March 9, 2013, 11:15 am. Just as photography was an exciting new medium in the mid-19th century, video was a new medium available to individual artists for the first time in the 1960s. Harnessing video's flexibility they express ideas of a new millennium.
July/ August, 2013: Five summertime Sunday free concerts on the Gallery's Delaware Stairs overlooking Hoyt Lake.
March 23, 2013, 6-10:30pm at the Connecticut Street Armory. A delicious five-course banquet includes the Bard’s selection of beer & wine, lively dances, song, swordplay & engaging talent; plus 3 Royal Auctions with guest auctioneer Mike Randall of WKBW-TV.
May 28 - June 3, 2013. Annual events around the first weekend of June with Sunday Pride Parade plus Saturday/Sunday Pride Festival at Canalside with food, live performances, a beverage tent, and exhibitors; also lots of events around town at the bars.
June 20 - July 14, 2013, Hamlet, directed by Saul Elkin; July 25 - August 18, 2013, Measure for Measure, directed by Brian Cavanagh. All performances Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30pm on Shakespeare Hill in Delaware Park next to Hoyt Lake --behind the Rose Garden, off Lincoln Parkway near the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Bring lawn chairs and/or blankets, food, soda, water, wine, beer...
June 28-29 & 30, 2013 - Don Pasquale, an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Founded in 2004, the Nickel City Opera is Buffalo’s only major opera company producing full-scale operas, complete with costumes, sets and a full orchestra.
July, 2013, gay day at amusement & water parks. $40 covers admission to both, parking, unlimited food (hamburgers, chicken, veggie lasagna), cokes & beer. Drag show, 4pm, hosted by Jamie Coxx.
Buffalo Bears is the den for gay bear communities of Western New York and Southern Ontario. The group sponsors hiking and camping trips, movie and dinner nights, parties and get-togethers among their many activities.
Buffalo Bulldogs are a Leather-fetish fraternal club for gay men and friends. Meetings are held each first Saturday at OHM Ultra Lounge. Parties they sponsor such as Leather Disco, Leather Pride, LeatherBears, underwear and uniform nights are also held at OHM.
The Queen City Softball League has teams sponsored by most of the bars in town, playing most weekends from May through July.
The Buffalo Bashers Gay Hockey has been playing since 2002.
Buffalo Alternative Volleyball plays on Thursday nights (Sept. thru end of June), 6:30-9:30pm in the Maryvale Community Education Building, 777 Maryvale Drive, in Cheektowaga.
Doing noble deeds since 1990, they hold the big coronation bash in May, and have social events and benfits all year such as their Annual Spaghetti Dinner each October. Ongoing events include drag shows at Adonia's each Tuesday and Wednesday night.
Jones Pond (9835 Old State Road, Angelica NY) gay-owned, members-only, male-onlly (21+), cabins, camping & RV facility offers over 100 acres for sunning, hiking, swimming, socializing or just getting away from it all in the beautiful rolling hills of the Genesee Valley to the southeast of Buffalo. Enjoy nature, and male company at the several cabins, 3-bedroom guest house or in your RV vehicle - take quiet time alone or participate in the many social activities.
Amenities include 175 Campsites w/ Electric & Water, a 65' swimming pool, a 3-acre pond, large RV access (30 amps), guest house, log cabin rental, bunkhouse lodging, group camping areas, primitive water-only sites, deluxe showers, hot showers/flush toilets, full-service weekend restaurant, recreation field with volleyball net, lounge/satellite TV, pool table, general store with firewood, beer, ice, propane, nature trails hiking, picnic tables & fire rings at each site, RV dump station, Internet access, weekend DJ, dancing and community campfires.
