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Jeanne Manford, Late PFLAG Co-Founder, Honored by Obama

Jeanne Manford, Late PFLAG Co-Founder, Honored by Obama

BY PAUL SCHINDLER  Jeanne Manford, the Queens mother of two gay sons who co-founded PFLAG –– Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays –– has been named one of 13 recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation’s second highest civilian honor. When Manford died last month at the age of 92, Jody [...]

February 8, 20136 CommentsRead More

Ed Koch: 12 Years as Mayor, A Lifetime in the Closet

Ed Koch: 12 Years as Mayor, A Lifetime in the Closet

BY ANDY HUMM | Ed Koch, New York’s mayor from 1978 through 1989, a period of enormous change for the LGBT movement, including the beginning and some of the worst years of the AIDS crisis, died on February 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 88 years old and died without ever publicly acknowledging his homosexuality. [...]

February 3, 201376 CommentsRead More

Koch Administration Memos Detail Foot-Dragging on AIDS

Koch Administration Memos Detail Foot-Dragging on AIDS

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | When Mayor Ed Koch was running in the 1989 Democratic primary, speaking to voters at what is now called the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center, he talked about the AIDS epidemic. “When the history of this era is written, I believe it will show that the eventual victory over AIDS [...]

February 3, 20138 CommentsRead More

Appeals Court Finds Right to Inmate Sex Reassignment

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A  January 28 decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit may be the first by a federal appellate court to hold that an inmate may, under certain circumstances, have a right to gender reassignment surgery as a medically necessary procedure. A unanimous panel of that court ruled [...]

January 31, 20132 CommentsRead More

From Selma To Stonewall: Joining the Journey, the President Leads

From Selma To Stonewall: Joining the Journey, the President Leads

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | President Barack Obama made gay history in his second inaugural address on January 21. “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law,” the president said, marking the first time the LGBT community was ever mentioned in an inaugural address, the most [...]

January 30, 20132 CommentsRead More

NYC Funds Only 40 Percent of Meningitis Vaccine Need

NYC Funds Only 40 Percent of Meningitis Vaccine Need

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | While the New York City’s health department said publicly that it wanted to vaccinate 10,000 gay and bisexual men to stop an outbreak of invasive meningitis, it purchased just 4,000 vaccine doses, according to health department documents obtained by Gay City News. “The estimate of 10,000 was based on HIV-infected men who [...]

January 30, 20132 CommentsRead More

Will Supreme Court Rule on DOMA?

Will Supreme Court Rule on DOMA?

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | When the Supreme Court accepted the petition by the US solicitor general that it take up Edie Windsor’s lawsuit against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), it posed two questions that could derail any quick resolution about the 1996 law’s constitutionality. First, the solicitor general must address whether the federal [...]

January 30, 20131 CommentRead More

Prop 8, DOMA Defenders Rely on Federalism

Prop 8, DOMA Defenders Rely on Federalism

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | On January 22, attorneys defending California’s Proposition 8 and those defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) against constitutional challenges filed briefs on the merits with the United States Supreme Court. Given what they were defending, the two briefs struck me as extremely well written and well argued, and though [...]

January 30, 2013No CommentRead More

Evoking Stonewall, Obama Talks of Gay Equality in Inaugural Address

Evoking Stonewall, Obama Talks of Gay Equality in Inaugural Address

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | For the first time in a presidential inaugural address, Barack Obama, in beginning his second term in office, talked specifically about the LGBT community. And in a speech that clocked in at just under 20 minutes, the mention was more than merely incidental. “We, the people, declare today that the most evident [...]

January 21, 2013No CommentRead More

Jodie Foster’s Confounding ‘Coming Out’ Speech

Jodie Foster’s Confounding ‘Coming Out’ Speech

BY ANDY HUMM | For someone so concerned about her privacy, Jodie Foster picked a hell of time to take her biggest step so far in coming out publicly — her rambling acceptance speech at the Golden Globes as she received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award on January 13. She first teased the [...]

January 16, 201313 CommentsRead More

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