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The bills focus on supporting transgender, gender-nonconforming, and non-binary New Yorkers.

“It’s unreal. It’s like we are in the Bible Belt,” said David Kilmnick the president and CEO of the LGBT Network, a nonprofit that fights for the rights of LGBTQ people and their families in Queens and Long Island.

The Smithtown Library board voted to remove Pride displays from children’s sections, prompting an outcry from New York’s LGBTQ+ community and its allies.

Enthusiasm and pride are bubbling over in the Long Island communities where Karine Jean-Pierre grew up and attended school.

LGBTQ groups praise Gov. Cuomo's daughter on her post about social media censorship News 12 Staff Updated on:Jun 04, 2021, 10:15pm EDT Long Island LGBTQ groups are praising Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo for an Instagram post about how the social media giant censors certain hashtags that are used by the LGBTQ community. In her post, Kennedy-Cuomo writes, "If #bi weren't censored, maybe I could have accessed the information and tools that as a bisexual person I would need to protect myself from increased rates of sexual victimization, homelessness, hunger, unemployment, hate crimes, and mental health ...