The comedy takes aim at "pink princess culture" while telling a heartfelt story about a girl who enrolls in a boot camp–like school where princesses and knights learn to fight witches and dragons.
Read MoreGreening the Great White Way: Broadway’s New Environmental Ethic
A few years ago, Susan Sampliner, the company manager of the Broadway show Wicked, was given an unusual task by her boss, producer David Stone: Take the next 18 months, he told her, and consider what we could do to make the show more environmentally sustainable.
Read MoreOur three-way relationship isn't your business. Even if we’re doing business
As the real estate agent showed me what would eventually become my new apartment, I quietly slipped into the closet without even taking a step.
Read MoreThe Final Secret of David Wojnarowicz
Saints’ relics, the shirt off Justin Bieber’s back, lost tapes showing what really happened that day in Dallas—I couldn’t give two shits about those curios. I’m about to hold David Wojnarowicz’s final secret: the Magic Box.
Read MoreWho gets to write gay rights into the history books?
But teaching queer history – developing a canon of thought about ourselves, for presentation to the world at large – presents some conundrums: Which stories will we teach? Who will choose them? And how will they be told?
Read MoreA Glossy Zine for the Black, Gay and Talented
When you flip through The Tenth—a “zine” that has a heft and aesthetic vision on par with Vogue’s September issue—you receive an education. Or perhaps I should say you get schooled on a version of gay black manhood developed on its own terms and written in its own words, by gay black men, for gay black men.
Read MoreMore Than 300,000 March in Manhattan to Demand Action on Climate Change
Billed as the world’s biggest demonstration against global warming, the march stretched for more than 30 blocks, a solid mile and a half of nuns in vestments, old-school hippies wearing tie-dyed T-shirts, families with anti-fracking banners taped to strollers, marching bands, bird puppets, unions, mosque groups, school groups, socialists, Democrats, and Republicans.
Read MoreFor NYC Kids, First Day of School Comes One Year Earlier
Today 50,000 children began attending free preschool in New York City. That’s more kids than are in Seattle’s entire K-12 public school system.
One of them is Helen Poventud’s daughter, Christina. In a tiny orange shirt featuring a drawing of happy school kids, she made a beeline for Rena Early Learn Child Care in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood early this morning. It was important that she be on time, her mom said, so that shecould get to her job as a home health aid.
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