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History

What It Was Like to Be Gay in the UN in the ’70s and ’80s

By Sam Oglesby
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From the Editor

Time to Get Specific About Sex Work Decriminalization

By Matt Tracy
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Snide Lines

A Window or a Wall? Pedal Miranda’s Ongoing Acts of Resistance

By Susie Day
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GOP to New York: That Fifth Avenue Shooting Is Just Trump Being Trump

By Paul Schindler
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Change Is Good

By Paul Schindler
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Snide Lines

COVID, Prison, and Another Pandemic Clare Grady Made Me Remember

By Susie Day
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Elections

Farce! Rudy Leads Trump Push to Undermine Democracy

By Paul Schindler
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Guest Perspective

Make Your Voting Plan Now

By Laura Wood & Jarret Berg
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Elections

For Joe Biden, Push Relentlessly Until November 3

By Paul Schindler
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From the Editor

Ginsburg’s Successor Should Be Named in January

By Paul Schindler
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Guest Perspective

Strip Qatar’s Homophobic Regime of the 2022 World Cup Now

By Benjamin Weinthal
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Crime

All This Over Wearing a Mask

By Matt Foreman
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From the Editor

The Critical Path for the Biden-Harris Ticket

By Paul Schindler
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From the Editor

John Lewis, An Unrivaled Leader for the Ages

By Paul Schindler
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From the Editor

Pride, Fear & Freedom of the Press

By Paul Schindler
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Pride

Black Leaders to the Front in an Inclusive Show of Unity

By Sean Coleman

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Wig Out Wednesdays : Drag Queen Bingo in NYC
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For the first time, The Heckscher Museum
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
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Aug. 22, 7:30 pm

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New York Laughs in Wagner Park! August 2
Aug. 22, 8 pm

NY Laughs: Comedy Under the Stars
Wagner Park

Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 10pm Red Ey
Aug. 23, 10 pm

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Red Eye NY

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Kind Stranger…a memory play
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Arts

  • “Honey Don’t!” adds nothing to its precursor, "Drive-Away Dolls." ‘Honey, Don’t’ misses the mark in follow-up to ‘Drive-Away Dolls’
  • 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

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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