Email Author Steven Thrasher
Awards
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 27, 2010
"Bad Lieutenant"
2011 Stories by Steven Thrasher
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FEATURED STORY
21 Voice Stories from 2011 That Melted Even This Grizzled Journalist's Heart to Report
published Dec 22, 2011
Looking back, 2011 has been quite a year, especially on the gay rights front, one of our major beats. Like the cardiac organ caught in a bear trap accompanying Jen Doll's "Plight of the Single Lady," ... More >>
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Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color of Change, on the Collapsed AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
published Dec 21, 2011
Earlier this year, we wrote about how a bevy of civil rights groups like GLADD and the NAACP supported, inexplicably from our point of view, the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. That deal fell apart yeste... More >>
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Newt Gingrich, Thrice Married Adulterer, Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Protect Marriage From the Gays
published Dec 19, 2011
Behold, the power of NOM, the National Organization for Marriage. Newt Gingrich announced on Friday that he supports a constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage. This was the same day he signed ... More >>
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Valery Jean, Executive Director of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, on FUREE's 10th Anniversary Party
published Dec 14, 2011
It's the holidays and time for nightly benefit parties. This month, we're be circling back to non-profits and art groups we've talked to through out 2011 as they gear up for their annual shindigs. To... More >>
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Ruben Diaz Celebrates A Merry XXXmas With Adults Only Party
published Dec 09, 2011
Reverend Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr., defender of Wal-Mart and namesake of a building housing a gay community center, is nothing if not a paragon of family values. So that's why we assume, when the highes... More >>
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Joe My God and Dan Savage Raising Money for Funeral of Jacob Rogers, Anti-Gay Bullying Victim
published Dec 08, 2011
Joe Jervis of Joe My God (the political blog honored last night at the Voice web awards), Dan Savage (whose syndicated column appears weekly in the Voice) and the website Towleroad are all raising mon... More >>
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Eve Biddle, Co-Director of the Wassaic Project, On Its Past, Its Future, and Its Fundraiser Tonight
published Dec 08, 2011
It's the holidays and time for nightly benefit parties. This month, we'll be circling back to non-profits and art groups we've talked to through out 2011 as they gear up for their annual shindigs. To... More >>
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Rick Perry and the Curious Case of Gay Griping
published Dec 07, 2011
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military's discriminatory ban barring homosexuals from serving openly, was signed out of law a year ago this month. After an exhaustive implementation review by the Presiden... More >>
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Mike Bloomberg, Commander-in-Chief of World's Seventh Biggest Army, Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment [VIDEO]
published Dec 01, 2011
Earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg made a speech where he said has his "own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world." The speech was covered by Hunter Walker on the New York O... More >>
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Kevin Beauchamp and Howard Orlick on World AIDS Day
published Dec 01, 2011
Today is World AIDS Day, the day to remember the 25 million people killed by the disease and the over 33 million people worldwide living with HIV. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to profile... More >>
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Bronx Gay Center Moving Into The Reverend Ruben Diaz Gardens Building
published Nov 30, 2011
Today we got a press release from the Bronx Community Pride Center announcing that they are moving out of their run-down building in Mott Haven and into swanky new digs in Hunts Point/Longwood in a fa... More >>
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Occupy L.A. Finally Gets Around to Facing Eviction, Take 2 (LIVE VIDEO)
published Nov 30, 2011
globalrevolution on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Update, 1:20 AM EST: After skirting a confrontation earlier this week, it looks like hundreds of LAPD are making their way to move in on Occupy ... More >>
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Is New York's Marriage Equality Act In Legal Jeopardy of a Repealr
published Nov 29, 2011
When the Marriage Equality Act passed in the New York State Senate on June 24, 2011, Governor Andrew Cuomo quickly signed it into law. When it went into effect 30 days later, same-sex couples had the ... More >>
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COVER STORY
America’s Top Heathen
published November 30, 2011
On Tuesday, November 4, 2009, American political history was made, even though it was an off-year election, with few people running for... More >>
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Conor Tomas Reed, CUNY Teacher and PhD Student, On Being Arrested for Protesting Tuition Hikes
published Nov 28, 2011
City University of New York students will be protesting tuition hikes this afternoon, and all classes at Baruch's Newman Vertical Campus have been cancelled. It will be deja vu for Conor Tomas Reed, a... More >>
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Proud One Percenter: "Have You Ever Heard of Anybody Great That's Come Out of the 99 Percentr" (VIDEO)
published Nov 28, 2011
We've had extensive coverage of the "99 percent" here at Runnin' Scared, but starting today we're going to try something new. Knowing they just don't get their fair share of time to speak to tradition... More >>
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Mitt Romney Lies About His First Name, Which is Really Willard; Rick Santorum Says Africa is a Country (VIDEO)
published Nov 22, 2011
The Republicans are engaging in their twelfth (that's right, an even dozen) debate tonight in Washington, D.C., in a CNN foreign policy debate sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and American Enterpr... More >>
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Chris Barron of GOProud Another Compassionate (Gay) Conservative, Apparently
published Nov 22, 2011
This is what Chris Barron of GOProud, the gay Republican group, had to say about those students at UC Davis getting pepper-sprayed. We knew that the pepper spraying moment had become a meme, but we we... More >>
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Behold, the Martin "Loofah" King Exfoliating Glove!
published Nov 18, 2011
Have you been searching high and low for that "fantastic novelty house warming gift," as Amazon.com puts itr Have you been dreaming of a way to make it so that your "skin appears always fresh," while ... More >>
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"99%" Projected Onto Side of Verizon Building
published Nov 17, 2011
This is pretty amazing. Our Nick Pinto just tweeted out this picture of the Verizon Building near the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, where he's covering the Occupy Wall Street march. The march includes ... More >>
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Occupy Wall Street National Day of Action: Live Updates From Downtown Manhattan
published Nov 17, 2011
Good afternoon, and welcome to the evening edition of the Village Voice liveblog of Occupy Wall Street's Day of Action. Today, November 17, marks the two month anniversary since Occupy Wall Street be... More >>
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California Supreme Court Grants Standing in Prop 8 Case to Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage
published Nov 17, 2011
The California Supreme Court ruled today that opponents who sued to appeal U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's 2010 ruling, which found Prop 8 to be unconstitutional, have "standing" to do so. Walker'... More >>
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Andrea Peyser at Zuccotti: "I'm Not as Old As I Look." (Also, "Fuck You!")
published Nov 16, 2011
Here are words we don't usually type: we can't wait to read Andrea Peyser's next column in the New York Post! Yesterday, we had the privilege to watch Peyser in action, as we were waiting at Zuccotti ... More >>
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Occupy Wall Street Can't Bring Tents, Sleeping Gear, or Zzzzs Back to Zuccotti Park
published Nov 15, 2011
Judge Michael D. Stallman of the Supreme Court of New York just issued a ruling denying Occupy Wall Street's request for a temporary restraining order that would allow them to return, sleeping gear an... More >>
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Mitra Bonshahi and Sylvie Lubow, Creators of "Two Truths and a Lie," Talk Fact and Fiction Storytelling
published Nov 15, 2011
Two Truths and a Lie is a live storytelling event in Brooklyn, which mixes real life tales with bald faced lies and challenges the audience to decipher which is which. The latest edition is happening ... More >>
