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Schumer, LGBT Critics Agree Senate Floor Immigration Amendment Possible

Schumer, LGBT Critics Agree Senate Floor Immigration Amendment Possible

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | A week after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance a comprehensive immigration reform bill to the floor without approving an amendment to provide relief to same-sex binational couples, both LGBT rights advocates and a top Democrat who disappointed them vowed to continue the fight during the full Senate’s debate. “We are [...]

May 29, 20132 CommentsRead More

LGBT Advocates Wary as Senate Immigration Mark-Up Begins

LGBT Advocates Wary as Senate Immigration Mark-Up Begins

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate — with the Judiciary Committee beginning mark-up this week of a comprehensive bill developed by a bipartisan group dubbed the Gang of Eight — advocates for couples in which one member is not an American citizen remain concerned they could [...]

May 8, 20134 CommentsRead More

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

Advocates Remain Wary About Same-Sex Couples’ Prospects in Immigration Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As debate over immigration reform moves center stage in the US Senate –– with the Judiciary Committee holding hearings and more than 50 binational same-sex families descending on Capitol Hill this week for visits with 150 members of Congress –– advocates for couples in which one member is not an American citizen [...]

April 26, 201312 CommentsRead More

US Court Okays National Class Action Suit Against DOMA

US Court Okays National Class Action Suit Against DOMA

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A federal district judge in Los Angeles has certified a nationwide class action lawsuit attacking the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act’s Section 3 in the context of the immigration rights of same-sex spouses. Section 3, currently under review by the US Supreme Court in Edie Windsor’s challenge to DOMA, [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

A Brave Push for Empowerment in South Africa

A Brave Push for Empowerment in South Africa

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | Where in the world could endemic homophobia be cured — if only briefly — by a game of soccer? One such place is South Africa, a country united by sports and an idyllic post-apartheid Constitution, but divided by social and cultural realities that can seep in with violent force. Something about that [...]

April 10, 20132 CommentsRead More

Can Pope Francis Forestall the Vatican’s Irrelevance?

Can Pope Francis Forestall the Vatican’s Irrelevance?

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | During my years of covering Buenos Aires and living there, I have photographed an equal number of Christmas Eve Midnight Masses held at Catedral Metropolitana, the city’s main Catholic church, and Gay Pride marches, which step off from in front of the same building. One of those events has stagnated, with fewer [...]

March 26, 20133 CommentsRead More

Pro-Israel Gay Group Hosts LGBT Center Gathering

Pro-Israel Gay Group Hosts LGBT Center Gathering

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Following a two-hour event at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, Arthur Slepian, the founder and executive director of A Wider Bridge, explained why he thought it was important to bring a pro-Israel perspective to the queer community. “I felt like, particularly for LGBT Jews, Israel had become something that [...]

March 21, 20135 CommentsRead More

Pope Francis ‘Inflammatory’ in Opposition to LGBT Rights

Pope Francis ‘Inflammatory’ in Opposition to LGBT Rights

BY ANDY HUMM | Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, was elected Pope Francis I on March 13 despite his failure to stop the progressive government of President Cristina Kirchner from opening marriage to same-sex couples — the first Latin American country to do so — and from making contraceptives available to all. He also presided [...]

March 13, 201338 CommentsRead More

Inclusion the ‘Rage’ in Queens, But St. Pat’s Discriminates Elsewhere

Inclusion the ‘Rage’ in Queens, But St. Pat’s Discriminates Elsewhere

BY ANDY HUMM | The St. Pat’s for All Parade through Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens brought together Irish and non-Irish, gay and straight, young and old, Democrat and Republican, and Catholic and Muslim — not to mention a long line of Brownie troops — in the 14th edition of this “inclusive” event. The March 3 parade [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

Sarah Schulman Reads from ‘Israel/ Palestine’ at Center

Sarah Schulman Reads from ‘Israel/ Palestine’ at Center

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly two years after the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center banned groups that “organize around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) hosted author Sarah Schulman at the West Village building for a reading from her book on that conflict. “After two years, we are proud to be meeting [...]

March 13, 20132 CommentsRead More

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