By Layla Law-Gisiko (candidate in April 28’s NYC Council District 3 Special Election) | It was 1993, and I had only just graduated from La Sorbonne University when I began my first job as a young journalist and producer on Ruban Rouge (Red Ribbon), a one-hour television program entirely dedicated to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. There are […]
By Lindsey Boylan (candidate in April 28’s NYC Council District 3 Special Election) | You can’t look at the news today without seeing backsliding and attacks on our fundamental rights in every corner of our country. It is pervasive and perverse, and it’s happening right here in New York. The Trump administration continues to attack […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Mere coincidence, ominous sign of the times, or a little bit of both: Draw your own conclusions about last week’s announcement that beloved restaurant/lounge elmo will end its near-quarter century run in Chelsea on–get this–Friday, March 13. A cornerstone of Chelsea’s “gayborhood” heyday and a pillar of the community for years […]
CHARLI BATTERSBY | At the end of June’s Pride Month, the New York City Council adopted the upcoming budget for 2026. Among the $112 billion dollar budget are standard programs providing for the likes of parks and libraries, plus increased funding for food pantries. But careful observers will notice that the funding for “Trans Equity […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Provincetown, Massachusetts is a mixed (but heavily queer) resort town with lobsters, beaches, and lots of tucking and plucking, the prime season running through September and beyond. Here’s a rundown of my latest trip there, specifically involving which drag queens provided the most entertaining distraction from panic—and what they wore. PLASMA […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | There are quite a few hip places clustered together in Bushwick, so that a dedicated adventurer could plan out an evening of carefully-timed venue-hoping. Have a few drinks at the photogenic bar, hit the cool cabaret for an irreverent vaudeville act, then off to the roller rink, and trust that there’ll […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | I felt pretty smug as I approached City Hall on the late afternoon of June 9, 2025. I had RSVP’d for a Pride Month event with the City Council Speaker and members of the Council LGBTQIA+ Caucus. Several tourists were peeking through the fence, trying to get a pic of City […]
BY MICK MEENAN | The Stonewall Uprising that followed a June 28, 1969 NYPD raid on a Christopher Street gay bar was only the beginning in a series of historical events that would reshape queer consciousness, and society along with it. Among the significant developments following the Stonewall Uprising was the publishing industry’s more receptive […]
This year’s final full month of summer is set to start off with some serious drag-centric sizzle, when local fave Yuhua Hamasaki returns to the iconic place where she once reigned as Miss Stonewall. Performed on Wednesday, August 6, 7pm at The Stonewall Inn, An Evening with Yuhua promisees a unique and dishy cabaret experience […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | I always wanted to go on a cruise so I could feel like Kay Francis glamming it up in those 1930s Hollywood movies, while engorging myself on a 24-hour buffet! So I just went on a Royal Caribbean cruise to Halifax, chosen by my friend Michael Ellis, who does this sort […]