LGBT Americans in New York City constitute the largest self-identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities by a significant margin in the United States. To a significantly more supportive environment for LGBTQ+ residents in New York. We're basically in an Andy Warhol fever dream right now." In 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a billboard campaign to woo Floridians This is the gayest thing you can possibly do.
In 2022, comedian Jerrod Carmichael joked, "That's actually why I live here.if you say you're gay in New York, you can ride the bus for free and they just give you free pizza if you say you're gay in New York, you get to host Saturday Night Live. LGBT travel guide Queer in the World states, "The fabulosity of Gay New York is unrivaled on Earth, and queer culture seeps into every corner of its five boroughs". Brian Silverman, the author of Frommer's New York City from $90 a Day, writes that the city has "one of the world's largest, loudest, and most powerful LGBT communities", and "Gay and lesbian culture is as much a part of New York's basic identity as yellow cabs, high-rises, and Broadway theatre". New York City has one of the largest LGBT populations in the world and the most prominent.