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It’s Up to Us

It’s Up to Us

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Seven anti-gay attacks in 16 days. One a shocking close- range shooting of Mark Carson in the face, resulting in the 32-year-old man’s death. The West Village, the East Village, Madison Square Garden, Union Square, and Soho. If there is any consolation in all this, it would seem to be the willingness [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Time Traveling With Richard Bowes

Time Traveling With Richard Bowes

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | Lately, I’ve been talking to students about the Lesbian Avengers. I stand up there like a figure of authority and show a video and answer questions about this dyke activist group I was a part of, and it’s all so weird because what’s my life is their history. Like a strange [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

WTF? Meningitis Message Missing Young Gay Men of Color

WTF? Meningitis Message Missing Young Gay Men of Color

BY MIGUEL ZAPATA | I’m a 20-year-old young man of color living on the Lower East Side. I was raised by my mother who is from the Dominican Republic. I’ve worked in retail sales of trendy clothes since I was 17. I am trying to get back to college and I think I want to become [...]

May 8, 20137 CommentsRead More

Mayor’s Race Gets More Complicated, But Advantage is Still Quin

BY NATHAN RILEY | Chris Quinn remains the frontrunner in the race for mayor, but she is not likely to be win the Democratic nomination flat out in the September 10 primary election. The City Council speaker’s leg up among her party’s field has been narrowing, but she had enjoyed such a large lead that this [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Mothers’ Day and the Queer Kitchen

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | One of the few times I’ve been back to Kentucky in the last zillion years, my mother offered to make lunch if I came over. The menu turned out to be frozen pizza and brownies made from a mix, and for that I was truly grateful. The woman’s a rotten cook. Mostly [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

A Scurrilous Feint by the Boy Scouts

A Scurrilous Feint by the Boy Scouts

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Perhaps after years of their heels dug in deeply amidst mounting PR problems, the Boy Scouts of America thought they could garner some favorable press with the announcement last week that gay members would no longer be barred from their ranks. In late May, the 1,400 members of Scouting’s National Council will [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

The Boston Attacks: Learning to Regret

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL: He looked just like a young Bob Dylan, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — handsome as sin and a little lost, with the same dark angelic ringlets, same soulful eyes. All the networks kept showing the photo Friday, right next to one of a boat parked in a suburban yard. Then, they’d show the scene [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

Ericka Huggins and the Company We Keep

BY SUSIE DAY | Like most of the white liberal-to-left elite, I am mesmerized by radical 1960s and ‘70s activist groups such as SDS and the Weather Underground. My auto-entrancement likely stems from a deep nostalgia for the glory days when 100,000 protesters could march on the Pentagon and not a one could be linked to [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Don’t Put LGBTQ Immigrants Back in the Closet

Don’t Put LGBTQ Immigrants Back in the Closet

BY DANIEL DROMM AND ANA MARÍA ARCHILA | In recent weeks, two issues have dominated the news: same-sex marriage and immigration reform. Too often, the media and politicians present these topics as separate human rights struggles. In truth, they are intimately linked to one another, and the fight for comprehensive immigration reform offers a critical opportunity for [...]

April 11, 20131 CommentRead More

Queering Democracy In France

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | Seems like whenever you demand LGBT rights in a democracy, some asshole declares, “It’s a free country. You can do whatever you want inside your home. Why do you have to impose it on me?” Then they call you a fascist and sometimes cap things off with the advice, “Go back [...]

April 10, 20132 CommentsRead More

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