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Perspectives

Lorenzo Van Ness
Guest Perspective

Love and rage: Reflections on Pride Month and the fight for equity in NYC

By Lorenzo Van Ness
Ethan Felson, executive director of A Wider Bridge.
Guest Perspective

Don’t let them take our Pride away

By Ethan Felson
Randy Mastro.
Guest Perspective

Why I support Randy Mastro for corporation counsel

By Evan Wolfson
The GMHC team at Queens Pride in 2022.
Health

NYC budget cuts threaten critical programs for people living with HIV and AIDS

By Councilmember Erik Bottcher
Councilmembers Erik Bottcher of Manhattan and Tiffany Cabán of Queens.
Guest Perspective

Social housing for queer liberation

By Councilmembers Erik Bottcher and Tiffany Cabán
Advocates band together to stand up for trans youth at a demonstration in 2023.
From the Editor

Do not normalize transphobia in New York

By Matt Tracy
Amida Care CEO Doug Wirth.
Guest Perspective

Op-Ed: Discriminatory Nassau County order shows importance of protecting trans rights

By Doug Wirth
Ramzan Kadyrov is the mastermind behind the Chechen anti-LGBTQ purge.
From the Editor

The NYPD should stop playing games with anti-LGBTQ regimes

By Matt Tracy
Cinema

How ‘The Color Purple’ became the feel-good flick for white gay men

By Nicholas Boston
Marchers participate in the Brooklyn Liberation Rally and March in 2021.
From the Editor

Report on New York’s trans workforce should be a blueprint for action

By Matt Tracy
New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald is working with the Office for the Aging to help facilitate New York State's Master Plan for Aging.
From the Editor

State’s Master Plan for Aging must include older adults living with HIV

By Matt Tracy
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and a host of elected officials gathered in November of 2023 to announce the Hate Crimes Modernization Act.
From the Editor

The need for a sustained, coordinated front against hate

By Matt Tracy
Kawaski Trawick's mother, Ellen Trawick (left), with the family's attorney, Royce Russell (right), at NYPD headquarters on April 12.
From the Editor

Officers should be held accountable in Kawaski Trawick case

By Matt Tracy
On the scene at a Transgender Day of Visibility event in New York City in 2023.
From the Editor

Courts offer glimmer of hope during a painful year

By Matt Tracy
mpox vaccine site
From the Editor

Get fully vaccinated against mpox to protect yourself and our community

By Matt Tracy
A Pride event at Yeshiva University in 2019.
From the Editor

Time to recognize the YU Pride Alliance

By Matt Tracy

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Arts

  • 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
  • “Pillion," directed by Harry Lighton, opens Feb. 6th at the Angelika and AMC Lincoln Square. Dom and sub probe the limits of their feelings in ‘Pillion’
  • Nicole Titus at The Winter Show's Young Collectors Night at the Park Avenue Armory. Young guns having some fun at The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory
  • Sophie Hyde's “Jimpa” opens Feb. 5th at the Quad. Generations clash and come together in ‘Jimpa’

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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