Karen’s Quirky Style
By Karen Rempel | Fashion Editor Everyone who loves fashion knows that The First Monday in May is the highlight of the year, when the […]
Style on the Street: Proud Villagers—Rockin’ the Rainbow
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2″ display=”basic_slideshow”]Photos by Dusty Berke and Karilyn Prisco. Follow us on Instagram @styleonthestreet_WestViewNews Submit your favorite neighborhood fashion looks for a chance to […]
Life in a Plague Year—Life in the Time of COVID-19
By Penny Arcade As I am someone who lived through the cruelest years of the AIDS epidemic, younger people often ask me, “Was it like […]
A Vodka Bottle with an Important Political Message; Sex and the West Village; Her Shoes Could be Yours!
By Robert Kroll The fate of local community newspapers is, ultimately, in the hands of the reading public. When the public supports its local paper […]
LGBTQ Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
From oppression to achieving the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we are proud to present our selection of LGBTQ historic milestones, […]
Quotations from LGBTQ Leaders
Thanks to all our friends and the many businesses and organizations who filled the pages of the June Pride edition of WestView News. We’re all New Yorkers […]
Punk Pride with Rose Tints
By Martin Belk London calling… European epicentre of viral stupidity. This is not a love song. Tough love poem from an expat New Yorker-cum-rock ‘n’ […]
The Last Stand of St. Vincent’s: Healthcare Heroes in Another Pandemic
Pride will feel different in the West Village this year, but the LGBTQ community has persevered through hard times before. Our vibrant pocket of New […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Day the Village Stood Still: Mayday
By Roger Paradiso I remember they used to play this con game, Three-card Monte. They played it over by the subway kiosk on Sixth Avenue […]
Pride in the Time of Corona
By Chauncey Dandridge One of the things heavily lamented by members of the LGBTQ community currently, is that this will be the first time in […]