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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 man’s death. The West Village, the East Village, Madison Square Garden, Union Square, and Soho. If there is any consolation in all this, it would seem to be the willingness [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

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 like “I Wanna Destroy You,” the wicked romantic comedy now playing on Theatre Row. Written by Joshua Conkel (“MilkMilkLemonade”), the warped plot centers on Beau (Anthony Johnston), [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead 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 spate of anti-gay attacks in Manhattan that number at least seven since May 5. Mark Carson, 32, a gay man out socializing with friends in the West Village, was shot in the [...]

May 22, 20131 CommentRead More

GAYFEST NYC Returns

GAYFEST NYC Returns

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In 2007, Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman hatched a plan to produce a theater festival dedicated to giving emerging gay playwrights a voice. A vital force in gay theater, the scrappy little festival emerged as a success on many levels. One of their productions was even nominated for a GLAAD [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead 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 formed activist group, organized a protest demanding that the police department and City Hall act. Estimates put the crowd at several hundred to more than 1,000. Though still grappling with the AIDS [...]

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 Manhattan this month, proposed initiatives to fight back have found their way into the mix along with plenty of heated rhetoric from LGBT leaders and elected officials that this “will not stand.” [...]

May 22, 2013No 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 a vaccination campaign, two gay health groups have combined to vaccinate roughly 30 percent of the 10,209 people vaccinated in that effort. “It’s been a well-oiled machine,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a [...]

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 Side Democrat. Washington State and Colorado enacted such laws last year in referendums that make the recreational use of cannabis legal. The voters in these two western states accepted the argument that [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Dos and Don’ts for a Gay Union Jack in America

Dos and Don’ts for a Gay Union Jack in America

BY GARY M. KRAMER | In “I Do,” Jack (David W. Ross, who also wrote the screenplay) is a gay British photographer living in New York. He is single and a surrogate father to Tara (Jessica Tyler Brown), his late brother’s young daughter. Jack’s life hits a major speed bump when his visa expires. Suddenly threatened [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

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, a Minneapolis Democrat, just moments before the Minnesota Legislature concluded its debate on a marriage equality bill on May 13. Later in his speech, he added, “Vote yes for love.” The measure [...]

May 13, 20135 CommentsRead More

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