The Hetrick-Martin Institute, which provides a safe environment for L.G.B.T.Q. youth, held its Emery Awards Ball on Nov. 18 at Pier 60; a dinner buffet was followed by an auction and ballroom dance-off. UNICEF celebrated its 75th year with a benefit dinner at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Nov. 30. And Citymeals on Wheels held…
When Avital Epstein and Gal Cassif met six years ago, they quickly realized they had something in common: rhyming nicknames. His, “Buli,” came from childhood. Hers, “Schmuli,” was coined when she was an adult. Their friends loved it. “I tried to fight it,” Ms. Epstein said. “But no one listened. Now our close friends call…
Maybe it was the sunlight. Or, perhaps the yellow shirt Dannie Lynn Fountain wore the day she met Kaitlyn Aurora Murphy in person. “When I saw her she looked absolutely gorgeous, with a yellow glow,” said Ms. Murphy, who on July 25, 2020, traveled an hour and a half — first boarding a train from…
When Danny Davis, a professional snowboarder, married Hayley Simpson, his childhood sweetheart, on Nov. 29, it might have come as a disappointing surprise to those who have trawled the internet for years attempting to learn the dating status of the 5-foot-9-inch master of the half pipe. “Danny is an absolute heartthrob who is known throughout…
Samantha Fleischman and Allison Saltstein overlapped for three years at Muhlenberg College, a tiny liberal arts school in Allentown, Pa. But they didn’t meet until Ms. Saltstein was a second-semester senior, in January 2010, and the two took the same video production class. “Time almost ran out on us,” said Ms. Saltstein, 34, who graduated…
“I am a woman in my 50s, so I am well aware that your life does not end whether you find a guy or a girl or not, whether you have kids or not, right?” Davis said. “We can testify to the fact that it’s not over, and it’s not boring. So I was never…
While attending grad school in New York City, Shoshana Akabas tutored a recently arrived Afghan refugee in English. The woman was pregnant and had a very small support system in the U.S., so Akabas asked a friend of hers who had recently given birth whether she had baby clothes to pass along. Akabas’ friend had…
Historically, African-American neighborhoods were tucked away from the waterfront, so if you want to look for traces of the Downings’ life on Chincoteague, you might go farther inland to higher ground where the Union Baptist and Christ United Methodist churches are. A local podcast series called The Bivalve Trail further describes Thomas Downing’s story on…
“My decision to propose when I did was purely organic,” Mr. Moss said. But it was not spontaneous, because he had prepared a sign for the occasion, which he stationed in his parents’ backyard. It read, “Molly, will you marry me?” On Nov. 14, the couple were wed in Memphis, where they live, at Baron…
The incipient relationship of Andrew Shoulders and Charles Reese II might have reached an unfortunate end on just their second date had it not been for Mr. Reese’s well-developed listening skills. “He really pays attention to what people say,” Mr. Shoulders, 40, said. For their first date, in November 2010, the men met at a…