BY PUMA PERL | It was Pride Month, 2019, when I last interviewed my friend Michael Alago. We had spoken about his upcoming memoir, I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death, which was scheduled to be released in January 2020; about the documentary, Who the F**k Is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey of […]
From New York City Council District 3 candidate Erik Bottcher, on the evening of June 22’s Primary Dear Friends: From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you and the voters of District 3 for choosing me to represent our community on the New York City Council. Words cannot express how honored I […]
BY TRAV S.D. | In honor of Pride Month, we will be featuring one article per week on a different classic performer, one for each category: L, G, B, T, and Q! With only five weeks in June, that’s our limit. Check back with us next year, as our series picks up with “+” I, A, […]
Below, find a social media posting by NYC Council District 3 candidate Phelan Dante Fitzpatrick, one of six who ran for the Councilmember seat to be vacated by term-limited Speaker Corey Johnson. Following the photo, find the statement’s text. Want more? Click on the instances of words in red. BY PHELAN DANTE FITZPATRICK | So […]
BY ARTHUR SCHWARTZ | The Primary for City Council in West Soho, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen is largely over. Although Erik Bottcher did not get a majority, his margin of victory over me is large enough that it seems mathematically impossible for me to win once the Ranked Choice Voting process begins. […]
BY WINNIE McCROY | When the pandemic shut down nightlife, filmmaker friends Elina Street and Erica Rose spent their evenings walking and talking, reminiscing about the things they enjoyed in the “before” times. Recalling a last drink shared at Brooklyn lesbian bar Ginger’s, the two began realized that even before the pandemic, the treasured dyke bars […]
Tuesday, June 22, 2021: As the first light of dawn broke over New York City, the Primary Day reporter’s reliable opening sentence phrase–“a palpable air of uncertainty”–hovered over the skyline, just as it has been doing ever since our best minds in medicine took a hard pass on the notion of masks (with an about-face […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | It’s Pride month, when LGBTQs celebrate and commemorate in a big way—and this year, we might even leave this house to do so. As one of the gayest of the gays, I will honor this year’s Pride by digging back into my lavender-tinted memories and relating the 10 gayest moments of […]
REVIEW BY WINNIE McCROY | If you like your LGBTQ documentaries with a bit of history, a soupçon of mystery, and a hell of a lot of drag queens, P.S. Burn This Letter Please fits the bill to a gay tee. The 100-minute film follows director Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera’s exploration of a box of […]
BY GERLD BUSBY | Now that I’m 85 and have just emerged from a near-death experience after major surgery, I realize that being gay has absolutely nothing to do with sex. It has to do only with being present to myself as continuously as possible. When I think of my past as a gay man […]