AIDS activists argue that Health Commissioner Thomas Farley has failed to implement new HIV prevention programs, and want Mayor de Blasio to replace him, reports Gay City News.

Gentrification in popular gay enclaves such as Chelsea and Hell’s Kitchen is driving many same-sex male couples to move to Inwood in Upper Manhattan, reports Northattan.

Two events on investment in Russia were scaled back after protests led by LGBTQ activist group Queer Nation, reports Gay City News.

The LGBTQ influence on fashion, predating even Oscar Wilde, is explored in a new exhibit at FIT.

When Jeanne Manford stood by her son in a gay rights march and started what would become a national movement, homosexuality was still thought of as a mental disorder. Supporters of the late LGBT activist are closer to seeing her legacy emblazoned on a street sign, reports Queens Courier.

In reporting on a Make the Road New York study that found transgender people face heightened discrimination in the workplace, El Diario-La Prensa speaks to transgender New Yorkers who confirm the finding with their own experiences.

NYC & Company, the city’s tourism promoter, will close its Moscow office at the start of next year due to the anti-gay laws, reports Gay City News.

Activists protested at the Met Opera over “ardent supporters” of Vladimir Putin, reports Gay City News.

In the aftermath of the hate crime and death of transgender woman Islan Nettles, a self-defense class was offered to Harlemites, with a focus on situations pertinent to the LGBT community, reports The Uptowner.

A South Bronx-based playwright and director is including community members in the production of his film, Zookeeper, which confronts homophobia in Latino communities, says a report in the Mott Haven Herald. The movie is based on his award-winning autobiographical play.

The Audre Lorde Project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, asks local businesses to become safe havens for the LGBTQ, a community which has had an uneasy relationship with police, reports Brooklyn Bureau.

A new Bronx LGBT center is hoping to fill the lack of a communal space in the borough after the last center shut down over a scandal involving a former executive director, reports Norwood News. The center also comes in response to a rise in reports of violent acts against LGBT people in the Bronx.

One could argue she doesn’t have a choice, but still, mayoral candidate Christine Quinn embraces her record, all of it – the good, the unpopular, the controversial – with surprising gusto.

Elected officials and Upper Manhattan residents praised President Obama’s choice of an openly gay ambassador to the Dominican Republic, while at the same time criticizing the heated opposition to the decision on the part of the island’s religious leaders.

The LGBT community reveled in the Supreme Court’s overturning of DOMA, reports Gay City News. However, the Jewish Daily Forward and the Indypendent spoke of more muted celebrations, in light of the devastating Voting Rights Act ruling a day earlier.