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Zohran Mamdani Announces Trans Director to Lead NYC’s First LGBTQIA+ Affairs Office

According to the mayor’s office, Taylor Brown will be the first trans person to head a city agency.

James Factora at Them:

Amid nationwide attacks on transgender rights, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to establish the first-ever Mayor’s Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs, which will also be the first city agency led by a trans person. Mamdani will sign an executive order establishing the office Friday afternoon at the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, according to a press release from the mayor’s office. Taylor Brown, who is currently the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, will serve as the office’s director. Per the announcement, the office will oversee city initiatives that concern LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, advance anti-discrimination measures, and reinforce sanctuary protections for LGBTQ+ people. The city’s extant Unity Project, which also addresses the needs of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers, will be absorbed into the newly formed office. In an emailed statement, Brown said, “New York has given me everything — life-saving health care, education, a home, a career, my chosen family, and a life of purpose.” She added that she is “so proud” to be appointed as the inaugural director of the office. “I will work every day to ensure that the doors of New York City remain open to all and to continue New York City’s legacy as a beacon of opportunity and hope for those who have been ignored, discriminated against, and intentionally excluded,” she said.

Brown has a long history of LGBTQ+-focused legal advocacy. According to her Linkedin, she has previously worked at the National LGBTQ+ Task Force, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU. In addition to her accolades as an attorney, the press release describes her as a “proud bi-racial black transgender woman” who has “survived violence related to her transgender status, poverty, housing instability, employment and healthcare discrimination, to become a trailblazing civil rights litigator and advocate.”

[...] The establishment of the office comes at an uncertain time for access to gender-affirming care for trans youth in New York — a city that also functions as a sanctuary destination for families elsewhere in the U.S. seeking such care.

Good move by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to pick trans woman Taylor Brown to lead the city’s LGBTQIA+ Affairs office.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: Zohran Mamdani recruits NYC’s first openly trans director for new LGBTQIA+ Affairs office

The Advocate: Mayor Mamdani appoints trans woman to run first-ever NYC Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs

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kamu's ufc/mma nickname is "The Jawaiian" and his instagram says "Jamaican Blood ╳ Hawaiian Born⁣" so despite all of his other terrible qualities its very possible that racist isnt one of them and he likes Taylor romantically or just in general

i personally don't see taylor and kamu happening romantically, but it is kind of endearing to see him down bad for her. however, i've learned to stop shipping interracial pairs after tyler/bayleigh from BB20, taylor/kyle from BB24, kirsten/matt from BB25 & t'kor/tucker from BB26. it just never goes well.

to be clear, i don't think kamu's racist at all — he, unfortunately, just associates with haley who easily gets aroused by making microaggressions and her hatred for taylor and lala. that's why i dislike him a little less than chuk and haley. he's just homophobic (or at least ignorant and unwilling to embrace or respect queer culture), that's the core issue.

also, just because kamu identifies as jamaican and hawaiian, it doesn't mean he's a legit POC. he is, like dee, drew, and lyric, white passing. dee is a white cuban from miami, and they're known to be extremely racist towards black people. white jamaicans and white hawaiians exist. white africans exist. same way black europeans do. that's just the reality.

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I'd literally rather sit here and watch Taylor pick at her nails than watch those assholes eat and be merry. You got this taylor!

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Some more wolfy (xenofiction) fanarts!

The first two are Graynose and One-Eleven from Wolvers, which isn't really a XF as a whole but does have brief wolf-POV chapters.

Third is Veter from A Wolf For a Spell

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NYC’s most powerful transgender official is fighting intensifying anti-LGBTQ+ federal pressure

Appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Taylor Brown is confronting the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people and dismantling long-stand

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