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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, 20121 CommentRead More

When World Pride Becomes Just Another Gay Party

When World Pride Becomes Just Another Gay Party

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | It’s London’s special summer. The world’s attention is on Britain’s capital city in a way it hasn’t been since the Empire’s glory days. Beginning in April of last year, in fact, from a royal wedding to Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee to the Olympics, it’s just been one big party after another. [...]

July 18, 20121 CommentRead More

Bigots’ Lessons from the Sixth Century

Bigots’ Lessons from the Sixth Century

Lessons from the Sixth Century Anti-gay Christianist rhetoric no more empirically grounded than in Emperor Justinian’s day BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Among his innovations, Justinian is known for codifying Roman law. The Byzantine emperor issued the Codex Justinianus in two texts that were supplemented by 150 edicts. Two edicts condemned homosexual acts and promised harsh [...]

July 18, 20122 CommentsRead More

Good Writing Counts for Something

Good Writing Counts for Something

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In the second episode of “The Outs,” a web series, Scruffy, played by Tommy Heleringer, has just met Jack, played by Hunter Canning. They first ran into each other outside a Williamsburg gay bar and have returned to Scruffy’s nearby apartment. Their conversation flows easily from jokes to serious revelations to [...]

July 18, 2012No CommentRead More

Dr. Richard Isay, Lover and Fighter, Dies at 77

Dr. Richard Isay, Lover and Fighter, Dies at 77

BY ANDY HUMM | Dr. Richard A. Isay, the out gay psychoanalyst who fought successfully to make his professional association drop its discrimination against gay members and its treatment of gay patients as cases of “arrested development,” died in New York on June 28. He was 77. The cause of death was complications of adenocarcinoma [...]

July 4, 2012No CommentRead More

Gad Beck, the Last Gay Holocaust Survivor, is Dead

Gad Beck, the Last Gay Holocaust Survivor, is Dead

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | Gad Beck, widely believed to be the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, passed away on June 24 in a hospital in Berlin, his city of birth. He died just six days before his 89th birthday. Beck is survived by his partner of 35 years, Julius Laufer. His death was [...]

July 4, 20122 CommentsRead More

Alan Turing’s Remarkable Life and Many Deaths

Alan Turing’s Remarkable Life and Many Deaths

BY DOUG IRELAND | June 23 marked the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing, the queer British mathematical genius and philosopher considered the father of the modern computer, the World War II hero who did as much as Winston Churchill to keep Britain alive and fighting in the war’s early years by cracking the [...]

July 4, 2012No CommentRead More

A Revolution of Arab Love

A Revolution of Arab Love

BY MICHAEL LUONGO |  A Moroccan author living in Paris, Abdellah Taïa came out as gay publicly in 2006. His best known book, “Salvation Army,” was published that year, and his 2008 book “An Arab Melancholia” has just been released in an English translation by Frank Stock. Taïa corresponded via email with Gay City News [...]

June 21, 2012No CommentRead More

Celebrating Stonewall’s Spirit in ‘Street Theater’

Celebrating Stonewall’s Spirit in ‘Street Theater’

BY KATHLEEN WARNOCK | A generation (or two, or three) has grown up since the first bottle was thrown, the first billy club came down at the Stonewall, and it’s now an historic event, a symbol, the recognized start of an era. As the witnesses have inevitably departed the scene, they’ve left behind their stories [...]

June 21, 20121 CommentRead More

Byron Recalled Unimaginatively

Byron Recalled Unimaginatively

BY DOUG IRELAND | Poor Lord Byron. The most famous of the English Romantic poets continues to be a source of scandalous speculation two centuries after his premature death from an unknown fever at the age of 36 in 1824. Fighting, at the time of his death, for the liberation from Turkish rule of Greece, [...]

June 21, 2012No CommentRead More

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