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Gays and the Syrian Revolution

Gays and the Syrian Revolution

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | Mahmoud Hassino is a 37-year-old gay Syrian journalist, currently living in Turkey, who manages to frequently return to his homeland to record the uprising against President Bashar Hafez al-Assad. I originally became familiar with Hassino through his Syrian gay travel website, mazaj75.blogspot.com, and met him in person in Damascus in early [...]

September 28, 20121 CommentRead More

Building the Market for LGBT-Owned Business

Building the Market for LGBT-Owned Business

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce New York (NGLCCNY) gathers in Manhattan on October 25 for its third annual Shining Stars awards, leaders from LGBT-owned companies and executives from allied corporate partners will be doing some business as well. While the evening will be devoted to a cocktail [...]

September 25, 20121 CommentRead More

Celebrating a Year Since Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal

Celebrating a Year Since Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In an emotional and patriotic gathering unthinkable just one year ago, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN) and OutServe, the two leading advocacy groups for LGBT military personnel, celebrated the one-year anniversary of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by honoring retired Admiral Michael Mullen, the former Joint Chiefs of [...]

September 25, 2012No CommentRead More

Evita: Gay Icon Then & Now

Evita: Gay Icon Then & Now

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | As Evita lay dying of cervical cancer in the presidential residence in 1952, her skin sallow and thin, a man sat with her, whispering, “To be a faggot, to be poor, what they say of Eva Peron in this ruthless country is the same thing.” Eva was in shimmering white, foreshadowing [...]

September 12, 20122 CommentsRead More

Home Place Like Noh

Home Place Like Noh

BY DAVID NOH | After staying away for four ridiculous years, the siren song got to be too much for me and I finally returned to my homeland of Honolulu for one delicious month. A truly legendary time was had, filled with the most yummy food, friendship, and romance — the sort of magical time [...]

September 12, 20121 CommentRead More

Gay Voices Reach Readers Who Often Are Not

Gay Voices Reach Readers Who Often Are Not

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Gay Voices, the LGBT “vertical” at Huffington Post, hit the ground running when it launched last October. According to its editor, Noah Michelson, within a month it had become the number one queer-focused site on the web. It averages, he said, roughly three million unique visitors each month, though traffic can [...]

August 29, 20121 CommentRead More

Landmarks Preservation Denies Bid to Save Spring Street Gay History Site

Landmarks Preservation Denies Bid to Save Spring Street Gay History Site

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | After the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) refused to landmark a Spring Street building that was home to early gay rights leaders in New York City, openly gay elected officials and longtime LGBT activists gathered outside the building to denounce the decision. “I question their integrity and their lack of respect [...]

August 22, 20124 CommentsRead More

A Young Mind and Body Seized

A Young Mind and Body Seized

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Several weeks before Mikhail was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his father noticed a change in him. “His behavior, his communications with me became very erratic and unlike him,” the father testified at an August 7 hearing after Mikhail challenged his continued detention. “I sensed a [...]

August 15, 2012No CommentRead More

Christine Quinn Should Move On Paid Sick Leave

BY AMBER HOLLIBAUGH AND BRANDON LACY CAMPOS | While many in the LGBTQ community take paid sick days for granted, half of all workers in New York City — and two-thirds of low-wage workers — get no paid sick time. Many of these workers are LGBTQ. These workers don’t have the luxury of putting their [...]

August 15, 20121 CommentRead More

FringeNYC Kicks Off August 10

FringeNYC Kicks Off August 10

BY DAVID KENNERLEY Every summer, New York City is awash in a sea of performance festivals — mostly tiny, scrappy affairs with just a handful of shows. Some of these upstarts appear one season and vanish a couple of years later without a trace. By far the largest, most durable, and the most daunting is [...]

August 9, 2012No CommentRead More

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