Mayor Eric Adams got off to a rocky start with the LGBTQ community after he took office last year, and relations have remained strained. For a second consecutive year, multiple political clubs boycotted his annual Pride event.
Multiple factors have contributed to the tensions between Adams and the community, but one of the lowest moments came during February of last year when he appointed three anti-LGBTQ religious leaders to posts in his administration, which angered the community and brought a large crowd of activists and leaders to City Hall Park for a demonstration. One of the appointees, Fernando Cabrera — who once went to Uganda and praised that nation’s government for standing against LGBTQ rights — recently stepped down.
