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Politics

Politics

Out Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona says she won’t seek re-election, avoiding 3-way race

By Jonathan J. Cooper, AP
New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
Politics

Letitia James threatens Nassau County executive over anti-trans sports policy

By Matt Tracy
Councilmember Erik Bottcher and more than a dozen other elected officials from Manhattan signed a letter blasting "ongoing dysfunction" at Community Education Council District 2.
Politics

Bottcher joins Cabán as co-chair of City Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus 

By Matt Tracy
Politics

Ban on gender-affirming care for minors allowed to take effect in Indiana

By Isabella Volmert, AP
Transgender
LI Press

Nassau County Executive Bans Transgender Athletes From Competing In County-Run Facilities

Politics

Statehouses and AGs continue attacks on trans Americans

By Matt Tracy
AMNY

Manhattan state senator pushes for Donald Trump’s disqualification from November presidential ballot in New York

State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
Politics

New York updates heteronormative rape law to include oral, anal sexual contact

By Matt Tracy
Politics

Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor’s veto

By Samantha Hendrickson, AP
TLDEF executive director Andy Marra and NCTE executive director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen will lead a new organization called Advocates for Trans Equality.
Legal

TLDEF and NCTE to merge into one political and legal powerhouse for trans rights

By Matt Tracy
Gov. Kathy Hochul, joined by the state's Office of Mental Health Commissioner Ann Sullivan, announced "sweeping investments" in mental health services, especially for youth, in a press conference on Jan. 11, 2023.
Bronx Times

Gov. Hochul announces $50M to expand inpatient mental health care

Ohio state lawmakers overrode Governor Mike DeWine's veto of anti-LGBTQ legislation that passed last year.
Health

Ohio House overrides Republican governor’s veto of ban on gender-affirming care for minors

By Samanthan Hendrickson, AP/Report for America
Mayor Eric Adams
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Op-ed | Keeping nightlife safe in New York City

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.
Politics

Ohio governor vetoes legislation barring trans athletes and gender-affirming care for youth

By Matt Tracy
Jay W. Walker facilitates a question from Jennifer Flynn Walker.
Politics

New grassroots group looks to mobilize resistance to Project 2025

By Vivian Farmery and Alexis Danzig
Congressmembers are mounting a bid to protect LGBTQ-owned small businesses.
Business

Democrats reintroduce bill to protect LGBTQ-owned businesses from discrimination

By Matt Tracy

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Arts

  • Qween Jean holds her Tony award while surrounded by attendees at the "Broadway is Trans" fundraiser. ‘Broadway is Trans’ fundraiser draws theater stars
  • “Something You Should Know About Me” is writer/director Andy Fidoten’s romcom about Al (EJ Marcus) a trans cartoonist with low self-esteem who heads out to a queer comics intensive (not “gay cartoon camp”) with his trans bestie, Jesse (Morgan Sullivan). 16 queer films at this year’s Tribeca Festival
  • “By Hook Or By Crook” opens at Anthology Film Archives June 12. ‘By Hook or By Crook’: A trans breakthrough revived 25 years later
  • Directed by Adam Shankman, "Stop! That! Train!" opens June 12. ‘Stop! That! Train!’ takes a campy ride on the Glamazonian Express
  • Chloe Mar Ramirez joined friends for the Bronx Pride Festival Saturday June, 21 in the South Bronx to dance and celebrate Queer visibility and resistance.Bronx Pride 2026: A guide to LGBTQ+ events across the borough

Crime

  • 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. Man convicted of manslaughter in death of O’Shae Sibley
  • sketch of bigot behind lower east side hate crimeCops hunt Lower East Side bigot who beat boy with belt after anti-LGBTQ+ hate tirade
  • A picture shows the late O'Shae Sibley during a demonstration in Brooklyn after he was killed there in an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack. Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
  • suspect in Brooklyn hate crimeBrooklyn hate crime suspect cuffed in the Bronx for fare evasion: cops
  • Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026. Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges

Perspectives

  • Martha Shelley reads to the audience at the LGBT Community Center on Oct. 15, 2023. Past triumphs, present challenges: Reflections on the fight for LGBTQ rights — and what comes next
  • Callen-Lorde staff members. Health equity for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers starts with primary care
  • Andy Humm and Ruth Messinger in the aftermath of the passage of New York City's gay rights bill. Forty years since New Yorkers won gay rights, the fight for justice is more urgent than ever
  • Katie Blum is underscoring the importance of funding to make sure New York's legal system respects transgender individuals when they seek to align their legal documents with their gender identity. Access to justice is essential for transgender New Yorkers — and it depends on the IOLA Fund 
  • From L to R: Michael-Vincent Crea, Thomas O’Grady, Michael Kane, Caitlin Herrity, Jack Schlossberg, Clover Welsh, Layla Law Gisiko, David Warren, Brendan Fay, Dr. John Lahey, Aaron Pesin, Abby Donley, Nicholas Dodd, Sheila and Meghan Brophy on Fifth Avenue. Lavender and Green Alliance celebrates 10 years in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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