Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • Jobs
  • News
    • All
    • Arts
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
    • Local Events
    • Post an Event
    • Business Events
    • Games
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • Jobs
  • News
    • All
    • Arts
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
    • Local Events
    • Post an Event
    • Business Events
    • Games
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
Gay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New YorkGay City News: Serving gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender New York
  • News
  • All
  • Arts
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Perspectives
  • Things to Do
  • Local Events
  • Post an Event
  • Business Events
  • Games
  • Jobs
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts

Features

Kevin Theriault, executive director of the Key West LGBTQ Visitor’s Center.
Travel

Explore the Florida Keys on a road trip to queer Key West

By Heather Cassell
Sports

NHL issues ban on players using Pride tape on the ice

By Stephen Whyno, AP
James Jorden, 1954-2023.
Remembrance

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

By Paul Schindler
Religion

Pope Francis considers blessing same-sex unions, drawing reaction from LGBTQ Catholics

By Dashiell Allen
Remembrance

Dianne Feinstein, LGBTQ ally and longtime senator, dies at 90

By Dashiell Allen
Maybelle Blair with Mets' co-owner Alex Cohen.
Sports

Mets honor lesbian baseball legend Maybelle Blair

By Matt Tracy
Donna Smith, Barbara Love's wife, speaks during the memorial at the LGBT Community Center.
Remembrance

Friends and activists remember Barbara Love at LGBT Center

By Matt Tracy
Sports

Carl Nassib, NFL’s first out gay player, announces retirement

By Matt Tracy
Members of Rainbow Hieghts Club at 25 Elm Place in Brooklyn.
Health

Rainbow Heights Club combats mental health crisis with peer support

By Emily Sawaked
Make the trip to Jersey City this weekend to celebrate Pride.
Pride

Jersey City Pride to feature festival, march, and entertainment

By Emily Sawaked
Sports

Sha’Carri Richardson scores comeback victory to win 100-meter title

By Emily Sawaked
Former professional tennis player Rennae Stubbs, Stonewall Inn co-owner Stacy Lentz, US Tennis Association chief of diversity, inclusion and equity Marisa Grimes, and Stonewall Inn co-owner Kurt Kelly.
Sports

US Open designated as an LGBTQ safe space

By Matt Tracy
Sports

Megan Rapinoe leaves her final Women’s World Cup with pride after a long career

By Anne M. Peterson, AP
Remembrance

Ballroom icon Carmen Xtravaganza dies at 62

By Emily Sawaked
Cheri Pies died in July at the age of 73.
Remembrance

Cheri Pies, trailblazer for lesbian mothers, dies at 73

By Emily Sawaked
Lee Soulja-Simmons, the leader of NYC Black Pride, pauses for a picture during NYC Black Pride's 2022 beach event.
Pride

NYC Black Pride festivities slated for Aug. 16-20

By Emily Sawaked

Posts navigation

Older
Newer

Jobs in New York

Add your job

  • Breaking GroundProperty Manager
  • 3P StaffingTailor / Seamstress
  • Telus DigitalContent Reviewer US

View all jobs…

LGBTQ+ events in NYC

Post an Event

The Arkell Museum presents a solo exhibi
Tomorrow, 8 am

Artist Fernando Carpaneda Inaugurates Solo Exhibition at the Arkell Museum
Arkell Museum

OUT/PLAY has announced the New York City
Tomorrow, all day

The Homosexuals
The Studio Theater at 520 8th Ave

Target Margin Theater’s anchor pro
Tomorrow, 7:30 pm

This is Real
Target Margin Theater

From the creators of “Brag Drunch,” one
Tomorrow, 8 pm

SHE ATE! The Drag Dinner Experience
Branded Saloon

Southern Brooklyn’s only weekly drag sho
Tomorrow, 8 pm

All-Ages RuPaul’s Drag Race Watch Party in Coney Island
The Red Doors Bar and Grill

After being heavily mocked online by Sta
April 4, 2 pm

Revenge of the Soy Boy
Under St Marks

Relive the best dance music of the 90s a
April 4, 4 pm

Pantheon: A Classic Queer Dance Party
3 Dollar Bill

Trans Voices Cabaret returns with a bran
April 5, 5 pm

Trans Voices Cabaret at Caveat
Caveat

View All Events…

Sign up for our regular & breaking news updates.

Subscribe

Arts

  • New Directors/New Films will showcase out gay actor and writer John Early’s arch feature directorial debut, “Maddie’s Secret” Several queer films set to screen at 55th annual New Directors/‌New Films festival
  • “The Serpent’s Skin," directed by Alice Maio Mackay, opens March 27 at the Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn. Q&A: Trans filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay on her horror film ‘Serpent’s Skin’
  • “Alpha," directed by Julia Ducournau, opens March 27th at IFC Center. In ‘Alpha,’ a French family confronts a deadly, mysterious virus
  • “Dakan” (aka “Destiny”), the first queer film from West Africa, will be available virtually nationwide March 26-30. Queering the Canon festival set to showcase seven classic LGBTQ films
  • HOMAGE 1 (HOMENAJE 1), 2026. Beauty and the Bestial: Exhibition confronts the ugly truths of Fire Island’s past and present

Crime

  • Aljo Mrkulic was sentenced for murdering Christopher Rodriguez, assaulting cops, and setting an apartment ablaze in 2020 at the Acacia Gardens affordable housing complex, which is located at 409 E. 120th St. in Harlem. Queens man sentenced for killing partner, assaulting cops in 2020 arson case
  • 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

Perspectives

  • 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
  • The Harlem United team on National HIV Testing Day in 2025. Confronting the unequal burden of HIV and AIDS on women of color: Equity cannot wait
  • Bringing awareness to the nationwide attacks on trans youth. In dangerous waters, LGBTQ youth need our support now

LGBTQ+ events in NYC

New York’s Job Board

More from Around NYC

comedyafterdark
Brooklyn Paper

Late-night laughs: Stand-up comedy returns to Williamsburg’s Kellogg’s Diner after yearlong hiatus

20250620_131518
Bronx Times

NYPD officer fatally shoots Mott Haven man during attempted arrest

Gov. Gen. Dr. Rodney Errey Lawrence Williams.
Caribbean Life

Antigua’s parliament dissolved ahead of general elections

Grey bunny rabbit looking frontward to viewer, Little bunny sitting on white desk, Lovely pet for children and family.
AMNY

8 reasons not to give rabbits as Easter pets this year

  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Networking Events
  • Advertise
  • © Gay City News 2026. Schneps Media
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Sections
  • Jobs
  • Games
  • Events
  • Contact