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Emily Sawaked

International

World Bank halts lending to Uganda over anti-LGBTQ law

By Emily Sawaked
The team at Apicha Community Health Center proudly accepts an Impact Award in 2022.
Gay City News Impact Awards

Nominations now open for 2023 Gay City News Impact Awards

By Emily Sawaked
Robert Fehring is holed up in a federal prison in Fort Dix, New Jersey.
Crime

Judge rejects release of Long Island man who made anti-LGBTQ threats

By Emily Sawaked
Remembrance

Ballroom icon Carmen Xtravaganza dies at 62

By Emily Sawaked
Education

Florida loses AP psychology courses thanks to ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ law

By Emily Sawaked
Cheri Pies died in July at the age of 73.
Remembrance

Cheri Pies, trailblazer for lesbian mothers, dies at 73

By Emily Sawaked
Governor Kevin Stitt of Florida signs an executive order requiring the state to use "male" and "female," effectively erasing non-binary people.
Legal

Oklahoma governor’s order bars state from recognizing trans, non-binary people

By Emily Sawaked
O'Shae Sibley was listening to Beyoncé's music before he was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn on July 29.
Music

Beyonce pays tribute to O’Shae Sibley

By Emily Sawaked
Lee Soulja-Simmons, the leader of NYC Black Pride, pauses for a picture during NYC Black Pride's 2022 beach event.
Pride

NYC Black Pride festivities slated for Aug. 16-20

By Emily Sawaked
Camdyn Rider, 21, died on July 21.
Crime

Pregnant trans man killed in murder-suicide in Florida

By Emily Sawaked
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is facing an investigation over the violent arrest of a transgender man earlier this year.
Crime

Violent arrest of a transgender man in LA leads to investigation

By Emily Sawaked
Sports

Strong LGBTQ representation at FIFA Women’s World Cup

By Emily Sawaked
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Health

Mpox cases remain low in New York City

By Emily Sawaked
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Crime

Man robbed in alleged anti-gay attack in Harlem

By Emily Sawaked
A couple at their wedding in Toronto, Canada. An overwhelming majority of Canadians support same-sex marriage.
International

Study outlines support for marriage equality around the world

By Emily Sawaked
Brooklyn Pride's 2021 street festival.
Religion

Survey: Americans opposed to using religion to discriminate

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Arts

  • Lambda Lounge and Club Lambda are owned by 2022 Impact Award winners Charles Hughes and Richard Solomon. Brooklyn-based Club Lambda set to permanently close
  • “Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It," directed by Paris Barclay, opens Feb. 20 at Film Forum. ‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’ charts the rise and fall of a troubled gay musician
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.” The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages

Crime

  • Bomb threats, sent via email, targeted the New York University campus on the morning of Jan. 22, the school announced. Anti-LGBTQ bomb threats target NYU, prompting NYPD to increase security
  • The person suspected of voicing anti-LGBTQ slurs and attacking an individual on a 6 train on Jan. 10. Man suffers anti-LGBTQ subway attack after kissing trans partner: police
  • Police tape surrounds a vehicle after its driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 7, 2026. ‘They killed my wife’: Outrage follows fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
  • Report details allegations of police harassment against LGBTQ New Yorkers
  • President Donald Trump said he commuted George Santos' prison sentence in a Truth Social post.Santos is back with a ‘large slice of humble pie’ following Trump’s commutation

Perspectives

  • The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 10. We will not be erased: Donald Trump’s theft of our Rainbow Flag won’t fly
  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • A banner at the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March. Four decades in, Black communities are still paying the highest price from HIV — and inaction is not an option
  • Mark Milano. Remembering Mark Milano, a committed activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone

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