Gays’ Forum on Police Amid claims of mistreatment, group eyes fixes
By Alan Krawitz
Newsday
9 July 2002

When Jeffrey Montgomery’s boyfriend was killed in 1985 in Detroit, a police source told Montgomery the department didn’t want to waste resources by investigating “just another gay killing,” he said.
That surprising revelation served to underscore the generally bleak tenor of a [...]

Jackson Heights This Week
New Law Stands Up For LGBT Youth
Queens Tribune
1-7 July 2010
The New York State Senate passed sweeping anti-bullying legislation on June 22 that will be the first in the nation to include protection for transgender individuals.
The Dignity for All Students Act passed the Senate by an overwhelming 58-3 margin, winning support from [...]

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New York, 6 July 2010 — Queens Pride House is appealing to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community for support in the face of possibly devastating state funding [...]

Julio Rivera’s brother, Ted & niece, Jennifer (second and third from left) at the July 2 vigil on 37th St. in Jackson Heights (photo: John Won).
On 2 July 2010, members of the family of Julio Rivera were joined by nearly 70 people who gathered to remember the murder of the young gay Latino who was [...]

Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer came to the forum at NYU and spoke briefly about transgender rights.
Turning Law Into Action
Panel at NYU discusses obstacles, opportunities of gender rights law
By Winnie McCroy
Gay City News
April 21-27, 2005
Vol. IV, Issue 16
A crowd of about 50 transgendered people, advocates and political leaders gathered at New York University’s Kimmel Center on April [...]

City implements trans rights
Local Law 3 amends the city’s Human Rights Law to protect gender identity and
expression
By Mike Lavers
New York Blade News
Friday, April 22, 2005
As a transsexual, Justine Nicholas said she often feels like Nora in the last act of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House.” This sense of isolation was only compounded after a security guard in Midtown demanded that [...]

Pataki ready to be underdog once again
Governor’s gay-friendly record could hurt a potential presidential run
By James Withers
New York Blade News
August 5, 2005
After months of speculation, Gov. George Pataki made it official last week and announced he would not seek a fourth term. Instead, many political experts expect Pataki to make a run for the Republican Party’s nomination for [...]

Loehmann’s settles human rights complaint with transgender woman
By Chris Lombardi
Chelsea Now
Volume One, Issue 23
February 23 – March 1, 2007
Jane Garra, a tall, leggy blues guitarist with hair flopping into her eyes, is often interrupted during performances at Brooklyn’s Buttermilk bar and the Ace Café in Manhattan, accosted by young women with a simple question not about her unusual [...]

Advocates Protest Name Change Denial
Trans rights group presses for reconsideration of Manhattan ruling
By Duncan Osborne
Gay City News
14-20 September 2006
Volume 5, Number 37
The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is objecting after a Manhattan Civil Court judge denied name changes to four transgendered women who sought the new names as part of transitioning to their female sex. “He called us up and [...]

Gay students face hostile environment, report says
By Ellen Yan
staff writer
Newsday
October 28, 2005
Many gay and transgender students have been harassed daily in city schools, including by staff who call them names or remain silent when they see bullying, concludes a report released Thursday.
The survey from the nonprofit Advocates for Children, which interviewed 75 current students and dropouts, is considered [...]

Report: Staff also taunt gay students
New York Blade News
4 November 2005
Both students and staff in city schools harass gay students, a nonprofit group announced last week in a published study. In a survey sponsored by Advocates for Children, about a third of the students reported being called names daily and 26 percent said they had been hurt or threatened. [...]

La Rudia
Giuliani & Transgender Rights: The Untold Story
by Pauline Park
10 July 10 2007
BigQueer.com
As Rudolph William Louis Giuliani pursues his candidacy for for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, the former mayor of New York City is almost invariably described by the mainstream media as “pro-gay rights.” That reputation is largely based on a few high-level appointments to his [...]