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Former professional tennis player Rennae Stubbs, Stonewall Inn co-owner Stacy Lentz, US Tennis Association chief of diversity, inclusion and equity Marisa Grimes, and Stonewall Inn co-owner Kurt Kelly.

Sports

US Open designated as an LGBTQ safe space

By Matt Tracy

Legal

Federal court blocks Georgia’s ban on gender-affirming care

By Arthur S. Leonard

Lee Soulja-Simmons, speaks to the crowd at the 2023 Heritage Awards at the Brooklyn Museum, which was part of that year's NYC Black Pride calendar.

Honorees celebrated at NYC Black Pride’s Heritage Awards

By Gay City News

Laura Ann Carleton owned the shop known as Mag.Pi.

Crime

California shop owner killed over Rainbow Flag

By Emily Sawaked

Lindsay Hecox.

Legal

Federal appeals court upholds ruling blocking Idaho’s anti-trans sports law

By Arthur S. Leonard

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' "Don't Say Gay or Trans" law has fueled divisions in his home state.

Survey: Florida parents divided on ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ law

By Emily Sawaked

Pride merchandise on display at a Target store in Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, in May of 2023.

Business

Blaming Pride backlash, Target reports drop in sales

By Emily Sawaked

Health

States that protect transgender care now try to absorb demand

By Jeff McMillan and Hannah Schoenbaum, AP

New York State Attorney General Letitia James.

New York State issues guidance for schools to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion

By Emily Sawaked

‘Barbie’ rollout mixed in Middle East

By Emily Sawaked

Judge Seth Marnin speaks after getting sworn in at the LGBT Community Center in Manhattan on Aug. 14.

Legal

Seth Marnin sworn in as New York’s first trans judge in historic ceremony

By Matt Tracy

The alleged attack took place at Cranberry Street and Willow Street.

Crime

Man slashed in alleged anti-gay attack in Brooklyn

By Emily Sawaked

Trans youth in Florida must travel further to access gender-affirming care than youth in other states.

Health

Florida youth drive further for gender-affirming care

By Emily Sawaked

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a press conference on August 10, 2023 to announce an indictment in the stabbing death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station.

Crime

Teen accused of killing O’Shae Sibley indicted on hate crime murder charge

By Matt Tracy

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo

Health

Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo to become first out NIAID director

By Emily Sawaked

World Bank halts lending to Uganda over anti-LGBTQ law

By Emily Sawaked

More from Around NYC

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Mamdani presents artwork by Bronx-based designer Edwin Reyes at Toñita Fest 2026

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Mayor Mamdani presents artwork by Bronx-based designer Edwin Reyes at Toñita Fest 2026

Doloresce, a Haitian immigrant who said he was currently in the U.S. on a temporary Protected Status (TPS), poses for a portrait, on the day of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants, in the Little Haiti neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., June 25, 2026.

Outrage builds over Supreme Court’s termination of TPS for Haitians

City Council Speaker Julie Menin (l.) with Deputy Speaker Nantasha Williams, who according to the Quadrennial Advisory Commission, testified in May 2026 that , increasing the salaries of the city’s elected officials was a long-overdue cost of living adjustment.

NYC elected officials could get nearly 20% pay raises this summer – far more than they asked for