In His Second Epidemic, a Doctor Recalls His First – Gay City News

Published on July 6, 2021

As COVID-19 loomed just over a year ago, Mayor Bill de Blasio told Dr. Mitchell Katz, the out gay head of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, that he was about to do “the hardest thing you have ever done.” The pandemic quickly overwhelmed the city’s public and private hospitals. Supplies of protective equipment […]
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LGBTQ Candidates Get Out the Vote Ahead of Primary Day

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850 'overlooked' trans faces to become historic Trafalgar Square artwork

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