The highly queer inauguration of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani; the sad loss of great NYC activist Mark Milano. • The Trump offenses to decency, separation of church and state, and international law intensify. • The EEOC is calling on White men to come forward with bias allegations. • Trump cutting federal funding to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors. • NY Mayor Mamdani names an out lesbian as Fire Commissioner—a first. • Composer Steven Schwartz joins boycott of the Kennedy Center under Trump. • Major losses including veteran NY gay and AIDS activist Mark Milano and pioneering German gay activist and filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim. • The highest grossing movie actor in the world in 2025 is a gay man.