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Heather Cassell

Queer travelers enjoying a meal together at Maroma by Belmond in Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Mexico.
Travel

Brooklyn-based company launches vacation packages for LGBTQ travelers

By Heather Cassell
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and then-Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell at a 2023 press conference about deadly robberies targeting gay men.
Crime

Latest drugging suspect arraigned for Ramirez and Umberger murders

By Heather Cassell
Lesbian Avengers at the Alice Austen Action demonstrating for the museum to recognize early 20th century photographer Alice Austin’s 30-year relationship Gertrude Tate in front of the Alice Austin House on Staten Island in 1994.
History

The legacy of the ‘feisty’ and ‘fire eating’ Lesbian Avengers

By Heather Cassell
Brad Hoylman-Sigal at a demonstration denouncing anti-LGBTQ appointments by Mayor Eric Adams.
Education

Hoylman-Sigal calls on state inspector general to investigate Yeshiva University

By Heather Cassell
John Umberger, 33, was found dead in May of 2022 after leaving The Q, a gay nightclub.
Crime

Indictments, but no arrests yet, in gay nightlife deaths

By Heather Cassell
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield
International

US-led coalition urges United Nations Security Council to protect LGBTQ people in war and peace

By Heather Cassell
The now-shuttered Hell's kitchen nightclub known as The Q.
Nightlife

The Q, troubled Hell’s Kitchen queer nightclub, apparently shutters

By Heather Cassell
Patrons discuss Craig Anthony Miller’s (aka CAM) artwork on the wall from their bar stool at Superfine’s sunken bar in September 2022.
Food

Brooklyn’s queer-owned Superfine restaurant blends art, food, and music

By Heather Cassell
Marriage equality is rising to the fore in India's Supreme Court.
International

India’s Supreme Court hears marriage equality case, sends to five-judge bench

By Heather Cassell
Yeshiva University's latest move in its fight against the YU Pride Alliance has drawn a response from multiple state lamwakers.
Legal

Pols blast Yeshiva University for demanding personal information from LGBTQ club members

By Heather Cassell
HRC president Kelley Robinson.
National

HRC’s Robinson marks 100 days with ‘unrelenting commitment’ to fight

By Heather Cassell
Out gay Congressmember Mark Pocan of Wisconsin is pushing for a new national museum for the LGBTQ community in Washington, DC.
Politics

GOP-led House committee passes federal ban on trans student-athletes

By Heather Cassell
Brooklyn Councilmember Brad Lander is urging Yeshiva University to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, a student group on campus.
Education

City comptroller calls on Yeshiva University to recognize queer student group

By Heather Cassell
A picture of John Umberger.
Crime

Medical examiner declares two gay men died by drug-facilitated homicides

By Heather Cassell
A photo of the late Achebe Betty Powell.
Remembrance

Former Task Force board co-chair Achebe Betty Powell dies at 82

By Heather Cassell
Advocates demonstrate on a sunny day in DC.
International

Immigration advocates urge Biden to reconsider asylum policy

By Heather Cassell
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Arts

  • Galina Jovovich and Anna Baryshnikov in "Idiotka." Affable satire ‘Idiotka’ coasts by on its charm
  • 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

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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