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Paul Schindler

Paul Schindler is the founding editor of Gay City News.

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Michigan’s half-dozen-year progressive arc

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Sean Meloy, and Mayor Annise Parker of the Victory Fund.
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All out for LGBTQ candidates nationwide

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Leo Murrieta, director of Make the Road Action – Nevada.
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What happens in Vegas… matters!

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Georgia dreams: another blue peach autumn harvest?

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Malcolm Kenyatta and Cathy Renna.
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Philly Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta’s statewide candidacy; The Task Force in Pittsburgh

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Pennsylvania, part 1: Voter-rich Greater Philadelphia

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Patrick Egan and Victoria Kirby York
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MAGA mucks with polling; 2024 Priorities for LGBTQ Black voters

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Doomscroll and fret… or roll up your sleeves and dive in

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“Talk It OUT: LGBTQ Voices In A Queer Election Year" launches on Wed., May 29.
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Hear from LGBTQ voices in a queer election year

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James Jorden, 1954-2023.
Remembrance

James Jorden, iconoclastic queer opera critic, Gay City News contributor, dead at 69

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Remembrance

David Carter, masterful Stonewall chronicler, remembered at the iconic bar

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Nepali filmmaker and LGBTQI activist Sunil Babu Pant stands in front of mountains.
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Nepal’s Sunil Pant, LGBTQI activist, filmmaker, focuses on ‘forced marriage’

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Perspectives

In a troubled time, Warnock victory inspires and informs us

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Could LGBTQ voters make the difference in Ana María Archila’s lieutenant governor bid?

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John Weir shares his “impressions of the truth”

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Samy Nemir Olivares’ Assembly challenge to incumbent Erik Dilan

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SoMad presents Life is Drag — A landmark
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Join us on October 23rd for a special ed
Today, 6:30 pm

Lesbian Lives Opening Program
The New School, The Auditorium, Room A10 Alvin Johnson/A. M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12 Street, New York City

TARRYTOWN is a haunting queer, modern re
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TARRYTOWN – The legend of Sleepy Hollow, a new musical
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Benny & the JettsOpening October 202
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Benny & the JettsOpening October 202
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Get ready to witness an unforgettable ni
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Superstar Open Set
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Join us for Friday’s Lesbian Lives plena
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Responding to Authoritarianism
Proshansky Auditorium at the Graduate Center 365 5th Ave New York New York

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Under the Rainbow @ The United Solo Festival
Theatre Row, 410 W 42nd Street, NY, NY

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Arts

  • Sasha Colby With Stripped II, Sasha Colby is turning vulnerability into performance art
  • Camryn Garrett is the author of “The Forgotten Summer of Seneca." Portal to the past: Author Camryn Garrett champions overlooked Black history for young readers
  • Bluestockings Cooperative abruptly closed last month. Bluestockings Cooperative’s abrupt closure sparks internal drama
  • A Lesbian and Transgender Flag Hangs Above a Portrait of Marsha P. Johnson. Gladys Wine & Books: A new space for Black queer femmes in Brooklyn
  • Participating artists (standing left to right) Sharon De La Cruz, Mariela Figueroa, Eliana Falcón-Dvorsky, Ivan Velez, and panel moderator Megami. From ‘cringe’ to celebration: Puerto Rican queer comics take the spotlight

Crime

  • The corner of New Lots Ave. and Vermont St. in Brooklyn is where an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack took place on Oct. 5. Woman hit with a chair in alleged anti-LGBTQ attack in Brooklyn
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Manhattan DA charges man in series of alleged attacks against slain husband
  • Penn Station on Aug. 27, 2025. Lawmakers demand answers from Amtrak after hundreds of arrests at Penn Station men’s bathroom
  • Law enforcement officers set up barriers after a shooting at Annunciation Church, which is also home to an elementary school, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. August 27, 2025. In wake of Minneapolis shooting, White House falsely suggests link between gender-affirming care and violence
  • Convicted rapist of transgender woman in Manhattan walks in handcuffs.Convicted Manhattan rapist gets 12 years in prison, feels wrath of his transgender victim at sentencing hearing

Perspectives

  • The Caribbean Equality Project team at their inaugural gala on Sept. 19. Caribbean Equality Project celebrates a decade of resistance and belonging
  • The right to use the bathroom is increasingly under threat in New York City. Stop the disgraceful attacks on bathrooms
  • Erik Bottcher at his 2021 election night party at The Chelsea Bell. Erik Bottcher is the voice we need in Congress
  • Émilia Decaudin For New York to remain a queer haven, we must build more homes
  • 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

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