The New York Public Library is proud to be co-sponsoring the 2008 GLBT Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Special Collections Conference that is being hosted by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at CUNY. The conference will include an orientation to the LGBT archives at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library and a closing tour of the Black Gay and Lesbian Archives at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The full conference schedule is available online. Register now, if you haven’t already.

On April 17th at 6 p.m., Pulitzer and Tony award-winning playwright and LGBT Committee Ambassador Edward Albee will be in conversation with Marion Seldes at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.  Among his many plays, Albee is best known for his works Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Seascape, Three Tall Women, and The Goat or Who is Sylvia, as well as the adapations of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Albee’s scripts and papers are held in the Library’s Billy Rose Theatre Division. Marian Seldes is a stage and screen actress who has won numerous Tony and Drama Desk awards in her five-decade career. We hope you will join us as Albee reminisces over his groundbreaking career in theatre. Admission is free and first come, first served. For more information, call (212) 642-0142 or e-mail lpaprog@nypl.org.

Albee is pictured above with author Carson McCullers in an image from the Library’s Digital Gallery.

Pictured above are James St. James, original club kid and YA author; Megan Honig, Young Adult Librarian at the Seward Park Branch; and Hillias J. Martin, Assistant Coordinator of Young Adult Services, at last year’s Anti-Prom held at the Donnell Library Center.  The Anti-Prom provides an alternative, safe-space for LGBTQ teens, who may not feel welcome at official school proms or dances, as well as many other teens. This year’s Anti-Prom will be held at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue the evening of June 5th. We are gearing up for a major event. Save the date!