Here we go!
It’s Pride month, which means I’m wahoo-deep in rainbows and unicorns.
I’m hosting three events this month. The first one will be the Hudson Area Library’s inauguration of its LGBTQ Archive, this Thursday, June 6th at the Library at 6pm. They are doing an oral history project, interviewing local LGBTQ members, as well as cataloging local articles, memorabilia and ephemera.
I’m also hosting Gay Antique City at the Hudson Boat Club on Sunday, June 23rd from 1-5pm. You have to go to this. You sit out on the patio, have some great (inexpensive) drinks, eat a grilled sausage sandwich, watch some drag shows, and listen to the same jokes I’ve been telling for the past fifteen years. It doesn’t get any better.
Then, on Friday the 28th, I’m hosting a Pride event and fundraiser in Kinderhook.
One of the clips I showed the Hudson Area’s Archive was from 1988-1991 when I was working on the gay Manhattan public access TV show, Out in the ’80s/Out in the ’90s. The show was LIVE Tuesday nights at 11pm.
(Directly following our show, at midnight, was The Robin Byrd Show, also live. Some of you may have watched that. I have many Robin Byrd stories.)
I videotaped ACT UP or Queer Nation “zaps”, like the one in the video below. We showed up at various anti-gay events and shouted at them or just shut them down, then aired the footage on public access.
At the time, there were gangs of youth that would hang around gay bars wielding baseball bats, threatening and “bashing” gays. I recorded the interview below in my dorm room with my friend Michelle and two of the Pink Panthers, an LGBTQ patrol group. The Pink Panthers walked around Manhattan and helped stop any anti-gay violence.
I have dozens of VHS and 3/4-inch video tape that I have to transfer to digital to make it viewable to another generation. Please remind me to do that every time you see me.
Meanwhile, speaking of gaydom, MadeX had their Meet Locker event last weekend.
Here are a couple of pics.
Happy Pride Month.
Trix
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Events listed in Chronological Order (ish)
NY Spirits Tasting
Friday, May 31st – 5pm – 7pm
Hudson Wine Merchants
Opening Reception:
Seen Scenes – CREATE Member Show 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, May 31st – 5-7pm
On View: Fridays, 4-7pm and Saturdays & Sundays 11am-6pm
Create Council on the Arts – 398 Main St, Catskill, NY
Spencertown Academy
Roots & Shoots Concerts Series presents
The Lovestruck Balladeers
Friday, May 31st – 8pm
Spencertown Arts Academy
Hudson Farmers’ Market
The Hudson Farmers’ Market
Outdoors – Columbia and 6th
June 1st – 9am – 1pm
The Repair Café Claverack
Saturday, June 1st – 10am-3pm
Claverack Free Library
Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Celebrates
One Hundred & Fifty Years With A Boat Parade!
Saturday, June 1st – 11am-4pm
Henry Hudson Riverfront Park
Hand Dyed Scarf Workshop
Saturdays – 11:30am-1pm
Through November 23rd
Fig and Bella
Spring Affair
Contemporary Art of the Hudson Valley
June 1st – June 30th – Weekends 1-5pm
Spencertown Academy
Ancram Center 2024 Season Open House
Saturday, June 1st – 3-5pm
Ancram Center for the Arts
CJ and Friends: Classic Country Music
Saturday, June 1st – 5-7pm
Elizaville Diner
FLAVORAMA
Arielle Johnson in Conversation with Christine Muhlke
Saturday, June 1st – 7pm
Talbott & Arding
Ustad Shafaat Khan
Saturday, June 1st – 7:30pm
Bridge Street Theatre
First Presbyterian Church Hudson all are welcome!
Every Sunday – 10:45am – 12:00pm
First Presbyterian Church
Q-MoB Queer Men’s Empire Rail Trail Bike Ride (Valatie, NY)
Saturday, June 2nd – 11:30-4pm
Kinderhook/Valatie Trailhead Parking Lot
Edy Massih Book Signing
Sunday, June 2nd – Noon – 2pm
Talbott & Arding
If it Bleeds it Leads
Sunday, June 2nd – 3pm
Park Theater, Hudson
Queerly Sundays
@PearlMoonWoodstock
Sundays, 5-8pm
Pearl Moon, Woodstock
Union Street Brewing Company: Trivia Night
Every Monday – 6:30-8:30pm
Union Street Brewing Company
Qigong ~ TaiChi at the Hudson Area Library
Tuesdays, June 4th – June 25th – 10am – 11am
Hudson Area Library
Bollywood Dance Classes
Wednesdays, June 5th – June 26th – 10am – 11am
(except for Wednesday, June 19)
Hudson Area Library
Avalon Open Mic
w/Ryder & Friends
First Wednesdays of the Month
Next: Wednesday, June 5th – show at 7pm
Club Avalon, Catskill
Hudson Thursday Market
Thursdays, 4pm-7pm
June 6th – Oct 25th
7th Street Park
Virtual Family Cooking Classes
and Free Fresh Food Meal Kits
Meal Kit pick-up: Wednesdays, June 5th – June 12, 4 – 6pm
Virtual Cooking Classes: June 13th, 5:30 – 6:30pm
Hudson Area Library
An Archive of Hudson’s Queer History:
A Public Introduction & Celebration
Thursday, June 6th – 6pm
Hudson Area Library
Helen Rose | Too Many Daves
Thursday, June 6th – at 6:30pm
The Half Moon
A Galère of Poetic Autopsies
Thursday, June 6th – 8pm
Park Theater Hudson
First Friday: Pride Edition!
Friday, June 7th – 5pm
Athens Cultural Center
Crandell LIVE!
Presents UNCROPPED + Q&A with the Filmmakers
Friday, June 7th – 7pm
The Crandell Theatre, Chatham
Circle Mirror Transformation
June 7-9th, 14-16th
Fridays & Saturdays – 7:30pm
Sundays 2pm
Ghent Playhouse
Park Theater: Upstate
Friday, June 7th – Doors at 7pm | Show at 8pm
Park Theater
Saturday Tours at Hudson-Athens Lighthouse
Saturday, June 8th – 10am-Noon
Henry Hudson Riverfront Park
Community Care Clinic
Saturday, June 8, 11am – 2pm
Hudson Area Library
Hudson Flag Day
Saturday, June 8th – Parade at 4pm
7th Street Park – Warren Street – Henry Hudson Riverfront Park
Salt Tooth Serenader
Saturday, June 8th – 4pm
Claverack Free Library
Winds of Change
A concert from Jazz and Classics for Change
Saturday, June 8th – 4pm
Tydeman Farm
Lance Loud Films Screening at TSL June 8th
Saturday, June 8th – 6pm
TSL
Thomas Baker, Magician
Saturday, June 8th – 7pm
Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill
70s Night Dance Party
Saturday, June 8th – 7-10pm
Upper Depot
QMoB Queer Men’s Coffee Klatch
@ Wylde Coffee/Cafe (Hudson, NY)
Second Sunday of the month.
Next date: June 9th – 10:30am
Wylde Cafe, Hudson
Woodstock Pride
Sunday, June 9th – Noon
Woodstock
Medical Cannabis:
Weeding out Fact from Fiction
Sunday, June 9th – 9pm
Spencertown Academy
GHOSTLIGHT Screening
with Director + Writer Q&A
Tuesday, June 11th – 7pm
Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock
La Leche League
Wednesdays – June 12th and August 14th 4 – 5:30pm
Hudson Area Library
A Night Under the Willows
Thursday, June 13th – 6-9pm
Stewart House River Grill
Death by Golf: A Comedic Play
June 13th – 16th 7:30pm & 2pm
Conkling Hall, Rensselaerville
Big Truck Day at the Museum
Saturday, June 15th – 10:30pm
FASNY
GLOBAL / LOCAL I:
ARTURO O’FARRILL AND THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Saturday, June 15th – 8pm
PS21 – Chatham
Betty: OutHudson Pride Official Kickoff!
Friday, June 21st – 7-9pm
Hudson Hall
2024 OutHudson Pride Parade
Friday – Sunday June 21-23
Hudson, NY
Poke-The-Bear: Jockstraps and Caftans
Saturday, June 22nd – 3-6pm
The Half Moon
Summer Music Series:
Juma Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society
Saturday, June 22nd – 5pm
Athens Cultural Center
Gay Antique City – Tea Dance
Sunday, June 23rd – 1-5pm
Hudson Boat Club
Mirra In-Store Coffee Tasting
Saturday, June 22nd – 10am-Noon
Talbott & Arding
Park Theater: Madeline Rhodes
Saturday, June 22nd – Doors – 7pm | Show – 8pm
Park Theater
Richard A. Stone:
Project Mayflower
Wednesday, June 26th – 6pm
Claverack Free Library
Movement & Music Storytime
Thursdays, through June 27, 4 – 5pm
(except for Thursday, May 2)
Hudson Area Library
May Pang
“The Lost Weekend”
Photographs of John Lennon
Friday – Sunday, June 28-30th
Park Theater
Renato Poliafito Book Signing
Saturday, June 29th – Noon
Talbott & Arding
THE INTIMACY:
a first person plural performance
Saturday, June 29th – 7pm
The Flow Chart Space
Bobby Previte:
No Bells, No Whistles A Concert for Solo Drum Set
Saturday, June 27th – 7pm
Hudson Hall
PIECES OF APRIL
Screening with Actor and Director Q&A
Monday, July 8th – 7pm
Tinker Street Cinema, Woodstock
Kinan Azmeh and Dinuk Wijeratne
with Layale Chaker
Wednesday, July 10th – 5:30pm
First Presbyterian Church
Shortbus
Friday, July 12th – 7pm
Hudson Hall
PRINCESS MEET AND GREET
Saturday, July 13th – Noon – 2:15pm
Elks Lodge
DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN / DESPERATELY SEEKING SOMETHING:
Screening & Book Signing with Director & Author Susan Seidelman
Monday, July 15th – 6:30pm
Upstate Films: Orpheum Theatre, Saugerties
Deep In The Valley 2024
Steve Gunn & David Moore, Sunburned Hand of the Man, Trummors, + more!
Saturday, August 10th – All Day
From the Ground Brewery, Red Hook
A Night of Neo-Benshi
Friday, August 30th – 7pm
Hudson Hall
Exhibitions – ON VIEW
The Black Legacy Association of Columbia County Collection Exhibition at the Hudson Area Library
The exhibit will be on view through the end of June
Hudson Area Library
Smells Like Team Spirit
Friday, Saturday, Sunday – Noon – 6pm
Hudson Milliner Art Salon