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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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ACHILLES IN DRAG & No Follow Up Questions at the Queerly Festival
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Arts

  • Qween Jean holds her Tony award while surrounded by attendees at the "Broadway is Trans" fundraiser. ‘Broadway is Trans’ fundraiser draws theater stars
  • “Something You Should Know About Me” is writer/director Andy Fidoten’s romcom about Al (EJ Marcus) a trans cartoonist with low self-esteem who heads out to a queer comics intensive (not “gay cartoon camp”) with his trans bestie, Jesse (Morgan Sullivan). 16 queer films at this year’s Tribeca Festival
  • “By Hook Or By Crook” opens at Anthology Film Archives June 12. ‘By Hook or By Crook’: A trans breakthrough revived 25 years later
  • Directed by Adam Shankman, "Stop! That! Train!" opens June 12. ‘Stop! That! Train!’ takes a campy ride on the Glamazonian Express
  • Chloe Mar Ramirez joined friends for the Bronx Pride Festival Saturday June, 21 in the South Bronx to dance and celebrate Queer visibility and resistance.Bronx Pride 2026: A guide to LGBTQ+ events across the borough

Crime

  • Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a press conference on August 10, 2023 to announce an indictment in the stabbing death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station. Man convicted of manslaughter in death of O’Shae Sibley
  • sketch of bigot behind lower east side hate crimeCops hunt Lower East Side bigot who beat boy with belt after anti-LGBTQ+ hate tirade
  • A picture shows the late O'Shae Sibley during a demonstration in Brooklyn after he was killed there in an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack. Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
  • suspect in Brooklyn hate crimeBrooklyn hate crime suspect cuffed in the Bronx for fare evasion: cops
  • Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026. Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges

Perspectives

  • Martha Shelley reads to the audience at the LGBT Community Center on Oct. 15, 2023. Past triumphs, present challenges: Reflections on the fight for LGBTQ rights — and what comes next
  • Callen-Lorde staff members. Health equity for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers starts with primary care
  • Andy Humm and Ruth Messinger in the aftermath of the passage of New York City's gay rights bill. Forty years since New Yorkers won gay rights, the fight for justice is more urgent than ever
  • Katie Blum is underscoring the importance of funding to make sure New York's legal system respects transgender individuals when they seek to align their legal documents with their gender identity. Access to justice is essential for transgender New Yorkers — and it depends on the IOLA Fund 
  • 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

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