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LGBTQ
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Lawmakers, labor leaders tout funding for LGBTQ employment program

By Matt Tracy
Councilmember Keith Powers is the lead sponsor of the housing bill.
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Council bill aims to improve housing of TGNCNBI people in city custody

By Matt Tracy
Robert Zimmerman on primary night.
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In first gay v. gay Congressional race, the candidates are “just very different”

By Zachary Jarrell
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Democrats delay marriage vote until after election

By Mary Clare Jalonick, AP
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Schumer commits to marriage equality vote in “coming weeks”

By Matt Tracy
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Jim Owles, Equality New York call on Niou to run for NY-10 on WFP line

By Matt Tracy
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Busy night for queer candidates in primary races for Congress, State Senate

By Matt Tracy
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Meals on Wheels gets new wheels thanks to city council allocation

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Council bill would require schools to distribute suicide prevention resources

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Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus introduces legislative package to fight monkeypox

By Matt Tracy
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New York State to study trans employment numbers

By Matt Tracy
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Mayor rolls out plan to tackle youth homelessness backed by $15M federal grant

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Gillibrand calls on Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for more monkeypox vaccines

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NYC Districting Commission announces next round of public hearings

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House Speaker Pelosi throws her considerable weight behind Jones in NY10 contest

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Stonewall Democrats unveil endorsements for State Senate, Congress

By Matt Tracy

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Arts

  • “Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It," directed by Paris Barclay, opens Feb. 20 at Film Forum. ‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’ charts the rise and fall of a troubled gay musician
  • Beverly Glenn-Copeland's latest release is called “Laughter In Summer." February LGBTQ music: Troye Sivan and Beverly Glenn-Copeland
  • Grammy Award-winning tenor Freddie Ballentine. At 92nd Street Y, ‘Our People’ delivers an operatic tribute to Black queer experiences
  • The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.” The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages
  • After gradually rolling out episodes, the full second of "The Boyfriend" is now available on Netflix. A second date with ‘The Boyfriend’: Gay Japanese reality show returns to Netflix for Season 2

Crime

  • Bomb threats, sent via email, targeted the New York University campus on the morning of Jan. 22, the school announced. Anti-LGBTQ bomb threats target NYU, prompting NYPD to increase security
  • The person suspected of voicing anti-LGBTQ slurs and attacking an individual on a 6 train on Jan. 10. Man suffers anti-LGBTQ subway attack after kissing trans partner: police
  • Police tape surrounds a vehicle after its driver was shot by a U.S. immigration agent, according to local and federal officials, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 7, 2026. ‘They killed my wife’: Outrage follows fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
  • Report details allegations of police harassment against LGBTQ New Yorkers
  • President Donald Trump said he commuted George Santos' prison sentence in a Truth Social post.Santos is back with a ‘large slice of humble pie’ following Trump’s commutation

Perspectives

  • The bare flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument on Feb. 10. We will not be erased: Donald Trump’s theft of our Rainbow Flag won’t fly
  • Steven Love Menendez (second from right) with Randy Wicker (center) and park rangers in front of the flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument in 2022 — during the Biden administration. The Rainbow Flag and the heart and soul of Stonewall
  • A banner at the Reclaim Pride Coalition's Queer Liberation March. Four decades in, Black communities are still paying the highest price from HIV — and inaction is not an option
  • Mark Milano. Remembering Mark Milano, a committed activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS
  • A gender equitable city is a stronger New York for everyone

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