Queer on the Street

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...

Leonie M. Brinkema, a US District judge, issued a permanent injunction earlier this month from “categorically barring the worldwide...

Photo of the new plaque, honoring the "Sip In," outside of Julius' Bar | Photo by Village Preservation New York City paid homage to a...

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...

NYC Mayor, Eric Adams, talks with LGBTQ+ advocates on Florida's "Don't Say Gay" legislature, new campaign, amongst other topics.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a new campaign which denounces the “Don’t Say Gay” bill through digital billboards and creative...

A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that despite anti-LGBTQ+ legislation popping up all over the United...

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

Robert Fehring, a 74-year-old Long Island man and retired high school teacher, plead guilty to threatening to bomb and shoot LGBTQ events...

Local leaders call for a boycott of Staten Island’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade after LGBTQ+ groups from marching in the parade with their...

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...

Trevor Project reported that 28 percent of LGBTQ+ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives...

LGBTQ+ seniors are now eligible for survivor benefits if they were in a long-term relationship for same-sex marriage was legalized. Two...

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...