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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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Homage: Queer lineages on video presents
Today, noon

Homage: Queer lineages on video
Wallach Art Gallery

A new dark comedy about bugs, strangers
Today, 3 pm

let’s talk about anything else
The Flea Theater

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Today, 7 pm

Verse4Verse: Drag Poetry Show
Dada Bar

Blood Orange, by Abigail Duclos and prod
Today, 7:30 pm

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Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre @ A.R.T./New York Theatres

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Today, 7:30 pm

2025 Boombox Burlesque Festival
Speyer Hall

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Tomorrow, 9 pm

Comedy show: Why Are You Here?
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Out in Tech’s Leadership Institute
Sept. 25, 9 am

Leadership Institute
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The Godwin-Ternbach Museum is pleased to
Sept. 25, 6 pm

Quinceañera: Dress and Memory in Latine Culture
Godwin-Ternbach Museum

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Arts

  • "She Sells Sea Shells," an exhibition at Alice Austen House Museum in Staten, will run until February 21 of next year. She Sells Sea Shells exhibit debuts at Staten Island’s Alice Austen House 
  • Marilyn Oliva, Roberta Degnore, and Anne Maguire stand together against book bans. Activists protest book bans in front of New York Public Library
  • HIV Unwrapped made its US debut at New York Fashion Week on Sept. 13. ‘HIV Unwrapped’ combines science and style for New York Fashion Week
  • Denis Shepherd, Brandon Grimes, and Rafael Silva in "The Compatriots." Q&A: Actors Rafael Silva and Brandon Grimes on their roles in gay immigration film ‘The Compatriots’
  • Ane Dahl Torp, Ella Overbye, and Anne Marit Jacobsen in “Dreams (Sex Love)." ‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ concludes ‘Love Sex Dreams’ trilogy with a sapphic coming-of-age tale

Crime

  • 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
  • U.S. rapper Lil Nas X, alongside his attorney Christy O'Connor, attends his arraignment at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 25, 2025. Lil Nas X charged with four felonies after arrest in Los Angeles
  • The front of a white brick building representing the Middletown Police Department on a sunny day. DA: Middletown man lured Grindr date to his home in brutal stabbing attack
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2025. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes persisted in 2024: FBI data

Perspectives

  • Erik Bottcher at his 2021 election night party at The Chelsea Bell at 316 Eighth Avenue. 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
  • The 2025 NYC Dyke March. Letter to the editor: NYC Dyke March’s policy represents deliberate exclusion rooted in religious and political identity
  • At the Queer Liberation March in 2022. Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity

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