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Heather Cassell

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Advocacy

Protest and resolve mark Creating Change 35 in San Francisco

By Heather Cassell
A new Rainbow Flag was installed at Little Prince hours after the previous flag was set ablaze.
Crime

New Rainbow Flag goes up hours after Manhattan arson; suspect arrested

By Heather Cassell
HRC president Kelley Robinson.
Politics

HRC delivers alarming brief on the state of anti-LGBTQ legislation

By Heather Cassell
Filmmaker Historian Beau Lancaster, who is working on a documentary called “Gay, Black, and Blue: The Raid on Blues Bar.”
Cinema

Gay historian brings attention to 1982 Blues Bar raid

By Heather Cassell
Apartment buildings and streets near Midtown Manhattan.
Real Estate

Winter can be an ideal time to search for an NYC apartment

By Heather Cassell
The Lesbian Herstory Archives' building in Park Slope.
History

Community welcomes Lesbian Herstory Archives’ Brooklyn landmark

By Heather Cassell
Grotto founder Austa Somvichian-Clausen, left, with her girlfriend, Victoria “Tori” Geddes, right, enjoying cocktails and an intimate moment at the Ludlow House, Grotto’s host, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Food

Inside the queer dinner parties popping up across New York City

By Heather Cassell
Jordan Taylor
Crime

NYC law student disappears near LGBTQ nightclub

By Heather Cassell
Jennifer-Pizer
Legal

Lambda Legal looks to the future under Jennifer Pizer

By Heather Cassell
Opening of Housing Works Cannabis Co, the First Recreational Cannabis Dispensary in New York
Business

Crowds flock to New York’s first cannabis dispensary

By Heather Cassell
Tour de Forks guests prepping shrimp.
Food

Lesbian-owned food travel company celebrates 20 years

By Heather Cassell
Ceyenne Doroshow
Real Estate

Trans folks face challenges on road to homeownership

By Heather Cassell
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
Crime

Arrests announced in Manhattan nightlife robbery and drugging cases

By Heather Cassell
GMHC staffer Donna Pine, background, and GMHC Director of Nutrition and Meals Grace Holihen, foreground, pack grocery bags for community members.
Food

Food pantries serving queer New Yorkers during the holidays

By Heather Cassell
Daniel Aston, left, and Wyatt Kent as drag queen Potted Plant, right.
Crime

Club Q shooting survivors, heroes speak out

By Heather Cassell
Attendees dine during Shabbat on Deck.
Food

Uniting young Jewish New Yorkers through queer Shabbat

By Heather Cassell
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Arts

  • “The Serpent’s Skin," directed by Alice Maio Mackay, opens March 27 at the Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn. Q&A: Trans filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay on her horror film ‘Serpent’s Skin’
  • “Alpha," directed by Julia Ducournau, opens March 27th at IFC Center. In ‘Alpha,’ a French family confronts a deadly, mysterious virus
  • “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

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

  • 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
  • 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

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