Here's how New York ranked on Time Out's list of most diverse and inclusive cities
There's no doubt New York is one of the best cities in the world, but now we have definitive proof NYC is also officially a diverse and inclusive metropolis. Hubs across the globe may boast outstanding street food, dazzling nightlife culture, or easy navigation on foot — but those perks are pretty pointless if you don't feel welcome there.
This is exactly why Time Out asked 18,500 city-dwellers whether they'd describe their city as "diverse and inclusive" and the results are incredible. As federal (and, yes, international) clowning continues to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, the larger Time Out team has decided to do our own digging to seek out the spaces where locals feel most comfortable being themselves.
And, on the list of the world's most diverse and inclusive cities, New York unsurprisingly ranked near the top, coming in at No. 3 among 15 cities worldwide. (Actually, the Big Apple tied for Brighton, U.K. for the third-place spot.) Overall, London came out on top, with Melbourne, Australia claiming second place among their respective locals.
New York is one of the most diverse cities not only in the U.S. but the world, with more than 200 languages spoken and about 37-percent of residents born outside the country, according to the city's official website. Along with Brighton, 76-percent of locals gave Gotham the stamp of approval for diversity and inclusion.
The birthplace of the Stonewall Riots, NYC is widely known as one of the world's most welcoming cities for LGBQT+ people. Today, neighborhoods beyond Greenwich and West Village are go-tos for queer nightlife, including Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and Bushwick in Brooklyn.
Brighton, on the other side of the Atlantic, is a seaside city affectionately known as the United Kingdom's Gay Capital. In fact, data from the 2023 census shows a higher proportion of people identifying as bi, pan, asexual and non-binary there than in any other city in England and Wales. Situated along Britain's Southern coast, Brighton is also home to one of the most popular Pride celebrations in Europe, including queer nightlife hot spots along Kemptown and St James's Street.
If not New York, we're happy to see London take the cake: a whopping 78-percent of survey respondents said they'd describe the U.K.'s capital as diverse and inclusive. With a long immigration history, London is perhaps considered the single-most diverse city on the planet. You'll find around 300 languages are spoken in pockets of communities (Green Lanes, Little Korea, Little Lagos) throughout the city.
Across the globe in Melbourne, 77-percent of locals praised the city's diversity. Originally named Naarm, Australia's second-largest city lies across several different Indigenous Australian land divides. Melbourne honors those communities in its art scene and shows off a thriving Chinatown and huge Greek influence in its Southeastern suburbs, thanks to WWII emigrants.
Check out the complete list of the 15 most diverse and inclusive cities in the world:
London, UK
Melbourne, Australia
Brighton, UK= New York, USA
Los Angeles, USA
Chicago, USA
Madrid, Spain
Barcelona, Spain
Bangkok, Thailand
Johannesburg, South Africa= Cape Town, South Africa
Montreal, Canada= Medellin, Colombia= Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia= San Francisco, USA
Keep in mind: There are numerous factors that make a city great, and we've acutely assessed them all. Check out the complete collection of the best cities in the world for walkability, public transport, and green space, as well as the best cities for food, nightlife and culture. Oh, and here's our latest annual list of the world's best cities overall.
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Why ‘big hairy' Welsh miners led London Pride in1985
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They were protesting plans by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government to close 20 collieries, which threatened to cut 20,000 jobs from many towns who relied on the coal pits for employment. Despite being hundreds of miles away from the nearest coal mines, Mike and his friend Mark Ashton decided they had to do something to stop this happening. 'It was in my blood to support the miners. It was the most obvious thing to do,' Mike, 71, explains. 'We were having a bad time, too. Gay men faced completely undiluted bigotry shown by everybody – the courts, the police, the government, schools, colleges, you name it. With thousands of members from all over the world, our vibrant LGBTQ+ WhatsApp channel is a hub for all the latest news and important issues that face the LGBTQ+ community. Simply click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! Don't forget to turn on notifications! 'We were sick of Thatcher and were desperate to get rid of her. The miners had shown us a way. They could have hated our guts and we still would have supported them because we knew that if Thatcher won, Britain would go down the pan as far as working class people are concerned.' Mike and Mark decided to rattle some donation buckets with friends during the Pride march that year and managed to raise hundreds of pounds for the miners. Spurred on by their efforts they created a group to help raise more money called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). Numbers grew rapidly, with as many as 50 regular attendees helping them to fundraise for the striking miners. Within a few weeks LGSM were regularly collecting outside every main gay or lesbian venue in London, including the 'Gay's the Word' bookshop. In total the group raised a staggering £22,500 (£73,500 in today's money) in their year long campaign, but hit a stumbling block early on – who should they donate it to? The Thatcher government had sequestered National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)'s funds, meaning it was pointless for supporters of the strike to send donations to them. So, in the end, LGSM decided to twin with the Neath, Dulais, and Swansea Valleys Miners Support Group deep in South Wales. Keen to meet the miners they were working so hard to help, in October 1984, Mark, Mike and 25 members of their crew rocked up at Onllwyn Miners' Welfare Hall in the Dulais. They had no idea how a town of gruff miners would react to a group of LGBTQ+ people from London. 'We were young and we were quite conspicuous because we were LGBT,' remembers Mike. 'When we walked in, the whole crowd of people stopped talking for a moment. We knew that was a response to us – we just didn't know what it meant.' That was, until the miners broke into rowdy applause for their newfound friends. 'Who would have expected, miners who have very tough, hard jobs, would give us that kind of reception? 'We all then got drunk and exchanged stories. By the end of that weekend, we'd cemented friendships that were to last to this day. We never expected that kind of welcome.' Why were LGSM met with such tolerance? Mike thinks the miner's wives might have had something to do with it. While their husbands were off at protests, they were busy fundraising and liaising with their support groups – so they saw first hand how important LGSM's work was for their community. 'I think in the weeks leading up to our visit, the women had talked to the men and made them think in an adult way about gay people,' Mike explains. 'So by the time we got there, the miners were thinking, 'This is brave of these queer boys coming in here. Very brave of them'.' The miners even returned the favour and travelled to London, where Mike and his friends took them to bars in Soho. Their unlikely friendship turned out not just to be crucial support for the striking workers, but also sparked an outpouring of support for LGBTQ+ people after the Neath, Dulais, and Swansea miners began wearing LGSM's badges in solidarity. They even stuck the group's logo on their van as they travelled up and down the country to join strikes at other pits. 'There was these big hairy miners on picket lines, facing up to the police and getting the s**t kicked out of them by the police – and they're wearing gay badges,' remembers Mike. 'And the really crucial way for miners to know what was happening nationally was literally speaking to each other on these picket lines. So our Welsh guys would go around saying, 'Oh, we've got the gays supporting us. Marvellous people. They've been so good to us'. 'They realised what we needed in terms of support was people to identify with us, to be our allies.' Ten other LGSM groups sprung up across the country during the year long strike and began fundraising for other towns battling to keep their coal pits open. However, as the New Year approached, the number of people crossing the picket line had increased as many miners faced serious financial hardship, while arrests, clashes with police and divisions within the movement demoralised those striking. By March 1985, thousands of miners marched back to work, which marked the end of a year of industrial action – and weakened the power of trade unions under Thatcher's government. Defeated and demoralised, a group of 70 miners travelled down from Dulais in June 1985 to London Pride in the very van they had brought from LGSM's donations, to say thank you for all the support they had received from the LGBTQ+ community. Their arrival was met with awe from the crowd – just as Mike and his friends had, when they turned up in Wales. Remembering the scene as they unfolded their trade union and LGSM bannersat the march's starting point in Hyde Park, he says: 'The crowd arrived and they saw this huge banner. They gathered around it and wouldn't move. 'So the organisers came round and said: 'Look, you're going to have to lead the march because the crowd around you is so big'.' The miner's support did not end there. The NUM had once been dismissive of gay rights campaigning, but that changed at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth in 1985, when miners voted as a block to support a resolution committing the party to gay rights. The same happened at the Trade Union Conference that year. 'The whole of the entire trade union movement followed the miners' example and supported lesbian and gay rights in homage to the recently defeated miners,' Mike recalls. Mining groups soon became some of the most vocal supports of LGBT rights and began leading fundraising efforts for HIV/Aids charities. For author and playwright Clayton Littlewood, who was a gay man in London during the strike, the legacy of LGSM 'has been incredible'. He tells Metro: 'Back then, I thought, 'Why are we collecting for striking miners?' Now it all makes sense. 'That unity between two attack groups, it almost put the sexuality aside and was like, 'You're oppressed, we're oppressed. How can we join forces?' It helped the miners, it helped gay need that kind of solidarity again.' Clayton now helps the dating app Grindr with a social media project called 'Daddy Lessons', dedicated to commemorating key moments in gay history and features the history of LGSM, hoping to educate more young people about its importance. 'If people can see that kind of history and see what happened then and how successful it was, they may think of trying to join forces with other groups because we need support at the moment,' he explains. 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LGBTQ musician goes viral after playing protest song at ‘Hetero Awesome Fest' in Idaho
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He put on his 'battle jacket' and began to play the song, which is called 'Boy.' 'They put him in dresses to keep him in line; they say it's a phase and it's all in his mind. They put him in ballet; he wants to play ball. What matters to him doesn't matter at all. The boy that everyone thought was a girl,' Hamrick sang. Other lyrics in the song included, 'It's not just aesthetics; it's down to his heart. They're breaking his will, and he's breaking apart,' and later in the song, 'Let teacher take a glance, what's in your underpants,' a reference to the surge in state laws that regulate which sports teams trans youth can play on at school and which bathrooms they are allowed to use. Nearly three minutes into the song, one of the festival organizers pulled Hamrick's mic off the stage, and then security escorted him off as he continued to play his guitar and finished the song without a mic, according to a video posted by the Boise Blackbirds Instagram account, which is run by a local independent journalist and activist. Hamrick said he wrote the song last year. He is bisexual and not transgender, but he said he has many loved ones who are trans. 'The song is for everyone who listens to it and feels heard and seen and maybe just a little less alone,' he said, adding that it's for people who might be in conservative, religious communities who don't have a community they can trust. 'Know that your pastor or your parents or your Boy Scout troop leader isn't this insurmountable, unquestionable force of nature, but that if you have to hide right now, then that's what you have to do,' Hamrick said. 'You have to survive. But once you are out of that, there is a community that is ready to take you in and love you and support you.' Fitzpatrick, the festival's organizer, described Hamrick's actions as a 'pathetic and evil act' in an email to NBC News. 'Our festival is a fortress for traditional family values: faith, freedom, truth, and the sanctity of what makes us human,' Fitzpatrick said. 'He lied to us to get a chance to play on stage in front of our guests, children included, stating his act would honor that. When he got on stage, he threw on part of a military uniform dishonoring the Army, and unleashed a song glorifying transgender ideology. It was a vile anthem pushing the lie that boys can be girls and girls can be boys. So I yanked his mic and told him to leave.' He said the festival was still a 'bigger success than I ever dreamed.' He said he spent about $40,000 personally and is 'getting millions in publicity against the Left wing PRIDE nutjobs.' As for Hamrick, he said Buzzbomb 7 Eleven is working on recording 'Boy' and another song so that they can release it publicly. Some of his supporters have called him a 'hero,' but Hamrick said he's very uncomfortable with that. 'If it inspired a lot of people to get involved, that's a wonderful role for me to have,' he said. 'I'm so happy that I get to play that part, but it is just a small part. If you want to send love, send it to your organizers. Send it to the people who are putting together protests, who are doing food drives for unhoused people. There are people who are on the ground, working every day to try to make life more livable for queer people in this country.'
Time Out
a day ago
- Time Out
NYC Pride March this weekend: guide to route, headliners, and the official theme
Pride Weekend is here! Of course, New Yorkers have been celebrating all month long, but this weekend—with multiple marches and special events—makes for an epic grand finale. While this weekend is certainly about fun, remember that Pride is a protest. After all, the first Pride march held a year after the Stonewall Uprising was an unpermitted political protest against anti-LGBTQ+ policies and attitudes; this Saturday's Dyke March is still an unpermitted protest. When thousands take to the streets for Sunday's Pride March, it will be part of a crucial annual civil rights demonstration. Here, we've rounded up everything you need to know about the event. When is the NYC Pride March? The NYC Pride March is on Sunday, June 29, 2025, starting at 11am. What is the theme for the 2025 Pride March? NYC Pride 2025's theme is "Rise up: Pride in Protest." It's a more defiant stance compared to recent years. "As the LGBTQIA+ community faces increasing hostility and legislative attacks, this year's theme is a reflection of the Pride movement's origins in protest—and is a powerful call to action for our communities and allies to rally and march in defiant celebration, advocacy and solidarity," their website reads. Who are the 2025 Pride March Grand Marshals? President Joe Biden's Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been named as one of the grand marshals for the NYC Pride March. Other grand marshals this year include Marti Gould Cummings, DJ Lina, Elisa Crespo and Trans formative Schools. NYC Pride selects the grand marshals, "to recognize their resilience, activism and diverse contributions to uplifting the queer community and advancing LGBTQIA+ progress in New York City and beyond," per NYC Pride. Is NYC Pride March free? Yes, it is! How long does the NYC Pride March last? In past years, the Pride March celebrations have gone on for between six and 12 hours. Be prepared for the many unofficial afterparties, too! What's the weather looking like? As of now, the weather looks pretty perfect for Sunday's March. Manhattan is in for 87-degree temperatures with some clouds and sun, per AccuWeather. And, thankfully for anybody who doesn't want their makeup to melt off their face, it's going to be less humid—whew! What's the NYC Pride March route? The Pride March kicks off at 26th Street and 5th Avenue, then continues through the city until dispersing at 15th Street and 7th Avenue. What streets will be closed? Here's the full list of the street closures, per NYC DOT. Formation: 5th Avenue between 33rd Street and 25th Street West/East 33rd Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 32nd Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 31st Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 30th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 29th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 28th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 27th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West/East 26th Street between 6th Avenue and Madison Avenue West 25th Street between 6th Avenue and 5th Avenue Route: 5th Avenue between 25th Street and 8th Street West 8th Street between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue Greenwich Avenue between 6th Avenue and Christopher Street Christopher Street between Greenwich Avenue and 7th Avenue South 7th Avenue between Christopher Street and 16th Street Dispersal: 7th Avenue between 15th Street and 19th Street 16th Street between 8th Avenue and 6th Avenue 17th Street between 9th Avenue and 6th Avenue 18th Street between 8th Avenue and 6th Avenue 19th Street between 9th Avenue and 6th Avenue Miscellaneous: Christopher Street between West Street and 7th Avenue South Greenwich Avenue between 6th Avenue and 8th Avenue How can I watch the march on TV? If you can't make it in person along the route, the NYC Pride March is typically broadcast on ABC-7. What other Pride events are happening this weekend?
