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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

Obama Administration Steps Up on Prop 8

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a brief in support of the two same-sex couples seeking to overturn California’s Proposition 8. Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court on March 26. The administration does not explicitly argue there is a federal constitutional right to marry, but in [...]

March 1, 201359202 CommentsObama+Administration+Steps+Up+on+Prop+82013-03-01+18%3A32%3A01adminRead More

Homophobia More Lethal than Kryptonite?

BY SANJANA CHOWHAN | For generations, Americans have turned to comic books for inspiration. Readers found themselves identifying with Peter Parker, who was a social outcast but strived to become the brave and confident Spiderman. The idea that a passive and introverted Clark Kent could be Superman gave fans a sense of fairness and justice. The [...]

February 28, 201358393 Comments2013-02-28+15%3A40%3A22adminRead 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

Plaintiffs’, San Francisco’s Prop 8 Briefs Go to High Court

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Attorneys representing the two same-sex couples challenging California’s Proposition 8 have now filed their response to the brief submitted to the Supreme Court in January by those defending the 2008 voter initiative. In addition, the City and County of San Francisco, which was allowed to intervene as a co-plaintiff in the [...]

February 27, 201358302 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A35%3A40adminRead More

Obama Supreme Court Brief Attacks DOMA on the Merits

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Arguing that all government policies that discriminate based on sexual orientation should be treated by the federal courts as presumptively unconstitutional, the Obama administration has filed its brief with the Supreme Court in the Defense of Marriage Act case in which oral arguments are scheduled for March 27. The case was [...]

February 27, 201358284 Comments2013-02-27+20%3A31%3A54adminRead More

LGBT Center Ends Moratorium on Israel/ Palestine-Themed Gatherings

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Following a furious outcry over its refusal to rent space for a reading by Sarah Schulman from her latest book, “Israel/Palestine and the Queer International,” New York City’s gay community center has lifted a moratorium on renting to groups that “organize around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” “Our resulting Space Use Guidelines, Terms and Conditions [...]

February 15, 2013569921 Comments2013-02-15+23%3A50%3A59adminRead More

LGBT Center Bars Sarah Schulman Reading

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A leading queer community author was barred from an appearance at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center apparently because the book she was to discuss deals with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “We requested space for me to do a presentation of my new book ‘Israel/ Palestine and the Queer International,’ which [...]

February 13, 20135575125 CommentsLGBT+Center+Bars+Sarah+Schulman+Reading2013-02-13+20%3A54%3A21adminRead More

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