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Politics

Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban

By Zeke Miller, AP
Lorenzo Van Ness
Guest Perspective

Love and rage: Reflections on Pride Month and the fight for equity in NYC

By Lorenzo Van Ness
Pat Nealon is the founder of Butch Monthly.
New York City

‘Anybody is welcome’: Butch Monthly strikes down stereotypes

By Julia Mitchem 
Crime

The shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes

By Colleen Slevin, AP
Community members enjoy the Juneteenth Block Party Celebration.
New York City

LGBT Center marks Juneteenth with afternoon block party

By Gay City News
Ethan Felson, executive director of A Wider Bridge.
Guest Perspective

Don’t let them take our Pride away

By Ethan Felson
Elected officials and Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC members.
Politics

Stonewall Democrats host annual Pride event

By Gay City News
International

Thailand’s Senate overwhelmingly approves a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriages

By Jintamas Saksornchai, AP
Remembrance

Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer who overcame transgender discrimination, dies at 86

By Ed White, AP
Legal

Judge blocks Biden’s Title IX rule in four states, dealing a blow to protections for LGBTQ+ students

By Collin Binkley, AP 
Gays Against Guns leads an event remembering individuals killed in the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse, an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando.
Activism

New York vigil remembers 49 lives lost at 2016 Pulse shooting

By Gay City News
Randy Mastro.
Guest Perspective

Why I support Randy Mastro for corporation counsel

By Evan Wolfson
Legal

Federal judge throws out Florida law blocking treatment for trans children

By Terry Spencer, AP
The GMHC team at Queens Pride in 2022.
Health

NYC budget cuts threaten critical programs for people living with HIV and AIDS

By Councilmember Erik Bottcher
Pride day 2023. People at the pride parade with LGBTIQ flags celebrating the LGBTIQ rights
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Religion

Pope apologizes after being quoted using anti-gay term in talk about ban on gay priests

By Nicole Winfield, AP
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Arts

  • Sasha Colby With Stripped II, Sasha Colby is turning vulnerability into performance art
  • Camryn Garrett is the author of “The Forgotten Summer of Seneca." Portal to the past: Author Camryn Garrett champions overlooked Black history for young readers
  • Bluestockings Cooperative abruptly closed last month. Bluestockings Cooperative’s abrupt closure sparks internal drama
  • A Lesbian and Transgender Flag Hangs Above a Portrait of Marsha P. Johnson. Gladys Wine & Books: A new space for Black queer femmes in Brooklyn
  • Participating artists (standing left to right) Sharon De La Cruz, Mariela Figueroa, Eliana Falcón-Dvorsky, Ivan Velez, and panel moderator Megami. From ‘cringe’ to celebration: Puerto Rican queer comics take the spotlight

Crime

  • The corner of New Lots Ave. and Vermont St. in Brooklyn is where an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack took place on Oct. 5. Woman hit with a chair in alleged anti-LGBTQ attack in Brooklyn
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Manhattan DA charges man in series of alleged attacks against slain husband
  • Penn Station on Aug. 27, 2025. Lawmakers demand answers from Amtrak after hundreds of arrests at Penn Station men’s bathroom
  • Law enforcement officers set up barriers after a shooting at Annunciation Church, which is also home to an elementary school, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. August 27, 2025. In wake of Minneapolis shooting, White House falsely suggests link between gender-affirming care and violence
  • Convicted rapist of transgender woman in Manhattan walks in handcuffs.Convicted Manhattan rapist gets 12 years in prison, feels wrath of his transgender victim at sentencing hearing

Perspectives

  • The Caribbean Equality Project team at their inaugural gala on Sept. 19. Caribbean Equality Project celebrates a decade of resistance and belonging
  • The right to use the bathroom is increasingly under threat in New York City. Stop the disgraceful attacks on bathrooms
  • Erik Bottcher at his 2021 election night party at The Chelsea Bell. Erik Bottcher is the voice we need in Congress
  • Émilia Decaudin For New York to remain a queer haven, we must build more homes
  • 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

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