Email Author Steven Thrasher

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 27, 2010

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2012 Stories by Steven Thrasher

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  While Florida and Pennsylvania Make Voter Registration Harder, New York Makes It Easier Online

  published Aug 17, 2012

  The states of Florida and Pennsylvania have been trying to make it harder to register to vote in 2012. While the former's efforts have been stalled somewhat and the latter's have been upheld in court,... More >>

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  What Does Being LGBT (Or Wanting to Get Gay Married) Have to Do with Gamblingr

  published Aug 14, 2012

  Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed has been beating down the path of a fascinating story over this past week, exploring how and why the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has gotten involved with the issue of... More >>

• Live: Third Coast Percussion Celebrates John Cage's 100th Birthday At MoMA

  published Aug 13, 2012

  Third Coast Percussion MoMA Sculpture Garden Thursday, August 9 Better than: Watching almost any contemporary DJ, since Cage was mixing vinyl and live radio with live performance before World War II... More >>

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  The Voice Talks To KNPR About the 37 Reasons Why We Hate Las Vegas [AUDIO]

  published Aug 13, 2012

  We must admit: when KNPR, the NPR affiliate of Las Vegas, contacted us and asked, "Do you want to come on the air to talk about '37 Reasons Why An Unapologetically Judgmental New Yorkers Hates Las Veg... More >>

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  Former President of the National Association of Black Journalists: NABJ As Only Group to Block LGBT Journo Group is 'Urban Myth' (Plus: Audio from the Michelangelo Signorile Show)

  published Aug 09, 2012

  Earlier this week, the Voice went on SiriusXM's Michelangelo Signorile Show to talk about our experiences at the UNITY convention. As we noted, this was the first UNITY without the official participa... More >>

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  "Access: Use It to Give Voice to the Voiceless (and Hell to the Powerful)," An Address to the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association

  published Aug 08, 2012

  Video courtesy of James Schmitz/Inner City Media. On Friday, August 3, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association named me NLGJA Journalist of the Year 2012. The above video shows CNN's Migue... More >>

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  37 Things For An Unapologetically Judgmental New Yorker To Hate About Las Vegas

  published Aug 07, 2012

  The Voice just returned from a trip to Las Vegas. While we enjoyed the UNITY 2012 and NLGJA conferences, we were disturbed by the "city" itself. Here are 37 reasons why we hated it, presented in no pa... More >>

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  Gregory Lee, President of National Association of Black Journalists, On the NABJ/UNITY Split, Money, and NLGJA [AUDIO]

  published Aug 06, 2012

  Updated below, with a message from former UNITY board member John Yearwood. Greetings from New York, New York (the city, not the casino) as the Voice has returned from the 2012 UNITY convention in L... More >>

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  The Voice Talks Chik-Fil-A on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show [AUDIO]

  published Aug 02, 2012

  Greetings from Las Vegas, where we are attending the UNITY 2012 journalism diversity conference, along with meetings of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. We called back home this mo... More >>

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  EXCLUSIVE: Rafalca Romney, Mitt Romney's Dressage Horse, Speaks to the Voice!

  published Aug 01, 2012

  Like much of America, we at the Village Voice have been bemused by Rafalca Romney, Mitt Romney's dressage horse who will be competing in the XXX Olympiad in London tomorrow. Imagine our surprise when... More >>

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  Democratic Party Approves Same-Sex Marriage Equality Plank for DNC

  published Jul 30, 2012

  Chris Johnson at the Washington Blade is reporting that the Democratic Party has approved a same-sex marriage equality platform plank for the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Quoting outgoin... More >>

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  DEVELOPING: Shooting at Midnight Screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado Leaves 12 Dead, 50 Injured

  published Jul 20, 2012

  A mass shooting took place at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado last night. Aurora is a suburb of Denver, a short distance from the suburb Columbine, where 13 people we... More >>

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  John McCain Understands Nothing Says 'I'm in the Muslim Brotherhood!' Like Marrying a Jew

  published Jul 19, 2012

  If you are one of those Democrats or Republicans who, regardless of party, actually liked John McCain once upon a time, and who found that -- until he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate -- he was... More >>

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  The Skinny With Patrik-Ian Polk, the Gay Filmmaking Love Child of Spike Lee and Tyler Perry

  published Jul 18, 2012

  Before meeting the director of The Skinny for lunch recently, I had seen Patrik-Ian Polk refer to himself on his Twitter profile as "The gay Tyler Perry. Shut up." But I'd also heard of him referred t... More >>

• Patti Smith Counts Down Her Top Five Operas

  published Jul 17, 2012

  WQXR has just released a beautiful YouTube video of rocker/poet/memoirist/artist Patti Smith talking about her top five favorite operas. The list is pretty traditional (Wagner, Puccini, Verdi) in the ... More >>

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  White House Announces Obama Will Skip International AIDS Conference Same Day FDA Approves Historic HIV Prevention Drug

  published Jul 17, 2012

  Lots of big news from the White House yesterday about HIV/AIDS. In the morning, the White House blasted out a press release with some historic news from the Food and Drug Administration: the FDA had ... More >>

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  Edith Windsor, Octogenarian Lesbian Widow: Take My DOMA Case to the Supreme Court!

  published Jul 16, 2012

  Edith Windsor, the octogenarian lesbian widow who successfully sued the federal government for over chariging her $363,000 in estate taxes, wants to take her case to the Supreme Court. According to a... More >>

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  WNYC: 'Police Aren't Finding Guns Where They're Looking the Hardest' with Stop-and-Frisk

  published Jul 16, 2012

  WNYC's Ailsa Chang and the wizards at the station's Data News Team have the story this morning you must read if you're interested in gun safety and/or stop-and-frisk. Mayor Bloomberg has been on a ro... More >>

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  R.I.P. George Stoney, NYU Film Professor and Godfather of Public Access TV

  published Jul 16, 2012

  NYU film professor, documentarian, and pioneer of cable access George Stoney passed away last week. He was 96 years old. I had the opportunity to study under Stoney as a film student at NYU in the l... More >>

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  The Columnist: Joseph Alsop's Fabulous Gay Life As A 'House Faggot'

  published Jul 02, 2012

  The Voice's Michael Feingold already reviewed The Columnist, in which John Lithgow brilliantly portrays columnist Joseph Alsop in David Auburn's new play on Broadway. But, we wanted to share a few tho... More >>

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  BREAKING: League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Passes Same-Sex Marriage Equality Resolution

  published Jun 30, 2012

  Another Saturday, another national group of brown people proves Toure right by being homophobic passes a same-sex marriage equality resolution. LULAC, the League of United Latino American Citizens, ... More >>

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  LGBT Center's Cindi Creager Admits 'Just' Blocking Journalist From Facebook Wall (and Other Things We Learned On a Surprise Visit)

  published Jun 29, 2012

  As we began to delve into the depressing implosion of the Bronx Pride Center, which closed after former head Lisa Winters was charged with embezzling $338,000, we remembered how easy it is for non-pro... More >>

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  How To Survive a Plague: Queer Activism Before 'Gay Inc.' Bought It Off

  published Jun 29, 2012

  Two things starkly colored my experience as I went to a screening of David France's fascinating documentary How to Survive a Plague, about the heyday of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), earl... More >>

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  LGBT Center Shuts Off Facebook Comments to Avoid Questions from the Voice as Bronx Pride Center Closes in Scandal [UPDATED]

  published Jun 28, 2012

  Update: Turns out others can comment on the Center's Facebook wall -- they've "just" blocked a journalist, to keep any questions from being asked! Something very strange is happening on 13th Street ... More >>

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  BREAKING: Supreme Court Has Upheld Individual Mandate, Handing Obama Huge Victory on Healthcare Law

  published Jun 28, 2012

  We're listening to the Brian Lehrer show and reading SCOTUSblog's liveblog as the Supreme Court sits for what will probably be the final time of this term. And...SCOTUSblog is saying that the mandat... More >>