Rise & Shine Drag Brunch

Community Center

Brooklyn Community Pride Center

Oldway Sessions is a Ballroom arts education program that keeps the living tradition of Old Way alive through culturally rooted movement, history, and community practice. Each session builds your technique and understanding of Ballroom culture over time, so you'll revisit concepts and go deeper with every visit. It runs 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center in Crown Heights.

18+

LGBT Network Queens LGBT Center

Move freely to music from every era while learning to recognize and release negative emotions through dance and meditation. No experience needed—just wear sneakers and loose clothes. This two-hour session with Creatively Releasing NY is designed to help you find emotional stability and mindfulness through your body. Limited to 8 people, so sign up at lgbtnetwork.org/enrichment/.

Bears

Eagle NYC

Thursday evenings at the Eagle belong to the bears—no cover charge, just good drinks, good company, and a room full of guys who know how to have a solid time. It's the kind of weekly tradition that keeps people coming back, 6 to 10pm.

Social Events

Hive Mind Books & Coffee Shop

Settle in for an hour of quiet reading at Hive Mind, then spend the last half hour chatting with whoever's on the next couch over. Grab a drink for $1 off, and browse the borough's best selection of queer and trans writers with 10% off books. A cozy, low-pressure way to spend a Thursday evening with your favorite kind of company.

Viewing Party

Club Cumming

Club Cumming turns Thursday nights this fall into a watch party for the New Blood season of The Traitors, with episodes streaming live at 8pm on NBC. The club opens at 6pm, it's free and open to the public, and seating is minimal, first come, first serve, so get there early. Ages 21+.

Comedy

Red Eye NY

Sherry Vine in Dirty Blonde is a live, adults-only drag comedy show at Red Eye NY in Hell's Kitchen, NYC, where she's back with an all-new singing set of filthy, hilarious parodies of Taylor Swift, Tina Turner, U2, Broadway, Celine Dion and Elton John. It's rated R for rude humor, runs Thursday, October 22 at 7 PM, and tickets start at $27.48.