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West Village March for Mark Carson Came Out in Full Force

More than 1,500 people marched through the West Village yesterday evening in response to the death of Mark Carson, who was killed Friday night by a man who, according to the police, said "look at these faggots" before shooting Carson in the face on the corner of 8th Street and Sixth Avenue. Florine ... More >>

When A Marriage Breaks Up, What Happens To The Wedding Gifts?

Last night at an Out Professionals event at the LGBT Center, I was on a panel of experts being tossed etiquette questions by Philip Galanes, who's the Times' answer to Dear Abby and who has a book out called Social Q's, about what to do in awkward situations. And one of the premises we were asked t ... More >>

LGBT Purists to Christine Quinn: We'd Love a Gay Mayor. Just Not You.

Here's Who Saved the World

David France's stirring history of ACT UP

"Access: Use It to Give Voice to the Voiceless (and Hell to the Powerful)," An Address to the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association

Video courtesy of James Schmitz/Inner City Media. On Friday, August 3, the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association named me NLGJA Journalist of the Year 2012. The above video shows CNN's Miguel Marquez presenting the award to me in Las Vegas before I addressed NLGJA's annual gala with my acc ... More >>

LGBT Center's Cindi Creager Admits 'Just' Blocking Journalist From Facebook Wall (and Other Things We Learned On a Surprise Visit)

As we began to delve into the depressing implosion of the Bronx Pride Center, which closed after former head Lisa Winters was charged with embezzling $338,000, we remembered how easy it is for non-profits lacking proper oversight (gay and straight) to do grave harm to their communities. So, we dec ... More >>

LGBT Center Shuts Off Facebook Comments to Avoid Questions from the Voice as Bronx Pride Center Closes in Scandal [SCREENGRAB]

Something very strange is happening on 13th Street at the LGBT Center. As a scourge is affecting LGBT organizations -- the Bronx Pride Center shut down yesterday, amid charges its director, Lisa Winters embezzled $338,000 -- the city's main LGBT Center refuses to speak to the press. As we wrote in ... More >>

SAGE Shut Down Their Gay Center Room! Controversy!

Here's an anguished email I got from someone who's enjoyed the services of SAGE, the organization for gay elders. (I'll follow it with SAGE's response.) "Picture this: About a month and a half ago, we gay seniors that belong to the gay senior group SAGE at the Gay Community Center on 13th street w ... More >>

I'm Discussing Oscars At The LGBT Center

Those who can't, teach. And so, on Wednesday, February 15, at the LGBT Center, I will be moderating an OutProfessionals panel on the Oscars, with a gay-for-no-pay twist to the proceedings.

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

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Cuddle up for Poly Pride

Usually Angry LGBT Activists Have a Blast During Manhattan Marriage Marathon

MENY president Cathy Marino-Thomas hugs Lt. Dan Choi​Between the "Rainbow Chuppa," the Avenue Q puppets, the scores of happy brides and grooms, and even a glitter bomb, the scene in Foley Square yesterday outside of Manhattan's Marriage Bureau felt like a carnival. It was a little disconcertin ... More >>

Gay Wedding Etiquette For Those On One Knee

​Last night at an Out Professionals event at the LGBT Center, I interviewed etiquette expert and author Steven Petrow, who told me the ins and outs of gay marriage. Petrow said that since it's a relative new phenomenon, gays are basically forging the traditions as they go along.

Crashing the Garden Party? Activists, Donors on Collision Course at Gay Fundraiser Tonight

As Gay Pride Week starts, the LGBT Center is hosting its annual Garden Party tonight, a fundraiser that many old-time LGBT activists have viewed with increasing skepticism — most of the people who use the center can't afford the $100 admission. And this year, the Israel/Palestine situation, ... More >>

Gay Center Now Bans All Talk on Israel/Palestine

Reversing field once again, the LGBT Center has now banned all discussion of the explosive issue of Israel and Palestine on its premises. The most recent flip-flop (a reversal of its previous reversal) came a week after a new group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid was allowed to meet at the ... More >>

Gay Center, in Reversal, to Allow Meeting Tonight on 'Israeli Apartheid' Protest Planning

​It looks like free political debate at the LGBT Center has won the day — for now. A new group, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, had applied to rent space for a planning meeting in the Center. The group is made up of many of the same people who were in Siege Busters Working Group, who were ... More >>

New York to Gaza: Controversial Aid Flotilla Will Try Again After Last Year's Deadly Result

I covered a boat cruise around Manhattan last summer that raised money for the Audacity Of Hope — not Barack Obama's book, but the blockade-breaking aid ship for Gaza's Palestinians determined to actually land without the deadly violence surrounding the May 31, 2010, attempt by the "Gaza Free ... More >>

Pauline Park Q&A: LGBT Center 'Gave the Community the Finger' in 'Israeli Apartheid Week' Dispute

​Veteran transgender activist Pauline Park — responsible for adding the "T" to Manhattan's LGBT Center — blasts the center's controversial decision in March to cave to pressure from pro-Zionist gay-porn impresario Michael Lucas and ban an "Israeli Apartheid Week" event sponsored by Sie ... More >>

Gay Center's Feud Over Middle Eastern Politics Flares Up Again

​The simmering feud at the LGBT Center over Middle Eastern politics — and who gets to use the landmark gay center to argue about it — flared up again last night with yet another cancellation of an event. This time, it was the Orthodox Jewish gay group GLYDSA (Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva D ... More >>

More Sniping in the Gay Center's Battle of Zion

The LGBT Center​Michael Lucas, the pro-Zionist pornographer who led the successful effort to get the LGBT Center to cancel an anti-Zionist "Israeli Apartheid Week" event, once again dominated discussion at what was billed a "community forum" last weekend on who gets to use the Center. The spirite ... More >>

'Party to End Israeli Apartheid!' Still On at Gay Center, Activists Vow, But With Picketing, Not Dancing

​The fuss over Israeli Apartheid Week won't end. Still steaming about the LGBT Center's cancellation late last month of tomorrow night's "Party to End Apartheid!," organizers still plan to descend on the center en masse tomorrow night in protest. Meanwhile, another Israeli Apartheid Week event at ... More >>

Michael Lucas: The Zionist Porn Impresario Waves His Political Muscle in the Left's Face

​At the beginning of the week, porn impresario Michael Lucas was somewhat known as a controversial gay conservative writer, someone you could expect to see playfully debating Ann Coulter at a GOProud event. But he was far more famous for his day job as a top porn star. He seemed more likely to go ... More >>

Sherry Wolf: The Ruckus Over Israeli Apartheid Week, the Gay Center, and a Porn Star

Sherry Wolf​Sherry Wolf is a member of the Siege Busters Working Group, which was planning a "Party to End Apartheid!" for Israeli Apartheid Week at the LGBT Center, where they'd met regularly since last summer. Then, pornographer and ardent pro-Israel Jew Michael Lucas complained on Tuesday abou ... More >>

Gay Center Axes Israeli Apartheid Week Event After Boycott Threat by Porn Activist

Last year's Israeli Apartheid Week event at Columbia's Low Plaza.​Well, that was quick. We were looking forward to covering "Party to End Apartheid!," an Israeli Apartheid Week event on March 5 at the LGBT Center, where those two worlds would collide. Our excitement was short-lived. Pornograp ... More >>

Lesbian Comic Hates The Kids Are All Right! "It's Bullshit!"

The big LGBT movie at the Oscars this year isn't Winter's Bone, though that sounds mildly provocative. It's The Kids Are All Right, about lesbian partners who develop a rift when one of them sleeps with their old sperm donor.You know, a man. And lesbian comic Judy Gold thinks it's bullshit!

Carl Paladino Gives 'Permission . . . to Hurt Gay People' — Bronx Gay Leader

Scene of the Bronx goonies' attackAfter last week's brutal gay news from up north, we caught up with Dirk McCall, executive director of the Bronx Community Pride Center (BCPC). It's also been a tough month in other ways for McCall, only the fourth of his tenure. New York State owes the BCPC more th ... More >>

Mamma Mia! Is Ruining Broadway

Talking with all-around Broadway fanatic Seth Rudetsky! Plus Charles Busch.

Another Public Appearance For Me!

​ It's time I face the world again, especially since most accidents happen at home. So this Wednesday, I'm actually going outside and prancing over to the LGBT Center to address the gays and answer some burning questions from them in between autographing their body parts. Entrance to this mo ... More >>

TASTE THE RAINBOW

LGBT foodies converge on the Hudson

I'm Talking Oscars at the Center

You KNOW you're going to watch the gay Super Bowl--aka the Oscars--on the 22nd, so why not get a gay jumpstart on who's going to wear what (and whom) by coming to see me host an awards-worthy panel discussion at the LGBT Center on the 18th. I guarantee that if you show up and listen good, you will e ... More >>

U.N. (But Not the U.S.) Comes Out Big for Gay Rights

Thousands Protest Prop 8 at Mormon Temple

The End of Public Sex

Why isn't anyone fucking anymore?

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THE COCKETTE INVASION

Fleet Week for fags

Wanna Come On a Kabbalah Lolla (Palooza)?

Ellen Page's Sexuality! Jennifer Garner's Hairdo!

Writer's cramp? No, a nonstop stream of diary during the Oscars telecast.

'Political Funeral' For Bob Kohler Sunday

Bob Kohler, 1926–2007

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

Apocalypse Musto

This "Best of New York" includes the best place at which to get both sciatica and a nervous breakdown.

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