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Amy Freitag
Guest Perspective

Visionary LGBTQ donors set the stage for modern activism

By Amy Freitag
Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas
Guest Perspective

Coming out isn’t the same for everyone

By Jessica González-Rojas
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Guest Perspective

Young trans people need support systems in times of stress, particularly when coming out

By Seven Caldwell
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We need to walk away from the “Progress” Profit Flag

By Matt Foreman
Rainbow flag FINALLY flies on Federal land at Stonewall Park.
Guest Perspective

Why are lesbians and gay/bi men lumped together in monkeypox stats?

By Michael Petrelis
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Guest Perspective

What the Roe v. Wade overturn means for us and what we can do about it

Joseph Milizio
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The dangers of Vickie Paladino and Tucker Carlson

By Matt Tracy
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For Pride, Governor Hochul has a chance to protect the LGBTQ+ community

Blane Charles
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New York Times Looks Into Ed Koch’s Closet Years After Other Media Opened It

By Andy Humm
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Perspectives

The Underlying Lesbophobia of Will Smith’s Slap

By Nicholas Boston
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Letters to the Editor

We Want New York City to Remain Open, Welcoming, and Affirming

Wilhelmina Perry
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Letters to the Editor

Mayor Adams and the Parable of the “Simple Book of Matches”

Christopher Lynn
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Why New York’s Cannabis Industry Can’t Shut Out the LGBTQ Community

By Tyme Ferris and Thomas Kupiec
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The Gender Issues Permeating PrEP

By Matt Tracy
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Guest Perspective

On World AIDS Day, Let’s Remember AIDS in New York State is Not History — It’s a Lived Reality

By Reginald Brown
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Speaker Johnson: Will You Honor My Sister for Trans Day of Remembrance?

By Melania Brown

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Aug. 22, noon

All of Me with All of You: LGBTQ+ Art Out of the Collection
Heckscher Museum of Art

Everything You Always Wanted to Know Abo
Aug. 22, 7 pm

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Richard Skipper But Were Afraid To Ask
Laurie Beechman Theater at the West Bank Cafe

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New York Laughs in Wagner Park! August 2
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Arts

  • Michael Sheen in "Nye" at the National Theatre. London’s National Theatre still centering progress and diversity as US backslides
  • Upon entering Oberon, patrons are greeted by a collection of mirrors and a sign introducing the space. Oberon, a new queer cocktail bar, opens in Williamsburg 
  • “Went Up the Hill,” directed by Samuel Van Grinsven, opens Aug. 15 at the IFC Center. Q&A: Filmmaker Samuel Van Grinsven on the making of queer ghost story ‘Went Up The Hill’
  • Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins, at Stage 422 at 422 W. 42nd St., runs through the end of the month in New York City. The great escape: ‘Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins’ takes New York
  • Ethel Cain's “Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You” debuted August 8. August LGBTQ music: Ethel Cain and Water From Your Eyes

Crime

  • 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
  • Jacob Zieben-Hood, 34, was found dead hours after he allegedly told his father by phone that his husband was targeting him with knives. Man arrested after husband’s gruesome stabbing death in Manhattan
  • Outside of The Monster in Greenwich Village. Man allegedly brandishes knife, defaces Pride sign in Greenwich Village: NYPD
  • Police officers in NYPD vests examine scene where person was shotTwo men shot near Harlem gay bar; shooter remains at large, cops say

Perspectives

  • 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
  • A picture depicting the late Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV prior to his election is displayed as Bishop Edinson Edgardo Farfan Cordova speaks during a press conference, following the election of Pope Leo XIV, in Chiclayo, Peru, May 9, 2025. Thoughts on popes, old and new — and their surprises on LGBTQ issues
  • Carmen Hernandez. Patients and employers pay more as healthcare conglomerates profit from federal program meant to serve vulnerable communities

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