

On Thursday, October 17th at 6:30p, as part of the Hurley Heritage Society’s ongoing lecture series, and in conjunction with the official 2024 Burning of Kingston event schedule, a special public presentation will be held at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston.

Until recently, little research has been conducted on the culture and lives of homosexuals during the English colonial era.

The presenter, Dr. Megan Rhodes Victor is part of a team of historical archeologists seeking answers and insights into the fascinating world shaped by molly houses. As taverns, molly houses were places where individuals could conduct social negotiation and form bonds of community.

Taverns were largely male-coded drinking spaces in the eighteenth century, and yet these were also one of the few places where women – especially unmarried or widowed women – could work and even manage (or own) a business.

This apparent gender contradiction may have played a role in taverns and inns serving as the location for molly houses.

According to Raleigh Green, organizer of the Hurley Heritage Society’s lecture series, “To better understand our history, we need to hear about the lives of its many communities, including those who have, for whatever reason, been overlooked.”

Green says that over the last few years the Hurley Heritage Society has sought to shed historical light on communities less known to history, including LGBTQ+. “We hope that by learning historical perspectives from a wider range of voices, from the traditional to the lesser-known, we can better understand our world,” says Green.

Join your Big Gay Hudson Valley community for this very special FREE presentation at Kingston’s Old Dutch Church in Uptown District on Thursday, Oct 17 at 6:30pm.

#upstategays #biggayhudsonvalley #gayhudsonvalley #mollyhouses #kingston #colonialera #queer #queertravel #gayhistory #queerhistory

The skies over the Big Gay Hudson Valley were spec

The skies over the Big Gay Hudson Valley were spectacular last night!

Did you see the Aurora that resulted from the massive solar storm that swept over our planet yesterday evening? If so, let’s see those pics!

#aurora #hudsonvalley #biggayhudsonvalley #wow #northernlights

Thank you to everyone that joined us for Out On Th

Thank you to everyone that joined us for Out On The Farm at @badseedcider in Highland last night! We were absolutely overwhelmed by the more than 600 attendees that showed up yesterday evening and we loved seeing every one of your smiling faces!

Cheers to the @thehighnooners for the live music in the afternoon!

Thank you to @katarinamirage and the @lgbtqcenter for hosting an amazing Drag Story Time and the @dutchesspride center for having so many great craft activities for kids and families.

Then we had dancing and Bushels and Pecs Burlesque once the sun went down with @sirgogogadget @imglowjob @the.lady.slipper @chestnutbelafonte and @charleybisquit - everybody loved your beats and the show!

Please be sure to thank and patronize our incredible partners for helping to make it all happen:
@atwaterskincare
@wallkillvalleyfederal
Third Eye Associates
@hudsonvalleycu
@iloveny
@chronogram
@upstatemodernist
@hamiltonandadams

To our queer Hudson Valley community - and to the so many that came to visit from NYC, North Jersey and beyond - thank you being a part of the magic at Out On The Farm!

#outonthefarm #lgbtqpride #lgbtqtravel #hudsonvalley #gayhudsonvalley #queer #biggayhudsonvalley #ulstercounty #instagay #drag #dragstoryhour #gayfamilies #queerfamilies

It’s happening. Big Gay Hudson Valley and the Ol

It’s happening. Big Gay Hudson Valley and the Old Dutch Church have partnered to bring John Waters to the Cathedral of Kingston this holiday season.

Mark those calendars for Monday, Dec 16th.

Tickets go on sale this Sunday, October 6th.

Follow @biggayhudsonvalley and visit biggayhudsonvalley.com to subscribe to our email list to be amongst the first to be able to purchase tickets. Thank you to incredible partners like @ulstercountytourism @atwaterskincare @lgbtqcenter and Workshop Art Fabrication for helping to make it possible.

#hudsonvalley #johnwaters #biggayhudsonvalley #kingston #kingstonny #ulstercounty #queericon #ajohnwaterschristmas
#upstategays #gayhudsonvalley #chachaheels

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