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Community Gathers to Honor Marsha P. Johnson, Bayard Rustin

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New Black Lives Matter Mural in Lower Manhattan

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Sunday’s Queer Liberation March in Pictures

By Donna Aceto
Mid point Dyke Marches. 2000-2009
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The Dyke March’s History in Pictures

By Donna Aceto
ACT UP at the 2010 Pride March in New York City.
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Pride Marches Through the Years

By Donna Aceto & Michael Luongo
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Gays Against Guns Remember the Pulse Massacre

By Donna Aceto & Paul Schindler
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Queer People of Color Lost to Police Violence Remembered in Sheridan Square

By Donna Aceto & Paul Schindler
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Franklin Graham’s Send-Off: Cleaning Up After a False Samaritan

By Donna Aceto
ICE / Cuomo protest projection
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Release ICE Detainees in Public Health’s Interest, Activists Say

By Donna Aceto & Paul Schindler
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Gays Against Guns Join International Women’s Day Action

By Donna Aceto
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City Council Marks Black History Month

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DC Women’s March Aims to Finish the Job

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Dia de Sol : End of Summer Brazilian Fest
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Come together to learn and take action!
Aug. 17, 6 pm

Reproductive Freedom Summer 2025
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Aug. 17, 6:30 pm

U.S. Premiere of Campy, Queer Comedy UNSEX’d
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Aug. 17, 7 pm

Verse4Verse: Drag Poetry Show
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National Queer Theater and Arts Project
Aug. 18, 8 pm

“Pizza and a Play”, The Cherry Picked Playreading Series
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Arts

  • Upon entering Oberon, patrons are greeted by a collection of mirrors and a sign introducing the space. Oberon, a new queer cocktail bar, opens in Williamsburg 
  • “Went Up the Hill,” directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, opens Aug. 15 at the IFC Center. Q&A: Filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven on the making of queer ghost story ‘Went Up The Hill’
  • Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins, at Stage 422 at 422 W. 42nd St., runs through the end of the month in New York City. The great escape: ‘Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins’ takes New York
  • Ethel Cain's “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” debuted August 8. August LGBTQ music: Ethel Cain and Water From Your Eyes
  • Morgan Bassichis in "Can I Be Frank?" ‘Can I Be Frank?’: Solo show honors a comic queer pioneer

Crime

  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2025. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes persisted in 2024: FBI data
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Man arrested after husband’s gruesome stabbing death in Manhattan
  • Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village. Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD
  • Police officers in NYPD vests examine scene where person was shotTwo men shot near Harlem gay bar; shooter remains at large, cops say
  • Man in suit looks at crime scene with blood and napkins on sidewalkStonewall shooting: Two teen girls shot near historic Village inn during Pride celebrations

Perspectives

  • Ronald Porcelli is the director of the NYC Unity Project. How the NYC Unity Project’s Family Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth Initiative heals families and saves LGBTQ+ lives
  • The 2025 NYC Dyke March. Letter to the editor: NYC Dyke March’s policy represents deliberate exclusion rooted in religious and political identity
  • At the Queer Liberation March in 2022. Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity
  • A picture depicting the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV prior to his election is displayed as Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfan Cordova speaks during a press conference, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025. Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues
  • Carmen Hernandez. Patients and employers pay more as healthcare conglomerates profit from federal program meant to serve vulnerable communities

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