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Nicole Akoukou Thompson

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Business

17 LGBTQ artists and small business owners to follow on Instagram

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Inclusive Queer Wedding Venues and Vendors Across America

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Nightlife

Black Lesbians Open a Queer Haven in Chicago

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The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles
Features

A Personal World AIDS Day for Billy Porter

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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

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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

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“Lesbian Bar Project” Confronts a Diminishing Nightlife Landscape

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Family-Friendly LGBTQ Pride Events Across the Nation

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Cinema

Netflix Chronicles Brazilian Lesbian Couple’s Long-Term Relationship

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Television

Jasika Nicole’s Creative Vision

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Musician Big Freedia arrives at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles
Music

Big Freedia’s Pandemic Perseverance

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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

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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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