World AIDS Day (12.1.2025)

MONDAY (12.1.2025) Your daily guide to New York City nightlife programming.

Learn more about World AIDS Day here, and the Trump administration’s shameful refusal to acknowledge it here.

UPTOWN

HELL’S KITCHEN / MIDTOWN / TIMES SQUARE

54 BELOW: Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch: I’ll Be Home for Christmas (7pm)
RED EYE: ~~Melisma, Castrata & Norma Tears~~
Creatine Price: The Drag Messiah (7pm);
“Comic Cabaret” hosted by Charles Osborne (9pm)
VERS: Trivia hosted by Christopher Metzger-Timson (7pm);
Pianist Andre Catrini (9pm)
HARDWARE: Suddenly Audrey (7pm);
Jacklynn Hyde & Holly Box-Springs (9pm)
ATLAS SOCIAL CLUB: “Musical Monday Madness” feat. VJ Tony Built (8pm)
RED STACHE: Trivia feat. Cameron Cole (8pm)
RISE: Evita Loca & Nomi Sas (8:30pm);
Pissi Myles & Selma Nilla (11pm)
BOXERS HK: Victoria Williams (8:30pm)
BALCON: “Apocalypse Noir” feat. Andrew Barret Cox with Vivien Rose (9pm)
BIRDLAND: “Jim Caruso’s Cast Party” (9:30pm)
RITZ: Pietra Parker with DJ Eric Abobo (10pm)
INDUSTRY: Daniel Gold’s “Spotlight Mondays” feat. Vanity LaVain (10pm)

CHELSEA

MIDTOWN EAST / FLATIRON

LIPS: “SOS (Save our Sex)” feat. Stella D’oro with Aria Jae & Sabel Scities (5:30pm)

WEST VILLAGE / SOHO

LGBTQ CENTER: “World of Red Ball 5” (6pm)
MONSTER: [upstairs] Pianist Dan Daly (6pm);
[downstairs] Tiffany Anne Coke & Clarice Hart (10pm);
[upstairs] Pianist Kenny Allan Smith (11pm)
PLAYHOUSE: Open decks (7pm);
Karaoke hosted by Jarvis Derrell (8pm)
STONEWALL:[downstairs] Bingo feat. Ariel Sinclair (8pm);
[upstairs] [upstairs] “Pinao Bar” (9pm)
PIECES: Janelle No. 5, Beaujangless & Mo’Riah (8pm);
“Drag Wars” hosted by Shequida (10pm)
DUPLEX: Moxy Cillin (9:30pm)
ROCKBAR: TBA

Wed. 4/29 (7pm), queer standup comedy
at the Greenwich Village Comedy Club!
For $5 discount, use promo code THOT

EAST VILLAGE

BROOKLYN

QUEENS

FRIENDS TAVERN: Bingo (6pm)
FRESCO’S GRAND CANTINA: “World AIDS Awareness Day” feat. Freeda Kulo & Candy Samples (7pm)
ALBATROSS: Karaoke (9pm)
ICON: Eden DarkStar (9pm)
TRUE COLORS: Latin party (9pm)
VIVA LA HEIGHTS: Latin party (10pm)

NEW JERSEY