WOW Cafe Theatre, hosts…

A Night of Love

Gown and Sexy Edition

Curated by Jennifer Love Williams

Click here to purchase tickets &/or make a donation;

$15 Advance, $25 at the Door!

"A Night of Love" ~ gown and sexy edition. A cabaret style fundraiser featuring performers curated by Jennifer Love.

Performances by:
~ Neo Hall Richards
~ Empress Vizcaya
~ Divinity Banks
~ ByancaRaye LoveStorm Prime

Raffles for prizes
Light nibbles & cash bar

Sultry, enticing, arousing, sensual ...all to help support the 2023 Queer Liberation March and the Reclaim Pride Coalition. Hosted at WOW Cafe Theatre in the East Village, NYC.

A very special Juneteenth panel discussion: Jennifer Love Williams (@jenniferlove1976) hosts this livestream panel discussion on life after incarceration in America, aka modern day slavery.. We’re excited to have Sean C Thomas, Patrice Smith and Carlos Morales in an engaging discussion around striving and thriving after prison.

Jennifer Love has assembled folks who have been there. Strategies for thriving, accessing services, finding community. The post prison experience needed to be heard to be believed.

Join us online for this Juneteenth, June 19, 2022 at 4pm... Online via Facebook live and on our YouTube channel

https://fb.me/e/1CVD5S2PZ << link to the facebook event on the Queer March page…. where the streaming magic will happen.

On the last Sunday of June, the LGBTQIA2S+ communities gather to exercise our rights to free speech, assembly and expression in traditional people’s March that harkens back to the spirit of the Stonewall Rebellion and the initial community gatherings in the years that followed. The Christopher St Liberation Day March is our model. We present our March as the antidote to the corporate-infused, police-entangled, politician-heavy Parades that now dominate Pride celebrations in a grotesque expression of societal forms of marginalization and oppression for Queer and Trans people. Enough is Enough; “Off of the sidelines and onto the streets,” virtually as well as in person.

A recording of this event is available to watch on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7arxJckq-Q

COVID has had a disproportionate impact on folks experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. LGBTQIA2S+ youth of color have been hit especially hard. In this panel, we’ll hear from folks who have experienced houselessness and members of organizations working to fill the gaps left by inequities in the system. Topics include youth experiences, Trans health and safety, problems and limitations of the foster care system, connections to prisons and policing, the impacts of COVID and the vaccine, and what we all can do to work towards housing justice.

 Featuring Panelists:

Jayden Avery, VOCAL-NY

Kate Barnhart, New Alternatives

Reginald Brown, VOCAL-NY

Ceyenne Doroshow, GLITS

La’Kenya Tam, Open Rainbow Residences

 Registration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the event link on the day of the event.

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This event is free!

We encourage you to make donations, if you are able, to the following organizations:

GLITS

New Alternatives Shelter

Open Rainbow Residence

VOCAL-NY

 No Place to Call Home: Queer & Trans Houselessness, 2021, is the first in a series of five virtual events presented by Reclaim Pride Coalition and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division in the weeks leading up to the Queer Liberation March, on Sunday, June 27th, 2021.

In conjunction with these events, the Bureau’s online store now features a section devoted to titles recommended by Reclaim Pride Coalition members–click here to view.

 Panelists’ biographies:

Kate Barnhart is a long-time AIDS activist and member of ACT UP/NY who has been arrested multiple times for acts of civil disobedience protesting issues related to AIDS, healthcare, police brutality, immigration and as part of the anti-Trump resistance. She has worked with at-risk youth since 1994, including six years working with young felons at CASES, an alternative-to-incarceration program. Since 2001, she has worked with homeless LGBT youth. She spent five years serving as Director of Sylvia’s Place, an emergency shelter for LGBT homeless youth, and is currently the Executive Director of New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth, an organization she helped found in Oct. 2008. In her free time, Ms. Barnhart rescues and rehabilitates stray cats.

 Ceyenne Doroshow (pronounced Kai-Ann) is a compassionate powerhouse performer, activist, organizer, community-based researcher and public figure in the trans and sex worker rights’ movements. As the Founder and Executive Director of G.L.I.T.S., she works to provide holistic care to LGBTQ sex workers while serving on the following boards: SWOP-USA, Caribbean Equality Project, SOAR Institute and NYTAG. As an international public speaker, her presentations include The Desiree Alliance, Creating Change, SisterSong, Harm Reduction Coalition and the International AIDS Conferences. She was a featured emcee for Toronto Pride and MOMA/PS1’s Sex Workers’ Festival of Resistance, lifting her voice as a trans woman of color. Ceyenne has been heavily featured in the media, has performed on television in Showtime’s OZ, for the documentaries Red Umbrella Diaries and Miss Major. Known for her skills in the kitchen, Ceyenne co-authored the Caribbean cookbook Cooking in Heels, while incarcerated on prostitution charges. She is currently working on her second book, titled Falling Into the Fire.

Reginald Thomas Brown, M. Ed. (they/them) Board Member, VOCAL-NY.

and Jayden-Avery Love (she/hers/they/he) Spiritual Consultant (energy reader)

At a time when social constructs and traditional social norms that rely heavily on rigid, oppressive, arbitrary constructs are regarded as 100% truth, we refuse to be defined or limited due to our unchangeable character traits and physical attributes. The heteronormative narrative has no place our life-affirming journey. We are two radical, revolutionary multi-spirited individuals who meet outside of these constructs, write our own narrative and connect deeply on many levels with the vibrations of CHOSEN family, that foster and promote deep spiritual faith, ascension, truthfulness and unapologetically authentic living. We have defined a friendship divined by the universe. OUR universe. We have also mastered how to hold ourselves accountable for effects we are not responsible for causing.

La’Kenya Tam, Founder /Executive Director Open Rainbow Residence, Inc.

La’Kenya has devoted her career to helping at-risk individuals who have struggled with addiction, marginalization, family care ,youth development and gender identity issues. She is a Board-Certified Human Service Practitioner (HS-BCP) whose experience includes 20 years in the Human Service Field within the nonprofit sector .While seeing the lack of appropriate housing and aftercare resources for this population. La’Kenya founded Open Rainbow Residence (ORR), a supportive housing/guidance program for the LGBTQ population who no longer qualify for Youth Services . In addition to also two complimentary programs A Second of Compassion and It Continues With Him two holistic services to all persons who identify as a woman and men from 0-100.

Over the course of her career, La’Kenya has worked with countless of peoples—both on-site and in their communities —assessing specific needs and providing solutions to improve stability, economics and outcomes.Her dedication and exceptional organization skills have allowed her to effectively follow up, monitor and continually expand her connections with service providers. She welcomes opportunities to help people from all walks of life gain confidence and move beyond anything that has held them back.

Open Rainbow Residence, Inc.

Link to Linked-in account for La’Kenya Tam

Link to Rainbow Residence Gofundme

Open Rainbow Residence – Motto:

What happens when youth services dry up….WE DO!!

Open Rainbow Residence provides supportive housing options to young adult members of the LGBTQ community by offering a safe and stable environment along with guidance. We prepare our residents to shape a future characterized by hope, self confidence, dignity and purpose.