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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.

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

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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