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Bill Dobbs

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Demonstrators Protest AIDS Inaction, Student Debt and Tuition Hikes

    May Day isn't even here yet, and it's already becoming clear that a season of protest and politics in the street is upon us. Yesterday morning saw a substantial demonstration by ACT UP!, other AIDS activists, and Occupiers, marching from City Hall into the Financial District to call for a financial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Occupy Wall Street Is Finally Occupying Wall Street (Or At Least Trying)

    Seven months after they first set up camp in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protesters are actually occupying Wall Street. But after a relatively uneventful week of lawfully sleeping on the sidewalk near the New York Stock Exchange, the protesters have been met with a strong police response over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Occupy Wall Street "Cleaning": Live Updates from the Standoff

    Via Twitter/@LucyKafanovA camped out protester waking up others as police arrive​After a night of pouring rain with unrelenting thunder and lightening (is Mayor Bloomberg wealthy enough to own one of those Bond-vilain-style weather machines?), the moment of confrontation between the NYPD and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2009

    Protesters Say Cops Target Older Gay Men with Bogus Charges at XXX Shops

    Photos by Candice M. Giove. In front of a backdrop of hot pink placards - some splashed with hearts and cupids - Robert Pinter, a 53-year-old gay man, recounted the horror of being falsely arrested for prostitution this past October. He is one of many older gay men, activists said, targeted by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Thousands Protest Prop 8 at Mormon Temple

    Photos by Candice M. Giove. In front of a backdrop of hot pink placards - some splashed with hearts and cupids - Robert Pinter, a 53-year-old gay man, recounted the horror of being falsely arrested for prostitution this past October. He is one of many older gay men, activists said, targeted by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2007

    Bob Kohler, Gay Rights Pioneer, 1926-2007

    Photos by Candice M. Giove. In front of a backdrop of hot pink placards - some splashed with hearts and cupids - Robert Pinter, a 53-year-old gay man, recounted the horror of being falsely arrested for prostitution this past October. He is one of many older gay men, activists said, targeted by ... More >>

  • News

    December 4, 2007

    Bob Kohler, 1926–2007

    Friends sent the gay activist out the way he'd want: with a protest

  • News

    January 17, 2006

    Who's Watching?

    NYC activist groups react to new NYPD spy tactics

  • News

    January 3, 2006

    The Outsider Comes In

    The party bosses choose a former activist as Council Speaker

  • News

    September 13, 2005

    The New Fight Against the War

    A big march in D.C. marks a change in tactics for those who want the U.S. out of Iraq

  • News

    September 13, 2005

    Cindy Sheehan Takes on the Democrats, Hillary Clinton

    The anti-war activist has plenty to say—and it’s not all about Bush

  • News

    August 17, 2004

    Cuisine de Clink

    Planning to protest the RNC? Fine dining awaits you at the city's swankiest prisons

  • News

    August 10, 2004

    Turf Wars

    Mayor Bloomberg's latest objection to Central Park anti-war rally: it's just not safe

  • News

    August 3, 2004

    They'll Take Manhattan

    Activists again eye Central Park, central streets

  • News

    August 3, 2004

    The Watchers

    Protesting at the GOP convention? Legal observers have your back.

  • News

    May 4, 2004

    Keep Off the Grass

    Kicked out of the garden? Unconventional approaches to protesting the GOP convention

  • News

    March 16, 2004

    Mixed Dissent

    Anti-War Activists Gather in Midtown to Demand an End to U.S. Occupation

  • News

    June 24, 2003

    The Anti-Bush Campaign Kicks Off

    Pro-Choicers Join Anti-War Activists to Protest the President

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Queer on Death Row

    In Murder Cases, Being Gay Can Seal a Defendant’s Fate

  • News

    August 1, 2000

    Who’ll Be Blacklisted Next?

    ‘It’s a Plain Old Censorship Campaign’

  • News

    July 25, 2000

    Boomeranging Dr. Laura Off the Air

    Homophobes Can Boycott, Too

  • News

    April 25, 2000

    Fight Club

    A Gay March on Washington Spawns a Major Movement Rift

  • News

    March 28, 2000

    Powerful Gay Media

    Is 'The Advocate' Getting Savvy or Selling Out?

  • News

    October 26, 1999

    Believers Who Brunch

    Jerry Falwell Breaks Bread With the Gay Faithful. But Will His Hospitality Break the Gay Movement?

  • Columns

    June 29, 1999

    NY Mirror

    At the HX Awards, everyone was on their best behavior until the Lee Press-On claws inevitably emerged through the white gloves.

  • Columns

    June 1, 1999

    NY Mirror

    The guy is such an omnipresent party presence that his name— Alan Cumming— even sounds like an R.S.V.P.

  • News

    October 27, 1998

    Good For The Gays?

    A widening rift over the political direction of America's gay rights lobby

  • News

    May 19, 1998

    Camera [in the Can]

    Just in Time for Sweeps Month, TV News Discovers Rest Room Sex

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