Carl Wilson, the former chief of staff for New York Sen. Erik Bottcher, has declared victory over a New York City Council seat in a district seen as the birthplace of the gay rights movement, local news outlets have reported.
Wilson will serve as the fifth consecutive gay representative for Manhattan’s 3rd District in the New York City Council. The district, which includes Stonewall Inn, as…
Mathew Shurka says it’s time for a conversion therapy survivor to serve in Congress. Shurka is the cofounder of the anti-conversion therapy project Born Perfect.
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The 37-year-old gay activist is running for the Democratic nomination in New York’s 12th Congressional…
The Pride flag is flying at Stonewall again. More than 1,000 people formed a sea of rainbow and transgender flags and handmade signs, flooding the area surrounding Lower Manhattan’s Christopher Park in Greenwich Village on Thursday after the Trump administration ordered the Pride flag removed from the Stonewall National Monument earlier this week.
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By the time dusk settled over Christopher Park in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood on Tuesday, the narrow triangle of green across from the Stonewall Inn had become a small, loud commons. Rainbow flags were draped over shoulders. Chants rose and fell between the park’s statues. Attendees estimated that 500 to 750 people attended the protest against the National Park Service’s…
**Update:**Mamdani, Schumer & NYC Council demand National Park Service return Pride flag to Stonewall National Monument
A protest is set for Tuesday afternoon at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City after the Trump administration removed the LGBTQ+ Pride flag from the site. That decision has drawn swift backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates, New York officials, and national civil rights…
After winning a special election for New York State Senate last week, Erik Bottcher says the state must be a bulwark against the Trump administration..
Bottcher, a gay Democrat, leaves the New York City Council to fill the state Senate seat being vacated by another gay man, fellow Democrat Brad Hoylman-Sigal, who is now Manhattan borough president. Last fall, Bottcher entered the race for a…