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It’s Up to Us

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Seven anti-gay attacks in 16 days. One a shocking close- range shooting of Mark Carson in the face, resulting in…

May 22, 20132 CommentsRead More

Anti-Gay Murder Follows Wave of Homophobic Assaults

Anti-Gay Murder Follows Wave of Homophobic Assaults

BY ANDY HUMM | The point-blank shooting murder of a gay man this past weekend has galvanized concern in the LGBT community about a…

May 22, 20133 CommentsRead More

This Time, the Anger Was Institutionalized

This Time, the Anger Was Institutionalized

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Within 24 hours of a pipe bomb exploding in a West Village gay bar in 1990, Queer Nation, a newly…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

What Is To Be Done?

What Is To Be Done?

BY ANDY HUMM | In the wake of the anti-gay murder of Mark Carson on May 18 and at least seven homophobic assaults across…

May 22, 20131 CommentRead More

Callen-Lorde, GMHC Deliver Nearly Third of Meningitis Vaccines

Callen-Lorde, GMHC Deliver Nearly Third of Meningitis Vaccines

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly eight months after New York City’s health department reported a meningitis outbreak among gay and bisexual men and began…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

The Pines No Longer Barren

The Pines No Longer Barren

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE |  This summer, make way for the Pines. The internationally known gay mecca is about to reclaim its status as…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Liz Krueger Pressing for Pot Legalization

Liz Krueger Pressing for Pot Legalization

BY NATHAN RILEY | Draft provisions of a “tax and regulate” marijuana bill is being circulated by State Senator Liz Krueger, an East…

May 22, 20134 CommentsRead More

Wedding Pride, Spring 2013

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Servile Disobedience

Servile Disobedience

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | If you crossed “The Devil Wears Prada” with “The Rachel Zoe Project” (an early episode with the nerdy, bow-tied Brad Goreski), you might spawn something…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

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It’s Up to Us

It’s Up to Us

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Seven anti-gay attacks in 16 days. One a shocking close- range shooting of Mark Carson in the face, resulting in the 32-year-old…

May 22, 20132 CommentsRead More

A Scurrilous Feint by the Boy Scouts

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High Noon at the High Court

LGBT Community Center: A Bad Policy Ended Badly

Koch’s Legacy

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Bradley Manning Blows Chance To Have Gay Wedding

BY SUSIE DAY | Gay greetings, LGBT-town! I’m your out-and-proud lesbian pundit. You may recognize me from my latest blog entry, “How Gay Was My Condo.” Today, I bring…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Ericka Huggins and the Company We Keep

BY SUSIE DAY | Like most of the white liberal-to-left elite, I am mesmerized by radical 1960s and ‘70s activist groups such as SDS and the Weather Underground. My…

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Where Have All the Muslims Gone: The 2018 Hashmi Award

BY SUSIE DAY | Every year about this time, since way back in 2013, the City of New York has bestowed its prestigious Hashmi Award upon a worthy New…

February 27, 2013No CommentRead More

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Time Traveling With Richard Bowes

Time Traveling With Richard Bowes

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | Lately, I’ve been talking to students about the Lesbian Avengers. I stand up there like a figure of authority and show…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Mothers’ Day and the Queer Kitchen

The Boston Attacks: Learning to Regret

Queering Democracy In France

Same-Sex Marriage Cases Are No Roe V. Wade

The Secret of Power

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

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THE CENTER SHIFTS GEARS

February 28, 2013 To the Editor: Thank you for putting forth some rational and well-argued insights…

March 13, 20131 CommentRead More

AN ACTIVIST’S DEATH

LOG CABIN SHIFT ON HAGEL

THE HAGEL WHAT?

NO STATE DEPARTMENT APOLOGY

CHRISTINE QUINN’S FORTUNES

A CLIFFORD ODETS CLASSIC’S LONGEVITY

THE CENTER’S FACELIFT & ITS BLEMISHES

TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY

THE MEANING OF 186 SPRING

SICK LEAVE DEBATE CONTINUES

POLITICAL CONNECTIONS NOT ENOUGH IN STATE SENATE RACE

PRESERVING GAY HISTORY

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WTF? Meningitis Message Missing Young Gay Men of Color

WTF? Meningitis Message Missing Young Gay Men of Color

BY MIGUEL ZAPATA | I’m a 20-year-old young man of color living on the Lower East Side.…

May 8, 20137 CommentsRead More

Don’t Put LGBTQ Immigrants Back in the Closet

The Trouble With Christine Quinn

V. Tyler Clementi / R. Ora pro nobis.

A Political Journey from Connecticut through Maine to Pennsylvania

The AP Notwithstanding, Homophobia is Sadly Alive and Well

Brought to Light By Sandy, Homelessness All Too Often Forgotten

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Unfinished Business: Community Safety Act Needed to End Discriminatory Policing of LGBT New Yorkers

An Unfortunate Discounting of Harry Hay’s Contributions

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Mayor’s Race Gets More Complicated, But Advantage is Still Quin

BY NATHAN RILEY | Chris Quinn remains the frontrunner in the race for mayor, but she is…

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Compassion and a Mayoral Campaign that Could Put a Crimp In It

The Lessons of Benedict — And Why They Won’t Be Learned

A Taste of What’s Left

Taking On the New Jim Crow

Making Good HIV Outcomes Possible

The Two Faces of US Policy

Stop and Frisk and the Coalition for Reform

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The Pines No Longer Barren

The Pines No Longer Barren

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE |  This summer, make way for the Pines. The internationally known gay mecca…

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Which Way from Here?

National Treasures on Parade in London

Gus Archilla, Marriage Equality Fighter Into His 90s, Dies

William Brandon Lacy Campos: A Brilliant Flame Dispatched Too Soon

Dance Gets Better

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Lesbian Avengers Reunite at 20

Jessica Stern Takes Helm at IGLHRC

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