Author: Stephan

A few months ago - at my day job as the Director of Communications for The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park - I received a call from OUT; the nation's largest gay and lesbian magazine. They were looking to do a story about the Hudson Valley of New York, and they were interested [...]

Welcome to Memorial Day weekend - the official start of summer!  Thanks to all of you who joined us last weekend for our first ever Big Gay Wellness Day, presented by Cross Valley Health & Medicine. While the event may have passed, Cross Valley's local expert staff is continuing to open the doors of their [...]

Have you got big ideas for the future of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center? Do you think that you what it takes to help promote equality and provide services to the region's community? Well then, have we got a job posting for you; The Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center - Located in Kingston, NY [...]

With the Spring weather here in full force - and the rosebuds popping out all over - we here at Big Gay Hudson Valley wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that now is a great time of year to show your Pride! Yes, we know that June is Pride Month, but with porch [...]

While the Spring weather might be warming up, BGHV recently learned that a new gay men's Dodgeball Team - The Chilly Willies - has blown into town. Yes, that's right; Dodgeball. Fishkill All Sport is starting up an adult dodgeball league, and local Hudson Valley Homo, Jay Dewey has organized a gay men's team that [...]

Last year hundreds of you came out to support the Hudson Valley AIDS Walk, and now you're invited to join in the planning and organizing process for AIDS-Related Community Services' largest, most visible and most important fundraising/awareness event of the year: the 2010 Hudson Valley AIDS Walk! ARCS need lots of creative, hard-working, dedicated, community-minded [...]

Happy weekend, everyone! Thanks to everyone who joined us for our special "Men Drawing Men" series with local artist William Noonan this past weekend (it's the source of our headline image this week).  We'll be hosting another round of this very successful session starting on Feb 21st - stay tuned for more details. We're also [...]

TheDragDirectory.com, the first site of its kind for gender illusionists to promote their personas, has officially been launched! The site, which features local and national drag queens, is based in Poughkeepsie and will allow visitors to discover and interact with drag talent in a new way. Drag queens and performers are strongly suggested to submit [...]