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New Hope (pictured) is preparing for a month-long schedule of Pride festivities.

Pride

New Hope Celebrates prepares for month-long Pride slate in May

By Matt Tracy

Uganda’s legislature passes harsh new anti-LGBTQ bill

By Rodney Muhumuza, AP

Supporters unfurl a long Rainbow Flag emblazoned with the phrase "STOP THE HATE."

Families

Attorney General James leads drag story hour ‘read-a-thon’ at LGBT Center

By Matt Tracy

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

Marriage equality is rising to the fore in India's Supreme Court.

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

By Heather Cassell

The late Kawaski Trawick.

Crime

Elected officials call on city to keep disciplinary trial date in Trawick case

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

HRC president Kelley Robinson.

National

HRC’s Robinson marks 100 days with ‘unrelenting commitment’ to fight

By Heather Cassell

Out gay Congressmember Mark Pocan of Wisconsin is pushing for a new national museum for the LGBTQ community in Washington, DC.

Politics

GOP-led House committee passes federal ban on trans student-athletes

By Heather Cassell

Candles cover a flyer paying tribute to

Community mourns death of trans woman in Brooklyn

By Matt Tracy & Adrian Childress

Times Square,

AMNY

Rolling the dice: A closer look at the 10 contenders seeking lucrative New York casino licenses

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QNS

Forest Hills lawyer launches campaign to become Queens County’s first openly gay elected judge

Brooklyn Councilmember Brad Lander is urging Yeshiva University to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, a student group on campus.

City comptroller calls on Yeshiva University to recognize queer student group

By Heather Cassell

Marti Cummings, Assemblymember Tony Simone, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Jackie Cox.

Politics

Assemblymember Tony Simone inaugurated in style in Chelsea

By Andy Humm

For more than two decades, the Queens-based St. Pat's for All Parade offers an inclusive atmosphere to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

New Yorkers celebrate inclusive St. Pat’s for All in Queens

By Kathleen Warnock

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‘There is no way to repair it’ NYC Parks seeks funding for Van Cortlandt Park Stadium demolition

Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

Caricom sub-region face US pressure to take deportees from foreign countries

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