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New York State

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Politics

Albany LGBTQI Advocacy Day Draws 250

BY PAUL SCHINDLER
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Crime

A Seismic Shift on Legal Pot

BY NATHAN RILEY
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Politics

Bronx LGBTQ-Friendly Senior Housing Breaks Ground

BY DONNA ACETO & PAUL SCHINDLER
Crime

Despite Acquittal, Man Assigned Sex Offender Registry Status

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD
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Health

De Blasio Moves on Safer Consumption Spaces to Curb Overdoses

BY NATHAN RILEY
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Legal

Statewide Agenda Advances on Two Fronts

BY PAUL SCHINDLER
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Politics

Nixon’s Working Family Coup

BY NATHAN RILEY
Legal

Can Three Parents Make a Family in New York?

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD
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Melissa Sklarz Dives into Queens Race

BY PAUL SCHINDLER
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Progressive Hell’s Kitchen Club Sticks with Cuomo

BY NATHAN RILEY
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Politics

Lesbians Locked in a “Qualifying” Round

BY PAUL SCHINDLER
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Abel Cedeno Allegedly Menaced by Dead Youth’s Brother

BY ANDY HUMM
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Health

Council Votes to Shelter Homeless Youth Up to 24

BY PAUL SCHINDLER
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A Fist as Resistance

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE
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Rosenthal Takes On Insurers’ PrEP Blacklisting

BY NATHAN RILEY
Legal

Another Victory for Married Lesbian Parents

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD

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It’s All About the (S)ex By Joe Ma
Today, 3 pm

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

Come together to learn and take action!
Today, 6 pm

Reproductive Freedom Summer 2025
Virtual via Zoom

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Today, 6:30 pm

U.S. Premiere of Campy, Queer Comedy UNSEX’d
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Verse4Verse is New York’s only dra
Today, 7 pm

Verse4Verse: Drag Poetry Show
Dada Bar

National Queer Theater and Arts Project
Tomorrow, 8 pm

“Pizza and a Play”, The Cherry Picked Playreading Series
Arts Project of Cherry Grove Community House & Theatre

Free to play. Cheap to drink. Impossible
Aug. 20, 7 pm

Wig Out Wednesdays : Drag Queen Bingo in NYC
Recreation at The Moxy Downtown

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Aug. 21, all day

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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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