BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In a surprise move, James Dixon pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the first…
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | In what may be a further complication in the effort to prosecute James…
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The accused killer of Islan Nettles may have to contend with as many…
BY JD DAVIDS | The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is the top HIV science…
BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Within days of North Carolina GOP Governor Pat McCrory signing into law…
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Ending a protest at the State Capitol in Albany that extended across two…
BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | US District Judge Stefan R. Underhill has ruled that a transgender doctor…
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Police have released photos and surveillance video of the suspect wanted in…
BY ANDY HUMM | North Carolina –– in a hurriedly-called special session March 23 –– passed an…
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Late in the day on March 28, six activists who were part of…
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Continuing their pressure on Governor Andrew Cuomo to add $70 million in…
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | AIDS activists are pressing the Cuomo administration to commit to spending $70…
Arts View all
BY STEVE ERICKSON | The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s “Art of the Real” series is one of three major documentary festivals in New York.…
BY GARY M. KRAMER | The striking film “Neon Bull” is set in the Sertão region of northeastern Brazil, which is home to Iremar (Juliano…
BY DAVID NOH | Though the ostensible reason for our being in touch was to discuss her “Boroughing Through Brooklyn and Queens” mini-tour in…
BY STEVE ERICKSON | Belgian lesbian director Chantal Akerman’s “No Home Movie,” which depicts her mother’s final days, would be an extremely sad film…
BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | With themes ranging from the search for love to the conflict between passion and rationality, infidelity, and the crushing of romantic…
BY MICHAEL SHIREY | You may have heard of Bob the Drag Queen. You may have seen her strutting around at one of her many…
BY DAVID NOH | If she doesn’t already, Bette Midler, soon to be the new Dolly on Broadway, should know what a deep influence she…
BY DAVID SHENGOLD | Victor DeRenzi has put Sarasota Opera on the map through an ultra-complete Verdi cycle that “Aida” and the rare “La battaglia…
BY STEVE ERICKSON | In the early 1990s, Manhattan’s Chinatown had three movie theaters showing Hong Kong films. Now they’re all gone, and there’s not…
BY GARY M. KRAMER | “Take Me to the River” is writer/ director Matt Sobel’s auspicious debut feature about California teen Ryder’s (Logan Miller)…
BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | What is the power of gender identity in our lives? That’s a provocative question given the fight for transgender rights,…
BY DAVID NOH | Ed Asner recently drew a sell-out crowd to the Metropolitan Room for his new one-man show, “A Man and His…
BY DAVID SHENGOLD | “I heard a terrific performance at the New York Philharmonic.” How often these days do we hear or think that sentence? It…
BY DAVID KENNERLEY | “Disaster!,” a goofy spoof of cheesy 1970s disaster films, is chock full of singing and dancing, but the Playbill doesn’t…
Editor's Letter View all
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The weird thing is this: She was there. In May 1992, Bill Clinton appeared before more than 600 gay, lesbian,…
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Though much of the news media has rightly taken note of Donald Trump’s ability to surge to the top of…
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Every presidential election cycle, Democrats talk about the importance of controlling appointments to the US Supreme Court. In the abstract,…
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | For years, the Blood of Jesus Atlah World Missionary Church at 123rd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem has been…
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Donald Trump’s quest for the Republican presidential nomination is fueled by the outrage he can spark in voters. Unfortunately for…
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Anyone who wonders whether Congressmember Sean Patrick Maloney regrets having given up his days and evenings as a Manhattan attorney…
Media Circus View all
BY ED SIKOV | Since the last Media Circus — the one where I lambasted Maureen Dowd and her nudnik pal Max Mutchnick — news coverage of the presidential…
BY ED SIKOV | Maureen Dowd’s recent column “The Sultan and the Salad” made me want to puke, but that’s not news. Her common cynicism, her busted moral compass……
BY ED SIKOV | When I was covering the media’s shameful response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, if you had told me that one day I’d be…
A Dyke Abroad View all
BY KELLY COGSWELL | Two weeks ago, Irish queers marched behind their own banner in the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade for the first time ever in…
Snide Lines View all
BY SUSIE DAY | WASHINGTON — President Hillary Clinton, making good on her 2008 threat to “totally obliterate” Iran, celebrated her first week in office by ordering a nuclear…
BY SUSIE DAY | Who says us white leftists have no feeling for High Art? Hundreds of thousands of capitalist imperialist museum-going, opera-loving, overly literate fuck-faces, that’s who. To…
BY SUSIE DAY | Early this month in Germany, a few thousand refugees from war-torn Syria and neighboring countries spilled out of a train station and into Munich. Rather…
BY SUSIE DAY | For five years, Johanna Fernandez, history professor at Baruch College, worked to set up three separate art installations around New York City, one of which…
Morsels View all
BY DONNA MINKOWITZ | I got debauched with a piece of scrambled egg today. I didn’t expect to, but it was there, in between some ricotta and…
Guest Perspectives View all
BY EMMAIA GELMAN | This Thursday, Irish Queers will break with 25 years of protest against…
Letters to the Editor View all
July 30, 2015 To the Editor: The last bastion has fallen. The two-pronged crackdown on Fire…
News Briefs View all
Jessica Stern, executive director of what to date has been called the International Gay and…
The Long View View all
BY NATHAN RILEY | Harm reduction counseling empowers drug users to take control of their health and…
