US, March 17 -- Brown, a nationally-recognized civil rights attorney, is the first transgender person to lead a New York City office or agency Office will oversee and implement LGBTQIA+ initiatives, including developing legal resources to uphold sanctuary protections for LGBTQIA+ individuals Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani signed an executive order establishing the Mayor's Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs and appointed Taylor Brown, currently an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General, as its director.

With this appointment, Brown becomes the first transgender person to lead a City office or agency and the highest-ranking transgender person in the history of New York City government.

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