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Nicole Akoukou Thompson

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Business

17 LGBTQ artists and small business owners to follow on Instagram

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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Inclusive Queer Wedding Venues and Vendors Across America

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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Nightlife

Black Lesbians Open a Queer Haven in Chicago

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles
Features

A Personal World AIDS Day for Billy Porter

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
Kathy Stewart places a ring on the finger of her partner, Vicky Mangus, during a wedding ceremony outside of the Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds office in Charlotte
Love & Marriage

What’s Love Got to Do With Disability Insurance?

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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Remembrance

Remembering Michael K. Williams, Actor and Ally

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Pride

How British Diplomats Are Embracing Pride Month in the US

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
Young girl cheers as she watches 2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York
Advocacy

Guide to Being an Ally

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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“Lesbian Bar Project” Confronts a Diminishing Nightlife Landscape

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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Pride

Family-Friendly LGBTQ Pride Events Across the Nation

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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Cinema

Netflix Chronicles Brazilian Lesbian Couple’s Long-Term Relationship

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
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Television

Jasika Nicole’s Creative Vision

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
Musician Big Freedia arrives at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
Music

Big Freedia’s Pandemic Perseverance

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson
2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party – Arrivals – Beverly Hills
Cinema

LGBTQ Women in Film and TV to Celebrate This Women’s History Month

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Features

How a Pottery Collective Uplifts Formerly Incarcerated LGBTQ Folks

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Fashion

12 Black Queer Brands and Businesses to Support This Year

By Nicole Akoukou Thompson

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Arts

  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.” The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages
  • After gradually rolling out episodes, the full second of "The Boyfriend" is now available on Netflix. A second date with ‘The Boyfriend’: Gay Japanese reality show returns to Netflix for Season 2
  • “Pillion," directed by Harry Lighton, opens Feb. 6th at the Angelika and AMC Lincoln Square. Dom and sub probe the limits of their feelings in ‘Pillion’

Crime

  • 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
  • President Donald Trump said he commuted George Santos' prison sentence in a Truth Social post.Santos is back with a ‘large slice of humble pie’ following Trump’s commutation

Perspectives

  • A banner at the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March. Four decades in, Black communities are still paying the highest price from HIV — and inaction is not an option
  • Mark Milano. Remembering Mark Milano, a committed activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone
  • AIDS Walk New York in 2025. Forty years later, the unequal impact of HIV persists — and we refuse to accept it
  • The Caribbean Equality Project team at their inaugural gala on Sept. 19. Caribbean Equality Project celebrates a decade of resistance and belonging

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