Thu, Jun 18
|LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Bright Vignettes
The first film about Astoria’s Queer culture begins outdoors in the playful sensorium of a historical cruising site from the 1800s onward, and ends in a Queer club with a call to action for the most vulnerable, five months before the 2024 presidential election in the U.S.
Time & Location
Jun 18, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 45-50 Van Dam St, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA
About the event
Bright Vignettes
June 18th, 6:30PM, Little Theater
The first film about Astoria’s Queer culture begins outdoors in the playful sensorium of a historical cruising site from the 1800s onward, and ends in a Queer club with a call to action for the most vulnerable, five months before the 2024 presidential election in the U.S. New York City is home to The Stonewall Inn, the site of a protest in June of 1969 that galvanized the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the U.S. In this same city, there are neighborhoods celebrating their first public Pride events into the 2020s. This is the Queer side of one of those neighborhoods.
As anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the United States reaches unprecedented levels of implementation, Astoria felt the ramifications: burning a Pride flag outside its longest-running Queer bar in 2024; breaking the window of a new Queer bar in 2024; hateful comments on the public Instagram page for Astoria’s Annual Pride event in 2023; as well as ad hominem attacks documented in local news. Starting with the achievements and activity leading up to the neighborhood’s inaugural Pride event in 2023, Bright Vignettes portrays this vibrant, nurturing community of experimental performers, and progressive activists making this neighborhood “…a place to grow old in…and pass down our stories, and our cultures.”
