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Federal judge slams Tennessee anti-drag law

By Arthur S. Leonard
Seth Marnin will be the first out trans judge in New York State.
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Governor Hochul appoints trans judge to Court of Claims

By Matt Tracy
Romania's Palace of the Parliament.
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European court rules Romania and Ukraine must recognize same-sex couples

By Arthur S. Leonard
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Federal court bars enforcement of Florida ban on gender-affirming care for minors

By Arthur S. Leonard
In March, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the state's bill restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth.
Legal

Biden administration joins lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s anti-trans health law

By Arthur S. Leonard
President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona at the White House.
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Biden administration’s proposed regulation on trans sports participation stirs controversy

By Arthur S. Leonard
Health

Anti-trans laws imperil gender-affirming care for 140k+ youth

By Matt Tracy
Located in downtown Chicago, The Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse is home to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and several other courts and federal agencies.
Legal

Federal court upholds discharge of teacher who misgendered students

By Arthur S. Leonard
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Supreme Court rules in favor of trans athlete in West Virginia

By Matt Tracy
Brad Hoylman-Sigal at a demonstration denouncing anti-LGBTQ appointments by Mayor Eric Adams.
Education

Hoylman-Sigal calls on state inspector general to investigate Yeshiva University

By Heather Cassell
Legal

Federal judge orders Texas county to restore censored ‘LGBTQ books’ to library

By Arthur S. Leonard
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Federal judge temporary blocks Tennessee’s anti-drag law

By Arthur S. Leonard
The Alliance Defending Freedom wants to see the Supreme Court strike down laws restricting conversion therapy.
Legal

Alliance Defending Freedom asks SCOTUS to strike down conversion therapy bans

By Arthur S. Leonard
Raymond Zdunski was fired from the Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES outside of Buffalo.
Legal

Federal court upholds firing of New York man who refused LGBTQ training

By Matt Tracy
Yeshiva University's latest move in its fight against the YU Pride Alliance has drawn a response from multiple state lamwakers.
Legal

Pols blast Yeshiva University for demanding personal information from LGBTQ club members

By Heather Cassell
A transgender track and field athlete in West Virginia is at the center of a court case involving Alliance Defending Freedom, an anti-LGBTQ litigation group.
Legal

Alliance Defending Freedom asks SCOTUS to intervene in West Virginia trans sports case

By Arthur S. Leonard

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Arts

  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • 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’

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

  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • 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

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