Empire State Pride Agenda

Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?

In the battle over gay rights, dissent during wartime isn't always tolerated

GENDA: A Quick Update on Transgender Rights Legislation

As the Empire State Pride Agenda starts to mobilize lobbying efforts in Albany, it has become clear that the group will once again focus on GENDA, the Gender Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This decision, however, has prompted questions about the general direction of the organization, which is ... More >>

Queer Rising Gets Arrested, Other LGBT Activists Pile on Cuomo Over Homeless Youth Funding in Budget

The activists over at Queer Rising, who got arrested again and again and again during the past couple of years fighting for marriage equality, took it to the streets yesterday and initiated their first encounter of 2012 with handcuffs in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo's midtown office. According ... More >>

Brian Lehrer Discusses the Voice's "100 Most Powerless New Yorkers" on WNYC (AUDIO)

​WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show did a segment on "The 100 Most Powerless New Yorkers" on its Martin Luther King, Jr. day show this morning. Audio of the segment is embedded below. Our segment looked at the silly side of "power lists," and at the serious side of some of those we included on our pow ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Kitty Lambert Chats About Marrying Cheryle Rudd in First Legal New York Same-Sex Wedding

Kitty Lambert (left) with fiancé Cheryle Rudd​On Monday, we reported that Kitty Lambert and her fiancé Cheryle Rudd will be the first same-sex couple to wed in New York State. The grandmothers of 12 will tie the knot before a crowd of thousands, in front of the specially rainbow lit Niagara ... More >>

I've Been Declared A "Queen Bear"

​Or more specifically, "the grandmother of the Queen Bear movement". Here's an excerpt from a christwire article on twinks vs. bears, the two groups waging a bitter internal struggle to determine the future of the gay movement, especially with regard to hair design: "Bears tend to live in sm ... 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 >>

David Paterson Rested Up for His Veto Fest by Dawdling at B-Bar For Hours Last Night

​Taking a breather from the thousands of vetoes he has yet to sign, Governor David Paterson spent three hours last night at B Bar and Grill, right across the street from the Village Voice, drawn, no doubt, by our recent paeans to his wondrous Albany performance. Paterson enjoyed a bottle of ... More >>

Carl Kruger Supports Gay Rights After Death

​It turns out Carl Kruger, one of the few Democrats in the State Senate to vote against same-sex marriage (and the only one from Brooklyn) is willing to have the state extend the legal rights married couples enjoy to same-sex partnerships after all. Unfortunately, one of the partners has to di ... More >>

Barrett: How Will the Ballot Police Protect Kirsten Gillibrand from the Harold Ford Invasion?

Kirsten's protector is ever vigilant​Thank God for the ballot police. But for them, five or six elected Democrats would've already committed the crime of running against Kirsten Gillibrand. Now we have the man Harry Reid obviously mistook for Barack Obama, Harold Ford Jr., illegally panhandl ... More >>

Tim Gunn Voting for Bloomberg -- Why Shouldn't You?

Photo from Project RunwayBy Jane C. TimmTim Gunn wants Mayor Mike for a third term, don't you?Bloomberg sent out a press release this morning, listing 68 gay New Yorkers who are endorsing him for a third term, including designer Isaac Mizrahi and a few politicos like Richard Socarides, a former Spec ... More >>

Coup Update: Weird Scenes Outside the Senate Chamber

The defenestrated Dems of Albany are fighting back against the Skelos-Espada-Golisano coup -- not in the state senate chamber, which remains locked and where they were pretty useless anyhow, but with picket signs and press conferences. The Albany Times-Union reports protesters outside new senate pr ... More >>

20,000 in Midtown Protest Gay Marriage, Paterson, Silver, Village Voice

Photos by Candice M. Giove. When State Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz ascended the stage at an anti-gay marriage rally Sunday in front of Governor David A. Paterson's midtown office, he tried to put the fear of the God-fearing flock that stretched for several city blocks into him and his fellow politici ... More >>

Paterson Polls Even Worse; His Gay Marriage Bill Not Looking Good Either

Maybe the problem is they're polling him too damn much. but Governor Paterson just set a new record, with New Yorkers who think he's doing a good or excellent job at just 19 percent in a new Marist poll. His approval among Democrats is 22 percent. 66 percent "say he does not have what it takes to le ... More >>

Malcolm Smith on Gay Marriage: "We Don't Have the Votes"

In December, it was reported that Malcolm Smith had scrapped a deal with dissident Democrats to make him majority leader rather than accept state senator Ruben Diaz' demand that gay marriage leave the senate's agenda. The Empire State Pride Agenda and other marrige equality advocates praised Smith. ... More >>

Lynn Yaeger: About Last Night...

Gov Sticks Up for O'Byrne, Gay Pols for Term Limits, Goldberg for Powell at Pride Dinner

Buck Angel, A Man With a Pussy: LGB Without the T

As transgenders push for respect, a rift grows with traditional gay leadership

UFT President Randi Weingarten Comes Out

NY Mirror

Gay Marriage "Inevitable": Rally in Sheridan Square

Letters

Bliss or Miss

Getting over the gay-wedding jitters

2005

Mike & Freddy Woo Gays

Listings

It Can Happen Here

Is New York's Marriage Law Gender Neutral? The City Council Speaker Says Yes. The Mayor Says No. It's Time for the Rest of us to March.

Gay & Lesbian Services

Same-Sex Ed

The School Hate Built

Harvey Milk High's Critics Fail to See the Reality of Queer Students' Lives

Death by Outing

James Davis's Killer Was Deeply Conflicted About His Sexuality

Letters

Life After SONDA

Gay Politics Will Never Be the Same

Cheap Lay

The Myth of the Gay-Friendly GOP

East Side Attack

Eristoff Goes Dirty in Senate Race

Marriage of Inconvenience

NYC Splits With State Over Gay Rites

Pataki's CUNY Shocker

An Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay Trustee

Feinberg's Follies

Gay 9-11 Widows Left in the Lurch

Letters

What Ever Happened to Human Rights?

City and State to Discrimination Victims: Drop Dead

Second Class Survivors

Gay and Lesbian Partners of 9-11 Victims Struggle to Receive Their Benefits

Letters

Senator Straddle

East Side Liberals Tire of Roy Goodman’s Albany Alibis

Bias Ban in the Balance

Will Lazio Burn State Hate Crimes Bill's 'Chance in Hell'?

Lazio to CBS: I'm No Pansy

The Candidate Makes an Antigay Remark and Nobody Notices

Fight Club

A Gay March on Washington Spawns a Major Movement Rift

Out of the White House Closet

Gay Rights Steps Out As Presidential Politics Comes to New York

Covering Your Partner

The Trojan Elephant

Gay Republicans Are Looking For Love In All the Wrong Places

The Circus Comes to Buffalo

Operation Rescue puts on a show in a slain abortion provider's hometown