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New York City on $12 a Day?

New York City on $12 a Day?

BY BRAD HOYLMAN | Imagine if you had to live in New York City on $12 a day. What could you do without? On top of that, what if you had a serious medical condition that required out-of-pocket costs for treatment? How would you choose between medical expenses, like co-pays and over-the-counter drugs, and other basic [...]

June 13, 20131 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, 20138 CommentsRead 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

The Trouble With Christine Quinn

BY SCOTT KLEIN | I attended the mayoral forum sponsored by the New York’s five LGBT Democratic clubs and Gay City News, and the newspaper’s editor, Paul Schindler, who moderated, asked rather difficult questions of the panel. Christine Quinn, the current speaker of the City Council, positioned herself as the least progressive of the candidates. It [...]

March 26, 20132 CommentsRead More

V. Tyler Clementi / R. Ora pro nobis.

V. Tyler Clementi / R. Ora pro nobis.

BY RABBI ROBERT TEIXEIRA | Today, February 28, the See of Peter will become vacant, and Joseph Ratzinger, whom the world knows as Pope Benedict XVI, will make his way to Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence, where he will await the election of his successor. Long after, some will claim, as they do now, that [...]

February 28, 20133 CommentsRead More

A Political Journey from Connecticut through Maine to Pennsylvania

BY JEFFREY COLE LEFRANCOIS | For the first time in American history, gay men and women were recognized in a president’s inaugural remarks. Barack Obama did not stop at calling us America’s “brothers and sisters.” Before the world, he referred to the Stonewall Riots and joined the movement that grew out of that event to the [...]

January 30, 20133 CommentsRead More

The AP Notwithstanding, Homophobia is Sadly Alive and Well

The AP Notwithstanding, Homophobia is Sadly Alive and Well

BY DR. GEORGE WEINBERG | The Associated Press just changed its famous Stylebook for its reporters to ban future use of the word “homophobia.” Writers have been told to replace the word with more “neutral language” — with words that don’t ascribe any motive or state of mind, even to those who persecute gays. This is [...]

December 5, 20122 CommentsRead More

Brought to Light By Sandy, Homelessness All Too Often Forgotten

BY RABBI SHARON KLEINBAUM | There was a new buzzword in the local media in the past few weeks… a new trend the press could not stop talking about — from the columnists at the New York Post and New York Daily News, to the dial-in reporters at 1010 WINS and WNYC, to the New York [...]

November 21, 20123 CommentsRead More

Back from the Abyss

Back from the Abyss

ANALYSIS BY DOUG IRELAND | This election has saved the soul of Ameican democracy from one of the greatest threats it has experienced since the anti-Communist hysteria of McCarthyism and the domestic Cold War in the 1950s. America teetered on the brink in Tuesday’s election, stared into an abyss of reaction, and took a half-step [...]

November 8, 20121 CommentRead More

Unfinished Business: Community Safety Act Needed to End Discriminatory Policing of LGBT New Yorkers

Unfinished Business: Community Safety Act Needed to End Discriminatory Policing of LGBT New Yorkers

BY ANDREA RITCHIE | Just in time for Pride celebrations, the New York City Police Department issued a sweeping set of changes to its Patrol Guide this past June, giving officers much needed guidance in interactions with transgender and gender-nonconforming New Yorkers. As reported in the June 20 edition of Gay City News, the revisions [...]

October 22, 20121 CommentRead More

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