Vandal arrested in Hell's Kitchen
In New York City, resident Sean Kuilan has been arrested and charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon, after security footage caught a man throwing rocks and bricks at the window of VERS, a Gay nightclub in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood.

Police were originally investigating the incidents as hate crimes, said spokesperson Lt. John Grimpel, but as Kuilan is a Gay man himself, it was determined that this was not the case.

According to the NYPD, Kuilan's stated motive was "exacting revenge" over a personal issue one of Kuilan's friends had with the nightclub.

"He talks to himself... he has a very strange appearance as far as his dressing, and as he just goes down the street yelling and screaming and ranting," a neighbor said.

One of the incidents came just hours before a gunman killed five people and wounded 17 others at an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado Springs, and news of the shooting has Gay New Yorkers on edge.

Mom and Trans teen leave Texas for Colorado
After months of fearing that a state government agent would show up at her doorstep, Katie Laird and her son Noah, who is Trans, have moved from Texas to Colorado to escape the shadow of Gov. Greg Abbott's transphobic policies.

Abbott's administration has directed the state's Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate for child abuse any parents who provide their children with gender-affirming care.

In the wake of the decision, Texas Children's Hospital announced a pause in such services, in order to "safeguard our healthcare professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications."

Noah, now 16, told NBC News that as scary as it was living in Texas, leaving wasn't easy. "It was just hard and it still is hard to leave literally everything I've ever known in my entire life," he said.

His mother said that, whether they live in Texas or not, she hasn't given up on her home state.

"This is our home," she said. "We have been pushed from it, and we will keep fighting — no matter where we live — for the state, because we know what happens in Texas has great influence across the nation, and we have to stay in the fight."