Dogged by 2009 Campaign Fundraising Probe, Liu Hangs Tough, Announces Mayoral Bid

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Dogged by 2009 Campaign Fundraising Probe, Liu Hangs Tough, Announces Mayoral Bid

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Pledging to be the mayor not “of the one percent, but of the 100 percent,” John Liu, the city comptroller since 2010, officially announced his candidacy to succeed Michael Bloomberg. Liu is 46 and served eight years on the City Council representing Flushing and adjoining neighborhoods in Queens before becoming the first [...]

March 18, 201361398 Comments2013-03-18+21%3A09%3A13adminRead More

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, 20136075No Comment2013-03-13+19%3A03%3A54adminRead More

Chris Quinn Formally Enters Race for Mayor

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Standing across the street from the Catholic church in Inwood where her parents married and her immigrant grandfather’s funeral was held, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn formally announced her candidacy for mayor on the morning of March 10. Explaining that her four grandparents came to New York from Ireland a [...]

March 13, 2013598520 Comments2013-03-13+19%3A01%3A28adminRead More

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, 20136068No Comment2013-03-13+18%3A53%3A27adminRead More

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, 201360622 Comments2013-03-13+18%3A39%3A25adminRead More

Bailey House Marks 30 Years, Fêtes AIDS Pioneers

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Bailey House, which during the mid-1980s established the nation’s first scatter-site housing and congregate care housing for people living with HIV/ AIDS, marks its 30th anniversary with an auction and gala at Chelsea Piers on March 28. Today, the agency maintains its original facility, Bailey-Holt House at the west end of Christopher [...]

March 13, 20136053No Comment2013-03-13+18%3A12%3A43adminRead More

Liu Charges Ed Dept Fails in Tracking Bullying

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The city’s Department of Education (DOE) is not adequately tracking and responding to bias incidents in New York City’s roughly 1,700 public schools, according to an audit released by John Liu, the city’s comptroller. “The DOE needs to show parents, students, and educators that it takes bullying seriously,” Liu said in a [...]

March 13, 20136057No Comment2013-03-13+18%3A08%3A14adminRead More

With Four New Meningitis Cases in Gay Men, Quinn, Farley Join Call for Vaccination

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Citing four new meningitis cases among gay and bisexual men in New York City since the start of 2013, the city’s health department is recommending that all men who “regularly have intimate contact with other men met through a website, digital application, or at a bar or party” get vaccinated for the [...]

March 6, 20135965No Comment2013-03-07+02%3A37%3A53adminRead More

Immigration Advocates Warn Against ‘Watering Down’ Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In response to a January 28 memorandum from eight US senators of both parties who are taking the lead on immigration reform, a number of local and national advocacy groups held a Manhattan press conference to voice fears about the risk of “watering down” what they described as the push for “real [...]

February 27, 201358442 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A50%3A30adminRead More

Need on Subways: Security and A Sense of Community

BY CHRIS PHILLIPS | I spent that Saturday afternoon in 2008 grilling hamburgers at my church’s Pride picnic. Then I met my partner for a celebratory margarita or two at the Monster. As it started to rain, we headed across Christopher Street for the downtown subway. I remember being glad we didn’t have to stand on [...]

February 27, 201358574 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A01%3A33adminRead More

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