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Hey Hey everyone - welcome to another Big Gay weekend! We hope you all had a fabulous time in the lower Hudson Valley last weekend at the annual Gay Pride Rockland festival in Nyack. Keeping the Pride vibes flowing, this weekend we head upstream to Catskill & Hudson for their second and first pride festivals, [...]

The Rainbow Connection (Man, I loved that song as young child) - the story of Richard Hunt, Gay Muppeteer - lead by Jessica Max Stein, will be held Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 2pm at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, 12 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY. Richard Hunt joined the Muppets at age 19 and went on [...]

As the summer heats up here in New York, we are quickly approaching election season in November.  It might seem too soon to start talking about the election, although with issues like Marriage Equality cotinuing to be debated in Albany, it is now more important than ever before that New York State's LGBTQ [...]

"All Love, All Woodstock" is a benefit for Constance McMillen and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), to be held on Friday, June 25th at 7pm at The Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York. Billed as "A Night of Peace, Love, Music...and Tolerance," the event takes its slogan from the original 1969 Woodstock Festival (with [...]

A high school in Hudson, New York took a leap forward on Saturday , June 5th by naming two gay best friends, Charlie Ferrusi and Timmy Howard, prom king and queen. According to the Register-Star, students at Hudson High School overwhelmingly approved the idea, and school officials and their parents supported their decision to run. [...]

We need to start off by saying that the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community ROCKS!  Despite bleak skies, oppressive showers and muddy fields, nearly 1,000 of you joined us last weekend for the 6th Annual Hudson Valley Pride March & Festival in New Paltz! The energy was incredible and the crowd's diversity & enthusiasm were a [...]

Hello Friends and Fans of BGHV. Before we go any further - we just have to take a moment to stop and say "Thank You" from the bottom of our Big Gay Hearts to all of you that came out to Locust Grove last Friday night, May 28th for the second annual Pride Preview Party [...]

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 [...]