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Pride

Guide to Pride Month in NYC: 25 events, parties, and marches in June

By Matt Tracy

Randy Wicker (left) and Steven Love Menendez Raising the Rainbow Flag on federal land at the Stonewall National Monument.

Pride

Rainbow Flags hoisted near Stonewall to mark Pride Month

By Matt Tracy

“We will not give up until Andry is freed from that prison in El Salvador,” said former City Councilmember Daniel Dromm, referring to Andry Hernández Romero, a gay Venezuelan asylum seeker who was deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Pride

Queens kicks off Pride Month with ‘defiant joy’

By Dashiell Allen

Fans enjoy Pride Night at Citi Field in 2023.

Pride

New York City’s pro sports teams gear up for Pride Month

By Matt Tracy

The Hetrick Martin Institute's team at Queens Pride in 2023.

Pride

Look ahead to Pride in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island

By Matt Tracy

Heritage of Pride's banner leads the 2024 NYC Pride march.

Pride

NYC Pride loses sponsors, scales back events amid DEI backlash

By Matt Tracy

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Brooklyn Paper

T4T celebrates three years of transgender comedy, creating safe spaces at the Bell House

A picture depicting the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV prior to his election is displayed as Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfan Cordova speaks during a press conference, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025.

Religion

Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues

By Michael Luongo

The lead banner of the 2025 Brighton Beach Pride March in Brooklyn.

Pride

‘No Hate, No Fear’: Qaravan hosts ninth annual Brighton Beach Pride

By Amy Schatz

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.

Religion

Queer Catholics cautiously welcome Pope Leo XIV

By Matt Tracy

The Reclaim Pride Coalition's 2024 Queer Liberation March banner.

Pride

Reclaim Pride Coalition announces 2025 Queer Liberation March route

By Matt Tracy

The State Capitol building in Albany.

Politics

New York State Senate committee approves anti-trans sports bill

By Matt Tracy

The Kingsboro Temple of Seventh-day Adventist placed two small flyers on the gates outside the temple and its office on 7th Street in Park Slope announcing that the Watoto Children’s Choir will perform at the temple on May 3.

Religion

Brooklyn church to host Ugandan children’s choir linked to ‘kill the gays’ bill

By Duncan Osborne

Nanette Kazaoka at an ACT UP demonstration.

Nanette Kazaoka, an unlikely AIDS activist, dies at 83

By Kelly Kochendorfer

Pope Francis turned heads early on with his famous quote, “If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?” But what came of it?

Religion

Pope Francis brought a change in tone, but not in substance

By Andy Humm

Marti Gould Cummings fires up the audience at a demonstration near Stonewall in February.

Pride

NYC Pride announces five grand marshals for 2025

By Matt Tracy

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