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International

International

A Greek novelist and a lawyer are the first same-sex couple to wed at Athens city hall

By Theodora Tongas and Michael Varaklas
International

Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage

By Nicholas Paphitis, AP
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban visited Dubai after members of the department's emergency services unit traveled there earlier this year.
International

NYPD competed with anti-LGBTQ Chechen authorities in Dubai

By Matt Tracy
International

Thailand’s LGBTQ community hopeful about marriage equality bill

By Jerry Harmer and Jintamas Saksornchai, AP
International

RUSA LGBTQ+ blasts Russian Supreme Court ruling outlawing ‘LGBTQ movement’

By Matt Tracy
International

Mexico’s LGBTQ community mourns death of first non-binary magistrate

By Dashiell Allen
Members of New Ways Ministry meeting with Pope Francis. From left to right: Matthew Myers, Francis DeBernardo, Sister Jeannine Gramick and Robert Shine.
Religion

LGBTQ Catholics meet with Pope Francis during month-long church gathering

By Dashiell Allen
Murvin, 33, left Jamaica for the United States last year.
International

Gay Jamaican immigrant navigates ‘hectic and scary’ quest for asylum in New York City

By Matt Tracy
International

Japan’s top court strikes down required sterilization surgery to officially change gender

By Mari Yamaguchi, AP
International

‘Barbie’ rollout mixed in Middle East

By Emily Sawaked
International

World Bank halts lending to Uganda over anti-LGBTQ law

By Emily Sawaked
A couple at their wedding in Toronto, Canada. An overwhelming majority of Canadians support same-sex marriage.
International

Study outlines support for marriage equality around the world

By Emily Sawaked
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International

Italian prime minister targets LGBTQ families

By Emily Sawaked
Pride in Copenhagen, Denmark.
International

Long-term Danish study finds trans people experience higher suicide, mortality rates

By Emily Sawaked
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics.
International

Latvia swears in first openly gay president

By Emily Sawaked
Nepal is the second country in Asia to establish marriage equality.
Legal

Nepal’s Supreme Court orders government to recognize marriage equality

By Emily Sawaked

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Homage: Queer lineages on video presents
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Homage: Queer lineages on video
Wallach Art Gallery

For the first time, The Heckscher Museum
Tomorrow, noon

All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection
Heckscher Museum of Art

Get ready to close out summer in true tr
Tomorrow, 4 pm

Dia de Sol : End of Summer Brazilian Fest
Bar 47

It’s All About the (S)ex By Joe Ma
Tomorrow, 8 pm

It’s All About the (S)ex!
BACCA Arts Center

Musicians that were at the heart of the
Tomorrow, 9 pm

Brooklyn Musical Legends Reunite for One Night Show
Sunset Stoop

Come together to learn and take action!
Aug. 17, 6 pm

Reproductive Freedom Summer 2025
Virtual via Zoom

JB Theatricals is thrilled to present th
Aug. 17, 6:30 pm

U.S. Premiere of Campy, Queer Comedy UNSEX’d
Under St Marks

Verse4Verse is New York’s only dra
Aug. 17, 7 pm

Verse4Verse: Drag Poetry Show
Dada Bar

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Arts

  • Upon entering Oberon, patrons are greeted by a collection of mirrors and a sign introducing the space. Oberon, a new queer cocktail bar, opens in Williamsburg 
  • “Went Up the Hill,” directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, opens Aug. 15 at the IFC Center. Q&A: Filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven on the making of queer ghost story ‘Went Up The Hill’
  • Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins, at Stage 422 at 422 W. 42nd St., runs through the end of the month in New York City. The great escape: ‘Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins’ takes New York
  • Ethel Cain's “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” debuted August 8. August LGBTQ music: Ethel Cain and Water From Your Eyes
  • Morgan Bassichis in "Can I Be Frank?" ‘Can I Be Frank?’: Solo show honors a comic queer pioneer

Crime

  • The front of a white brick building representing the Middletown Police Department on a sunny day. DA: Middletown man lured Grindr date to his home in brutal stabbing attack
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2025. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes persisted in 2024: FBI data
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Man arrested after husband’s gruesome stabbing death in Manhattan
  • Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village. Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD
  • Police officers in NYPD vests examine scene where person was shotTwo men shot near Harlem gay bar; shooter remains at large, cops say

Perspectives

  • Ronald Porcelli is the director of the NYC Unity Project. How the NYC Unity Project’s Family Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth Initiative heals families and saves LGBTQ+ lives
  • The 2025 NYC Dyke March. Letter to the editor: NYC Dyke March’s policy represents deliberate exclusion rooted in religious and political identity
  • At the Queer Liberation March in 2022. Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity
  • 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. Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues
  • Carmen Hernandez. Patients and employers pay more as healthcare conglomerates profit from federal program meant to serve vulnerable communities

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