NYC councilmember Erik Bottcher offers a lot more than “thoughts & prayers” for the queer community

Erik Bottcher poses at the re-opening night Renaissance Gala for the newly renovated space at The Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City. Photo by Bruce Glikas/Getty Images.

While many in the queer community watch stunned in disbelief as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and legislation designed to dismantle transgender healthcare sweeps across America, a gay councilmember in the heart of queer New York City is refusing to stand still.

Erik Bottcher, representing the historic neighborhoods where Stonewall’s legacy lives on, isn’t just posting rainbow flags or offering sympathetic tweets (the queer equivalent of ‘thoughts and prayers’)—he’s wielding legislative power.

As the current administration actively worked in its first weeks to roll back transgender rights through executive orders, Bottcher and his allies on the city’s LGBTQIA+ Caucus

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