La Guardia and Wagner Archives/CUNY

Former New York City Council Member and State Senator Tom Duane, whose archive forms the basis of our new exhibit "Panic, Politics, and Policy: New York City During the AIDS Crisis, 1981-1996," has written a blog about the exhibit and other facets of the AIDS crisis. Find the link below!

https://www.poz.com/blog/john-waters-right-aids-crisis-stop-telling-story

We have another couple of very hot and, joy of joys, smoky days ahead of us, New York; there is an Air Quality Alert out in addition to the extreme heat.

Find your nearest cooling center at finder.nyc.gov/coolingcenters, and find other resources through NYC Emergency Management.

Stay safe and stay cool!

Image: Smoke stacks of building in Queens, with the Empire State Building in the background. Photograph by Gildo Nicolo Spadoni.

New York City, we're under an extreme heat warning through this weekend. Whether you're hiding out in the A/C or heading to the beach like the Mayors here, please be careful and look after your neighbors! Find cooling centers and other relief at nyc.gov/beattheheat,

Image 1: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Judy Gay Simmons on the beach at Saugatuck, Conn., August 1936.

Image 2: Mayor Robert F. Wagner, fishing rod in hand, and Susan E. Wagner pose while vacationing at Marley Beach, Bermuda. March 21-30, 1959. Credit: Bermuda News Bureau photo by John Weatherill.

Image 3: Mayor Edward I. Koch relaxing at a beach house while on vacation in July 1979.

And with that, another successful Manhattan Pride is in the books! Was wonderful seeing everyone out there yesterday, as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, and Times Square!

Queens Pride 2026 was another incredible day! Was great to see everyone out and about, can't wait for the rest of what this wonderful Pride Month will bring!

Queens Pride is this Sunday! We'll be in the parade with our CUNY crew, hope to see you in Jackson Heights!

Image: Queens Le***an & Gay Pride Committee First Annual Parade. From left to right: Alcedes, Carmen Berocal, committee co-chairs Maritza Martinez and Daniel Dromm, St. Pat's for All founder Brendan Fay, all others are unidentified.

Happy Pride Month! We are thrilled to announce the second issue launch of The Queerterly, the graphic narrative anthology of LGBTQ+ experience at LaGuardia Community College. We will be tabling free copies of the comic at the Pride on the Greenway event this Wednesday, June 3rd, from 2-4pm between the C-Building and the campus parking lot.

The Archives is proud to support LGBTQ students at the College, and to continue our work preserving q***r history in Queens and the City at large. To see a preview of The Queerterly, check out the link in our bio, or on our website, where you can also browse our LGBTQ Collection and its many digitized documents, photographs, artifacts, videos, and oral histories.

You're invited to CUNY Pride Times Square on Monday, June 8, 2026, from 5PM to 7PM!

In our 9th year, CUNY’s largest celebration of Pride will be in Times Square!

Enjoy drag performances, live music, dancers, free giveaways and more on the most exciting stage in NYC!

The event kicks off at 5pm on Broadway at 46th Street.

This event is free and open to the public.

Register Today!

CUNYinTSQ.eventbrite.com

CUNY Pride Times Square is made possible due to the generous support of the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium in partnership with the New York City Council, and LGBTQIAA+ Programs at Queens College.

Mayor La Guardia says: SWEEP. Let's go New York Knicks!!!!

Image: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia holding a broom while standing on dais. He was campaigning for third term as mayor and dedicating bridge leading to the airport over the Grand Central Parkway, LaGuardia Airport, Queens, N.Y., November 3, 1941.

The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives is thrilled to invite you to our end-of-year Student Showcase and—for the first time ever—student-curated museum exhibit opening!

Please join us for an afternoon of student-led gallery tours, talks, photography, incredible costumes and artifacts, and refreshments.

This year, students studied journalism and satire with our collection from the Inner Circle - a comedic musical nonprofit composed of local NYC journalists. They'll share their research and the projects inspired by their research.

We'll also be joined by the President of the Inner Circle, and PIX11 Reporter, Eileen Lepahmer, who will give a short keynote speech.

If you're interested in journalism and reporting, satire and musical theater, photography, oral history, New York politics and culture, or museum curation, this event is for you!

When: 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Where: LaGuardia Community College, C-Building, Room C-760