Mister Halston: The Man Who Dressed America Faces Himself

“Matt McGrath doesn’t play Halston. He becomes him.” Fashion icon, celebrity, visionary, narcissist, survivor and victim. In Raffaele Pacitti’s beautifully crafted Mister Halston, all of these versions of the legendary designer collide during a fictionalized 1987 interview that finds Halston confronting the life he built just as it begins slipping beyond his control. At the […]

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Gay activist launches Stonewall Monument camera campaign to monitor NYC Pride flag site

Weeks after the removal and restoration of the LGBTQ+ Pride flag at Stonewall National Monument in New York City, one activist has launched a GoFundMe campaign to fund a camera installation to monitor the site.

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Michael Petrelis, an AIDS and LGBTQ+ rights activist, _launched…

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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.01.26

The Blizzard of ’26, which New York endured this week, is already a fading memory. We have fresh chaotic news every day, keeping everyone off-kilter, with purpose – some would say.

Snowmanhenge has melted, French street artist JR plans to transform Pont Neuf bridge this summer in Paris, and in Texas they’re erasing queer and black folks from the streets. Here in the city we’re going to keep an…

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Lift the stay: AIDS Health Foundation files motion to resume administrative hearing ASAP

A leading provider of AIDS care is asking a Florida state administrative court to resume proceedings in a legal challenge to the DeSantis administration’s move to reduce enrollment eligibility in a program that helps people purchase medications. In a filing in state administrative court, attorneys for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) accuse the Department of […]

Remembering Jesse Jackson's longtime advocacy for LGBTQ+ equality

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who died Tuesday morning at age 84, was a longtime supporter of LGBTQ+ equality, arguing for an inclusive and intersectional movement championing the rights of all marginalized people.

Jackson fought against racial segregation as a young man, both independently and as a staffer for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership…

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