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Oct 30, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
Speaking at a fundraiser for a right-wing group, Senator JD Vance recalled that he has known Ralph Reed, the founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, since first running for his Ohio Senate seat in 2022. “We’re both people of faith who care a lot about insuring that our country lives according to the common good,” Vance said during the Sept. 16 event. “We don’t want to force our faith on anybody.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
Jeremy Burton, the chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, recalled a recent evening when he saw a group of joggers running by using a chant that promotes violence against Jewish people.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
Jeremy Burton, the chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, recalled a recent evening when he saw a group of joggers running by using a chant that promotes violence against Jewish people.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
Less than 24 hours after the Fire Island Pines Property Owners’ Association honored Rep.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
ACT UP New York rallied the community at a town hall calling on the city to reverse $75 million in cuts to the city’s health department budget, including $5.3 million in cuts to HIV prevention and services programs and encouraged the city to increase spending on those programs.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
At a second meeting that saw member turnout at a level that ACT UP New York has not experienced in many years, 75 of the 91 attendees voted to expel a member of the HIV activist group who was accused of harassing other members. “Limiting involvement with the group didn’t stop the harassment,” Brandon Cuicchi, the ACT UP New York member who facilitated the Jan. 15 meeting that took place entirely on Zoom, told Gay City News, referring to Carlos Aitcheson-Valentin.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
Responding to a lawsuit brought against ACT UP New York by a former member of the HIV activist group who was expelled for allegedly harassing other members, nearly 175 ACT UP New York members, a turnout that the group has not seen in many years, voted to change the group’s bylaws and to establish a team to re-examine the harassment claims that resulted in the member being expelled. The extraordinary Jan.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
While New York City saw historically low numbers of new HIV diagnoses in 2022, the city health department’s estimate of new HIV infections in 2022 saw a small increase among men who have sex with men and a continuing struggle with bringing the most effective HIV prevention methods to Black and Latino gay and bisexual men.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
In her memoir, Martha Shelley, then a member of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, recalls escorting two lesbians from Boston who were interested in establishing a chapter of that early lesbian group in Boston on a tour of the West Village. They came across a crowd of mostly men who were battling the police on Christopher Street on a June night in 1969. Shelley assured the visitors that rioting was common in the city.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
gaycitynews.com | Duncan Osborne
The Queen of Angels Catholic Store faced a dilemma. It wanted to post a message on its website and in the store saying that its owner and employees would only use the pronouns associated with a customer’s sex at birth when dealing with the public. It would refuse to use any other pronouns, which the store said was consistent with the Roman Catholic faith. The store has not explained how its employees and owner would discern any customer’s sex at birth.
