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Proud Boys
‘GO HOME!’

Proud Boys Get Unwelcome Reception at NYC Drag Story Hour

“I came here to help, not to get the shit beaten out of me!” one Proud Boy complained in a viral video.

Brooke Leigh Howard

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MAD FOR MANHATTAN

‘Cornelia Street’ Tries to Save a Special Piece of New York

An old-school Greenwich Village café is in danger in “Cornelia Street,” but this new musical seems unsure where to channel its focus and energy.

Tim Teeman

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Inner Piece

‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’: Laura Linney Goes Solo on Broadway

Laura Linney is a wonderful solo storyteller in “My Name is Lucy Barton” on Broadway. But the play itself feels too scattered to pack a knockout punch.

Tim Teeman

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Stonewall 50

What Really Happened at the Stonewall Riots—and What Didn’t

Was there a first brick? Does it matter? Historians of the Stonewall Riots talk about what we know about the historic LGBT protests in late June 1969—and their continued mystery.

Gideon Grudo

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Stonewall 50

Paul Rudnick: ‘LGBTQ Progress Is Only Valuable on Our Terms’

Paul Rudnick powerfully encapsulates Stonewall in the sweep of LGBTQ history before and after it—and what comes next. ‘I envision the infinite variety of LGBTQ lives,’ he says.

Tim Teeman

Was Marsha P. Johnson, Transgender Icon and Activist, Murdered By the Mob?
Unsolved

Was Trans Icon Marsha P. Johnson Murdered by the Mob?

A new documentary unearths new evidence, and celebrates the life of the legendary transgender activist and bon vivant.

Jay Michaelson

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What to Drink at New York's Acclaimed Up and Up
Menu Scout

What to Drink at New York’s Acclaimed Up & Up

Here are the five drinks you need to try if you visit the Greenwich Village bar.

Noah Rothbaum

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Therapeutic

A Store That Helps You Travel in Time

An old yellow coat, Ivy League style, JFK, and the memory of slaving to buy clothes in college all combine to send one writer in search of the store where he found his style.

Eddie Hayes

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City Living

How Jane Jacobs Fought to Save New York

A new documentary shows how the activist successfully battled planning supremo Robert Moses over his plans to put highways through Washington Square and Lower Manhattan.

Tim Teeman

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BACK FROM THE DEAD

The Second Act of New York’s Chumley’s

One of Manhattan’s landmark watering holes is set to (finally) reopen after nearly a decade.

Noah Rothbaum

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Drink Proud

The Oldest Gay Bars in New York

As New York gears up to celebrate Pride weekend, a look back to New York’s earliest gay bars reveals how, long before the Stonewall Riots, LGBTs found places to be themselves.

Noah Rothbaum

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