Chris Quinn Formally Enters Race for Mayor

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Chris Quinn Formally Enters Race for Mayor

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Standing across the street from the Catholic church in Inwood where her parents married and her immigrant grandfather’s funeral was held, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn formally announced her candidacy for mayor on the morning of March 10. Explaining that her four grandparents came to New York from Ireland a [...]

March 13, 2013598519 Comments2013-03-13+19%3A01%3A28adminRead More

Ernie Banks, Tom Ridge Among Newest Gay Marriage Supporters

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | With marriage equality headed for a vote in the Illinois House of Representatives –– after passage by the Senate and with the support of Democratic Governor Pat Quinn –– former Chicago Cub hero Ernie Banks is among four local sports stars who have now endorsed the measure, the Windy City Times reports. [...]

March 7, 201359741 Comment2013-03-07+17%3A53%3A29adminRead More

With Four New Meningitis Cases in Gay Men, Quinn, Farley Join Call for Vaccination

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Citing four new meningitis cases among gay and bisexual men in New York City since the start of 2013, the city’s health department is recommending that all men who “regularly have intimate contact with other men met through a website, digital application, or at a bar or party” get vaccinated for the [...]

March 6, 20135965No Comment2013-03-07+02%3A37%3A53adminRead More

Infant “Cured” of HIV Holds Promise for Other Newborns, Perhaps No One Else

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Doctors and researchers say they have cured a Mississippi infant born with HIV with an aggressive treatment regimen that began a day after birth. The triple-drug combination was continued for a year and a half until the mother stopped bringing the child in for treatment, according to the New York Times. When [...]

March 5, 201359521 Comment2013-03-05+20%3A37%3A33adminRead More

Arrest Made in Slaying of Out Gay Mississippi Mayoral Candidate

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Though police have made an arrest in the February 26 killing of Marco McMillian, a 34-year-old out gay candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi, friends of the victim and friends of the suspect are offering starkly different views of the relationship between the two men. McMillian, a fundraising executive who owned his [...]

March 5, 201359431 Comment2013-03-05+19%3A24%3A06adminRead More

Tyler Clementi’s Family Condemns NOM’s Use of Son’s Story

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Family members of Tyler Clementi have been joined by several advocacy groups in condemning a statement from a spokeswoman for the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage who pointed to the example of the 18-year-old Rutgers freshman’s 2010 suicide to warn of the dangers of young gay people being influenced by others [...]

March 4, 20135938No Comment2013-03-04+19%3A51%3A02adminRead More

House Approves LGBT-Inclusive Violence Against Women Act

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a win both for advocates working to end anti-LGBT violence and for President Barack Obama, the House of Representatives has approved reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The House action came in a 286 to 138 vote on February 28. Eighty-seven Republicans joined 199 of the 200 Democrats in [...]

February 28, 20135907No Comment2013-02-28+20%3A38%3A33adminRead More

Republicans Say I Do

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | A group of at least 75 prominent Republicans have signed on to an amicus brief supporting the two plaintiff couples who will challenge California’s Proposition 8 before the Supreme Court in oral arguments on March 26. The New York Times reports that the list includes two members of Congress –– New York’s [...]

February 27, 201358263 CommentsRepublicans+Say+I+Do2013-02-27+20%3A26%3A49adminRead More

Mexican Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | A legal ban on same-sex marriage in the Mexican state of Oaxacan was declared unconstitutional by that nation’s Supreme Court on February 18, the Washington Blade reports. The ruling cited two US precedents –– a 1967 Supreme Court ruling that struck down bans on interracial marriage and the high court’s 1954 Brown [...]

February 27, 20135823No Comment2013-02-27+20%3A21%3A46adminRead More

BREAKING: Obama Administration to File Amicus Brief on Prop 8

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The US Department of Justice will file a brief in support of the two same-sex couples challenging California’s Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court on March 26, the New York Times and NBC News are reporting. The US government is not a party to the suit, which has taken the State of [...]

February 26, 201359122 Comments2013-02-26+22%3A08%3A10adminRead More

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