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Politics

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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

By Matt Tracy
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Anti-Trans Bills in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, and Other States

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
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Jim Owles Backs Slate of Pro-Sex Work Decrim Candidates

By Matt Tracy
U.S. President Joe Biden visits the State Department in Washington
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State Department Refocuses on LGBTQ Rights Abroad

By Matt Tracy
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Senate Confirms Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
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Walking While Trans Ban Repealed

By Matt Tracy
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Trans Leaders Demand Oversight of Annual Pride Festivities

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
U.S. Republican presidential candidate and Ohio Governor John Kasich talks to chief strategist John Weaver on his campaign bus in Plymouth
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Lincoln Project Co-Founder Accused of Sending Inappropriate Messages

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
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Brooklyn DA to Dismiss Sex Work-Related Warrants in Multiple Waves

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
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Black Queer Activist Eyes Brooklyn City Council Seat

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
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Some Anti-Trans Bills Fail, Others Hang in the Balance

By Tat Bellamy-Walker

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Arts

  • Stephen Pasquale plays Charles Condomine in "High Spirits." ‘High Spirits’ musical makes memorable return to New York after more than 60 years
  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during a press briefing on the city’s preparations for a snowstorm at the New York City Emergency Management Department on Jan. 23. Thousands download ‘Heated Rivalry’ from NYPL after Mamdani’s snowstorm suggestion
  • Ani Palmer, Beatrix Rain Wolfe and Sophia Kirkwood-Smith appear in "Big Girls Don't Cry." Sundance Film Festival offers LGBTQ features, documentaries, and shorts
  • Edward Nelson and Miles Mykkanen in "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay." Belonging, art, and trauma collide in The Met’s WWII opera ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’
  • A 1990 KG vogueing ball at Cafe de Paris. London gallery revisits Black queer nightlife and a transatlantic culture pipeline

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

  • 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
  • AIDS Walk New York in 2025. Forty years later, the unequal impact of HIV persists — and we refuse to accept it
  • The Caribbean Equality Project team at their inaugural gala on Sept. 19. Caribbean Equality Project celebrates a decade of resistance and belonging

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