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Citing GENDA “Momentum,” Pride Agenda Touts Ray Kelly Endorsement

Citing GENDA “Momentum,” Pride Agenda Touts Ray Kelly Endorsement

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | It’s been more than a decade since New York State enacted a gay rights law –– one that failed, however, to provide protections based on gender identity and expression as well. But, now, with the State Legislature in the final few days of its 2013 regular session, the Empire State Pride Agenda, [...]

June 18, 2013No CommentRead More

Council Members, Advocates Press Legislature on Condoms

Council Members, Advocates Press Legislature on Condoms

BY GERARD FLYNN | New York City has the nation’s largest HIV/ AIDS population, and no responsible public health official would ever advise against carrying condoms. But that’s exactly the decision made by some in the LGBT community as well as the sex industry. They are leaving them behind for fear that if police find condoms [...]

June 10, 20134 CommentsRead More

Some Mayoral Candidates Mute After Right-Wing Anti-Gay Rant

Some Mayoral Candidates Mute After Right-Wing Anti-Gay Rant

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Speaking at a forum sponsored by Orthodox Jewish groups, two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for mayor made no comment after a minor contender in the race said the gay community was trying to ban circumcision. “We have groups marching from San Francisco and California and they are even marching here [...]

June 6, 201312 CommentsRead More

Quinn Consultation With Jewish Group on Center Palestinian Policy Bared

Quinn Consultation With Jewish Group on Center Palestinian Policy Bared

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC) may have played a role in crafting a statement issued earlier this year by gay and lesbian elected officials that voiced approval of the LGBT Community Center’s new space rental policy while excoriating opponents of Israeli government policies on Palestine. The statement was [...]

June 5, 20134 CommentsRead More

Council, Anti-Violence Agency Announce Self-Defense Push

Council, Anti-Violence Agency Announce Self-Defense Push

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In response to a wave of anti-gay violence that included the May 18 murder of Mark Carson in the West Village, the New York City Council has announced a series of free self-defense trainings to be held in at least three boroughs in coming weeks. The trainings were announced by the [...]

June 5, 20132 CommentsRead More

What Is To Be Done?

What Is To Be Done?

BY ANDY HUMM | In the wake of the anti-gay murder of Mark Carson on May 18 and at least seven homophobic assaults across Manhattan this month, proposed initiatives to fight back have found their way into the mix along with plenty of heated rhetoric from LGBT leaders and elected officials that this “will not stand.” [...]

May 22, 20132 CommentsRead More

Callen-Lorde, GMHC Deliver Nearly Third of Meningitis Vaccines

Callen-Lorde, GMHC Deliver Nearly Third of Meningitis Vaccines

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly eight months after New York City’s health department reported a meningitis outbreak among gay and bisexual men and began a vaccination campaign, two gay health groups have combined to vaccinate roughly 30 percent of the 10,209 people vaccinated in that effort. “It’s been a well-oiled machine,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

This Time, the Anger Was Institutionalized

This Time, the Anger Was Institutionalized

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Within 24 hours of a pipe bomb exploding in a West Village gay bar in 1990, Queer Nation, a newly formed activist group, organized a protest demanding that the police department and City Hall act. Estimates put the crowd at several hundred to more than 1,000. Though still grappling with the AIDS [...]

May 22, 20134 CommentsRead More

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, 20134 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

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