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 […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, Dance With Us, June 25-27 | “I don’t make Gay Art. I make art. The metaphors of resilience, pride, strength, and community are central to my art-making. All is shaped inherently by a lived queerness.” Gwirtzman, a master teacher from Washington Heights currently on the faculty at Ithaca College, […]
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, […]
BY WINNIE MCCROY | On the evening of Thursday, June 10, after a lengthy meeting, Community Board 4’s Waterfront, Parks & Environment (CB4’s WPE) Committee announced they would begin the process to shut down the West 30th Street Air Pegasus V.I.P. Heliport, which is owned by Hudson River Park Trust (HRPT, the Trust). The meeting […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO There’s nothing more tired than a cliché, and if “tired” happens to be a cliche itself, then my bad—another cliché! But those are nowhere near as irritating as “amazing,” “awesome,” “icon,” “legend,” “artist,” “edgy,” “Not a problem,” and “It is what it is.” Cliches are easy to lean on because they readily […]
BY PHELAN DANTE FITZPATRICK (Candidate, City Council District 3) | Where are Corey and Erik? Are they helping small businesses recover from the pandemic? Are they off creating more affordable housing so that people can actually live here? Maybe they’re tackling the behemoth problem of systemic racism in our police force? I wish the answer […]
BY GUY KETTELHACK | The meaning of epochal events, as often as not made dysmorphic over time by social change and the scatterings of fate, almost always undergoes a metamorphosis. After 52 years the insurrection which marked the Stonewall Uprising (not a rebellion, not a riot) of June 28-July 1, 1969 may seem to the growing majority […]