Two more anti-gay attacks were reported in New York City in the hours after about 1,500 people attended a rally Monday night (20 May) in the streets of Greenwich Village where a gay man was gunned down over the weekend.

This brings the number of anti-gay attacks in New York City during the past 30 days to seven including the murder of 32-year-old Mark Carson who was shot in the head Saturday.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a news conference Tuesday (21 May) called the murder of Carson 'despicable.'

Country music singer Chely Wright and her wife, Lauren Blitzer-Wright, are the parents of identical twin boys born over the weekend.

The singer, whose hits include Single White Female and Shut Up and Drive, gave birth to the children on Saturday (18 May) in New York City.

The babies are named George Samuel and Everett Joseph after their great-grandfathers.

In announcing her pregnancy in March, Wright had said the babies were technically due in July but since they were identical twins, she had expected to deliver at least a month early.

A group of LGBT Catholics and allies were threatened with arrest for staging a silent protest in front of New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The group stood outside the Fifth Avenue landmark with ash-covered hands, staging what they called a Dirty Hands Vigil in response to a blogpost published by Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan where he invited LGBT individuals to participate in the Catholic faith, but with the ‘clear expectation’ that they must first ‘wash your hands!’ of sin.

Mister Cee, a popular DJ at the New York City radio station Hot 97, was reportedly arrested last week for soliciting a male prostitute.

According to the website Rod 2.0 (who linked to a Daily News article), the 46 year-old allegedly approached an undercover police officer. Cee, whose legal name is Calvin LeBrun, will appear on the station's morning show tomorrow (6 April) to explain last week's events.

Want to see the tangible results of the modern gay rights battle? Count the number of companies who signed the amicus brief in the US Supreme Court case involving the Defense of Marriage Act. Retailers like Amazon and Starbucks put their brand names behind marriage equality. High powered firms like Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs did the same. Approximately 300 companies said in part:

Just three days after receiving the Advocate for Change prize at the GLAAD Media Award in Los Angeles, Bill Clinton turned up in New York to introduce the film Bridegroom at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The former president, close friends with the film's director Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, spoke highly of the documentary that shines a light on how a lack of marital rights can compound the grief of a surviving spouse when the other one dies.

German film director Roland Emmerich is going to work on a new movie on the Stonewall’s riots of 1969.

The author of 2012, Stargate and The Day After Tomorrow will spend about $14 million (€11 million) to film the story of a gay homeless teen who comes to New York and joins the Stonewall’s community.

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

There have been further calls in the United States for men who have sex with men to get vaccinated against bacterial meningitis, also known as meningococcal disease, after a series of deaths from the disease in gay men.

Anti-gay public figures outnumber LGBT public figures in Time magazine’s ‘100 most influential people’ list for 2013.

The 10th annual list, published yesterday (April 18), includes just three openly LGBT public figures.

They include New York City based fashion designer Michael Kors, President and Creative Director of J Crew Jenna Lyons, and the bisexual singer-songwriter Frank Ocean.

Meanwhile, the head of the New Life Covenant Church Wilfredo de Jesus has made the list.

His father has been one of the most outspoken critics of gay marriage in New York politics but Ruben Diaz Jr. on Wednesday (27 March) showed that he is his own man in the issue.

The younger Diaz, who is president of the Bronx borough in New York City, said in a blog post that he came to the decision after 'considerable deliberation and introspection.'

While the dad who posted the letter to his gay son may be up for Parent of the Year, he might just have some competition.

Two guys, described as ‘construction worker types’, were recorded chatting about their gay sons on a New York City subway.

Posted on SoLetsTalkAboutThis.com by writer Ravi D’Angelo, he claimed he overheard the two middle-aged white men looking like ‘you’d expect to see on a building site’ starting to talk about their families.

Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Council speaker and out lesbian, launched a run for mayor this morning.