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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 is about to reclaim its status as the premiere summer nightlife capital with the grand re-opening of the Pavilion, a Fire Island institution. Just in time, too — the Pavilion is turning 60 this summer. But those who may [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Which Way from Here?

Which Way from Here?

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The crash and burn of Theresa Rebeck’s “Dead Accounts” after 27 previews and 44 regular performances, playing to houses filled to as little as a quarter of capacity and seven weeks shy of its promoted “limited engagement,” raises questions not about the fate of Broadway — so often referred to as [...]

January 16, 2013No CommentRead More

National Treasures on Parade in London

National Treasures on Parade in London

BY ANDY HUMM | The crown jewels and Magna Carta are two of the most famous national treasures on display in London. But there are also uniquely British people who are valued in much the same fashion — not because they led a battle or won Olympic gold, but for epitomizing something about being British that [...]

January 5, 20132 CommentsRead More

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

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

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Gus Archilla, who was partnered with his husband Elmer Lokkins for 58 years before the couple was able to legally marry in Canada in 2003, died on November 26, ten days before his 97th birthday. Lokkins, who is 93, survives Archilla, after a relationship that lasted for 67 years. Meeting just [...]

December 5, 20121 CommentRead More

William Brandon Lacy Campos: A Brilliant Flame Dispatched Too Soon

William Brandon Lacy Campos: A Brilliant Flame Dispatched Too Soon

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | William Brandon Lacy Campos was a spoken word poet well known and highly regarded in the writer and arts communities of Minneapolis, Oakland, and New York. He was also a novelist whose debut work is set for publication early next year. A social justice activist across many queer communities of color, he [...]

November 21, 20127 CommentsRead More

Dance Gets Better

Dance Gets Better

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | The dance community has recently come together to bolster the momentum against bullying of LGBT youth in America and internationally. In the wake of a visible wave of suicides by gay teens several years ago, Dan Savage, a journalist and gay dad, and his husband Terry Miller initiated a campaign [...]

November 21, 20124 CommentsRead More

A Man of the Movies: Elliott Stein, 1928-2012

A Man of the Movies: Elliott Stein, 1928-2012

BY DAVID NOH | Elliott Stein, as a writer, critic, and historian one of the true gentlemen of cinema –– in the tradition of sorely missed scholars like Henri Langlois, William K. Everson, and Andrew Sarris –– has died at the age of 83. Described as “a true cinematic multihyphenate” by the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s [...]

November 14, 20125 CommentsRead More

Lesbian Avengers Reunite at 20

Lesbian Avengers Reunite at 20

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In October 1992, a group of about 60 lesbians, with a marching band in tow, arrived at a public school in Queens and began handing out balloons inscribed with the words, “Ask about lesbian lives.” The action — which created shivers in some queer activist circles since, as participant Kelly Jean [...]

November 8, 20121 CommentRead More

Jessica Stern Takes Helm at IGLHRC

Jessica Stern Takes Helm at IGLHRC

BY  PAUL SCHINDLER | In late September, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC), a 22-year-old organization based in New York, announced that Jessica Stern, who went to work there two years ago as director of programs, would become the new executive director. In a press release announcing her new position, Stern, who [...]

October 24, 20121 CommentRead More

Ambitious Facelift Planned for LGBT Community Center

Ambitious Facelift Planned for LGBT Community Center

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Nearly a dozen years after New York’s LGBT Community Center completed a major renovation that required it to vacate the space for more than two years, it is poised for a significant facelift that will allow the facility to remain open but should produce dramatic results at its conclusion. A year [...]

October 10, 20121 CommentRead More

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