NYC Pride March 2023: NYPD working 'to keep everybody safe'

Organizers have planned a series of concerts, live performances, and other events across the city all weekend to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

NYC Pride faced with unprecedented rise in anti-LGBTQ laws, rise in hate crimes

According to the Human Rights Campaign, there’s been more legislation passed targeting LGBTQ+ individuals in 2023 than there has been in the past five years combined.

NYC Pride Grand Marshal reflects on being one of nation's first gay rights activists

Hear the story of Randy Wicker, one of the Grand Marshals at NYC Pride this year, and how the 'Sip-In' at Julius' Bar was part of the fight for gay rights, years before the Stonewall Riots.

Pride in History: LGBTQ+ figures who shaped history

FOX 5 NY has partnered with The Advocate magazine to take a look at the contributions members of the LGBTQ+ community have made over the course of history.

Pride flag stolen from Queens home

Two men were caught on camera ripping a Pride flag down from a home in Fresh Meadows, the third incident of its kind to happen in the city in a week.

Bud Light no longer America's top-selling beer as backlash continues

It's a milestone in Bud Light's months-long sales decline since early April, when critics who were angered by the brewer sending a commemorative can to transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney vowed to boycott the brand.

North Carolina GOP votes to censure Sen. Tillis for supporting LGBTQ+ rights

Republican delegates in North Carolina voted Saturday at their annual convention to censure Thom Tillis, the state’s senior U.S. senator, for supporting policies they said violate key tenets of the GOP platform.

Staten Island queer garden provides space for LGBTQ youth

The queer garden at the Alice Austen House Museum was created to ensure LGBTQ youth have a safe space to be among their peers and learn about gardening.

3 out of 4 Americans support LGBTQ ad campaigns, GLAAD survey finds

More than half of people polled said seeing LGBTQ people in ads makes them "more comfortable with people who are different than themselves."

Pride Month kicks off in NYC

June has been an important month for the LGBTQ+ rights movement since New York City’s first pride march — then dubbed the “Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day March" — on June 28, 1970.

Court ruling keeps Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr out of House

The ruling came after attorneys for the state of Montana asked the judge to reject Zephyr’s attempt to return. She was silenced two weeks ago then banished last week for admonishing Republican lawmakers and encouraging a raucous statehouse protest.

Montana GOP bars transgender lawmaker from 2023 session

Transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr was barred from participating on the House floor as Republican leaders voted Wednesday to silence her for the rest of 2023 session after she protested GOP leaders’ decision earlier in the week to silence her.

CVS 'gender transition' guide says employees must use preferred pronouns, can use bathroom reflecting identity

In the guidelines obtained exclusively by FOX Business, employees are told they may be entitled to a medical leave of absence "under the Family and Medical Leave Act, state law, and/or CVS Health policy."

West Virginia could ban transgender care

The Republican governor has not taken a public stance on the measure and it's unclear whether he will sign it into law.