Transgender Day of Remembrance Marked
PHOTOS BY DONNA ACETO | At twilight on November 20, members of the transgender community and their allies, advocates, and elected officials gathered at a City Hall vigil to commemorate the Transgender...
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BY MICHAEL SHIREY | The sun shined brightly on May 17 as more than 30,000 walkers marched for the 30th annual AIDS Walk New York, the 10-kilometer trek through Central Park that supports the work of...
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PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO | In a June 15 ceremony produced in tandem with Harlem Pride, Public Advocate Letitia James honored three LGBT leaders for their community service. Above is Brooke Guinan,...
View ArticleSunny Festivities & A Parade Under the Stars
PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO | The annual Brooklyn LGBT Pride Festival and Parade enjoyed extraordinary early summer weather in Park Slope on Saturday June 13. After a morning 5k run in Prospect Park,...
View ArticleTown Hall Reflects Growing Anger Over City STD Efforts
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A town hall organized by ACT UP and the Treatment Action Group demonstrated the growing anger with the de Blasio administration and the city’s health department over what activists...
View Article“Candles For Clemency” Claims Victory
BY NATHAN RILEY | In a departure from his previous policy, Governor Andrew Cuomo is establishing a system to review requests to shorten prison sentences of rehabilitated prisoners. Four days before a...
View ArticlePrEP Can Help Bring an End to AIDS
BY LETITIA JAMES & BENJAMIN BASHEIN | Thirty years ago, the world was still trying to figure out what HIV was –– let alone how to prevent it. We remember New York City during those dark years ––...
View ArticleJackson Heights Rallies in Wake of Trans Woman’s Assault
BY ANDY HUMM | The brutal beating of a transgender Latina, Kathy Perez, 35, outside her Jackson Heights home in the early morning hours of November 29 sparked an impassioned rally by transgender women...
View ArticleCity Council Gives $20 Million to Private Schools, Most Anti-Gay
BY ANDY HUMM | City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and her colleagues pushed through an “unprecedented” bill December 7 to have city government pick up yet another function of private and...
View ArticleVia Twitter, City Council LGBT Caucus Grows to Seven
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | With a full 26 characters to spare, veteran Bronx City Councilmember Jimmy Vacca took to Twitter with something of a major status update: “After talking w/ my friends & family...
View ArticleRain Can’t Drown Pride In Jackson Heights
PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO | Despite a heavy cloud cover and periodic downpours, the LGBT community and its allies turned out in force on Sunday, June 5 for the 24th annual Queens Pride Parade and...
View ArticleMourners Gather in Jackson Heights to Commemorate Orlando Victims
BY NATHAN RILEY | Queens, the borough of immigrants, held a vigil to commemorate those killed in the Orlando gay bar massacre, demonstrating the solidarity that has developed there between the LGBT...
View ArticleTransgender Latinas Assert Visibility in Jackson Heights
BY ANDY HUMM | “Trans Power!” “Keep Your Hands Off My Sisters!” “Don’t Fuck with Us!” Those chants rang out one day after the atrocity in Orlando as scores of transgender Latinas and their allies...
View ArticleCrossfit Games Glock Give-Aways Spark Anti-Gun Anger
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The decision by the founder of the annual Crossfit Games, held last month in California, that winners would be awarded a Glock handgun stirred outrage among advocates for gun...
View ArticleWoodside Rallies for Trans Woman Attacked in Hate Crime
BY ANDY HUMM | A petite 28-year-old Latina transgender woman, who identified herself as Gaby, was walking at 68th Street and 41st Avenue in Woodside, Queens at 6 a.m. on August 17 when a tall man came...
View ArticleAnti-Gay Bronx Pol Accused of Campaign Finance Violations Using Right-Wing...
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The State Senate campaign of Bronx City Councilmember Fernando Cabrera, well-known for his longstanding anti-LGBT views, is drawing fire from the incumbent he is challenging in next...
View ArticleA Dazzling Rainbow on a Brooklyn Labor Day
PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO | In an annual Labor Day event probably only rivaled in New York by the June LGBT Pride March, as many as two million people turn out on East Parkway in Crown Heights for the...
View ArticleProtesters Target Big Guns at Banking Confab
BY DONNA ACETO | In the latest in a series of high-profile demonstrations against major producers and financers of firearms, Gays Against Guns, an advocacy group that emerged in the wake of the June...
View ArticleLGBT Advocates Endorse Eviction-Prevention Subsidy
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The New York City LGBT Community Center is among the latest advocates to endorse a plan by Queens State Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi that would provide a rent subsidy for households...
View ArticleThousands Rally at Stonewall Against Trump Immigration Ban
BY ANDY HUMM | LGBTQ people have protested and celebrated outside the Stonewall since the Rebellion in 1969. But on Saturday, February 4, in sub-freezing temperatures, thousands filled the streets of...
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