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LGBT Issues

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Rightbloggers Not Really Enjoying This New York Gay Marriage Thing

    Gay marriage has been passed in the New York state legislature, and Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature will make the Empire State the sixth state to allow same-sex couples to wed. You can imagine how rightbloggers feel about this. A few say they don't mind, but the majority fulsomely display one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Gay Marriage Gets an Ad Campaign, May Fix the Economy

    ​Following Friday's passing of same-sex marriage in Albany, the office of the mayor has already updated NYC.gov to provide some new info on nuptials, including the heartening headline: "New York City to Welcome All to Marry Here." It continues, "We look forward to welcoming all couples who wan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2011

    Governor Andrew Cuomo, Activists React to Marriage Equality in Albany

    Sen. Tom Duane and Natasha Dillon After the Vote​After the Senate passed same-sex marriage equality in Albany last night, the reactions were mixed: volatile, ecstatic, tearful, joyous, and outraged. There was a shared sense of history and exhaustion by people for and against the issue, as many ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Dean Skelos Calls For a Gay Marriage Vote; Religious Exemptions Finally Come Out

    ​Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has just announced that the Marriage Equality Bill will get a vote in the Senate. This comes moments after the Senate released proposed language for a "religious exemptions" amendment to the billl, which will allow religious groups and their affiliate busin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    State Senate Takes Up Horse Racing, Memorial Flag Before Gay Marriage Equality

    ​It was a late night yesterday for advocates both for and against same-sex marriage equality, as the New York State Senate failed to bring the issue up for debate. However, before the Senate convened shortly after midnight, they did manage to bring up numerous important issues of the day, includin ... More >>

  • News

    June 22, 2011

    Diaz Family Values

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

  • News

    June 22, 2011

    The Tranny Chaser Chaser

    Gay guys who like straight guys who like guys dressed as girls

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Is the 32nd Senator Ready to Come Out of the Closet For Marriage Equality?

    ​It's been nearly a week since same-sex marriage supporters announced they have 31 out of 32 pledged votes toward passing the Marriage Equality Bill. However, Capital Tonight just tweeted that a 32nd, unidentified Senator has been confirmed. Others, like the NYCLU, are claiming there is a 32nd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Naked Cowboy Robert Burck Will Marry Gay Couples in Times Square for Free on July 3

    ​Ever-ready for publicity, the Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, has thrown his support behind the movement for marriage equality in New York and declared July 3rd "Gay Marriage Day." To celebrate the holiday, Burck, who happens to be an ordained minister, will be performing free same-sex wedding ce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Is Gay Marriage Getting Blue Balled in Albany? Senate to Vote Monday at Earliest.

    ​Now that Governor Cuomo has given his all toward passing gay marriage equality legislation, and the Assembly has passed the measure for a fourth time, the focus is exactly back where it's been for the past two years: the State Senate. Yet after significant momentum at the beginning of the we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    U.N. Narrowly Passes Historic Gay-Rights Resolution

    While lawmakers debate gay marriage up in Albany, down here in the city the United Nations took a historic step on gay rights, narrowly passing a gay-rights resolution today. CNN reports that the resolution was introduced by South Africa, and passed with "23 votes in favor, 19 opposed and three abs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Gay Marriage in New York: Over the Hump Today?

    ​Today could be the day when gay marriage equality passes its biggest hurdle in New York State yet and actually achieves something it never has before: likely passage in the state senate. With 31 of the necessary 32 votes already publicly announced, the effort only needs one GOP senator for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Prop 8 Backers Lose Key Fight

    In a victory for gay rights, a California federal judge today rejected an attempt by Prop 8's backers to vacate Judge Vaughn Walker's previous ruling that overturned Prop 8, the Metro Weekly's Chris Geidner reports this afternoon. Prop 8's supporters had argued that because Walker was himself gay a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Andrew Cuomo Introduces Gay-Marriage Bill; Another GOP Senator Announces Support

    Governor Cuomo formally introduced same-sex marriage legislation today, a key victory for activists pushing for a vote in the state Senate regardless of any assurance of passage. And another Republican senator, Roy McDonald, from the Capital Region, broke ranks and announced support, giving the Marr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Just a Few Business Days Left For Gay Marriage

    Sunday will mark the 44th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling in Loving v. Virginia, the ruling which made interracial marriage legal at the federal level. The American Foundation for Equal Rights released a video marking the occasion, a key precedent in the legal battle for gay marriage equal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Mike Bloomberg Gives Case for Marriage Equality at Cooper Union

    Mayor Bloomberg gave a forceful speech for gay marriage yesterday at the Cooper Union, placing the marriage equality debate in the context of the fights for women's suffrage, abolition, and abortion rights. He spoke of the issue nationally, but grounded it in New York's specific civil rights histor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Senator Diane Savino: More Votes Needed for NY Gay Marriage

    Staten Island State Senator Diane Savino, whose impassioned speech from the floor of the New York Senate for marriage equality blew up in 2009, said last night that the new Senate effort is inching forward, but isn't nearly there yet. "As we speak, right now, we have 26 votes for this bill in the N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Ruben Diaz's Logic? Five of Six Latino State Senators Support Same-Sex Marriage.

    Last Sunday, Reverend Ruben Diaz made a big deal about the role of Latino state senators in deciding the future of same-sex marriage in New York. As he addressed a crowd overwhelmingly composed of religious Hispanics, Diaz repeatedly led the flock to believe that the issue would be made or broken by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2011

    Videos From Ruben Diaz Sr.'s Anti-Gay Marriage Rally

    Our intrepid Steven Thrasher went and scoped out state senator Ruben Diaz Sr.'s anti-gay marriage rally in the Bronx today. You know, the one cunningly timed to coincide with the annual AIDS Walk and with Diaz's own son's Bronx Week events. The event's main speakers were Diaz and National Organi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    "Confirmed Bachelor" Congressman Shows His Abs

    ​He's quite a vision on the cover of Men's Health. It's Illinois congressman Aaron Schock, looking like a regular at David Barton's. But as he flashes his resort-ready abs for the world to see, you should know something about the Schock meister:

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Marjorie Hill (GMHC) Responds to Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr.'s Anti-Gay March Plans

    In response to Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz Sr.'s plan to hold an anti-gay marriage march at the same time as the AIDS Walk, Marjorie Hill, the CEO of Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), has responded:

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Ruben Diaz Sr Will Hold His Anti-Gay Marriage Rally the Same Day as AIDS Walk

    Son, my priorities come first.​Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr. is clearly unhappy about being labeled the anti-HIV/AIDS, anti-LGBT bigot that he is. After Diaz, Sr. scheduled an anti-gay marriage rally during the annual AIDS Walk (and during his own son's Bronx Week festivities), we pointed out h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    Prop 8 Defenders Go After Judge for Being in Longtime Gay Relationship

    ​A group in California filed a brief yesterday saying that only white judges should be able to rule on cases of racial discrimination, because black judges would be compromised in their desire for their own equal rights. Actually, they didn't. We made that up. But they might as well have. Wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Gay Marriage Activists Take on Easter, the Royal Wedding

    ​Marriage equality activists are stepping up their game this week, protesting increasingly high profile events to demonstrate for the right for gays to marry. Yesterday, members of Queer Rising and Connecting Rainbows, along with Lt. Dan Choi, marched down Fifth Avenue in the Easter Parade. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    More George Takei! His Coming Out!

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  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Anthony Callao Memorialized as Another Non-Gay Ecuadorean Killed in Anti-Gay Attack

    ​Despite the frigid temperatures, about 100 people turned out in Woodhaven, Queens last night for a candlelight memorial service for Anthony Callao, the 18-year-old who recently died after sustaining a fatal beating. Queens City Councilman Daniel Dromm, Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Protest Today's St. Patrick's Day Parade

    ​Today is the day when Irish people wear green, march with pride, and kick openly gay people to the curb. It's the disgracefully exclusive St. Patrick's Day Parade, where the green vomit all over the streets never has a hint of lavender in it because that would somehow be too crass.

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Memorial Info and Obit For Trans/AIDS Activist Chloe Dzubilo

    ​ Trans activist Chloe Dzubilo--who was disoriented from medication and fell onto subway tracks two weeks ago--will not be forgotten. Her friends desperately want this message out: "We invite you to come together in the spirit by which Chloe lived her life--to invoke a world where artist/ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    This Week on the Gay Marriage Beat: Whoppers and Lies, Fence-sitting and Delays

    ​A gay couple can have a whopper of a hard time just trying to order a sandwich at Burger King, let alone trying to obtain a license to get hitched. Here are six more things you should know to keep it all straight.

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    This Week in Gay Marriage: Six Things You Need to Know To Keep It All Straight

    ​There was a flurry of activity across the United States on gay marriage this week at both the state and federal levels, from the nation's capital all the way to Honolulu. It might be harder to keep it all straight than, say, Ted Haggard on crystal meth or George Rekers with a rent boy. Here's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Obama Decides Defense of Marriage Act is Unconstitutional

    ​Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement today explaining that President Obama will no longer "defend the constitutionality" of the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that bans gay marriages. There are two suits currently filed in the Second Circuit court challenging the law, which ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Proposition 8 Decision: We Will Decide In a Year or So

    The California Supreme Court made a decision today, kind of, in the ongoing case of Proposition 8, the California ballot proposal that banned gay marriage in 2008. The California Supremes decided that they will decide something in about ten months to a year. There's nothing like justice delayed, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Scientology and Proposition 8: Debunking the Church Myth That It Stays Out of Politics

    Kirstie Alley, ballot neutral.​One of the most interesting things about Lawrence Wright's recent article about Scientology in the New Yorker was the way he exposed the hypocrisies and outright lies of the wacky organization's top members and spokespeople. But there's a key assertion peddled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    David Kato, Slain Ugandan Gay Rights Activist, Memorialized in NYC Tomorrow

    David Kato, the slain Uganda gay rights activist found murdered on January 26, will be remembered tomorrow here in New York City. The memorial, sponsored by 35 organizations including ACT UP and the Human Rights Campaign, will begin with a candle light vigil at 4:00 PM at the United Nation's Dag H ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2011

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

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

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    Dixie is So Gay: Surprising Census Info About Gay Parents in the South

    The Times has a great piece today that defies a lot of the common stereotypes of what it means to be gay in America. Since 1990, the Census has been a gold mine of information about LGBT couples for creative demographers. Despite the lack of any question about sexual orientation (hence, no info on s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2011

    Lady Gaga Is Doing a Video With Transsexuals

    No, not Beyonce. REAL transsexuals.I hear Gaga's people were at Alannah Starr's transsexual party earlier this evening, rounding up girls to be in the lady's video, shooting in NYC next week. Top, that Britney.

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Prop 8 Case Sent Back to California Supreme Court

    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the Proposition 8 case, Perry v. Schwarzeneger, back to the California Supreme Court. In something that could potentially aid the marriage-equality side, the federal court said the state high court needs to decide if those against gay marriage equality have st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    The 10 Gayest Political Stories of 2010

    Ring ceremony: Reid and Choi2010 was one of the gayest political years ever. Here's our take on the 10 gayest stories we reported on — throughout the five boroughs, the nation, and the world.

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    Rightbloggers on DADT: A Slow March Toward Tolerance, With Side Trips to Insanity

    This weekend the Senate repealed Don't Ask Don't Tell -- the 17-year-old policy that allowed gays to serve in the U.S. military only if they could conceal their sexual orientation. The bill awaits Obama's signature. You might expect rightbloggers to be angry about it, and some of them are -- hila ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Don't Ask Don't Tell Opponents Pick Up Some Unlikely Support

    While John McCain gets crankier and crankier about repealing Don't Ask, Don't tell, opponents of the policy have picked up a couple of unlikely allies on the right. After much lobbying, Sen. Scott Brown has finally come around and said he will consider voting to end Don't Ask (along with the usua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Justin Crockett Elzie, Fresh Off Being Arrested at the White House

    ​New Yorker Justin Crockett Elzie was a U.S. Marine who served around the globe. In 1993, he came out on the ABC Evening News shortly before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was enacted. He'd eventually become the first Marine discharged under that law. Runnin' Scared spoke to him a week after he lock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Gay Takeaways From Election Night

    The first openly gay winner of yesterday's election won long before the polls even opened on the East Coast...in Guam! A former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Guam, openly gay Benjamin Cruz won re-election to the Guam Senate. Not nearly as far away but perhaps even more surprising, Jim Gray ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2010

    DO ASK

    Cianni did, and they told

  • News

    October 27, 2010

    Bad Lieutenant, Dan Choi

    What the networks don't ask the poster boy of the movement against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," he's happy to tell.

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Barack Obama: Twisting Words in the Wind on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

    President Obama covered a lot of ground on gay and lesbian rights in the middle of the four o'clock hour on Thursday. In the end, he wound up saying one thing and doing another. In a cleverly worded statement, he vowed that "don't ask, don't tell" will end on his watch. He did not mean that he wil ... More >>

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