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Jim Owles Hosting First Mayoral Forum
The Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, an LGBTQ political organization, is hosting six mayoral candidates on October 13 in the first forum dedicated to the 2021 race for the city’s top job. The forum...
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Mayoral Hopefuls Divided on Sex Work Decrim at Jim Owles Forum
Seven candidates vying to become the next mayor of New York City presented starkly different positions on an important LGBTQ issue — the decriminalization of sex work — during a wide-ranging virtual...
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Amid the ongoing uncertainty and hardship wrought by the raging COVID-19 pandemic, one bright spot where relief has kept pace with the public health emergency in New York is the progress made reducing...
View ArticleCarlos Menchaca Is Running for Mayor
Just weeks after the most prominent member among the five out gay city councilmembers — Speaker Corey Johnson — bowed out of the 2021 race for mayor, one of his colleagues, Brooklyn’s Carlos Menchaca,...
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De Blasio Team Open but Noncommital to Intersex Outreach Bill
Intersex advocates who joined a City Council hearing on October 28 made impassioned pleas in favor of a bill to establish an educational and outreach campaign directed at doctors and parents of...
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Stonewall Demonstration Followed By Aggressive NYPD Offensive, Arrests
With Vice President Joe Biden on the cusp of victory in the 2020 presidential election, a weekly demonstration near the Stonewall Inn and a subsequent march was met with aggressive confrontation by the...
View ArticleCouncil Probe Alleges NYPD Anti-Harassment Official Posted Bigoted Online...
A leader of the NYPD’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity hid behind an online persona as he spewed racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist, and other intolerant comments on a message board...
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Video Footage Amps Up Outrage Over NYPD Killing of Queer Man in His Home
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark on November 17 released police body camera and hallway surveillance footage showing the moment when NYPD officers entered a Black queer man’s apartment last year...
View ArticleTrans Leaders Demand Oversight of Annual Pride Festivities
Several transgender leaders and organizations in the city are calling on organizers of the city’s main Pride festivities to allow Black and Brown transgender individuals to run the annual Pride events...
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American LGBTQ+ Museum Breaks Ground
LGBTQ celebrities, elected officials, and board members led a groundbreaking ceremony on September 14 to welcome the forthcoming American LGBTQ+ Museum, which is expected to begin construction next...
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