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Albatross is one of three gay bars in Astoria owned by Nathan Finnegan and Dave Booher participating in Saturday's "Big Queer Scavenger Hunt."

QNS

Astoria gay bars to host ‘Big Queer Scavenger Hunt’ celebrating local small businesses

Founded by Shawn Dixon, Otis & Finn Barbershop has four locations around Long Island City and Brooklyn.

QNS

Five LGBTQ+ owned spots to visit in western Queens during Pride Month

Business

‘Chemistry without chemicals’: Queerity app aims to connect the LGBTQ sober community

By Matt Tracy

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Brooklyn Paper

Queer-owned fitness studio Home.BodyBK defines a new model for inclusive fitness in Park Slope

The Human Rights Campaign's headquarters in Washington, DC.

Business

Human Rights Campaign releases 2025 Corporate Equality Index

By Matt Tracy

Business

Meta guts hateful conduct policy, eliminates DEI programs in sweeping overhaul

By Matt Tracy

Governor Kathy Hochul.

Crime

Hochul vetoes bill designed to protect users of payment apps after murders of gay men

By Matt Tracy

(L-R): Tourism Cares CEO Greg Takehara moderated the panel discussion, “Feeling Seen, Being Heard: The Importance of Inclusivity and Representation,” which brought together The Pathways Project executive director team member Miles Tibbs, Travel Unity Executive Director Roni Weiss, and WorldStrides tour guide AJ Gibson, at TripCon in Brooklyn on November 12, 2024.

Travel

TripCon brings tour and experience professionals to NYC

By Heather Cassell

nglccNY’s new executive director, Barton L. Jackson II.

Business

Barton Jackson takes the reins at nglccNY

By Heather Cassell

Lowe's is one of the companies backing away from its commitments to inclusion in response to public pressure from anti-LGBTQ figures.

Business

More corporations ditch diversity, LGBTQ initiatives amid pressure from right-wing conservatives

By Matt Tracy

WTF Financial Planning event

AMNY

‘WTF’ is the future like? ‘What The Financial!’ event with AARP New York will help you find the road to prosperity

Pride day 2023. People at the pride parade with LGBTIQ flags celebrating the LGBTIQ rights

Business

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Business

GLAAD report gives most social media platforms ‘F’ grade

By Matt Tracy

Pride merchandise on display at a Target store in Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, in May of 2023.

Business

Target plans to limit Pride merchandise again this year

By Matt Tracy

Khane Kutzwell (left) mentors apprentice barber Da’Shawn Scott (right) while touching up the sides on a Fordham Law School student.

Business

A cut above: How a queer, Black, woman-owned barbershop makes space for the LGBTQIA+ community

By Erasmo Guerra

Congressmembers are mounting a bid to protect LGBTQ-owned small businesses.

Business

Democrats reintroduce bill to protect LGBTQ-owned businesses from discrimination

By Matt Tracy

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‘Mixed Emotions’ exhibition at GrowHouse examines pandemic-era grief and growth

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Residents and elected officials rally to reinstate bus stops at East Burnside and Grand Concourse

A man walks past a vintage car ahead of an announcement by Cuba's grid operator UNE that it had reconnected most of the country to the national grid, though millions remained without power as the country struggles to generate even one-third of current demand amid an ongoing U.S. fuel blockade, in Havana, Cuba, July 7, 2026.

CARICOM looks to deliver aid package for Cuba

The CDC says that Cyclosporiasis is a gastrointestinal disease caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora.

Nearly 400 New Yorkers infected with explosive diarrhea-causing parasite, cyclosporiasis. Here’s what health experts say you can do to avoid it.