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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
Politics

State Department Refocuses on LGBTQ Rights Abroad

By Matt Tracy
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate panel holds hearing for transportation nominee
Politics

Senate Confirms Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
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Walking While Trans Ban Repealed

By Matt Tracy
People march down 5th Avenue during the 2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York
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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
#WalkAway Leader Sues LGBT Center
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Gay #Walkaway Founder Arrested for Role in Capitol Riot

By Duncan Osborne
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Erik Bottcher Steps Up for a Lead Role

By Paul Schindler
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Politics

State Legislature Nears Repeal of Walking While Trans Ban

By Matt Tracy
Inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States
Politics

Biden Orders Federal Agencies to Target LGBTQ Discrimination

By Tat Bellamy-Walker
Inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States
Politics

Biden, Harris Take Office with Long List of LGBTQ Priorities

By Matt Tracy
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at his transition headquarters in Wilmington
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How Biden, Democrats can Undo Trump’s Late Anti-LGBTQ Actions

By Arthur S. Leonard

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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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