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Acknowledging the Grief AIDS Still Holds

Acknowledging the Grief AIDS Still Holds

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | For Alan Klein, a breaking point of sorts came last December with the death of longtime AIDS activist Spencer Cox due to complications related to the virus. The same was true for many others who fought alongside Cox and Klein in ACT UP during the late 1980s and into the ‘90s. “Some [...]

June 5, 20135 CommentsRead More

AIDS’ Early Years Remembered at New-York Historical

AIDS’ Early Years Remembered at New-York Historical

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE & PAUL SCHINDLER | “The past is neither dead nor past,” said Louise Mirrer, the president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, paraphrasing the character Gavin Stevens in the William Faulkner novel “Requiem for a Nun.” “We see its effects everywhere.” Mirrer made her remarks on May 31 at a press preview [...]

June 5, 20131 CommentRead More

Florida Appeals Panels Disagree If Gay Sex is “Intercourse”

Florida Appeals Panels Disagree If Gay Sex is “Intercourse”

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Does “sexual intercourse” — as the term is used in provisions of Florida law that make it a crime for a person who knows he is infected with HIV to engage in it without disclosing this fact — include anal or oral intercourse between men? Two Florida District Courts of Appeal [...]

June 5, 20132 CommentsRead More

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

Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

Minnesota Enacts Marriage Equality

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “Today we have the power, the awesome power to make dreams come true,” said out gay Senator Scott Dibble, a Minneapolis Democrat, just moments before the Minnesota Legislature concluded its debate on a marriage equality bill on May 13. Later in his speech, he added, “Vote yes for love.” The measure [...]

May 13, 20134 CommentsRead More

HIV and Aging Draw Big Crowd at Town Meeting

HIV and Aging Draw Big Crowd at Town Meeting

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting on AIDS and aging that was convened in response to the death of a leading member of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. “A kind of bubble had burst,” said Peter Staley, a longtime gay rights and AIDS activist, referring to the [...]

May 13, 20135 CommentsRead More

In the Game?

In the Game?

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” So began Jason Collins’ cover essay in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated, in which he became the first player in what are considered the four major North American male professional leagues — the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, Major [...]

May 8, 20131 CommentRead 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

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

BY ANDY HUMM | While California’s 2012 first-in-the-nation law to ban therapists from trying to turn gay minors into heterosexuals is being challenged in federal court, similar legislation was just introduced in the New York State Legislature — though without the backing of a strong coalition of LGBT and mental health groups. Its prospects in Albany [...]

May 8, 20134 CommentsRead More

Did the Kick Get Anything Started?

Did the Kick Get Anything Started?

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In early January of 2012, Ryan James Yezak launched a film project on kickstarter.com, the crowdfunding website. The feature-length documentary, “Second Class Citizens,” would take “an all-encompassing look at discrimination based on sexual orientation,” according to a website he has since established. The Los Angeles resident borrowed seven minutes of footage from [...]

May 8, 20131 CommentRead More

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