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LGBTQ
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Lawmakers, labor leaders tout funding for LGBTQ employment program

By Matt Tracy
Councilmember Keith Powers is the lead sponsor of the housing bill.
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Council bill aims to improve housing of TGNCNBI people in city custody

By Matt Tracy
Robert Zimmerman on primary night.
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In first gay v. gay Congressional race, the candidates are “just very different”

By Zachary Jarrell
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Democrats delay marriage vote until after election

By Mary Clare Jalonick, AP
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Schumer commits to marriage equality vote in “coming weeks”

By Matt Tracy
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Jim Owles, Equality New York call on Niou to run for NY-10 on WFP line

By Matt Tracy
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Busy night for queer candidates in primary races for Congress, State Senate

By Matt Tracy
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Meals on Wheels gets new wheels thanks to city council allocation

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Council bill would require schools to distribute suicide prevention resources

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Council’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus introduces legislative package to fight monkeypox

By Matt Tracy
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New York State to study trans employment numbers

By Matt Tracy
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Mayor rolls out plan to tackle youth homelessness backed by $15M federal grant

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Gillibrand calls on Biden to invoke Defense Production Act for more monkeypox vaccines

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NYC Districting Commission announces next round of public hearings

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House Speaker Pelosi throws her considerable weight behind Jones in NY10 contest

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Stonewall Democrats unveil endorsements for State Senate, Congress

By Matt Tracy

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The Leopard and the Lynx at the Queerly Festival
Under St Marks

Queens & Cocktails is a special Prid
June 24, 6 pm

Queens & Cocktails
The Muse Hotel

You’re invited to Queerly Beloved: Pride
June 24, 7 pm

Queerly Beloved: Pride Shorts in the Park
Fort Greene Park (Washington Park & Dekalb Ave. Entrance)

​Need a place to wear your Liberty jerse
June 24, 7:30 pm

Sports Adjacent: Free Weekly Comedy
Blazers Sports Bar

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 6pm
June 25, all day

Queens: The Art of Drag & NYC at Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC

Do you like “Mamma Mia”? Do you like tra
June 25, 7 pm

Trauma Mia: A Transgender Parody of the hit Musical at the Queerly Festival
Under St Marks

Humor, history, and uncanny haunts combi
June 25, 7 pm

Nancy at the Brick Aux
Brick Aux

Join Marble Collegiate Church as it cont
June 28, 8 am

Celebrate Pride at Marble Collegiate Church
Marble Collegiate Church

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Arts

  • Alice Kremelberg, director Adrienne Campbell-Holt, playwright Victoria Lynne Barclay, and Colby Minifie. ‘Camping’: Love and repression in an intimate tent setting
  • Myra Molloy as Sonya and Maya Da Costa as Coley in “Girls Like Girls." In ‘Girls Like Girls,’ Hayley Kiyoko turns from sapphic pop star to filmmaker, telling the same story
  • Downtown Boys. June LGBTQ music: Downtown Boys’ ‘Public Luxury’ and Andrew Sa’s ‘American Rough’
  • “The Devil Queen,” directed by Antonio Carlos da Fontoura, opens June 19 at the Alamo Lower Manhattan. Colorful costumes, drag queens, and bloodletting: Brazilian gangster film ‘The Devil Queen’ gets 4k restoration
  • Director Saheem Ali's Public Theater production of “Romeo and Juliet." Central Park comes alive with ‘Romeo and Juliet’

Crime

  • Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez holds a press conference on August 10, 2023 to announce an indictment in the stabbing death of O'Shae Sibley, a gay man who was killed at a Brooklyn gas station. Man convicted of manslaughter in death of O’Shae Sibley
  • sketch of bigot behind lower east side hate crimeCops hunt Lower East Side bigot who beat boy with belt after anti-LGBTQ+ hate tirade
  • A picture shows the late O'Shae Sibley during a demonstration in Brooklyn after he was killed there in an alleged anti-LGBTQ attack. Man charged with killing gay dancer O’Shae Sibley claims self-defense
  • suspect in Brooklyn hate crimeBrooklyn hate crime suspect cuffed in the Bronx for fare evasion: cops
  • Grammy-winning musician Lil Nas X leaves court after a preliminary hearing on four felony charges for allegedly assaulting and resisting police officers responding to an incident in August when police approached him while he was reportedly walking nearly naked on the streets of Los Angeles, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 12, 2026. Lil Nas X agrees to maintain treatment in two-year deal to drop charges

Perspectives

  • Martha Shelley reads to the audience at the LGBT Community Center on Oct. 15, 2023. Past triumphs, present challenges: Reflections on the fight for LGBTQ rights — and what comes next
  • Callen-Lorde staff members. Health equity for LGBTQ+ New Yorkers starts with primary care
  • Andy Humm and Ruth Messinger in the aftermath of the passage of New York City's gay rights bill. Forty years since New Yorkers won gay rights, the fight for justice is more urgent than ever
  • Katie Blum is underscoring the importance of funding to make sure New York's legal system respects transgender individuals when they seek to align their legal documents with their gender identity. Access to justice is essential for transgender New Yorkers — and it depends on the IOLA Fund 
  • From L to R: Michael-Vincent Crea, Thomas O’Grady, Michael Kane, Caitlin Herrity, Jack Schlossberg, Clover Welsh, Layla Law Gisiko, David Warren, Brendan Fay, Dr. John Lahey, Aaron Pesin, Abby Donley, Nicholas Dodd, Sheila and Meghan Brophy on Fifth Avenue. Lavender and Green Alliance celebrates 10 years in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

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