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Former U.S. Rep George Santos was sentenced to 87 months in prison on April 25.

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Ex-Rep. George Santos sentenced to 87 months in prison

LGBTQIA+ Caucus Co-Chair Tiffany Cabán of Queens leads supporters of gender-affirming care at City Hall on April 24.

Politics

Council approves bills to protect gender-affirming care after hospitals cave to Trump

By Matt Tracy

A protestor on stage during the Mayoral Forum on the Black Agenda at Medgar Evers College on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.

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Protests at Mayoral Forum on Black Agenda

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NYPD transgender cops celebrate Day of Visibility and demonstrate the city’s blue line has many colors

Candidates speak during an LGBTQ mayoral forum at The Church of the Village on March 27.

Politics

Mayoral hopefuls discuss gender-affirming care, Rikers, and more at LGBTQ forum

By Matt Tracy

Advocates at the State Capitol in Albany.

Health

In Albany, LGBTQ groups urge state to boost funding for trans New Yorkers

By Matt Tracy

Pete Buttigieg won't run for office in Michigan, but his name remains in the mix for the 2028 presidential race.

Politics

Pete Buttigieg says he won’t run for office in Michigan

By Matt Tracy

NYC LGBTQ+ members rally in Albany to protect civil rights in Trump era

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Advocates for NYC LGBTQ+ community rally in Albany to protect civil rights in Trump era

Amanda Lefton testifies during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee when she was director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Thursday, May 13, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

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Long Islander Amanda Lefton named new DEC commissioner

LGBTQIA+ Caucus Co-Chairs Erik Bottcher and Tiffany Cabán.

Politics

City lawmakers introduce package of bills to safeguard TGNCNBI New Yorkers

By Matt Tracy

Governor Kathy Hochul.

Politics

LGBTQ clubs call on Hochul and state leaders to increase support for trans wellness fund, HIV/AIDS initiatives

By Matt Tracy

Kamala Harris' videographer Azza Cohen with Queers for Kamala founders Danny Wein, Kathleen Borschow, and Jeffrey Omura.

Politics

Stonewall Democratic Club of NYC honors four leaders at ‘defiant’ awards night

By Donna Aceto

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order banning transgender girls and women from participating in women's sports, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2025.

Politics

Trump bans trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports

By Matt Tracy

Trans activists protest NYU Langone pause on gender-affirming care

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‘Blood on your hands’: Thousands protest NYU Langone halt of trans youth gender-affirming care after Trump order

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2025.

Politics

Recapping the Trump administration’s early anti-trans executive orders

By Matt Tracy

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025.

Politics

State Department, Bureau of Prisons begin carrying out Trump’s transphobic agenda

By Matt Tracy

More from Around NYC

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From court to community: How Brooklyn’s Dreamers N Doers is changing the game for local youth

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Director Joel Alfonso Vargas debuts Bronx-centered film, ‘Mad Bills to Pay’

The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Abel, UMC Long Island West District Superintendent, center, with clergy from the Brooklyn Downtown South Cooperative Parish of the United Methodist Church (UMC), otherwise known as Bold United Soul Seekers (BUSS), at the conclusion of Good Friday Worship Service at St. Mark's UMC in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

BUSS Methodists celebrate ‘Seven Last Words of Christ’

New York City Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan announced a massive fentanyl mill bust, spanning three separate locations and capturing 90 pounds of the deadly narcotic.

Drug task force seizes 90 pounds of fentanyl from three separate Manhattan and Bronx narcotics mills