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Politics

Politics

Ban on gender-affirming care for minors allowed to take effect in Indiana

By Isabella Volmert, AP
Transgender
LI Press

Nassau County Executive Bans Transgender Athletes From Competing In County-Run Facilities

Politics

Statehouses and AGs continue attacks on trans Americans

By Matt Tracy
AMNY

Manhattan state senator pushes for Donald Trump’s disqualification from November presidential ballot in New York

State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
Politics

New York updates heteronormative rape law to include oral, anal sexual contact

By Matt Tracy
Politics

Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor’s veto

By Samantha Hendrickson, AP
TLDEF executive director Andy Marra and NCTE executive director Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen will lead a new organization called Advocates for Trans Equality.
Legal

TLDEF and NCTE to merge into one political and legal powerhouse for trans rights

By Matt Tracy
Gov. Kathy Hochul, joined by the state's Office of Mental Health Commissioner Ann Sullivan, announced "sweeping investments" in mental health services, especially for youth, in a press conference on Jan. 11, 2023.
Bronx Times

Gov. Hochul announces $50M to expand inpatient mental health care

Ohio state lawmakers overrode Governor Mike DeWine's veto of anti-LGBTQ legislation that passed last year.
Health

Ohio House overrides Republican governor’s veto of ban on gender-affirming care for minors

By Samanthan Hendrickson, AP/Report for America
Mayor Eric Adams
AMNY

Op-ed | Keeping nightlife safe in New York City

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.
Politics

Ohio governor vetoes legislation barring trans athletes and gender-affirming care for youth

By Matt Tracy
Jay W. Walker facilitates a question from Jennifer Flynn Walker.
Politics

New grassroots group looks to mobilize resistance to Project 2025

By Vivian Farmery and Alexis Danzig
Congressmembers are mounting a bid to protect LGBTQ-owned small businesses.
Business

Democrats reintroduce bill to protect LGBTQ-owned businesses from discrimination

By Matt Tracy
George Santos
LI Press

George Santos Due Back In Court Tuesday: What To Know

Politics

GOP candidates lean into transphobia in fourth presidential debate

By Matt Tracy
The spire of One World Trade Center lit red for World AIDS Day.
Health

President Biden, New York electeds commemorate World AIDS Day

By Dashiell Allen

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Homage: Queer lineages on video presents
Tomorrow, noon

Homage: Queer lineages on video
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Join artist Kang Seung Lee and curator R
Tomorrow, 12:30 pm

In Conversation: Kang Seung Lee and Rattanamol Singh Johal
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A new dark comedy about bugs, strangers
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The Flea Theater

Murmuration Theatre Co Presents you are
Tomorrow, 7 pm

you are seen (Murmuration Theatre Co @ The Makers’ Space)
Makers’ Space

Baryshnikov Arts presents the World Prem
Tomorrow, 7 pm

FIGARO/FAGGOTS
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Who killed Jenny Schecter? While nobody
Sept. 28, 8 pm

L Word Trivia: Presented by Lez Hang Out
Henrietta Hudson

Imagine if Emily in Paris was gay, had l
Sept. 29, 7 pm

Comedy show: Why Are You Here?
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Arts

  • Anania, B Noel Thomas, and Caleb Quezon in NYTW's "Saturday Church." ‘Saturday Church’ review: Finding salvation in unlikely places
  • Cardi Bi's latest release is 'Am I The Drama?' September LGBTQ music: Cardi B’s ‘Am I The Drama?’ and Neko Case’s ‘Neon Grey Midnight Green’
  • "She Sells Sea Shells," an exhibition at Alice Austen House Museum in Staten, will run until February 21 of next year. She Sells Sea Shells exhibit debuts at Staten Island’s Alice Austen House 
  • Marilyn Oliva, Roberta Degnore, and Anne Maguire stand together against book bans. Activists protest book bans in front of New York Public Library
  • HIV Unwrapped made its US debut at New York Fashion Week on Sept. 13. ‘HIV Unwrapped’ combines science and style for New York Fashion Week

Crime

  • Law enforcement officers set up barriers after a shooting at Annunciation Church, which is also home to an elementary school, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. August 27, 2025. In wake of Minneapolis shooting, White House falsely suggests link between gender-affirming care and violence
  • Convicted rapist of transgender woman in Manhattan walks in handcuffs.Convicted Manhattan rapist gets 12 years in prison, feels wrath of his transgender victim at sentencing hearing
  • U.S. rapper Lil Nas X, alongside his attorney Christy O'Connor, attends his arraignment at Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 25, 2025. Lil Nas X charged with four felonies after arrest in Los Angeles
  • The front of a white brick building representing the Middletown Police Department on a sunny day. DA: Middletown man lured Grindr date to his home in brutal stabbing attack
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 16, 2025. Anti-LGBTQ hate crimes persisted in 2024: FBI data

Perspectives

  • Erik Bottcher at his 2021 election night party at The Chelsea Bell at 316 Eighth Avenue. Erik Bottcher is the voice we need in Congress
  • Émilia Decaudin For New York to remain a queer haven, we must build more homes
  • Ronald Porcelli is the director of the NYC Unity Project. How the NYC Unity Project’s Family Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth Initiative heals families and saves LGBTQ+ lives
  • The 2025 NYC Dyke March. Letter to the editor: NYC Dyke March’s policy represents deliberate exclusion rooted in religious and political identity
  • At the Queer Liberation March in 2022. Pride is resilience, liberation, community, and identity

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