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NYC based freelance journalist & events photographer. Photographer for Gay City News.
Community Impact Award recipient. (C) Donna F. Aceto
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SHAME ON MOUNT SINAI! @genderlib In September, the Trump DOJ reached a settlement with Mount Sinai that will permanently end gender-affirming care for trans youth-and require Mount Sinai to dedicate $2 million to detransition-related care. Mount Sinai didn’t end this care because the science suddenly changed. It capitulated to the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people, their families, and the healthcare providers who care for them. We will not let this stand monthly pickets. join us for 📍 1190 5th Ave. 📅 Thursday, November 5th ⏰ 4:30 PM PS. Are you a parent of a trans kid or a trans person who received care at Mount Sinai as a youth? We want to hear from you. Email info@genderlib.org.
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Sing Out Louise released an updated version of their "Vote" video today. "Vote '26" is again a reimagining of Madonna's "Vogue" with lyrics that will surely inspire you to stuff that ballot box on November 3rd. 🗳️ The shoot was filled with so many activists I admire and revere, organizations @risenresistnyc @gaysagainstgunsny joined @singoutlouisenyc for the shoot with @martigcummings as Madonna! I'm proud and honored to be a part of this video as well as have worked with all these groups and stood shoulder to shoulder with almost everyone in this video at some point on the streets at a protest or vigil or rally. Photos by @donnaaceto As @elissastein said last night @thestonewallinn for the premiere, "Joy is resistance." and we hope this project brings you joy as it reminds you that each election seems to replace the last one as the most important election of our lifetime. Watch here https://youtu.be/GJL-ePg_hUE and share it with your comrades! 🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️🗳️ #votebabyvote #singoutlouise #fightingspirit #strengthinnumbers #democracy
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Thank you @mets for hosting Equality New York ⚾️ Special thank you to @donnaaceto for capturing the game!
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Today, trans activists and community leaders stood together outside Mount Sinai to protest the ending of gender affirming care. Several of us took our hormones during the picket to demystify our care and challenge the stigma surrounding it. But this fight is bigger than us. Trans youth deserve the chance to grow into their futures with dignity, support, and care. We were once trans youth too. Now it’s our turn to stand up. JOIN US. SPEAK OUT. PROTECT TRANS YOUTH. #ProtectTransYouth #TransRights #GenderAffirmingCare #TransLiberation #StandWithTransYouth
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The Stonewall Inn is one of many bars feeling the business impact of America’s reduction in alcohol consumption. New York City’s queer bars are feeling the effects of a broader nationwide reduction in alcohol consumption, with several establishments seeing fewer drinkers and, in turn, earlier closing times. Read more at @gaycitynews https://gaycitynews.com/nyc-queer-bars-alcohol-sales-drop-drinking/ 📸: @donnaaceto
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First photo courtesy of @donnaaceto A few weeks back we had the honor to celebrate what would’ve been Marsha P Johnson’s 81st birthday at @stonewallnps — This has been a tradition for the past 5 years. On August 24th the community came together to celebrate what Marsha taught us about being ourselves. It’s important to continue celebrating transcestors like Marsha’s in places like Stonewall National Monument to resist attempted erasure with individuality and love. Thank you to everybody, especially @feminizazn who came through to help decorate the park and observe the day with us! 💕💕💕
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Happy birthday, Marsha! Clips from yesterday’s celebration in Christopher Park featuring Miss Simone and Gina tearing the place up with performances, speeches from Randy Wicker, Dee Chen, Julia Burna, Mickey Esemplare, and Devlyn Camp reading from the Hotel Wicker Xmas letter, all organized by Ryan Grippi. Much joy & love for our iconic sister who gave so much to the people of these streets 💐
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NO PARKING FOR ICE – ANYTIME, ANYWHERE! NEW YORK IS A SANCTUARY CITY! ● Today Rise and Resist ID’d and called out ICE kidnap vehicles parked on the streets in lower Manhattan as part of an ongoing broad-coalition NO PARKING FOR ICE campaign. ● Dozens of ICE kidnap vehicles park every day on the streets surrounding the ICE field office at 201 Varick — one of NYC’s wealthiest and least vulnerable neighborhoods. New Yorkers need to KNOW about this hornet’s nest of ICE. ● Our coalition exposed ICE parking at the 80 Morton St. Metropolis garage on May 14; in mid-June Rise and Resist first called out ICE abduction vehicles parked around 201 Varick. On July 12 the coalition protested ICE continuing to park at Pier 40 and on Aug 3, ICE’s fleet of brand new vehicles hidden in ICON’s closed and cloaked 35 HARRISON ST. GARAGE. ● WE WILL CONTINUE TO CALL OUT ICE PARKING AND LET THEM KNOW we won’t stand by while they use lower Manhattan as a staging area for abducting our neighbors!
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Some snaps from this year’s Hampton’s Tea Dance for @callenlorde 🫶🫶🫶🫶
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Sisters waiting for the parade to begin! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 📸: @donnaaceto
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It's always been lovely that New York City throws a 75,000-person march for my birthday weekend with millions of spectators, but especially nice this year that they asked me to lead it ;) No, this was the Pride March, in honor and remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall uprising and a defiant call for continued action. The two-mile route goes down Fifth Ave, crosses through Christopher Street where we passed the rainbow flag that still stands at the Stonewall National Monument after the community defeated the Trump Administration in court, and heads back up Seventh Ave, encircling my neighborhood and filling the streets with millions of joyful supporters. Gays Against Guns was selected this year as one of the Grand Marshals and though it made for an early morning, it was incredible and truly a once-in-a-lifetime moment to be up front, lead our community, and raise awareness about the disproportionate impact of guns on the LGBTQ community. My voice is hoarse but my heart is full. These last weeks have been very challenging for me, and I truly appreciate all the support as I walk the slow road of grief, and the well wishes for my 43rd trip around the sun. It was good for me to have a reason to get out of the house and into the sun, among friends and allies, keeping up the good fight. A huge thanks to our organizers - pulling this off took so much work, and I'm so proud of them and so honored I got to walk alongside them to mark our tenth year in this fight. Give us a follow at @gaysagainstgunsny. The 2026 March is over but we've just begun.
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Pride 2026 was perhaps the most meaningful parade ever for me. It was an honor to march with @gaysagainstgunsny as a Human Being. Thank you Gays AgainstGuns, @cmarothom, @kenkidd @jaywwalker, @donnaaceto and all of the volunteers! #pridenyc #gaysagainstguns #pride🌈 #pulseorlando
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