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Politics

Politics

Lawmakers look to bolster LGBTQ and women’s history in schools

By Matt Tracy
NY Historical Society LGBTQ Announcement
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House passes bill to safeguard marriage equality

By Matt Tracy
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Electeds demand action amid slow monkeypox vaccine rollout

By Matt Tracy
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Mixed results for LGBTQ Democrats on primary election night

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Pride as Protest: Lessons from Stonewall

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LGBTQ+ Cover Artist Rachel Wilkins Brings Artistic Journey Home

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Hochul, Delgado clinch Dem nomination for governor, lt. governor in blowout victory

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Hochul approves inclusive ballot bill, trans equity fund

By Matt Tracy
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US senators mount fresh push against FDA’s queer blood ban

By Matt Tracy
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LGBTQ+ Power Players Cover Artist Rachel Wilkins on Her Process, Her Community, and Art as an Agitator for Rebellion

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Could LGBTQ voters make the difference in Ana María Archila’s lieutenant governor bid?

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LGBTQ members of Congress sound alarm over SCOTUS abortion decision

By Matt Tracy
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‘They are coming after us’: Queens leaders worry what Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade means for LGBTQ rights

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Supreme Court overruling of Roe v. Wade poses danger for LGBTQ Rights

By Arthur S. Leonard
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Illapa Sairitupac looks to carry activism background to Albany

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LGBTQ+ Power Players: Lee Soulja, NYC Center for Black Pride

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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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