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Michael Luongo

Drag personas Lisa Renee and Karma Sutara.
Travel

LGBTQ pavilion returns to New York Travel & Adventure Show

By Michael Luongo
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Books

PEN 100 brings attention to book banning, LGBTQ history

By Michael Luongo
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New York City

Summertime conversations about incarceration and intersectionality

By Michael Luongo
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Pride

Bronx Pride Festival shines through the rain

By Michael Luongo
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International

Shouting about LGBTQ refugees from the rooftop

By Michael Luongo
Pride

Beautiful skies, Planned Parenthood lead Pride Sunday

By Michael Luongo
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International

OutRight Action International hosts glamorous Pride Gala

By Michael Luongo
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Galleries

Exhibit documents global legacy of Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Flag

By Michael Luongo
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Travel

LGBTQ Community in Focus at New York Travel & Adventure Show

By Michael Luongo
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Books

Queer Palestinians: Forging a New Paradigm

By Michael Luongo
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Pride

Pride Marches Through the Years

By Donna Aceto & Michael Luongo
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New York City

At Purim, Esther’s Coming Out Story

By Michael Luongo
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Galleries

More Popular at the Met than on Grindr

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Wig Out Wednesdays : Drag Queen Bingo in NYC
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Summer LGBT Dance Social with Brooklyn Contra
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The High and Mighty Brass Band is an ele
Aug. 14, 7 pm

Queens Jazz Trail Concert: High & Mighty Brass Band
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Before there was OnlyFans… In 1980
Aug. 14, 8 pm

Chain NYC Film Festival — Lovebug
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It’s All About the (S)ex By Joe Ma
Aug. 15, 3 pm

It’s All About the (S)ex!
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Join us for a night of comedy that
Aug. 15, 7 pm

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Meet Carol Anne from “Mommie Deare
Aug. 15, 8 pm

Chain NYC Film Festival — Land of the Mustaches
Chain Theatre

Short films and documentaries from emerg
Aug. 16, 2 pm

Chain NYC Film Festival — LGBTQIA+ Block
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Arts

  • “Went Up the Hill,” directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, opens Aug. 15 at the IFC Center. Q&A: Filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven on the making of queer ghost story ‘Went Up The Hill’
  • Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins, at Stage 422 at 422 W. 42nd St., runs through the end of the month in New York City. The great escape: ‘Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins’ takes New York
  • Ethel Cain's “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” debuted August 8. August LGBTQ music: Ethel Cain and Water From Your Eyes
  • Morgan Bassichis in "Can I Be Frank?" ‘Can I Be Frank?’: Solo show honors a comic queer pioneer
  • A man and a woman's faces are close together in a black and white scene in “Who Killed Teddy Bear," directed by Joseph Cates, opens Aug. 8 at the Film Forum. “Who Killed Teddy Bear,” dramatic thriller starring out actor Sal Mineo, screening at Film Forum

Crime

  • 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
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Man arrested after husband’s gruesome stabbing death in Manhattan
  • Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village. Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD
  • Police officers in NYPD vests examine scene where person was shotTwo men shot near Harlem gay bar; shooter remains at large, cops say
  • Man in suit looks at crime scene with blood and napkins on sidewalkStonewall shooting: Two teen girls shot near historic Village inn during Pride celebrations

Perspectives

  • 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
  • A picture depicting the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV prior to his election is displayed as Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfan Cordova speaks during a press conference, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025. Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues
  • Carmen Hernandez. Patients and employers pay more as healthcare conglomerates profit from federal program meant to serve vulnerable communities

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