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BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE AND PAUL SCHINDLER | Port Authority police made two arrests in a May 10 assault on a gay couple outside a PATH station entrance at 33rd Street and Ninth Avenue. The attack came five days after two other gay men, Nick Porto and Kevin Atkins, were pushed to the ground and punched in the [...]

May 13, 201367776 Comments2013-05-13+20%3A13%3A58adminRead More

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, 201367836 Comments2013-05-13+17%3A33%3A41adminRead More

City Law Department Says Mayor’s Office Ordered Video Store Busts

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Material unearthed in a federal lawsuit brought by a gay man who charges he was falsely arrested for prostitution in a Manhattan porn shop in 2008 suggests the Bloomberg administration was actively involved in directing such prostitution arrests at that time. Police arrested at least 30 men for prostitution in at least [...]

April 24, 2013661024 Comments2013-04-24+17%3A08%3A56adminRead More

As Pride Agenda Heads to Albany, GENDA Push Accelerates

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | As the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA) prepares to lead roughly 700 LGBT advocates to the State Capitol in Albany for the group’s annual Equality and Justice Day lobbying effort on April 30, supporters of a decade-old transgender civil rights measure are stepping up the push to secure Senate passage this [...]

April 24, 201366061 Comment2013-04-24+16%3A43%3A13adminRead More

Two May Memorials for Slain Queens Gay Activist

BY ANDY HUMM | The brutal and mysterious murder of Queens gay community leader Lou Rispoli, 62, on October 20 of last year has yet to be solved. But his friends and loved ones will remember him on two occasions in May, with a concert and a memorial service in his honor. Lou Rispoli to be [...]

April 24, 20136615No Comment2013-04-24+15%3A45%3A42adminRead More

HIV-Positive Wellness Can Be a Cooperative Push

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | It was a very adventurous time,” explained Jared Becker, co-founder of the New York Buyers’ Club. There was only a moment’s pause before George Carter, another co-founder added, “It was a desperate time.” The challenging period in question was the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the mid-1980s into the early ‘90s. [...]

April 24, 20136620No Comment2013-04-24+15%3A00%3A59adminRead More

Public Advocate Candidates Acknowledge Office’s Limits, Mostly Agree on LGBT Issues

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Early in a debate among four candidates for the Democratic nomination for city public advocate, the contenders had to concede that the office has little power beyond its voice. “As a public advocate, you’re unlikely to pass legislation and you have no money,” said Reshma Saujani during the April 17 event that [...]

April 18, 201365901 Comment2013-04-18+23%3A11%3A51adminRead More

A Kinder, Gentler Dolan?

BY ANDY HUMM | Cardinal Timothy Dolan, asked on two Easter Sunday morning news shows about his message for the LGBT community, sounded open enough that the New York Times headlined its story “Dolan Says Catholic Church Should Be More Welcoming to Gay People.” On ABC’s “This Week,” Dolan said the Church “has to do better [...]

April 10, 2013646710 CommentsA+Kinder%2C+Gentler+Dolan%3F2013-04-10+17%3A58%3A33adminRead More

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, 201364762 Comments2013-04-10+17%3A45%3A12adminRead More

Buoyantly, Urgently, AIDS Memorial Advocates Press for Funds

BY NATHAN RILEY | In an atmosphere of both celebration and anxiety, a capital campaign for the New York City AIDS Memorial was formally launched at a March 27 press conference, with a new rendering of the triangular park — reflecting the design’s latest tweaks — unveiled as the project’s board of directors made an appeal [...]

April 10, 20136495No Comment2013-04-10+17%3A40%3A13adminRead More

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