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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

By Matt Tracy

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Arts

  • If “Leviticus” becomes a hit, one hopes that it might create space for further queer voices in horror. ‘Leviticus’: Gay teenagers battle amonster created by homophobia
  • “Maddie’s Secret,” directed by John Early, is running at IFC Center. Maddie’s Secret’: A campy yet sincere drag melodrama
  • Alice Kremelberg, director Adrienne Campbell-Holt, playwright Victoria Lynne Barclay, and Colby Minifie. ‘Camping’: Love and repression in an intimate tent setting
  • Myra Molloy as Sonya and Maya Da Costa as Coley in “Girls Like Girls." In ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko turns from sapphic pop star to filmmaker, telling the same story
  • Downtown Boys. June LGBTQ music: Downtown Boys’ ‘Public Luxury’ and Andrew Sa’s ‘American Rough’

Crime

  • Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a press conference on August 10, 2023 to announce an indictment in the stabbing death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station. Man convicted of manslaughter in death of O’Shae Sibley
  • sketch of bigot behind lower east side hate crimeCops hunt Lower East Side bigot who beat boy with belt after anti-LGBTQ+ hate tirade
  • A picture shows the late O'Shae Sibley during a demonstration in Brooklyn after he was killed there in an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack. Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
  • suspect in Brooklyn hate crimeBrooklyn hate crime suspect cuffed in the Bronx for fare evasion: cops
  • Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026. Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges

Perspectives

  • Martha Shelley reads to the audience at the LGBT Community Center on Oct. 15, 2023. Past triumphs, present challenges: Reflections on the fight for LGBTQ rights — and what comes next
  • Callen-Lorde staff members. Health equity for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers starts with primary care
  • Andy Humm and Ruth Messinger in the aftermath of the passage of New York City's gay rights bill. Forty years since New Yorkers won gay rights, the fight for justice is more urgent than ever
  • Katie Blum is underscoring the importance of funding to make sure New York's legal system respects transgender individuals when they seek to align their legal documents with their gender identity. Access to justice is essential for transgender New Yorkers — and it depends on the IOLA Fund 
  • From L to R: Michael-Vincent Crea, Thomas O’Grady, Michael Kane, Caitlin Herrity, Jack Schlossberg, Clover Welsh, Layla Law Gisiko, David Warren, Brendan Fay, Dr. John Lahey, Aaron Pesin, Abby Donley, Nicholas Dodd, Sheila and Meghan Brophy on Fifth Avenue. Lavender and Green Alliance celebrates 10 years in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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