Harvey Milk

The Ugly Humors of Robert Arneson

In praise of a knucklehead

Hydra Head Records: A Personal Recollection

By Paul T. Bradley This week, Hydra Head Records founder Aaron Turner announced the label's closing. The L.A. metal imprint -- by way of Boston and New Mexico -- is home to first-rate acts including Torche, Botch, Cave In, Harvey Milk and, occasionally, Converge. Co-founder Aaron Turner says that t ... More >>

Q&A: Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey Records On The 20th Anniversary Of Her Label

The iconic and staunchly independent label Thrill Jockey Records may be Chicago-based since the mid '90s, but its roots lie here in New York and along the grimy Path train tunnel where Hoboken stands. Two decades ago, L.E.S. resident Bettina Richards founded Thrill Jockey while working the rounds at ... More >>

Gay Inc Takes On Stop and Frisk, the NAACP Goes to the Stonewall Inn, and Other Signs of the "Black/Gay Divide"

So, the promised fallout between blacks and gays continues! Four weeks after President Obama came out for same-sex marriage, today will see one of the most significant signs of a new alliance between traditional race-based civil rights groups and the current wave of LGBT oriented civil rights group ... More >>

Milk

Mitt Romney as Opposed to Gay Marriage as Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum

​We've been watching reactions all day about the fact that Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum signed a National Organization for Marriage pledge to eradicate gay marriage in the United States, in the event they become President. There is little newsworthy about this development, except to se ... More >>

Mike Mills Explores His Own Family History in Beginners

Graphic Artist Mike Mills Starts From Scratch With Beginners

If You Could Have Dinner With Any Five People In History...

​Whether living or dead...who would they be? (And by the way, I'm available for any free meal.) My choices would start with pop culture visionary Andy Warhol (above), whom I did have dinner with, but I want to do so again and again.

Q & A: Chunklet's Henry Owings On The Indie Cred Test, Not Being A Hipster, And Paying Tribute To Jerry Fuchs

Ian Cone​The 100 Biggest Assholes in Rock Issue, The Shit List Issue, The Overrated, The Rock Bible--Chunklet mastermind Henry Owings redefined the 'zine aesthetic with his deliciously wisecracking, ass-chewing tongue, dumping on everyone and their mother while taking a little bit of time to e ... 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 >>

The Commodore's Chef Hates the Name of His Restaurant

The Daily SwarmStephen Tanner Doesn't Care What You Think (Well, Unless You're a Restaurant Critic)​Stephen Tanner is a true Renaissance Man. Not only is he the bassist for Harvey Milk, the noise rock band originally from Athens, Georgia, he's also the chef at The Commodore, the Southerny Bro ... More >>

Barack Obama Kicks Don't Ask, Don't Tell to the Curb

​We've been following Don't Ask, Don't Tell since Senator Barack Obama was campaigning on its repeal. After all these years, watching the ceremony in which he kicked it to the curb, in person, was a special kind of early Christmas gift. The event was not held at the White House, but in an aud ... More >>

Was Margaret Cho Too Gay for Dancing With The Stars?

Talking with the stand-up rebel, followed by a heavy dose of—remember this?—nostalgia

Tyler Clementi's Suicide and What Dan Savage Is Doing About It

Tyler Clementi​The death of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, who appears to have committed suicide after his roommate allegedly broadcast a video of him having a sexual encounter with a man, is a sad event that can't help but shine a light on Dan Savage's new YouTube project, "It Gets Better." ... More >>

Anti-Gay Activists Outed by Supreme Court

Just in time for Pride Weekend, the Supreme Court has booted thousands of anti-gay activists out of the closet yesterday, who were terrified of being outed as bigots. In an unusual, near unanimous 8 to 1 decision, the court ruled that people who signed a petition to repeal Washington State's "everyt ... More >>

March Through Lower Manhattan Commemorates Harvey Milk's 80th Birthday

​Eighty years ago today, on May 22, 1930, Harvey Milk was born in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. As the first openly gay elected official in California, Milk became an icon of San Francisco's 1970s Castro District and more generally, gay activism as a rising phenomenon. As Sean Penn showe ... More >>

Harvey Milk's Birthday: Chatting with Cleve Jones

Tomorrow is Harvey Milk's birthday. It's an official holiday in California for the first time (signed into law last year by the Terminator), and will be marked here in the city by a march beginning at the GLBT Center at noon. Runnin' Scared spoke to the real-life Cleve Jones on the phone (portr ... More >>

Liza's Confessin'! Are You Buyin'?

​Hey, kids! Ring them bells! Here's something really terrific to zest up your life! A new Liza Minnelli CD! Check out the product info for Liza's Confessions CD, due in September, just in time for everyone to go back to school (you know, Parsons, FIT, Hetrick Martin, Harvey Milk, etc.) We ca ... More >>

The Multifaceted and Dynamic Milk

'Blackened Music Series Presents Harvey Milk+Coalesce'

Pioneering Coming Out Doc Word Is Out at Anthology

From the CB3 Files: Luke's Lobster Starting Delivery This Week; the Gays Want Cosmos at South Brooklyn Pizza

Starting this week, Luke's crab roll will be delivered to your door.​ Last night's endless slog Community Board 3 SLA & DCA Licensing Committee Meeting was incredibly long yet not particularly eventful, despite an epic showdown and "kangaroo court" catcalls. But there is some good news to repo ... More >>

Obama Presents Medals of Freedom; Rightbloggers Predictably Enraged

​ Yesterday afternoon President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, on 16 notables including Billie Jean King, Chita Rivera, Stephen Hawking, Sidney Poitier, former President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Edward Kennedy, the late Jack Kemp (whose widow accep ... More >>

Rightbloggers Enraged by Medals to Evil President of Ireland, Homosexual, Breast Cancer Fighter, Etc.

President Obama's list of 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom winners came out yesterday, and rightbloggers have had some time to snarl over it. There is plenty there to exercise them. The list includes Harvey Milk (a homosexual!), Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow (an injun!), Rev. Joseph Lowery (a civil-rig ... More >>

Medal of Freedom Recipients Announced, Include Tutu, Harvey Milk

​President Obama has announced this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. The nation's highest civilian honor has gone in the past to folks like T.S. Eliot, Lucille Ball, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Mead, Jack Nicklaus, Mother Teresa, and Norman Podhoretz. As you may have guessed, Dem ... More >>

The Gay-Friendliest Actor On the Planet

Remember the old days, when actors would studiously avoid gay roles or projects because of what creepy people out there might think? Well, sexuality pioneers like James Franco have been making that kind of career queasiness as obsolete as separate restrooms for gays. In his already impressive care ... More >>

Torche+Harvey Milk+Pollution

Decades Before Harvey Milk, The Temperamentals

Thrones Rides Alone

Joe Preston's one-man metal monolith surfaces again

Pre-Tea Party Tweets Warn of Martial Law, B.O.

Tomorrow the big Tea Party day of protests against taxes, Obama, socialism, and black helicopters. Let's see what the vibe is among the #teaparty twitterers: "I wonder how many will be under surveilance?" "MUST READ FOR TOMORROW: Heritage Talking Points for Tax Day Tea Party." "#TeaParty rap v ... More >>

Oscar Night Rightbloggers Mad at Milk, Indians

We're still congratulating ourselves on beating Nate Silver and other geniuses with our Oscar predictions. But, as you might imagine, rightbloggers had a worse night -- not just in predicting, but in reaction to Sean Penn's win for Milk. "As I emphasized in my article from earlier this week," harrum ... More >>

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards! Part III!

Additional, excellent live-blogging here with Allison Benedikt at Sound of the City. The King of All Oscar Predictors walks among you in Part III. Will this hubris bring us low? Watch and judge! Oh no, Ben Stiller, you are not. Natalie Portman, good straight woman. Stiller probably thinks he's C ... More >>

2008 Film Poll Results

A Message From Shirtless Dance Singer Ari Gold

Should Milk Have Starred a Gay?

Why Milk Stars a Hetero!

Plus, singer-dancer Chita Rivera, drag queen Linda Simpson, and "Boys Gone Wild" at Mr. Black

Reverend Billy Leads Buy Nothing Day Service in Union Square

Got Milk?

Jon Voight Confronted About McCain!

Baggage from Marc Jacobs, Josh Brolin's take on Harvey's killer.

Gus Van Sant's Milk Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time

Proposition hate

BREAKING BARRIERS

A discussion on Harvey Milk’s battle

Muxtape Vs. iTunes Genius: Can Machines Replace A Good Mixtape?

Sarah Palin Sucks, Sean Penn Rocks

Sorting through trailer trash, trying not to nod off during the Emmys.

NY Mirror

Breaking All the House Rules Until Your Head Cracks Open

Who’s Sorry Now?

Jesse Jackson Marches in the Penitents Parade

The Drowned and the Saved

My Mixed Marriage

Can a Woman Find Passion and Partnership With a Gay Man? Believe It!

Opera by the Book

Today’s Composers Search for Inspiration in Novels, Plays, and Even Films