Author: BGHV

We've had  a busy gay week here at BGHV!  Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say "hi" at our booth at last weekend's GLBT Expo in NYC.  Along with the support of 40 gay-owned and -friendly businesses in the area, we reached over 15,000 people who are looking to visit or move to our [...]

Did you know that March is LGBT Health Month? The New York State LGBT Health and Human Service Network, has named March 2010 as the first annual “New York LGBT Health Month”. To help promote health and wellness for the LGBTQ Community,  Westchester’s LOFT Gay and Lesbian Community Center is celebrating with a list of “31 [...]

This weekend is the 17th Original GLBT Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC.  BGHV, in partnership with Dutchess County Tourism and Ulster County Tourism, will be packing it up to head down river and share the fruits of our Valley with over 20,000 attendees to one of the country's largest gay & lesbian [...]

Hey all - welcome to the weekend!  Lots of good stuff coming up this weekend and even though we don't have a listing for Sunday activities, lots of these (shows, movies & BearAlbany) are going on all weekend, so get out of the house and join 'em! As we mentioned last week, this Saturday is [...]

I'm sure by now you've heard the media hype surrounding the inclusion of GLBT persons into the US Census.  If you haven't - there's a movement to get GLBT persons included in the US Census.  To put the pressure on the poll, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force is launching a "Queer the Census" [...]

Hey all - sorry for the lack of activity on the blog the last couple of weeks.  Having just closed on a new house in Poughkeepsie, life is a whirling dervish of paint and plaster dust.  We'll be back to more active posting very soon.   As the warmer weather approaches and we all crawl [...]

It's that time of year again, folks!  Hudson Valley magazine has put out the call for their annual "Best of the Hudson Valley" (BOHV) awards and we need your help to show them just how big and gay our community is.  Unfortunately the entry forms are only available in the pages of the magazine, so [...]

With Olympic fever (and Johnny Weir's media storm) wrapping up, we turn our sights to this year's Gay Games VIII, which will take place in Cologne, Germany, from July 31-August 7, 2010. Some members of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Center will be participating, and they are looking to see if more LGBTQ and allied athletes [...]