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No Clear Majority on Merits Evident During Prop 8 Arguments

No Clear Majority on Merits Evident During Prop 8 Arguments

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | On the tenth anniversary of oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas, the historic 2003 ruling that struck down laws against consensual gay sex, the US Supreme Court took up the contentious issue of same-sex marriage on March 26. Late last year, the high court granted the petition by the Official Proponents [...]

March 26, 20134 CommentsRead More

Immigration Reformers Keep Up Pressure on Senate

Immigration Reformers Keep Up Pressure on Senate

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As the Senate’s so-called Gang of Eight struggles to put together a legislative package for comprehensive immigration reform, the most important message LGBT advocates and members of Congress hoped to convey in a March 18 press conference came right at the top. “To Senator Schumer and the other senators who are writing [...]

March 26, 2013No CommentRead 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

Should We Forgive Bill Clinton?

Should We Forgive Bill Clinton?

BY DOUG IRELAND | So now, Bill Clinton told us this month in an opinion piece for the Washington Post, he’s against the Defense of Marriage Act he signed into law in 1996. We’re supposed to be grateful. But “the powerful odor of mendacity” (to borrow Tennessee Williams’ pungent phrase) has always hung over the ex-president, [...]

March 26, 20135 CommentsRead More

Elmo Puppeteer Accusers Use Novel Legal Theory

Elmo Puppeteer Accusers Use Novel Legal Theory

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Three of the four men who have sued puppeteer Kevin Clash are using a legal theory that asserts their cases should proceed despite the statute of limitations having run out because they only recently realized they were harmed by the sexual encounters they allege they had with Clash when they were underage. [...]

March 26, 2013No CommentRead More

New City Council Lines Dilute LGBT Voting Power

New City Council Lines Dilute LGBT Voting Power

BY ANDREW BERMAN | In a place as diverse as New York, it’s not always easy to make sure everyone’s voice is heard in city government. But imagine how much harder it would be if the votes of residents of some parts of the city counted more than others — if, say, your vote had 10 [...]

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

Obama Administration Steps Up on Prop 8

Obama Administration Steps Up on Prop 8

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a brief in support of the two same-sex couples seeking to overturn California’s Proposition 8. Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court on March 26. The administration does not explicitly argue there is a federal constitutional right to marry, but in [...]

March 1, 20132 CommentsRead More

Homophobia More Lethal than Kryptonite?

Homophobia More Lethal than Kryptonite?

BY SANJANA CHOWHAN | For generations, Americans have turned to comic books for inspiration. Readers found themselves identifying with Peter Parker, who was a social outcast but strived to become the brave and confident Spiderman. The idea that a passive and introverted Clark Kent could be Superman gave fans a sense of fairness and justice. The [...]

February 28, 20133 CommentsRead More

V. Tyler Clementi / R. Ora pro nobis.

V. Tyler Clementi / R. Ora pro nobis.

BY RABBI ROBERT TEIXEIRA | Today, February 28, the See of Peter will become vacant, and Joseph Ratzinger, whom the world knows as Pope Benedict XVI, will make his way to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence, where he will await the election of his successor. Long after, some will claim, as they do now, that [...]

February 28, 20133 CommentsRead More

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