About two dozen LGBTQ community leaders gathered Thursday at City Hall with Mayor Eric Adams for a meeting that lasted well over an hour.

They wanted him to rescind his appointment of three administration officials with histories of anti-gay remarks, including Fernando Cabrera, who will serve as a faith adviser.

What You Need To Know

  • Adams hosts LGBTQ New Yorkers in what some call a reset in relations

  • Attendees included elected officials, community activists

  • Mayor didn't explain hiring of officials with histories of anti-gay remarks, but was open to other requests

Attendees said the mayor gave no indication he would reverse course and no explanation on why the three men are uniquely qualified for their posts, but he did listen to their concerns.

“I know what I hope it’s not and what I hope it’s not is a promise made and a promise kept. We’ll have to see,” said Cathy Marino-Thomas, co-chair of Equality New York.

“I think it’s a positive reset and a necessary one, because there was a lot of mistrust in that room, given the three troubling appointments,” said State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan). “I think the community is going to be watching the actions of these three appointments very closely."

The LGBTQ advocates made several other requests of the mayor, including asking him to launch a mayor’s office of LGBTQ affairs, to fund and expand the Unity Project for LGBTQ youth and to focus resources on the most vulnerable in the community, including transgender New Yorkers of color.

Adams said in a statement that he’ll always be a proud ally of the LGBTQ community and called the discussion, "truly productive."