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GOP Lawmakers Assail Equality Act During Senate Hearing

By Matt Tracy
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at an event to rename the Municipal Building in Brooklyn to the “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Municipal Building” in New York City
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De Blasio Says NYPD Should Stop Arresting Sex Workers, But Remains Vague on Decrim

By Matt Tracy
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Jimmy Van Bramer Wants to Make Queer History in Queens

By Matt Tracy
House Intelligence Committee holds hearing with EU Ambassador Sondland on Trump impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill in Washington
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New York’s LGBTQ Lawmakers Echo Calls for Cuomo’s Resignation

By Matt Tracy
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signs the bill retiring the last state flag in the United States with the Confederate battle emblem, during a ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion in Jackson
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Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Banning Trans Athletes

By Matt Tracy
Out Gay Ex-General Outlines Bid for Mayor
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Loree Sutton Drops Out of New York City Mayoral Race

By Matt Tracy
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Corey Johnson Officially Enters Comptroller Race

By Dean Moses
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Board of Correction Aims to Replace Solitary Confinement in New York City

By Matt Tracy
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Carlos Menchaca’s Uphill March for Progressive Change

By Paul Schindler
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LID Endorses Scott Stringer for Mayor

By Matt Tracy
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Mississippi Passes Anti-Trans Sports Bill

By Matt Tracy
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“Tax the Rich! Cuomo Cuts Kill!” LGBTQ Activists Take on the Governor

By Matt Tracy
Congressional Democrats hold news conference on Equality Act at the U.S. Capitol in Washington
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House Passes Equality Act as GOP’s Alternative Bill Looms

By Matt Tracy
U.S. Senate panels examine security failures that led to attack on Capitol
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Equality Act Introduced in the Senate

By Matt Tracy
New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn speaks at a council meeting in New York
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Christine Quinn Announces She Will Not Run for Mayor

By Robert Pozarycki
Council to Scrap Conversion Therapy Ban
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Corey Johnson Floats Run for Comptroller

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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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