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Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “Today we have the power, the awesome power to make dreams come true,” said out gay Senator Scott Dibble,…

May 13, 20135 CommentsRead More

Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings

Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE AND PAUL SCHINDLER | Port Authority police made two arrests in a May 10 assault on a gay couple outside a…

May 13, 20134 CommentsRead More

HIV and Aging Draw Big Crowd at Town Meeting

HIV and Aging Draw Big Crowd at Town Meeting

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting on AIDS and aging that was convened in response to the death…

May 13, 20136 CommentsRead More

In the Game?

In the Game?

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” So began Jason Collins’ cover essay in the May 6 issue…

May 8, 20132 CommentsRead More

LGBT Advocates Wary as Senate Immigration Mark-Up Begins

LGBT Advocates Wary as Senate Immigration Mark-Up Begins

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate — with the Judiciary Committee beginning mark-up this…

May 8, 20134 CommentsRead More

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

BY ANDY HUMM | While California’s 2012 first-in-the-nation law to ban therapists from trying to turn gay minors into heterosexuals is being challenged in…

May 8, 20133 CommentsRead More

Did the Kick Get Anything Started?

Did the Kick Get Anything Started?

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In early January of 2012, Ryan James Yezak launched a film project on kickstarter.com, the crowdfunding website. The feature-length documentary,…

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Wedding Pride, Spring 2013

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Going for the Silver

Going for the Silver

BY SETH J. BOOKEY | At a ceremony April 25 at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, the Publishing Triangle Awards, which recognize LGBT writers and writing, celebrated their 25th…

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

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A Scurrilous Feint by the Boy Scouts

A Scurrilous Feint by the Boy Scouts

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Perhaps after years of their heels dug in deeply amidst mounting PR problems, the Boy Scouts of America thought they could garner…

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

The LGBT Community Meets the Mayoral Candidates

High Noon at the High Court

LGBT Community Center: A Bad Policy Ended Badly

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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

Zero Dark Thirty: The Woman’s Guide to Success Thru Torture

BY SUSIE DAY | I The Globe See the Globe. More than half the seven billion people on the Globe are women. Women are different from men. Why are…

January 30, 2013No CommentRead More

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Mothers’ Day and the Queer Kitchen

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | One of the few times I’ve been back to Kentucky in the last zillion years, my mother offered to make lunch if…

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

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

Putting the Pope Out to Pasture

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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

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NO STATE DEPARTMENT APOLOGY

CHRISTINE QUINN’S FORTUNES

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TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND SEX REASSIGNMENT SURGERY

THE MEANING OF 186 SPRING

SICK LEAVE DEBATE CONTINUES

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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

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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

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Which Way from Here?

Which Way from Here?

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The crash and burn of Theresa Rebeck’s “Dead Accounts” after 27 previews…

January 16, 2013No CommentRead More

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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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