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International

Pride in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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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
Estonia's parliament building, where lawmakers voted to legalize same-sex marriage.
International

Estonia becomes first former Soviet nation to legalize same-sex marriage

By Emily Sawaked
Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, and Blu Del Barrio of "Star Trek: Discovery" receive the Outspoken Award during the Outright International Courage Awards on June 5, 2023.
International

Outright International’s NYC fundraiser generates $1 million

By Michael Luongo
International

Uganda’s president signs into law anti-gay legislation with death penalty in some cases

By Rodney Muhumuza
Beyonce Karungi speaks in front of Uganda House.
International

From New York, advocates condemn Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ bill

By Matt Tracy & Adrian Childress
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield
International

US-led coalition urges United Nations Security Council to protect LGBTQ people in war and peace

By Heather Cassell
International

Uganda’s legislature passes harsh new anti-LGBTQ bill

By Rodney Muhumuza, AP
Marriage equality is rising to the fore in India's Supreme Court.
International

India’s Supreme Court hears marriage equality case, sends to five-judge bench

By Heather Cassell
Advocates demonstrate on a sunny day in DC.
International

Immigration advocates urge Biden to reconsider asylum policy

By Heather Cassell
International

UK govt to veto Scotland’s gender self-recognition law

By Jill Lawless, Associated Press
Nepali filmmaker and LGBTQI activist Sunil Babu Pant stands in front of mountains.
International

Nepal’s Sunil Pant, LGBTQI activist, filmmaker, focuses on ‘forced marriage’

By Paul Schindler
Edwin Chiloba
International

Kenyan LGBTQ activist’s body found in metal box

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI, Associated Press
International

Gender self-determination to be granted in Spain, Scotland

By RAQUEL REDONDO and ELISE MORTON Associated Press
International

Brittney Griner freed in swap for Russian arms dealer Bout

By ERIC TUCKER, MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press

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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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