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Heather Cassell

Attendees at the Task Force's 1977 meeting, clockwise from center: Midge Costanza, Robert Maulsom, Jean O'Leary, William Kelley, Achebe Betty Powell, Charles Brydon, Charlotte Spitzer, Myra Riddell, Cooki Lutkefedder, Ray Hartman, Pokey Anderson, George Raya, Frank Kameny, Reverend Troy Perry, Charlotte Bunch, Elaine Noble, Bruce Voeller, and Marilyn Haft.
History

National LGBTQ Task Force marks 50 years

By Heather Cassell
Kevin Theriault, executive director of the Key West LGBTQ Visitor’s Center.
Travel

Explore the Florida Keys on a road trip to queer Key West

By Heather Cassell
Customers shopping at Housing Works Cannabis Co.’s 1 Astor Place store in New York City.
Business

Housing Works’ cannabis dispensary posts $12 million in sales in first six months

By Heather Cassell
Christian Cooper is the focus of the show "Extaordinary Birder" on National Geographic.
New York City

‘Extraordinary Birder’ Christian Cooper spreads his wings in the spotlight

By Heather Cassell
Anthony Nicodemo at the Gay City News Impact Awards in 2017.
Sports

Gay coach stands up for trans athletes, denounces anti-LGBTQ bills

By Heather Cassell
Soccer player Sivan Kotler-Berkowitz is standing up for trans athletes across the country.
Arts

Trans teen sets a positive example for young athletes

By Heather Cassell
The "Sakia, Sakia, Sakia, Sakia" mural along the McCarter Highway painted by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh in memory of Sakia Gunn in 2016 as a part of the Newark Downtown District’s Gateways to Newark initiative, “Portraits.”

Newark remembers Sakia Gunn 20 years after her murder

By Heather Cassell
Kristi Ambrosetti is a senior global real estate advisor and associate broker at Sotheby's International Realty.
Real Estate

A smart, savvy broker is key to a new NYC home

By Heather Cassell
Research shows LGBTQ people lag behind in the home-buying process.
Real Estate

Despite assistance, LGBTQ first-time homebuyers lag behind

By Heather Cassell
Data from the start-up rental platform’s lease renewals and reports from New York City renters in the past three months are showing the usual pre-COVID-19 seasonal market pattern is emerging.
Real Estate

NYC rental market returning to pre-COVID landscape

By Heather Cassell
One of Manhattan’s and the country’s top real estate brokers Jared Seligman, associate broker at The Corcoran Group.
Real Estate

Broker Jared Seligman on his career and marriage

By Heather Cassell
(Left to right) Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil’s husband, DeAndre Richardson, Prince Manvendra, Rhea, and Sasheis at the LGBTQI Community Ashram in Rajpipla, in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Travel

India has everything queer travelers want

By Heather Cassell
The former nightclub known as The Q, which was located at 795 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan, closed in 2023.
Nightlife

Gay nightlife promoter speaks out amid legal fallout over The Q nightclub

By Heather Cassell
Petr Prokopik, owner and tour guide of Prague4Gay, in front of Czech sculptor David Černý's “Pissing Men” in front of the Franz Kafka Museum in Lower Town in Prague, Czechia.
Travel

Prague offers a lively queer experience

By Heather Cassell
A Tour of Her Own tour guide Ella Schiralli, left, and TOHO founder and president Kaitlin Calogera, right, walk across the rainbow crosswalk in Dupont Circle.
Travel

LGBTQ travel: Explore Washington, DC

By Heather Cassell
Built at the direction of Louis XIV, Place Vendôme is now home to Paris’s luxury brands, such as Louis Vuitton, Coco Chanel, among others.
Travel

Queer Paris: Take a trip to the City of Lights

By Heather Cassell
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The Arkell Museum presents a solo exhibi
Today, 8 am

Artist Fernando Carpaneda Inaugurates Solo Exhibition at the Arkell Museum
Arkell Museum

Target Margin Theater’s anchor pro
Today, 7:30 pm

This is Real
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Where are the stories of great queer lov
Tomorrow, 7 pm

People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust
Center for Jewish History

Active Aging Workshops at the Ailey Stud
March 24, 1 pm

Active Aging Workshops
Ailey Extension

Rough day at work? Stuff to celebrate? N
March 24, 6:30 pm

$5 Drinks At Drag Show Happy Hour
Phoenix Bar

Wanna win a $50 bar tab and show your sm
March 24, 8 pm

Queer Trivia Extravaganza @ Good Judy
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Join us for a special fiction reading by
March 25, 7 pm

A Fiction Reading by Min Jin Lee
LeFrak Concert Hall

Join us at the Gene Frankel Theatre for
March 25, 8 pm

Indelible
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Arts

  • “Dakan” (aka “Destiny”), the first queer film from West Africa, will be available virtually nationwide March 26-30. Queering the Canon festival set to showcase seven classic LGBTQ films
  • HOMAGE 1 (HOMENAJE 1), 2026. Beauty and the Bestial: Exhibition confronts the ugly truths of Fire Island’s past and present
  • Ignorance = Fear _ Silence = Death by Keith Haring, 1989 copyright © Keith Haring Foundation, Poster House Collection. The visual fight: How posters chronicled NYC’s AIDS crisis
  • Angelo Madsen is the director of "A Body to Live In." Q&A: Trans director Angelo Madsen on Fakir Musafar and ‘A Body to Live In’
  • Anjimile's “You’re Free To Go” debuts March 13. March LGBTQ music: Morrissey’s ‘Make-up Is a Lie’ and Anjimile’s ‘You’re Free To Go’

Crime

  • Aljo Mrkulic was sentenced for murdering Christopher Rodriguez, assaulting cops, and setting an apartment ablaze in 2020 at the Acacia Gardens affordable housing complex, which is located at 409 E. 120th St. in Harlem. Queens man sentenced for killing partner, assaulting cops in 2020 arson case
  • 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

Perspectives

  • The Harlem United team on National HIV Testing Day in 2025. Confronting the unequal burden of HIV and AIDS on women of color: Equity cannot wait
  • Bringing awareness to the nationwide attacks on trans youth. In dangerous waters, LGBTQ youth need our support now
  • 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

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