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A cruise ship is docked on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, October 22, 2025.

National

US Virgin Islands governor signs executive order allowing gender marker ID changes

By Matt Tracy

NO KINGS Rally, Provincetown

National

Women’s Week sweeps through Provincetown

By Donna Aceto

Students take the L train on their first day back to school on Sept 4.

National

LGBTQ youth face growing mental health crisis, study finds

By Matt Tracy

FBI Director Kash Patel gestures as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 16, 2025.

National

Report: FBI agent fired for displaying Rainbow Flag on desk

By Matt Tracy

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was targeted by Tucker Carlson and Michael Knowles.

National

Tucker Carlson says Pete Buttigieg is ‘fake gay’

By Matt Tracy

The Stonewall Community Foundation, seen here at the NYC Pride March in 2025, is stepping up to fund more than a dozen LGBTQ organizations as part of its Reclaiming Our Power initiative.

National

Stonewall Community Foundation rolls out grants for LGBTQ organizations under ‘Reclaiming Our Power’ initiative

By Matt Tracy

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis during his time in the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Health

‘Enough is enough’: Gay CDC official resigns, says ‘nation’s health security is at risk’

By Matt Tracy

Standing together for trans rights on Transgender Day of Visibility

National

Report: 2.8 million transgender people 13 years and older in the US

By Matt Tracy

Congressmember Mike Lawler of New York speaks in Washington on July 17 during a press conference to support the LGBTQ hotline.

National

‘Unfathomable’: Trump administration ends LGBTQ youth suicide hotline

By Matt Tracy

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 16, 2025.

National

Federal government restores $6.2 million in funding for LGBTQ non-profits

By Matt Tracy

Christopher Park.

National

National Park Service website erases bisexual representation from Stonewall National Monument site

By Matt Tracy

A general view of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2024.

Health

Sigh of relief after Supreme Court upholds PrEP coverage, other preventive services

By Matt Tracy

James Obergefell outside the Supreme Court on the morning of June 26, 2015 with attorney Al Gerhardstein.

National

A decade after Obergefell, old arguments against same-sex marriage have failed the test of time

By Duncan Osborne

Jane Abott Lighty (Left) and wife Pete-e Peterson (rght) were the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage License in the State of Washington in 2012.

Love & Marriage

Report sheds light on 10 years of marriage equality in the United States

By Matt Tracy

An International Transgender Day of Visibility demonstration in 2023.

National

Pew: LGBTQ adults say trans and non-binary people lag behind in acceptance

By Duncan Osborne

A sign pays tribute to Marsha P. Johnson.

National

National Park Service removes pages about Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera

By Matt Tracy

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NY: 2025 Police Officer of the Year Award

Park Slope church awards NYPD’s Dewayne Stewart ‘Police Officer of the Year’ for his service

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Mr. Mayor-elect: Keep Jessica Tisch as your police commissioner

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