Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Gay Criticism Of Chuck Hagel Keeps A-Coming

President Obama's nomination of former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense has been controversial, partly because of Hagel's icky gay-related remarks in 1998, not to mention his bad record on LGBT issues. Here are some statements that have come forth on the issue: Garden State Equal ... More >>

Chris Kluwe Takes a Stand

The Vikings punter is prying open America's last closet: major league sports

Romney's VIP Pick Is A Zero When It Comes To Gay Rights

Not surprisingly, Paul Ryan--the Wisconsin nightmare chosen by Mitt Romney as his wannabe Vice President--is not the type who'll have a float in a Gay pride parade. Paul Schindler's piece in Gay City News details the congressman's awful track record when it comes to LGBT rights.

Selling a Newly Out Armed Forces

The Pentagon makes sure the public supports 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal

The Evil Ways Immigrants Destroyed America When Reagan Granted Them Amnesty

There has been the expected nuclear hay made by Republicans out of President Obama's decision to give temporary relief to the children of undocumented immigrants in lieu of the D.R.E.A.M. Act passing. We were in the Rose Garden to witness the first attack personally, as an Irish immigrant, of all pe ... More >>

President Obama: Will He Come Out Today For Gay Marriage?

Update: President Obama has indeed come out of the closet, telling ABC news that he does, in fact, support the right for same-sex couples to get married. Read our report, with reactions from New Yorkers, here. It's been a rough few days for President Obama on the gay marriage question, although he ... More >>

Is Obama Doing Enough For the Gays? We Ask Metro Weekly's Chris Geidner About LGBT Workplace Discrimination and the White House [VIDEO]

Part 1 in a series. Apart from GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans, there is no doubt that all the major organizations which make up Gay Inc will be solidly behind President Obama in his reelection campaign over the next six months. (Mitt Romney may have once pandered to gay voters in Massachuset ... More >>

Irish Queers Protest At St. Patrick's Day Parade

As the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade marches up Fifth Avenue today, an annual protest will take place. The group Irish Queers will call out the NYPD's participation in the event, which they say on their website "was redesigned so that anti-gay bigots could parade using the church's special right t ... More >>

Rick Perry: There is Not One Non-White Person in America. (Also, Rick Santorum is a Pig!)

Usually, the advisors of even the most aging white male Republican candidate will pay some crude lip service to the idea of a multi-culti America. Not Rick Perry, though; we've watched his latest video "America is Caling" through a couple of times, and from what we can see, there is not one non-whit ... More >>

Musto Occupies 2011: A Rich Year for Gossip

Rick Perry and the Curious Case of Gay Griping

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 President, the Joint-Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of Defense, it officially ended almost three months ... More >>

Tea Party Audience Boos Gay Soldier at GOP Debate

Last night was the night of the Fox-Google GOP debate, notable for the just-like-getting-a-gchat beep that went off whenever anyone talked too long, as well as a moment in which Stephen Hill, a gay soldier serving in Iraq, asked Rick Santorum whether he'd circumvent the progress that's been made for ... More >>

Maybe I Do And Maybe I Don't

Gays get the freedom to marry—and for some, the freedom not to

Rhode Island Passes Civil Unions, President Obama Ducks on Gay Marriage

​Following a win in New York's Senate last week on same-sex marriage, the Rhode Island Senate took up Civil Unions last night and passed the measure 21 to 16, which Reuters reports the governor is expected to sign. It was the second win on legal partnership in less than a week for equality act ... More >>

Diaz Family Values

While Rubén Díaz Sr. lobs bombs against gay rights, son Rubén Jr. and lesbian granddaughter Erica run for cover

Bradley Manning's Facebook Page Reconstructed by PBS Frontline

​In advance of tonight's documentary WikiSecrets, the PBS show Frontline has released an exhaustive recreation of Bradley Manning's Facebook page, in an attempt to illuminate the mysterious figure currently incarcerated for leaking government secrets to Julian Assange's pro-transparency organi ... More >>

Ruben Diaz Has a Rather Queer Anti-Gay March in the Rain

​Though the rain caused the cancellation of the Bronx Puerto Rican Day Parade, it would not deter Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr. from holding his "March for Morality" against gay marriage yesterday. Over the next several hours, the Bronx County Courthouse would provide the set for a very strang ... More >>

Who Do We Have To Blow To Get Gay Marriage? The 2011 Version

​AFTER THE JUMP: An update on the growing coalition behind marriage equality. Just who do marriage equality activists have to blow to get gay marriage in New York State? In the fall of 2009, when we asked that question, the obvious answer was the state Senate Democrats. A marriage equality ... More >>

Q & A: Come's Thalia Zedek and Chris Brokaw On Van Halen, Chavez, and Reunions (Including Codeine!)

​ The prospect of post-blues dirge shredders Come reforming with all four original members didn't exactly trigger an earth-shaking ruckus akin to what ensued when Guided by Voices and Dinosaur Jr schlepped their "classic" lineups on the road. But the reunion of singer/guitarist/badass Thalia ... More >>

A State Version of DREAM Act Introduced As a Kind of Consolation to Federal Failure

​The New York State Youth Leadership Council announced yesterday that a state version of the DREAM Act was introduced in the New York Senate. Although the group is hailing this as a positive step, it's a big step backwards from what the DREAM Act set out to be. Originally introduced over ten ... More >>

Barack Obama's Shift on Gay Marriage, and What It Means

​ Today's announcement that President Barack Obama's Justice Department will stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) seemed to come out of nowhere — unless you think the administration was emboldened by the election of alum Rahm Emanuel as mayor of Chicago. ... More >>

Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and the Great Gay-Pander-Off of 2010

Nicki, P!nk, Gaga, and those two other ones taste the rainbow

Sarah Palin Supports "Homos" in the Military, Or Accidentally Retweeted Tammy Bruce

​Sarah Palin's largely indecipherable Twitter account was again shrouded in mystery last night when a cryptic RT of a message from conservative gay comedienne Tammy Bruce showed up in the former governor's feed. "But this hypocrisy is just truly too much. Enuf already--the more someone complai ... More >>

Defense Secretary Robert Gates Probing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Leaks to the Washington Post

​This week's Friday evening news dump included the announcement that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is investigating who in the Defense Department leaked the results of a forthcoming "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" report to the Washington Post. Based on two anonymous sources, one of which has "read t ... More >>

'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Will Go On Indefinitely, Court Decides

​The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has given the Pentagon permission to continue discharging soldiers under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" the law's constitutionality is appealed, which could take months or even years to determine. In September, U.S. District Judge Virginia Philips had ruled that t ... More >>

On Gay Rights, Barack Obama Fights the Bad Fight

Barack Obama has tried to walk a fine line between talking LGBT rights and not doing much about it, and some gays and lesbians have given him a pass on not going on the offense on their behalf during a time of two wars and a comatose economy. But the dwindling LGBT support the president has is pro ... More >>

How Joe My God's Minions Helped Track Down "All Faggots Must Die" Senate Staffer

Chambliss is claiming "credit," so far...​Senator Saxby Chambliss' (R-Georgia) has said that a staffer in his office Tuesday wrote the comment "all faggots must die" in a post about the 'Don't' Ask, Don't Tell' Senate vote which appeared at New York gay blogger Joe Jervis's site Joe My God. Ru ... More >>

Marriage Equality Wins Upstate, Loses in the City

Fight Back New York claimed victory shortly after the polls closed last night for taking down anti-gay marriage Senator Bill Stachowski of Buffalo. Supporting challenger Tim Kennedy, FBNY was celebrating their second successful hit of a senator who'd voted against marriage equality, following Hiram ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Governor Paterson Was Right to Declare 'Race to the Cock' Day

By now, you've heard that Governor Paterson more or less made yesterday's "Race to the Cock" day a better news story when he got rather excited talking about New York's bringing home the federal education bacon: Paterson and Obama have never been close, nor have they ever really supported each ot ... More >>

Anti-Gay Republican Congressman Outed

​It's happened again, folks. Another politician who gleefully casts votes against the gays turns out to be one. At least that's what Mike Rogers says in his investigation of Mark Kirk, the Republican Congressman from Illinois who's up for Obama's Senate seat. Kirk voted against the repeal of ... More >>

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" To Get Most Anticlimactic Death Possible

It's finally happening: the White House is officially behind Congressional efforts to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" this week.

Cheney Supports End to Don't Ask, Don't Tell

​Dick Cheney appears to be a bit confused about when Don't Ask, Don't Tell started, but he thinks it should end now. In an interview on This Week, Cheney told Jonathan Karl that if Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thinks that DADT should go away, he's reluctant to second ... More >>

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even These

Random obsessions and vexations, born of both young tyros and inexplicably still-rocking old people

Shear Madness

Cosmic marital drama wonders, to shave or not to shave?

Letters

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Rising law-prof star's book analyzes the ways we pass—and throws in a cri de coeur

Christians and Heathens

Known quantities, brave genre experiments, program music, and a couple of Cairos

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The 'Voice' reports the queer revolution

Letters

Party Politics

Letters

Dr. Pusherman

Desert Hearts

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Trouble in Utopia

Dangerous Liaison

Happiness Is Living in Secret With a Man Who Doesn’t Consider Himself Gay

'The Crippled Workforce'

Making Room for Women in New Media

Bigger Creeps

Clinton Seduced and Abandoned by the Right

Home of the Moan

'The Vagina Monologues' Seizes the Means of Production