Covid-19: Tales from the Frontline
By Matt Razon Before I get to telling you all about my experience as a frontliner in the fight against COVID-19, let me tell you […]
Find Your Sparkle and Supercharge Your Immunity
By Timothy Stahl Coach Tim, CHHC, AADP, HIVegan HIV/AIDS, once an obvious killer, is now quiet and subtler. I don’t know about you, but I’m […]
Let’s Get Real About Aging: COVID-19 and Ageism
By Gail Evans “The pandemic has amplified ageism,” read the headline in the May 1st Los Angeles Times. “It’s open season for discrimination against older […]
NYU Graduate Student Workers Sick-Out Protest Due to COVID
By Anthony Paradiso On Mar. 9, New York University moved all of its classes to remote learning and on Mar. 13 NYU officially closed its […]
Tipping the Balance of Power
By James Roman Discrimination was legal in the early 1980s. Gays could lose their homes, jobs, custody, you name it, because there were no laws […]
Pride Inside
By Ed Chinery Do you know that feeling that everything’s okay? When you’re safe and loved? Feel like you belong? And the opposite. A sense of foreboding. Uneasy in mind, […]
Society Is Ready for a Renaissance
By Calogero Salvo During this reclusive period, my mind has been flying to other moments of my life where, similar to the current experiences, I […]
How We Survive
By Jim Fouratt I am looking forward to celebrating the anniversary of the first Christopher Street March for Liberation. It is important to honor the […]
A Nobel Laureate Crying Out in the Wilderness
By Stanley Wlodyka Jiménez “Everything is going to change because of this pandemic. Everything about life as we know it is going to change. Nothing […]
The Plight of New Yorkers Who Have No Homes
By Carol F. Yost On May 12, 2020, an op-ed appeared in the Daily News with the title, “Why I Slept on the Subways: They […]
Celebrating Gay Pride in Severe Times
By Robert Heide In June 1961 my one-act play West of the Moon opened as an off-Broadway production at New Playwrights Theater, on West Third […]
Even Without a March, Pride Marches On
By Erik Bottcher The LGBTQ community is as vastly diverse as humanity itself. Like a brilliant rainbow, we occupy every gradient in the spectrum of […]
Notes From Away: Partisan Democracy (an Oxymoron)
By Tom Lamia On the road to partisanship, we have traveled all but the last mile. If there is no off-ramp to be found before […]
For LGBT’s Future…Allies Make a Difference
By Bruce Poli, Executive Director, Equal Rights Foundation In 1961, future U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark was sent to Mississippi for Civil Rights work by […]
Reality Check—COVID: Into the Middle Innings
By Jesse Robert Lovejoy For a starting pitcher, the most dangerous inning is the first. He isn’t really warmed up, and he doesn’t know what’s […]
Feel the Power: Vote on June 23
By Penny Mintz There is a primary election coming up on June 23rd. For a while, it looked like the presidential primary was off—canceled by […]
Mia Says
Mia Says: Forgiving prejudice is the best way to end it. Photo by Dusty Berke.
Where Have All the White Folks Gone?
By Alec Pruchnicki There are numerous accounts of COVID infecting and killing more people of color (African-Americans and Hispanics) than whites in New York and […]