Category: In the News

Initiated as small, defiant, sexually daring protests, gay pride parades have become mainstream spectacles patronized by corporate sponsors and straight politicians as they spread nationwide. For many gays, who prize the events’ edginess, the shift is unwelcome – as evidenced by bitter debate preceding Sunday’s parade in Dallas. One group with a keen interest in […]

By SHEILA ANNE FEENEY Every day is Father’s Day for gay men who have fought for the right to raise children. About 8,100 of the same-sex couples in New York City raising children are gay men, according to the Williams Institute, a UCLA Law School think tank that specializes in LGBT issues. NYC’s gay dads differ […]

          Since 1973, Congregation Beit Simchat Torah has tried to reconcile traditions transmitted across the millenniums with traditions that its members — gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews — have often had to make up on the fly, battling hostility, indifference and the AIDS epidemic at the same time. The congregation hopes to […]

Same-sex couple Dylan Stein (left) and Gabriel Blau embrace before their wedding ceremony at the Manhattan City Clerk’s office, July 24, 2011 in New York City. CREDIT: David Handschuh-Pool/Getty Images Read more at: http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/first-gay-wedding-day-in-ny/16/

In Gomorrah, the only thing biblical is the violence. Matteo Garrone’s highly anticipated film adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s book about the Camorra—the organized crime families of Naples—is unflinching in its portrayal of the threats, violence, and killings that make the syndicate the powerhouse that it is. Many of the gay and lesbian Jews DuBowski met during […]