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Hit the Wall riffs on the riot that started the modern gay-rights movement

LGBTQ Reactions to President Obama's Second Inaugural Address

Toward the end of his second inaugural speech today, President Obama said that, "our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law ... More >>

Film Forum's NYC Celebration Contains Multitudes

New York's star moment

Gay Activists Join to Make One Last Plea to Stop Demolition of "Gay Commune" 186 Spring Street

Earlier today, around 40 gay activists and onlookers including State Senator Tom Duanes and City Councilmember Danny Dromm gathered in SoHo today in front of 186 Spring Street, the site of a nearly 200-year-old house that they argued played a major role in gay rights and AIDS activists history in th ... More >>

"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 >>

Happy Pride! Here Are Some Gay Things for You to Read

In case the gigantic rainbow flags and scantily-clad men did not already tip you off, it's Pride weekend in New York City. Happy Pride! I'm stuck inside blogging so I can't go to the parade, but there are some great Pride-related things on the internet that you should definitely read and/or watch on ... More >>

Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?

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

How Will Rodney King's Death Affect Today's Stop and Frisk March?

The reminder of police brutality couldn't be clearer, the timing couldn't be more creepy: as many New Yorkers prepare to join the NAACP's Silent March to End Stop and Frisk, Rodney King was declared dead. King, arguably the most famous American victim of police brutality, has had a very difficult ... More >>

Philadelphia Gay News' Mark Segal Talks About 'Christopher Street Liberation Day,' the Old Village Voice Office, and Love in the White House

There was a small, touching moment while covering President Obama's address to the White House LGBT Pride Month reception that caught our eye: this gay couple holding each other, silently and wordlessly. After the president had finished speaking, we chatted with them. They were Mark Segal, the pub ... More >>

So Why Is Stop and Frisk a Gay Issue? The Voice Discusses with Michelangelo Signorile on Sirius [AUDIO]

Over the past couple of years, we've had the chance to report about stop and frisk, the controversial NYPD practice of stopping hundreds of thousands of black and Latino young men each year. We've also gotten to report about the fight for gay equal rights on a number of fronts. The two previously di ... More >>

The Stonewall Stop and Frisk Summit - Or, Al Sharpton, Chris Quinn and the NAACP Walk Into a (Gay) Bar...

An historic coalition of traditional race-oriented civil rights organizations, labor unions, and LGBT groups met yesterday at the Stonewall Inn to endorse the upcoming SIlent March to End Stop and Frisk on Father's Day, June 17. The "press conference" featured an impressive roster of speakers -- inc ... 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 >>

Christine Quinn, Bride To Be This Month, Reacts To Obama's Gay Matrimony Approval

Christine Quinn, the Speaker of the City Council, frontrunner for being the Democratic nomination as the next mayor, and bride to be this month, gave her pleasant reaction to Obama's endorsement of same-sex marriages this afternoon. Says Quinn, in the above video, "For me, someone's who's getting m ... More >>

End of the Rainbow: See Judy Crawl

Why dwell on a great artist’s last desperate days?

Who Started The Stonewall Riots? I Have An Answer

In 1969, the Stonewall riots--precipitated when cops burst into the famed gay bar and started being their usually abusive selves--defined the modern gay movement. Well, every eldergay on earth claims to have not only been there, but to have started the riot--even more people than claim to have seen ... More >>

Christine Quinn, Activists Address The Stonewall Inn After Prop 8 Ruling

Marriage equality supporters gather outside of the Stonewall Inn tonight to hail the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. There were many of the same people present who were at a rally the first time a federal court ruled the California voter ref ... More >>

Antony Goes Into the Light

The singer brings his singular vision to Radio City

21 Voice Stories from 2011 That Melted Even This Grizzled Journalist's Heart to Report

James Worrell​Looking back, 2011 has been quite a year, especially on the gay rights front, one of our major beats. Like the cardiac organ caught in a bear trap accompanying Jen Doll's "Plight of the Single Lady," there were times when, objective reporter or not, the stories we were reporting ... More >>

Guiding Proud Launches New York's First Mentoring Program for LGBT Kids

When activist Natasha Dillon realized a year ago that New York did not have any kind of mentoring program for the city's queer youth, she decided to do something about. Tonight, LGBT youth and mentors will meet each other at the first meeting of Guiding Proud, the organization which has paired them ... More >>

Mickey Miller, Stonewall Vet, Marries Partner of 35 Years, Judith Ricciardo (VIDEO)

Steven ThrasherMickey (far left) and Judith (far right) have been together 35​Leaning on a cane for hours this morning in the sweltering heat, Mickey Miller, a lesbian who's old enough to have been at many bars back when they were routinely raided (including the Stonewall Inn) was determined t ... More >>

New Yorkers Celebrate Passage of Gay Marriage Bill; Did You Know Another Bill Was Passed Yesterday?

via TPM Crowds gather outside the Stonewall Inn.​We're proud to be New Yorkers today after the state senate passed same-sex marriage last night! And so are the crowds who flooded the West Village to celebrate; revelers gathered outside the Stonewall Inn last night to mark the historic moment. Talk ... More >>

Joyful Revelers Flock to Christopher Street After Gay Marriage Passes

Esther Zuckerman​As soon as gay marriage officially passed in the New York State Senate we headed to the West Village. What we found there was not the frustrating body-to-body gridlock that impromptu city celebrations sometimes tend to yield, but instead open, elated festivities. "It's like Ne ... More >>

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 >>

This Week, Fork in the Road Becomes The Big Gay Food Blog

​The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, where it all began This week, Fork in the Road transforms itself into the Big Gay Food Blog in commemoration of the 41st Annual Gay Pride March, which will be held this Sunday. For the next four days, we'll be interviewing gay chefs, ferreting out ga ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

JUDY, JUDY, JUDY . . .

Say that a thousand times fast

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 >>

60 IS THE NEW 25

Hold on to that girdle—it’s gonna be a long night

Nicola Briggs Honored for Kicking a Flasher's Ass

BittenByAZebra​Nicola Briggs, the Tai Chi instructor who fought back when a man flashed her on the subway and turned into an Internet sensation, was awarded one of the 5th Annual Women's Awards last night at the Stonewall Inn. Briggs spoke to the Voice about winning the award and why, sometim ... More >>

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.

Drugs and Porno in the Village? Oh my!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 22, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 29 Hitting where it hurts By Mary Perot Nichols Greenwich Villagers have been noticing for some time now that something weird was going on in their neighborhood. There was the proliferation of after-hours b ... More >>

New Year's Eve: Drinks

Festive libations for you and yours

Storme DeLarverie: A Tribute to a Living Legend

Study Shows a Growing Support for Same-Sex Marriage

Pew Research Center​It was a disappointing start to National Coming Out Day in New York City when gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino continued to express his blatant misunderstanding of homosexual culture on the Today Show this morning, stating at one point: "They wear speedos and grind agains ... More >>

Horrors in the Bronx Cap Week of Terror for NY Gays

In just the past few days, the city has seen a gay teenager leap from the George Washington Bridge after being bullied, hosted a vigil in Washington Square Park for the rash of gay teen suicides happening around the country, and learned of gay bashings that happened in Chelsea and even in the bathro ... More >>

"Take Back The Night" March Tomorrow Night

​It's been a bad time for the gays, with all sorts of emotional and physical attacks that have led to death and devastation. But gays know how to fight back like nobody. In response to all this darkness, Queer Rising will hold a "Take Back the Night" march on Saturday October 9 from 8:30-10p ... More >>

Andrea Peyser's Crocodile Tears for Tyler Clementi

​We know that Andrea Peyser has little to no sense of humor, let alone irony. But we hope that even she can see the irony in this. This week Peyser opened a segment of her New York Post column with the thought "It's gone too far. My heart breaks for Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, victimized ... More >>

Gay Print Media on the Wane

The Internet spells doom for many long-established periodicals

1970: A First-Person Account of the First Gay Pride March

Remembering the March, a year after the Stonewall riots

The Queer Issue: Rachel Maddow, the New Sexy

The Butch is back, with a poster girl

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

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

Gay Arabs Party Here, Risk Death Back Home

Rebel Yells

Of pride and punches: The fight for gay rights