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141 LGBTQ+ Arts & Culture Venues in New York City, NY
New York has 141 gay-friendly arts & culture listed here — from neighbourhood spots to well-known destinations. Whether you're looking for lgbt theater new york city or something quieter, use the listings below to find your next spot.
Arts & Culture The Bitter End
New York's oldest rock n roll club
Arts & Culture SVA Theatre
Iconic visual arts
Arts & Culture Nitehawk Cinema
A cinephile's dream
Arts & Culture Upright Citizens Brigade
Laugh your a\*\* off
Arts & Culture The Joyce (Closed Temporarily)
By dancers for dancers (and the rest of us!)
Arts & Culture Agora Gallery
Chic Chelsea gallery
Arts & Culture The High Line
You're in for a surprise
Arts & Culture The Museum at FIT
Fashion first
Arts & Culture Theaterlab
Downtown meets Chelsea
Arts & Culture Museum of Sex
You heard it right
Arts & Culture Steven Kasher Gallery
Fine art photography gallery
Arts & Culture Japan Society
Showcasing Japanese culture and art
Arts & Culture Radio City Music Hall
Famous art-deco performance space
Arts & Culture Rockefeller Center
All roads lead to Rockefeller Center
Arts & Culture The Cutting Room
A guitar-laden haven
Arts & Culture The Public Theater Formerly: New York Shakespeare Festival
The place for great theater
Arts & Culture Joe's Pub
Live music, performance and cabaret with the popular kids
Arts & Culture Performance Space New York
How funky do you want to get?
Arts & Culture New York Theatre Workshop
The birthplace of Rent
Arts & Culture La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Innovative and inclusive artistry
Arts & Culture Astor Place Theater
Home of The Blue Man Group
Arts & Culture Merchant's House Museum
New York City's family home...totally preserved
Arts & Culture Bowery Poetry Club
Poets unite!
Arts & Culture Webster Hall
Historic nightclub, live music venue and event space in the East Village
Arts & Culture The Studio at Webster Hall
See and Hear upcoming music artists.
Arts & Culture The Ailey Studios
Alvin Ailey did it right
Arts & Culture Ars Nova
Performance venue showcasing groundbreaking art
Arts & Culture Laurie Beechman Theatre
Cabaret anyone?
Arts & Culture New World Stages
The new face of Off-Broadway
Arts & Culture Birdland Jazz Club
Top Notch Jazz Club, right in the thick of Hells Kitchen
Arts & Culture Signature Theatre Company
Three theater facility
Arts & Culture Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
What do Vincent van Gough, Laurie Anderson, and Jasper Johns have in common? The MoMa!
Arts & Culture International Center of Photography
Everything is possible
Arts & Culture Marian Goodman Gallery
See it here first
Arts & Culture The New Group
Daring Theater
Arts & Culture Primary Stages
Wanna see a new play? Look no further.
Arts & Culture York Theatre Company
A Fresh Take on Musical Theatre
Arts & Culture Top of the Rock
Customize your New York at the newest view in town
Arts & Culture Madison Square Garden
World's most famous arena
Arts & Culture Carnegie Hall
Practice, practice, practice
Arts & Culture Scandinavia House
Art, culture, music, and literature...with a Nordic twist
Arts & Culture AMC Loews 34th Street 14
Playing the latest and greatest Hollywood films
Arts & Culture On Location Tours
Sex and the City, Spiderman, The Devil Wears Prada...and so much more
Arts & Culture Mastercard Midnight Theatre
A 150-seat, posh, art-deco space produces an array of live performances and events.
Arts & Culture Cherry Lane Theatre
The legendary Cherry Lane
Arts & Culture The Lucille Lortel Theatre (Closed Temporarily)
Legendary
Arts & Culture Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
New playwrights, challenging plays
Arts & Culture Out of the Box Theatrics
Cutting-edge Downtown theater
Arts & Culture The Metropolitan Opera
The most widely known opera company
Arts & Culture New York City Ballet
More than just hot bodies in tights
Arts & Culture Museum of Arts & Design Formerly: American Craft Museum
New digs
Arts & Culture New York City Opera
Opera, New York Style
Arts & Culture American Museum of Natural History
Science, Dinosaurs, Space!
Arts & Culture Tectonic Theater Project
Moisés Kaufman sets the standard
Arts & Culture New York Historical Society
New York's oldest and most historical research facility
Arts & Culture Alice Tully Hall
A Lincoln Center diamond
Arts & Culture AMC Lincoln Square 13
Popcorn anyone?
Arts & Culture Beacon Theatre
Concert Hall in the center of NYC
Arts & Culture School of American Ballet
Founded in 1934 by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, The School of American Ballet has been training ballet dancers for generations. SAB is the official School of New York City Ballet.
Arts & Culture The New Festival, Inc. (Closed Temporarily)
New York's Premier LGBT Film organization
Arts & Culture Brooklyn Museum
Ancient and modern masterpieces
Arts & Culture Prospect Park
Brooklyn's Central Park
Arts & Culture Brooklyn Academy of Music
The cultural mecca of Brooklyn
Arts & Culture The Bushwick Starr (Closed Temporarily)
Get down, Bushwick style!
Arts & Culture Théâtre XIV by Company XIV
Home of Seven Sins & Nutcracker Rouge
Arts & Culture Cocktail Magique Theatre by Company XIV
Mind-bending burlesque review
Arts & Culture National Queer Theater
Sing loud and proud!
Arts & Culture P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Hot DJs and wild dance parties
Arts & Culture Flux Factory
Innovative art and community
Arts & Culture Socrates Sculpture Park
Rags to riches
Arts & Culture The Cloisters
Medieval fun uptown
Arts & Culture Hispanic Society of America
Stunning trip uptown
Arts & Culture Morris-Jumel Mansion
Definitely worth the visit
Arts & Culture Second Stage Theatre
Multigenerational theater on the second stage
Arts & Culture Theatre Row
Newly renovated historic theaters in midtown
Arts & Culture TKTS Times Square
Broadway on a budget
Arts & Culture Madame Tussauds New York
Bring your camera for this one!
Arts & Culture Al Hirschfeld Theatre
All Broadway, all the time
Arts & Culture Ambassador Theatre
Over 100 years of Broadway Theater
Arts & Culture Todd Haimes Theatre
Gorgeous historic theater
Arts & Culture Kit Kat Club at the August Wilson Theatre
Popular Broadway shows
Arts & Culture Belasco Theatre
Long-running intimate Broadway theater
Arts & Culture Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Broadway theater since 1927
Arts & Culture Booth Theatre
Broadway theater classics
Arts & Culture Broadhurst Theatre
Big Broadway stars
Arts & Culture Broadway Theatre
Broadway Theatre at its finest
Arts & Culture Lena Horne Theatre
Broadway magic since 1926
Arts & Culture Circle in the Square Theatre & School
Training the next generation of Tony winners
Arts & Culture James Earl Jones Theatre
Home to many famous faces
Arts & Culture Barrymore Theatre
Classic Broadway theater
Arts & Culture Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to The Book of Mormon, Fela!, 33 Variations, Spring Awakenings, & Sweeney Todd
Arts & Culture Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Times Square entertainment
Arts & Culture George Gershwin Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Wicked & Oklahoma
Arts & Culture The Hayes Theater
Famous faces and incredible talent
Arts & Culture Stephen Sondheim Theatre Formerly: Henry Miller's Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Beautiful, Anything Goes, Urinetown, Cabaret, & All About Me
Arts & Culture Lyric Theatre Formerly: Hilton Theatre, Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Harry Potter, anyone?
Arts & Culture Imperial Theatre Formerly: Lyric Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Billy Elliot, August: Osage County, The Boy From Oz, & Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Arts & Culture John Golden Theatre Formerly: Masque
Broadway Theatre and recent home to The Normal Heart, Avenue Q, Mothers and Sons, and Side Man
Arts & Culture Longacre Theatre
Elegant and historic theater
Arts & Culture Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Famous Broadway stage
Arts & Culture Lyceum Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Ghetto Known, Reasons to be Pretty, I Am My Own Wife, and Inherit the Wind
Arts & Culture Majestic Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to The Phantom of the Opera
Arts & Culture Marquis Theatre
Broadway theater and Times Square hotel
Arts & Culture Minskoff Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to The Lion King
Arts & Culture Music Box Theatre
Historic Broadway building
Arts & Culture Nederlander Theatre
Historic 1,200 seat Broadway theater
Arts & Culture Neil Simon Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray, & The Music Man
Arts & Culture New Amsterdam Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Aladdin, Mary Poppins, & The Lion King
Arts & Culture Palace Theatre
Divas anonymous: from Judy to Liza to Diana Ross
Arts & Culture Richard Rodgers Theatre Formerly: 46th Street Theatre
Broadway Theatre and recent home to Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Movin' Out, & Nine
Arts & Culture Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Formerly: Biltmore Theatre
Innovative Broadway theater
Arts & Culture Shubert Theatre
Broadway theatre and recent home to Memphis, Chicago, Spamalot, & Gypsy
Arts & Culture St. James Theatre Formerly: Erlanger's
Broadway Theatre and recent home to American Idiot and The Producers
Arts & Culture Studio 54
Once the famed disco, now a major theater
Arts & Culture Vivian Beaumont Theater
Star-laden stage
Arts & Culture Walter Kerr Theatre
Critically acclaimed theater
Arts & Culture Regal E-Walk Stadium 13 & RPX
Rainy day? See a movie
Arts & Culture AMC Empire 25
Right in the heart of Times Square
Arts & Culture Town Hall
A National Historic site in the heart of NYC's theatre district supporting theater and music communities for decades.
Arts & Culture Museum of Broadway
Incredible exhibits celebrating theater
Arts & Culture Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Formerly: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art; Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
The unambiguously gay non-profit art gallery
Arts & Culture SoHo Playhouse
Where legends get their start
Arts & Culture Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art
Society of illustrators
Arts & Culture Angelika Film Center & Cafe - New York
Sophisticated but down to earth
Arts & Culture New Museum
New art/new ideas
Arts & Culture The Lower East Side Tenement Museum
History buff?
Arts & Culture Whitney Museum of American Art
Modern art and activism
Arts & Culture Classic Stage Company
Intimate downtown theater
Arts & Culture National September 11 Memorial
The 9/11 Memorial
Arts & Culture Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC)
Tribeca gets in on the action with a multi-venue performance space.
Arts & Culture Dixon Place
Downtown New York's laboratory theater
Arts & Culture Apollo Theater
The history of Amateur Night
Arts & Culture 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group/3LD Art & Technology Center
Larger than life
Arts & Culture HERE Arts Center
Edgy truthful real
Arts & Culture Poets House
Poetry on the Hudson
Arts & Culture Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd "Oh So" wRIGHT
Arts & Culture Metropolitan Museum of Art
Big kid on the block
Arts & Culture Neue Galerie
The art lover's dream
Arts & Culture The Frick Collection (Closed Temporarily)
Henry Clay Frick got it all right.
Arts & Culture El Museo del Barrio
The center of cultural pride on the Museum Mile
Arts & Culture Yankee Stadium
Let's go out to a ballgame
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