Pride Month, Music and a Movie!
CBH celebrates Pride Month and Brooklyn with this cabaret-style performance and screening!
Join the incomparable Brooklyn-based drag artist Ella Fartzgerald, followed by the 2014 documentary “We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite” for an evening of celebration, community, and joy!
Ella Fartzgerald is a Brooklyn-based cabaret and drag artist with a passion for blurring the lines between theatre and nightlife. Her performances are a celebration of Black resilience, feminine autonomy and queer power. Her creativity thrives at the intersections of storytelling and glamour.
Ella can be found performing her monthly cabaret ‘Lovergirl’ at Good Judy in South Slope, Brooklyn.
“We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite” tells the story of the community uprising when this pre-Stonewall, Black-owned gay bar, is threatened by redevelopment. The Starlite Lounge was purchased by Harold “Mackie” Harris and established as an LGBT-inclusive bar in 1962. Located on the corner of Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue, it became a legendary safe-haven in Central Brooklyn. By the end of its 50-plus-year run, the self-described “oldest black-owned non-discriminating bar in New York” catered to LGBTQ people of color and a broader clientele throughout the week and especially at Friday night drag shows and Saturday night house music events. It was considered one of Brooklyn’s oldest gay bars when it was forced to close on July 31, 2010, after being evicted due to the sale of the building.
Directors Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel follow the passionate fight to save a beloved queer Brooklyn space.
CBH celebrates Pride Month and Brooklyn with this cabaret-style performance and screening!
Join the incomparable Brooklyn-based drag artist Ella Fartzgerald, followed by the 2014 documentary “We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite” for an evening of celebration, community, and joy!
Ella Fartzgerald is a Brooklyn-based cabaret and drag artist with a passion for blurring the lines between theatre and nightlife. Her performances are a celebration of Black resilience, feminine autonomy and queer power. Her creativity thrives at the intersections of storytelling and glamour.
Ella can be found performing her monthly cabaret ‘Lovergirl’ at Good Judy in South Slope, Brooklyn.
“We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite” tells the story of the community uprising when this pre-Stonewall, Black-owned gay bar, is threatened by redevelopment. The Starlite Lounge was purchased by Harold “Mackie” Harris and established as an LGBT-inclusive bar in 1962. Located on the corner of Bergen Street and Nostrand Avenue, it became a legendary safe-haven in Central Brooklyn. By the end of its 50-plus-year run, the self-described “oldest black-owned non-discriminating bar in New York” catered to LGBTQ people of color and a broader clientele throughout the week and especially at Friday night drag shows and Saturday night house music events. It was considered one of Brooklyn’s oldest gay bars when it was forced to close on July 31, 2010, after being evicted due to the sale of the building.
Directors Kate Kunath and Sasha Wortzel follow the passionate fight to save a beloved queer Brooklyn space.
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