Governor Joins Gay Protesters
December 6, 2009 03:15 PM
Appearing before a crowd of roughly 1,000 the day after the New York State Senate defeated a gay marriage bill in a 38-24 vote, Governor David A. Paterson urged the community to continue battling for equal marriage rights....
Albany Delivers Staggering, Bitter Defeat
December 5, 2009 06:30 PM
Since May, Senator Thomas K. Duane, a Chelsea Democrat and the chamber's only out gay member, has said he had the votes to pass the marriage equality bill he sponsors. The Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), the state's LGBT lobby,...
Hundreds Jam Times Square to Protest Vote
December 3, 2009 02:00 AM
Less than three hours after the 38-24 loss on a marriage equality vote in the State Senate in Albany, several hundred New Yorkers rallied in Times Square to express their unhappiness....
AIDS Protesters Block Gracie Mansion Entrance
December 3, 2009 02:00 AM
As New York observed the 22nd annual World AIDS Day, hundreds of advocates turned out at Gracie Mansion to hear Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his new health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, present a guardedly optimistic assessment of progress...
Monserrate Marriage Vote Rejected
November 25, 2009 12:00 PM
he Stonewall Democrats of New York are not just calling for the removal of State Senator Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat, due to his domestic violence conviction, they don't want his vote on the marriage equality bill that Senate leaders...
US Judges Rebel Over DOMA
November 25, 2009 12:00 PM
In two separate cases, judges of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, on November 18 and 19, responded to the interference by the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with the relief they had ordered earlier this...
Confession Questioned in Puerto Rico Slaughter
November 25, 2009 11:00 AM
When the remains of savagely murdered 19-year-old gay activist and college student Jorge Steven López Mercado were discovered in Puerto Rico on November 13 after he had been dismembered, decapitated, and burned in an apparent hate crime, shock and anger...
Slain Puerto Rican Teen Mourned
November 25, 2009 11:00 AM
More than 400 New Yorkers turned out at the Christopher Street piers on Sunday evening, November 22, to mourn Jorge Steven López Mercado, 19, who was beheaded and dismembered in Cidra, Puerto Rico, on November 13, allegedly for being gay....
Who Shuttered the Washington Blade?
November 25, 2009 11:00 AM
Listing debts in the millions and no assets, Window Media and Unite Media, the parent companies of five gay publications, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on November 20....
Draconian Ugandan Anti-Gay Law Protested
November 23, 2009 03:46 PM
Roughly four dozen LGBT activists and allies turned out on November 19 to protest at Uganda House -- that nation's permanent mission to the United Nations on Manhattan's East 45th Street -- voicing their outrage about a draconian proposal to...
Draconian Anti-Gay Ugandan Law Protested
November 19, 2009 09:46 PM
Roughly four dozen LGBT activists and allies turned out on November 19 to protest at Uganda House -- that nation's permanent mission to the United Nations on Manhattan's East 45th Street -- voicing their outrage about a draconian proposal to...
Marriage Recognition Challenges Fail
November 19, 2009 03:01 PM
The New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest bench, has unanimously rejected two attempts by the Alliance Defense Fund, an Arizona-based anti-gay litigation group, to invalidate actions by government officials here recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages....
Trans Petitioner's Identity Protected in Name-Change Case
November 18, 2009 06:46 PM
Finding that transsexuals are at risk of being victimized by hate crimes, New York Supreme Court Justice William J. Giacomo, in Westchester County, has granted a transsexual man's request that the usual requirement that a name-change notice be published in...
Further Doubts About SBA Claim Window Closed Blade, SoVo
November 18, 2009 12:30 PM
While the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) is saying it played no role in closing the Washington Blade and the Southern Voice, two of the nation's oldest gay newspapers, a 2008 order issued by a federal court gave the SBA...
Buyer Thought He Had Deal for Blade
November 17, 2009 07:46 PM
Raising questions about how the Small Business Administration (SBA) handled the closing of the Washington Blade, the Southern Voice, and other gay publications, the longtime publisher of a Virginia newspaper said he was told by the federal agency that he...
Washington Blade Shuttered
November 16, 2009 07:45 PM
Just over 40 years after it published its first issue, the Washington Blade, a leading gay newspaper, has ceased publication....
SBA Mum on "Purchase Offers" It Cited
November 16, 2009 07:45 PM
Though it had offers to buy two of the nation's leading gay publications, the Small Business Administration (SBA) instead opted to shut down the Washington Blade and the Southern Voice -- and the federal agency is not explaining why it...
DEVELOPING STORY: Washington Blade Shuttered
November 16, 2009 12:45 PM
Staff at Atlanta's Southern Voice and the Washington Blade's Twitter feed confirm that Window Media, LLC, and Unite Media, LLC, have ceased operations, and shuttered those two publications, as well as David, a nightlife publication serving Atlanta's LGBT community....
The Moment '09 Marriage Vote Was Promised
November 11, 2009 08:30 PM
After a very long day of chaos, passion, and frustration in the New York State Senate, a couldn't-be-higher stakes meeting that included the governor, senior Democratic lawmakers, and top LGBT advocates was capped by a dramatic announcement offering the best...
When Cops Go Wild
November 11, 2009 08:30 PM
Nicole Dietel was dressed as Beetlejuice, the title character in the 1988 film, at a Halloween party held at Sputnik, a club in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She had arrived at 11 p.m. for "That's My Jam," or "Halloween Jam"...
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