Renato Seabra Gets 25-to-Life in Grisly Carlos Castro Slaying

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Renato Seabra Gets 25-to-Life in Grisly Carlos Castro Slaying

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Calling the murder of Carlos Castro a “chilling example of the manifestation of man’s inhumanity to man” that was fraught with “sadism,” a judge sentenced Renato Seabra to 25-years-to-life in the 2011 slaying. “The sentence will be –– not in knee-jerk fashion, but considered –– 25-to-life,” said Daniel P. FitzGerald in [...]

December 21, 201247964 Comments2012-12-21+19%3A24%3A19adminRead More

United Nations Out for LGBT Rights at Sixth Annual Forum

BY ANDY HUMM | At the sixth annual United Nations conference on “Leadership in the Fight Against Homophobia” that marked Human Rights Day on December 11, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was flanked by singers Ricky Martin and Yvonne Chaka Chaka of South Africa. But his voice was the most rousing in unequivocally condemning homophobia wherever it [...]

December 19, 20124687No Comment2012-12-19+18%3A54%3A26adminRead More

AIDS Activist Spencer Cox is Dead at 44

BY PAUL SCHINDLER & TROY MASTERS | As Gay City News was going to press on December 18, news surfaced that Spencer Cox, 44, a veteran of ACT UP and a founder of the Treatment Action Group, had died earlier in the day. According to Peter Staley, a colleague of Cox’s in ACT UP and [...]

December 19, 201246893 CommentsAIDS+Activist+Spencer+Cox+is+Dead+at+442012-12-19+18%3A50%3A35adminRead More

Court Finds Realtors Discriminated Against Man With AIDS

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | US District Judge Samuel Conti ruled on December 3 that two New York realtors violated city law in their responses to a prospective tenant living with AIDS who sought an apartment with financial support from the HIV/ AIDS Services Administration (HASA). Conti awarded the plaintiff, Keith Short, $20,000 in damages, [...]

December 19, 201247223 Comments2012-12-19+17%3A42%3A40adminRead More

It’s Official: Corey versus Yetta in Race to Succeed Quinn

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Seven months after Corey Johnson, the chair of Community Board 4 in Chelsea, officially announced his aim to succeed Speaker Christine Quinn in the City Council’s District 3 seat, Yetta Kurland stepped up to say she too would contest the seat in 2013. The December 10 City Hall press conference at [...]

December 12, 2012463817 Comments2012-12-12+20%3A10%3A45adminRead More

Nathan Schaefer’s Agenda

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Eighteen months after New York joined an elite group of states that have legalized marriage equality and less than 30 days after what he called “a very exciting election,” Nathan Schaefer faces a path that in critical respects is largely uncharted as he assumes the leadership of the Empire State Pride [...]

December 5, 201244992 CommentsNathan+Schaefer%27s+Agenda2012-12-05+19%3A52%3A49adminRead More

City Steps Up Meningitis Alert Amidst Callen-Lorde Criticism

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Citing new meningitis cases among gay and bisexual men in addition to the 12 it reported on September 27, New York City’s health department expanded the target population for its meningitis vaccine campaign in a November 29 announcement. And the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, the Chelsea clinic that has vaccinated about 700 [...]

December 5, 201245082 Comments2012-12-05+19%3A00%3A27adminRead More

Seabra Defense Experts Spun Variation on ‘Gay Panic’ Argument

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In his closing statement in the murder trial of Renato Seabra, David Touger told a Manhattan jury that “Renato got caught in a situation he couldn’t handle and it drove him crazy.” Seabra, now 23, was convicted on November 30 on one count of second-degree murder in the 2011 killing of Carlos [...]

December 5, 201245112 Comments2012-12-05+18%3A55%3A33adminRead More

Gus Archilla, Marriage Equality Fighter Into His 90s, Dies

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Gus Archilla, who was partnered with his husband Elmer Lokkins for 58 years before the couple was able to legally marry in Canada in 2003, died on November 26, ten days before his 97th birthday. Lokkins, who is 93, survives Archilla, after a relationship that lasted for 67 years. Meeting just [...]

December 5, 201245181 Comment2012-12-05+18%3A39%3A23adminRead More

Out of the Darkness –– World AIDS Day, 2012

PHOTOS BY DONNA ACETO/ REPORTING BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Activists marked December 1, World AIDS Day, in Manhattan with a vigil and march that began at Trinity Lutheran Church on West 100th Street and proceeded by candlelight to Advent Lutheran Church and Broadway United Church of Christ, which share space at 93rd and Broadway. Brent Nicholson [...]

December 5, 20124592No Comment2012-12-05+18%3A16%3A13adminRead More

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