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Mamdami marks Pride Month, says honoring 'queer and transgender' contributions would take more than 30 days

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the beginning of June's Pride Month with a Monday post on X, saying it would take longer than just one month to honor the ways in which "queer and transgender" residents have benefited the city over time."It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers," Mamdani wrote."From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer...