VisualAIDS

Tainted Love closes Sunday, June 28, 2009.

Tainted Love - Catch the Love before it's gone...
See what's being called a show "clearly made with love."

Tainted Love was reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter.
"This smart group exhibition, organized by Visual AIDS, which sponsors art shows that promote AIDS awareness and H.I.V.-prevention, is far more about bonds of affection than it is about fear of disease. Yet the curators, Steven Lam and Virginia Solomon, give equal time to queer art past and present, and there are surprisingly close correspondences between work done now and then, in the years when AIDS was more in the news and more central to gay identity." read more here

La MaMa La Galleria 
6 East 1st Street

Exhibition continues thru Sunday, June 28, 2009
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1-6P

Directions:
La Galleria is at 6 E 1st Street, New York City, between Bowery & 2nd Avenue, (212) 505-2476.  F, V to Second Avenue

Dancers Responding to AIDS - Fire Island Dance Fest

Love and Justice in the Time of HIV and AIDS

Love and Justice in the Time of HIV and AIDS:
The Current State of Affirming Faith Allies

Wednesday, July  6:30 - 8:30

LGBT Community Center
208 West 13th St (btw 7th & 8th Ave), NYC

FREE - Open to the public

For the July forum in "The Politics of HIV Prevention" series, as a part of the series of events produced by the NYC Faith in Action Coalition for AIDS Prevention, Care, & Education (NYCFI), and CHAMP will host a community conversation addressing the current state of faith-based efforts for HIV prevention in New York City.

This forum explores ongoing HIV prevention justice efforts and new directions for interfaith and intra-faith community responses to HIV/AIDS, particularly addressing structural issues driving the domestic epidemic such as homophobia and mass imprisonment. Come join in the conversation with leaders from local faith communities who are working to build affirming outreach and programs to address the root causes of vulnerability amongst their members and in their communities.

Co-sponsor (list in formation):
  Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), Conscious Contact of New York, Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), The LGBT Community Center, the NYC AIDS Housing Network, the NYC Faith in Action Coalition for HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Education, Metropolitan Community Church of New York, Unity Fellowship Church Movement, Latino Commission on AIDS Faith Movement, The Riverside Church Global HIV/AIDS Ministry, United Church of Christ HIV/AIDS Network

Contact Laura McTighe at CHAMP for more information: lmctighe@champnetwork.org
 or 212-937-7955 x 20

Safer Sex in The City 2009

2009 National LGBTI Health Summit

This summer, Chicago will be playing host to the 2009 National LGBTI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex) Health Summit. Beginning August 14th and running through lunch on Tuesday the 18th, the Summit will focus on “Health Through the Life Course” and is dedicated to preserving and improving the emotional, physical, spiritual, intellectual, psychological, environmental, and social health and wellness of LGBTI people of all races, ages, and professional/non professional backgrounds; from urban and rural settings; representing every socioeconomic class.

For more info visit www.2009lgbtihealth.org

Broadway Bares 19

BROADWAY BARES 19.0 “CLICK IT!”
Presented by M·A·C VIVA GLAM

Sunday, June 21: 9:30 PM & Midnight
Roseland Ballroom
(239 West 52nd Street) 

Tickets are on sale for the 2009 edition of BC/EFA's hotly anticipated summer event: Broadway Bares 19. Created in 1992 by Tony Award® winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray and Peep Show in Las Vegas), the event features the hottest male and female dancers on Broadway and has become one of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS' signature events.

Broadway Bares 19.0 “CLICK IT!” will have Broadway’s hottest boiz grabbing their hard drives and the grlz getting ready to play with some brand new software for what is sure to be a Broadway Bares that will fry more than your mother board. BROADWAY BARES 19.0 will have over 200 of Broadway’s hottest dancers bringing the information superhighway to life and will surely have all of New York a“twitter.”

Broadway Bares 19.0 “CLICK IT!” will take the stage at Roseland Ballroom (239 West 52nd Street) for two performances on Sunday June 21, 2009 at 9:30PM and Midnight.

Ticket prices begin at $55 and can be purchased by calling 212.840.0770 ext. 268 or by clicking here...

CerealArt Print Portfolio to benefit YouthAIDS, Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow.

Cerealart has published a print portfolio in an edition of 25 with works by Michael Bevilacqua, Jeremy Deller, Kenny Scharf, Laurie Simmons, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas and Kelley Walker as a benefit for YouthAIDS work in Uganda along with Shanti Uganda and Building Tomorrow.

Each print is 16 x 20 inches and handsigned and numbered by the artist. The Portfolio of 7 works in an edition of 25 is cased in a linen box and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the organizations.

The war in Northern Uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. For the past 23 years, the Lord's Resistance Army and the government of Uganda have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians displaced. Millions of children have been orphaned by AIDS and thousands of women die annually in childbirth. An entire generation has never known peace...

Cerealart is offering a 40% off coupon for your next Cerealart purchase when you purchase a Cerealart Benefit Portfolio, or when you donate $50.00 or more to our fundraising efforts. Discount on portfolio available until Midnight July 16th, 2009.

For more info visit Cerealart.com

Stonewall Was a Riot!

Stonewall Was a Riot! Queer Riffs on Life Since 1969

Monday, June 22nd at the Stonewall Inn
53 Christopher Street. Doors open 7:30pm. Show starts 8pm.

Performers include: Staceyann Chin, Dred, Anthony Escobar, Holly Hughes,
Rosamond King, Lisa Kron, Chic & Sassy. MC: JZ Bich DJs: Sara Graham of Bust
Magazine and Daddy

Stonewall Was a Riot! celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots
at the scene of the crime, kicks off Pride week 2009, and launches
OutHistory.org's "Since Stonewall Local Histories Contest." Stonewall Was a
Riot! is a fundraiser for OutHistory.org. The suggested minimum donation is
$20. Please RSVP to outhistory@gc.cuny.edu.

Sex Positive - The Movie

Sex Positive opens Friday June 12 at The Quad and plays for one week.

SEX POSITIVE explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M- hustler-turned-AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic as a community leader, demanding a solution to the problem before anyone else would pay attention. However, it was not Berkowitz' voice alone that sparked contention. More at www.sexpositive-themovie.com

Q&A's are Fri, Sat, and Sun at 7:45pm, and 9:45pm shows.

Reviews:
NY Magazine (Critics Pick)

Indiewire

Time Out 

Filmmaker Magazine 

Reme Hort Mann Foundation - Silent Auction

A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ Artists
A fundraiser during gay pride week— open to everyone!

Wednesday, June 24, 6 - 9 pm
28 Wooster St (@ Grand St), Soho

Free wine and liquor bar + food
DJs Telfar and Nita Aviance
Silent Art Auction
$20 tickets, at-door only

100% of the proceeds from the sale of artworks support cancer patients and visual artists and the creation of a new fund to sponsor events, presentations and lectures by artists from the gay community

Artists include:assume vivid astro focus, Geoffrey Chadsey, Aziz + Cucher, Lucky Dellevue, Angela Dufresne, Nicole Eisenman, Tony Feher, Jeffrey Gibson, Anthony Goicolea, Erik Hanson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jim Hodges, Scott Hug, Terrence Koh, Paul Lee, Cary Leibowitz, Robert Melee, Donald Moffett, Slava Mogutin, Jack Pierson, Paul Henry Ramirez, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Billy Sullivan, Marc Swanson & Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Andy Warhol, John Waters, Rob Wynne and more.

Reme Hort Foundation

Luis Carle - The Divine Journey

Michael Lownie in Union Square, SF

Michael Lownie's public sculpture, "Always Hope" is on display at Union Square (corner of Geary & Stockton) in San Francisco through September 2009. After that it will be installed in the lobby at Intel's World Headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

photo: David Yu

Hunter Reynolds @ Momenta Art

Momenta Art is pleased to announce that Hunter Reynolds' show, Real Love: Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hunter will be extended one week and will now close on June 22, 2009. The gallery is open Thursday through Monday, noon-6 PM.

Events
Thursday June 11, 8 PM
Fiddle Sticks, A Performance by Rafael Sánchez with Kathleen White & Zach Berkley on bass. Readings by Elias Comfort.  Poems by Cilantro Joe.  AND Stupid Spacy Dancing by Hunter Reynolds with gowns by Ethan Shoshan.

Friday June 12, 7 PM
Artist Talk with Hunter Reynolds

Sunday June 14, 3-6 PM
Hunter Reynolds will present a remote story-telling/conversation performance via Skype and a mini-documentary covering the hurricane and Reynolds' salvage efforts in his studio that was destroyed in 2005. His performance and his show at Momenta transform the wreckage and the artist's personal history into a testament of survival

Momenta Art
359 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11211
718.218.8058
www.momentaart.org

Fairy Tales: Personal Legend, Urban Myth, Gay Exhibition

Casa Frela Gallery
47 West 119th Street, NYC

June 13 - July 13, 2009
Reception:  Saturday, June 13,  4–7 PM

Fairy Tales features drawings, paintings and sculpture by six gay artists: Brian H. Crede, Anthony Gonzales, Joel Handorff, Seth Ruggles Hiler, Tai Lin and Branden Charles Wallace.

 

image: Brain Crede, Golden Boy, 2008

Positive Paintings by Boris Torres

Boris Torres: Recent  Paintings

June 1 - September 4, 2009
Opening Reception, Thursday, June 11, 6PM-8PM

The Center
208 W 13th Street, NYC

In this recent  work, Torres has created two distinct series of paintings that  together display his clear-eyed and compassionate approach to  portraiture. In Positive Paintings, six large-scale  works of self-identified HIV positive men and women, Torres depicts  how character comes from a variety of sources, including home,  sexuality, health, love, and pride. While in What is Real and What is Not, a series of smaller works presented in the  Campbell Soady Gallery, Torres layers violent images of Congolese women and children on top of idealistic, and mass  produced, posters from horror movies, and Asian cinema, creating an  unexpected, and jarring, conversation between the two.