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Club flyers of the past, collected by David Kennerley, encapsulate New York City's LGBTQ nightlife.
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‘Getting In’ captures nostalgia of ’90s gay nightlife in NYC

By Christopher Murray
Actor Elliot Page came out as trans and non-binary in 2020.
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Elliot Page opens up about coming out and new book ‘Page Boy’

By Emily Sawaked
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Q&A: J K Chukwu debut novel finds the joy in survival

By Christopher Murray
Camryn Garrett, a 23-year-old queer Black author, recently came out with "Friday I'm in Love," a novel.
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Author’s book celebrates LGBTQ visibility, identity

By Erasmo Guerra
From L-R, Mickey Mahoney, Lilly Wachowski, Samiya Bashir and Harper Zacharias on the red carpet at the 35th Annual Lambda Literary Awards in New York on Friday June 9, 2023.
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In midtown, glamorous Lammy Awards return to a sense of normalcy

By Michael Luongo
From left to Right: Glory Edim, Kim Coleman Foote, and Sarah Jessica Parker during a May 24 keynote panel at the US Book Show, held at New York University’s Kimmel Center May 22 to 25, 2023.
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LGBTQ themes highlight US Book Show

By Michael Luongo
Mitch Kellaway (right), then the publisher of Transgress Press, with brother Owen at the 2014 Rainbow Book Fair.
Books

Rainbow Book Fair slated to return after two years off

By Matt Tracy
Activist Jason Rosenberg holds up a sign outlining ACT UP's core demand to Simon & Schuster.
Books

ACT UP, GLAAD target Simon & Schuster HQ over ‘AIDS denialism’ book

By Matt Tracy
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Q&A: Author John Irving discusses new novel championing sexual minorities

By Christopher Murray
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New York Family

Non-Fiction Books About the LGBT Community for All Ages

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PEN 100 brings attention to book banning, LGBTQ history

By Michael Luongo
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Smithtown Library reverses ban on Pride displays, books

By Matt Tracy
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All about poppers: Q&A with “Deep Sniff” author Adam Zmith

By Nicholas Boston
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John Weir shares his “impressions of the truth”

By Paul Schindler
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Lammy Nods Highlight Top LGBTQ Books

By Kathleen Warnock
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Peter Staley’s Memoir Leaves Much to Be Desired

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Arts

  • Lambda Lounge and Club Lambda are owned by 2022 Impact Award winners Charles Hughes and Richard Solomon. Brooklyn-based Club Lambda set to permanently close
  • “Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It," directed by Paris Barclay, opens Feb. 20 at Film Forum. ‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’ charts the rise and fall of a troubled gay musician
  • 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

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

  • The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 10. We will not be erased: Donald Trump’s theft of our Rainbow Flag won’t fly
  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • 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

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