Perspectives Archives - Page 3 of 15 - gaycitynews.com

Home » Archives by category » Perspectives (Page 3)

Koch’s Legacy

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, 20134 CommentsRead More

Putting the Pope Out to Pasture

Putting the Pope Out to Pasture

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | It’s finally curtains for the inauspicious reign of Pope Benedict the Whatever, who resigned Monday citing health concerns as the reason for breaking a 600-year-old tradition of serving until death. I suspect he was just sulking after his attempts to “protect” straight marriage in France were soundly defeated. Or maybe he [...]

February 13, 20131 CommentRead More

Zero Dark Thirty: The Woman’s Guide to Success Thru Torture

BY SUSIE DAY | I The Globe See the Globe. More than half the seven billion people on the Globe are women. Women are different from men. Why are women different from men? Because, according to international humanitarian agencies, women have special percentages that stick out. See women’s percentages: Women make up 70 percent of the [...]

January 30, 2013No CommentRead More

Leadership on Immigration Reform

Leadership on Immigration Reform

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | President Barack Obama, on January 29, did what a bipartisan group of US senators failed to do the day before. He included equality for same-sex couples in the immigration reform framework he released. In a 2,200-word-plus “fact sheet” released by the White House in tandem with a major address the president delivered [...]

January 30, 20132 CommentsRead More

Selma, Seneca Falls, Stonewall

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | All hail January. The first was not just New Year’s Day, but the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation. A couple weeks later, Barack Obama, our first black president, had his second inauguration ceremony on Martin Luther King Day. I remember a lot of (white) people were pissed off [...]

January 30, 2013No CommentRead 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

A Taste of What’s Left

BY NATHAN RILEY | Marijuana law reformers, trade unionists, civil libertarians, and feminists greeted Governor Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State speech with enthusiastic applause, matching his passionate delivery. The raves came for the part of his long speech that concerned the progressive agenda, which balanced his opening remarks focused on his fiscally conservative pledge [...]

January 16, 20131 CommentRead More

Being Jodie Foster

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I was maybe 12 or 14 when some man at the hospital said, “You remind me of somebody. That actress. You know. What’s her name? Straight hair? Young? She was in that movie a couple years ago?” Which he couldn’t think of, either. I was taking newspapers around to patients, [...]

January 16, 2013No CommentRead More

AN ACTIVIST’S DEATH

AN ACTIVIST’S DEATH

January 6, 2013 To the Editor: This is by far the best obit on Spencer yet (“Spencer Cox’s Legacy as a Treatment Activist and a Gay Man With AIDS,” by Paul Schindler, Jan. 2-15) and as a friend of Spencer’s, it’s much appreciated. Scott Gorenstein   January 13, 2013 To the Editor: Spencer’s concerns with [...]

January 15, 2013No CommentRead More

LOG CABIN SHIFT ON HAGEL

LOG CABIN SHIFT ON HAGEL

December 31, 2012 To the Editor: This clown Clarke Cooper just endorsed Mitt Romney, who was committed to maintaining our second-class status and was capable of doing us much more damage than Chuck Hagel (“Clarke Cooper Sings New Tune as Log Cabins Blast Hagel,” by Paul Schindler, posted online Dec. 27). Clarke Cooper and the [...]

January 15, 2013No CommentRead More

Page 3 of 15‹ Previous12345Next ›Last »