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NYC Mayor Eric Adams in front of City Hall dissenting against the overturn of Roe v. Wade and discussing next steps for the city | June...

Photo of protesters in Washington, D.C. in 2019 | Photo by Chris Boese Within minutes of the Supreme Court decision to officially...

Lesbian icon, author and NYC LGBTQ+ fixture, Leslie Cohen, has died. Cohen’s death comes in the wake of her newest book The Audacity of a...

It’s National Deaf LGBTQ+ week, a project that began in 2018 by the Deaf Queer Resource Center and now occurs annually in April, with...

Emilio Delgado, the actor who played Luis, the best pal to all of the Sesame Street characters for 44 years, died on Thursday in...

Many queer folks did not receive adequate safe sex education in high school. A somewhat recent GLSEN report found that less than 5% of...

(Editor’s note: To understand how this story was reported, please refer to the article titled: “Transparency: How NYC’s Increase...

Following the Joe Rogan controversy on Spotify, many artists are pulling their work from the streaming platform in an effort to condemn...

Head shot of Melanie Willingham-Jaggers via GLSEN press release. LGBTQ+ advocacy group, GLSEN, has a new director and the first Black...

Arnie Kantrowitz, an LGBTQ+ rights activist and founding member of GLAAD, has died at age 81. Dr. Lawrence D. Mass, Kantrowitz’s...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams was planning to hire Fernando Cabrera, a former Bronx Councilmember, to lead the Mayor’s Office of Community Health...

A new podcast, Ring the Alarm, highlights the human rights abuses happening in Jamaica and the secret network of safe houses keeping...

A historic blood shortage in the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic has put even more pressure on the Food and Drug...

Andrew Blaser of Idaho is the first publicly gay man to earn a spot in the Olympic skeleton sport. The other two athletes to earn a spot...

University of Sydney study published findings that people’s sexual orientation may fluctuate over time after being exposed to different...

The new queer rom-com story “AM I OK?” written by Lauren Pomerantz and directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne is premiering at...

“Buck Up And Drive,” an arcade racer game, has an LGBTQ+ toggle that turns all billboards in the game into pride flags. Some users are...

Welcome to back to YUNGMIGA’s Friday Queer Catch-Up, a weekly post where folks can catch up recent LGBTQ+ news and pop culture. LOCAL...

Photo via Claudia López's Twitter Bogota, Colombia’s capital and Chicago’s sister city, elected Claudia López as mayor. This makes her...

Welcome to back to YUNGMIGA’s Friday Queer Catch-Up, a weekly post where folks can catch up recent LGBTQ+ news and pop culture. NEWS...