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Check Out Photos From Our 2019 Queeroes Awards Dinner and Dance Party


If you’ve been keeping an eye on them. lately, you’ve probably noticed that we’re having a big month. Last week, we were overjoyed to release our Pride issue, featuring three icons of the queer community’s next generation: King Princess, Ian Alexander, and Chika. This weekend is Pride in New York City, of course — and the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, no less — which we’re marking with a series of pieces about the way we observe Pride now, and what it took to get here. But we’re also celebrating our community the best way we know how: with our annual Queeroes Awards, in which we honored intergenerational pairs of queer artists, activists, and luminaries who are creating breathtaking work, breaking boundaries, and collectively moving the queer community forward towards liberation for all.

We brought our awardees together for a series of interviews this week, which you can check out here, and they’re well worth a read. Jeremy O. Harris, the acclaimed young playwright of Daddy and Slave Play, delivers an incisive indictment of the way capitalist America has made being Black and gay into something it can sell — and how he’s trying to poison that effort in turn. Comedian Lea DeLaria (among many of her fellow nominees) went deep on how infighting among the queer community is holding us back, and how we must band together to face broader threats. DJ Eris Drew explains how she uses dance music as a tool and technology to find other ecstatic people like her, and she and her fellow Nightlife nominee, Discwoman talent agent Christine McCharen-Tran, explore ways their scenes fail to uphold ideals of inclusivity and accessibility, and how each are working to make things better. For March for Our Lives co-founder Emma González and her Activism co-nominee, ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio, setting boundaries and seeking hope in dark times serve as keys to their work, and each delivers fantastic insights into how they practice activism. Each and every conversation is rife with incredible quotes, moving stories, and penetrating insights into how the queer community can and will liberate itself moving forward. Each honoree stands as an inspiration to all of us here at them., and we’re incredibly honored to award each as a Queero. We’re just as honored to have you, our readers, here with us to celebrate.

This Wednesday, at New York City’s Angel Orensanz Foundation synagogue, we brought our Queeroes together for an intimate dinner and an unbelievable dance party. Moving speeches written by historian and them. contributor Hugh Ryan were read, focusing on key moments or groups in queer activism during each decade from Stonewall onward. During the dance party, we had none other than the incredible singer Rina Sawayama and Queeroes: Music awardee Mykki Blanco perform live for the audience, and they tore (and vogued!) the house down. With gracious sponsorship by HBO’s Euphoria, we’re happy to have been able to bring our awardees and community together for a night we won’t soon forget. Check out photos from the soiree below, and thank you, as always, for being part of what we do.

Maridelis Morales Rosado





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