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Compassion and a Mayoral Campaign that Could Put a Crimp In It

BY NATHAN RILEY | With a Democratic mayor, New York City’s government would be more compassionate than the business-like regime of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Just how far this sympathy should extend caused the biggest division among the candidates at the March 20 LGBT mayoral forum at Baruch College. Chris Quinn, the speaker of the City Council [...]

March 26, 2013No 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

High Noon at the High Court

High Noon at the High Court

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | By the time the next issue of Gay City News hits the streets on March 27, the US Supreme Court will be concluding two days of oral arguments on the two marriage equality cases it accepted for review in the current term. On March 26, the federal lawsuit challenging the Defense of [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

THE CENTER SHIFTS GEARS

February 28, 2013 To the Editor: Thank you for putting forth some rational and well-argued insights (“LGBT Community Center: A Bad Policy Ended Badly,” by Paul Schindler, Feb. 27-Mar. 12).  You have shed much needed “light” rather than “heat” on what quickly became an explosive and divisive issue in our community. I look forward to [...]

March 13, 20131 CommentRead More

The Secret of Power

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | City Council Speaker Christine Quinn finally tossed her hat in the ring and came out as a candidate for New York’s top job. It’s a big deal. She’d be the first female mayor, not to mention the first dyke, in Gracie Mansion. It’s astounding that she’s gotten this far. Being the first [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead 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

LGBT Community Center: A Bad Policy Ended Badly

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Turning a corner on an unhappy episode in the history of New York’s LGBT Community Center that lasted nearly two years, the Center announced on February 15 that it was ending its “indefinite moratorium” on renting space to organizations that “organize around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The difficulties began in the spring of [...]

February 27, 20133 CommentsRead More

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I forget sometimes how important art is, what images can do. Last week I got blown away by an exhibit in Chelsea at the Yancey Richardson Gallery. The photographer was Zanele Muholi. Her subjects were African dykes like herself. They stare out from the prints in their best ball caps and [...]

February 27, 20133 CommentsRead More

The Lessons of Benedict — And Why They Won’t Be Learned

BY NATHAN RILEY | Pope Benedict XVI is leaving defeated, with the Catholic Church’s problems unresolved. Bracketing the Pope’s retirement were votes approving marriage equality in France and Great Britain. The rejection of the Church’s teaching, said the Tablet, a British Catholic newspaper, “undermined [its] authority” in the global dialogue on gay rights. Staunchly defending traditional [...]

February 27, 20131 CommentRead More

Where Have All the Muslims Gone: The 2018 Hashmi Award

BY SUSIE DAY | Every year about this time, since way back in 2013, the City of New York has bestowed its prestigious Hashmi Award upon a worthy New York resident who lives openly as an observant Muslim. The Hashmi recipient — preferably of Asian, Middle Eastern, or African descent — must have paid taxes, abided [...]

February 27, 2013No CommentRead More

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