From the NY Times editorial page today… Harvey Fierstein speaks out on prejudice and Don Imus. You can read the whole piece, but I think his closing is something important enough to quote here: “Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if [...]
13Apr07
Commentary from Harvey Fierstein
31Jan07
A Courageous Young Man
Every now and then I talk about some other sport in this blog and this post is going to cover three: football, swimming and wrestling and one extraordinary young man who played all three at his high school. I read about Anthony Castro this morning on Towleroad (here’s the full Towleroad article) in an obituary. [...]
In the first week of the new year gay marriage was in the news. The first headlines came out of Massachusetts, currently the only state where same sex marriage is legal. Unfortunately, it may not stay that way. On Tuesday, Massachusetts legislators advanced a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Only 50 legislators had [...]
2Sep06
Photo with the Mayor
Back in June, I got the opportunity to go to Mayor Bloomberg’s recepition for LGBT Pride Month (you can read that entry if you missed it). The official photo arrived today from that event.
Despite the loss this morning, Will and I headed into the Village to see one of our favorite authors, Patricia Nell Warren, who wrote The Front Runner, the 1974 ground breaking novel about a gay college athlete who falls in love with his coach, all the while preparing to go the the 1976 Montreal Olympics. [...]
25Jun06
Rugby Drama
Ok, so this isn’t a post about hockey, but about something that happened in another NYC gay sports organization. The Outsports.com website reported this week that a rugby team refused to play the Gotham Knights, an NYC gay rugby team, when the Knights would not confirm that everyone on the team was HIV negative. It’s [...]
21Jun06
BBQ at the Mayor’s
A few posts ago I mentioned that I was getting to go to a reception given by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to celebrate LGBT Pride Month. The reception, which was a BBQ, was held yesterday evening at Gracie Mansion, the Mayor’s official residence, and it was very cool to be there. NYCGHA had three-fourths of [...]
