Remember those false NYC adult-bookstore arrests last year? Read the rest of this entry »
NYC bookstore arrests of gay men might may have “gone on longer and more widespread than city is admitting”: Report
August 21, 2010 by michaelkaminerJ.D. Samson misses “real-world trannies” of old Times Square. So do we!
August 20, 2010 by michaelkaminer
We just found this great NYMag.com Q & A with one of our heroes: Lesbian/rock/punk icon JD Samson.
Sample: Read the rest of this entry »
Now, big investors lash out at Target for “imprudent” donation to fund supporting homophobic legislator
August 20, 2010 by michaelkaminer
It’s not just gay people – or heck, anyone with a brain – who’s incensed at Target for donating to a fund that supports the re-election of a homophobic state legislator in Minnesota.
Now, big institutional investors are lashing out at Target for its boneheaded decision, the LA Times reports. Read the rest of this entry »
Catholic adoption agency can’t discriminate against gay couples, UK ruling says
August 19, 2010 by michaelkaminer
Seems like all the good news on equal rights is coming from elsewhere these days.
Take this nugget from the UK, which lifted our spirits this morning:
“A Catholic adoption advisory service that refuses to help gay couples cannot win an exemption from anti-discrimination laws, Britain’s charity regulator said Thursday”, the Associated Press reports today. Read the rest of this entry »
Gay-themed resort to open in Midtown – including 14,000-sf “dance bar”
August 18, 2010 by michaelkaminer
A long-vacant space at the western end of 42nd Street is about to become the gay-themed Out NYC Urban Resort, a “$30 million, 90,000-square-foot complex… to have restaurants and bars, a spa, a reception hall, retail stores and a huge seven-nights-a-week dance club, along with a 127-room Axel Hotel.”
This guy’s Mati Weiderpass, one of the partners behind it.
More in The New York Times.
Higher inheritance tax on gay couples is illegal, German high court rules
August 18, 2010 by michaelkaminer
We can all add Germany to the list of anywhere-but-here places to move for equal rights.
Germany’s highest court yesterday ruled a law which makes same-sex couples in civil partnerships pay higher inheritance tax is unconstitutional, Reuters reports. Read the rest of this entry »
In California, judge stomps on marriage-equality ruling, halting weddings
August 17, 2010 by michaelkaminer
Hello again from Montreal, where people watch our battles for marriage equality with a mixture of bemusement, pity, and gratitude that they don’t live in the States.
Case in point: This idiotic ruling today from California. Read the rest of this entry »
“If God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”
August 16, 2010 by michaelkaminer
We’re in Montreal for the week, and were greeted this morning by this “Quote of the Day” on page one of the Gazette, the English-language daily here:
“If God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.” Read the rest of this entry »
Mel Gibson’s father “outs” Pope Benedict, claims half of Vatican is “queer”
August 15, 2010 by michaelkaminer
Happy Sunday! Enjoy this insane rant from Hutton Gibson – 91-year-old crackpot father of abusive loon Mel – who claimed to out Pope Benedict today. Read the rest of this entry »
Queens Pride House, borough’s gay community center, faces tough times, NYTimes reports
August 14, 2010 by michaelkaminer
Unexpected financial troubles, says today’s New York Times, are forcing Queens Pride House – the borough’s gay community center – to confront basic questions:
“Who will it be able to serve? How much will it be able to offer?” Read the rest of this entry »
