The New Pride Agenda on Nov. 13 was able to raise $200,000 bringing together community leaders, activists, and allies to honor NPA’s impact and accomplishments over the last five years in advancing the rights of LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers.
LGBTQ immigrants and the organizations serving them are preparing for the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, who spent his campaign demonizing undocumented immigrants and aggressively attacking transgender individuals.
The differences largely boil down to taking a strict approach to law enforcement or a more accommodating one that would legitimize things like sex work and more widespread vending, even while touting new public safety initiatives.
Shain Filcher, Esq. (they/he/she), Executive Director of the LGBT Bar of NY is joined by Make the Road New York's Mateo Guerrero (he/el, they/elles), Trans Justice and Leadership Program Manager and Kendal Nystedt, Esq. (she/ella), Supervising Immigration Attorney to examine the intersection of surveillance, employment protections, sex work, and the immigration legal system.
Activists and state lawmakers traveled to Albany on May 15 to inject new momentum into a legislative campaign to comprehensively decriminalize sex work in New York State.