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Duncan Osborne

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Pride

The Radical Roots of LGBTQ Activism

By Duncan Osborne
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Crime

The Challenge of Changing Police Culture

By Duncan Osborne
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International

Putin Asks US Courts to Follow Russian Rulings in Bid to Recover Stoli

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Is Brutality New York City Policy?

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Politics

Done With de Blasio, Progressives Say

By Duncan Osborne
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Bill De Blasio’s Haphazard First Amendment Policies

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Is de Blasio’s Posture on Outdoor Protests At Odds with First Amendment?

By Duncan Osborne
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Activism

Reclaim Pride Pitches Second March, New Route

By Duncan Osborne
Financial Woes Face Black HIV Group
Health

GMAD Now Has No Permanent Home

By Duncan Osborne
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Corporations, Sponsors Allowed Larger Pride Contingents

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Setting Stonewall Straight

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Celebrate Pride Month with a conversatio
Tomorrow, 6 pm

Queer Family Building: The Full Picture
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Tomorrow, 6:30 pm

$5 Drinks At Drag Show Happy Hour
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Join drag clown Pixie Pierrot and all th
Tomorrow, 7 pm

Pixie’s Pride Puppet Slam at the Queerly Festival
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June 24, 6:30 pm

Unsung Heroes: LGBTQ+
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June 24, 7 pm

Jewish Drag Icons: Then and Now
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June 24, 7:30 pm

Sports Adjacent: Free Weekly Comedy
Blazers Sports Bar

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 6pm
June 25, all day

Queens: The Art of Drag & NYC at Culture Lab LIC
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June 28, 8 am

Celebrate Pride at Marble Collegiate Church
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Arts

  • If “Leviticus” becomes a hit, one hopes that it might create space for further queer voices in horror. ‘Leviticus’: Gay teenagers battle amonster created by homophobia
  • “Maddie’s Secret,” directed by John Early, is running at IFC Center. Maddie’s Secret’: A campy yet sincere drag melodrama
  • Alice Kremelberg, director Adrienne Campbell-Holt, playwright Victoria Lynne Barclay, and Colby Minifie. ‘Camping’: Love and repression in an intimate tent setting
  • Myra Molloy as Sonya and Maya Da Costa as Coley in “Girls Like Girls." In ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko turns from sapphic pop star to filmmaker, telling the same story
  • Downtown Boys. June LGBTQ music: Downtown Boys’ ‘Public Luxury’ and Andrew Sa’s ‘American Rough’

Crime

  • Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a press conference on August 10, 2023 to announce an indictment in the stabbing death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station. Man convicted of manslaughter in death of O’Shae Sibley
  • sketch of bigot behind lower east side hate crimeCops hunt Lower East Side bigot who beat boy with belt after anti-LGBTQ+ hate tirade
  • A picture shows the late O'Shae Sibley during a demonstration in Brooklyn after he was killed there in an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack. Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
  • suspect in Brooklyn hate crimeBrooklyn hate crime suspect cuffed in the Bronx for fare evasion: cops
  • Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026. Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges

Perspectives

  • Martha Shelley reads to the audience at the LGBT Community Center on Oct. 15, 2023. Past triumphs, present challenges: Reflections on the fight for LGBTQ rights — and what comes next
  • Callen-Lorde staff members. Health equity for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers starts with primary care
  • Andy Humm and Ruth Messinger in the aftermath of the passage of New York City's gay rights bill. Forty years since New Yorkers won gay rights, the fight for justice is more urgent than ever
  • Katie Blum is underscoring the importance of funding to make sure New York's legal system respects transgender individuals when they seek to align their legal documents with their gender identity. Access to justice is essential for transgender New Yorkers — and it depends on the IOLA Fund 
  • From L to R: Michael-Vincent Crea, Thomas O’Grady, Michael Kane, Caitlin Herrity, Jack Schlossberg, Clover Welsh, Layla Law Gisiko, David Warren, Brendan Fay, Dr. John Lahey, Aaron Pesin, Abby Donley, Nicholas Dodd, Sheila and Meghan Brophy on Fifth Avenue. Lavender and Green Alliance celebrates 10 years in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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