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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, 20136240No Comment2013-03-27+02%3A45%3A42adminRead 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

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, 201358441 Comment2013-02-27+20%3A50%3A30adminRead More

Koch’s Legacy

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Even 23 years after Ed Koch’s departure from public office, journalists and commentators struggled over the past 10 days to neatly summarize and assess his 12 years at the helm of New York City government. Many written accounts chose to highlight, in either laudatory or nostalgic tones — or both — the [...]

February 13, 201355644 CommentsKoch%E2%80%99s+Legacy2013-02-13+20%3A03%3A50adminRead More

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, 201355246 Comments2013-02-08+18%3A00%3A40adminRead More

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, 2013544776 Comments2013-02-03+16%3A25%3A00adminRead More

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, 201354898 Comments2013-02-03+16%3A21%3A22adminRead More

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, 201354152 Comments2013-01-30+19%3A33%3A13adminRead More

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, 201354131 CommentWill+Supreme+Court+Rule+on+DOMA%3F2013-01-30+19%3A28%3A25adminRead More

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