As New York City's animal shelters continue to be inundated with cats and dogs, secondary shelters are left to pick up the slack. Many are at their breaking point.

On an early January morning, in the quiet of his Morningside bedroom, Columbia business student Vincent Lo hovers over his MacBook, debating CAiSEY—his Strategy class’s new generative A.I. chatbot. It’s pretty intuitive to use, he explains. “First,…

Down the dingy basement steps of the West Village’s Rockbar NYC, drag queen Coma White hauls a swollen suitcase of drag impedimenta toward the shambolic makeshift table that is his dressing room. There, beside him, on the busted concrete floor, he…

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By Elliot Leitner

Long-time truant officer, Audrey Dejesus, has tried to set up a LGBTQ+ bar in the Bronx, the only borough without its own queer nightlife, for three decades. This year might finally be her chance.