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Health

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Monkeypox vaccine appointments opening up in NYC August 13

By Matt Tracy
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Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus introduces legislative package to fight monkeypox

By Matt Tracy
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UN report: Fight against HIV/AIDS slowed during pandemic

By Matt Tracy
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US declares public health emergency due to monkeypox outbreak

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Gillibrand calls on Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for more monkeypox vaccines

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Biden announces monkeypox response team

By Matt Tracy
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New York City declares public health emergency due to monkeypox outbreak

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‘Disaster emergency’ declaration for monkeypox gives New York greater ability to respond to outbreak: Hochul

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New York receiving 110k new monkeypox vaccine doses

By Matt Tracy
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FDA approves nearly 800,000 monkeypox vaccine doses

By Matt Tracy
Activists show frustration over the government's response to mpox on July 22, 2022.
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Activists escalate pressure on government over monkeypox response

By Matt Tracy
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New York City receives 26,000 more doses of monkeypox vaccine

By Matt Tracy
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Monkeypox outbreak impacts parties in New York

By Duncan Osborne
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Monkeypox vaccines reserved quickly as city moves to prioritize first doses

By Matt Tracy
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NYC announces more monkeypox vaccination sites, appointments

By Matt Tracy
New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan at the Health Department's offices in Long Island City, Queens, during a 2022 interview with Gay City News.
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City health commissioner discusses New York’s response to monkeypox

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Arts

  • 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
  • After gradually rolling out episodes, the full second of "The Boyfriend" is now available on Netflix. A second date with ‘The Boyfriend’: Gay Japanese reality show returns to Netflix for Season 2
  • “Pillion," directed by Harry Lighton, opens Feb. 6th at the Angelika and AMC Lincoln Square. Dom and sub probe the limits of their feelings in ‘Pillion’
  • Nicole Titus at The Winter Show's Young Collectors Night at the Park Avenue Armory. Young guns having some fun at The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory
  • Sophie Hyde's “Jimpa” opens Feb. 5th at the Quad. Generations clash and come together in ‘Jimpa’

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

  • 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
  • AIDS Walk New York in 2025. Forty years later, the unequal impact of HIV persists — and we refuse to accept it
  • The Caribbean Equality Project team at their inaugural gala on Sept. 19. Caribbean Equality Project celebrates a decade of resistance and belonging

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