Saturday was National Coming Out Day, a natural opportunity for Democratic candidate for mayor Zohran Mamdani to talk LGBTQ issues.
He championed trans rights in a new campaign video -- “New York will not sit idly by while trans people are attacked," he tells the camera -- and at a "Gays for Zohran" rally in Greenwich Village.
“We have to stand up for queer New Yorkers every single day," he told the crowd.
What You Need To Know
Zohran Mamdani rallied with LGBTQ supporters Saturday and released a video championing trans rights
Mamdani said he did not know a Ugandan official was behind draconian anti-gay policies when he was photographed with her in July
Andrew Cuomo stood alongside parent activists to tout his plan to expand the city’s gifted and talented programs
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