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Out of the Darkness –– World AIDS Day, 2012
Names of those who died of AIDS were added to banners carried from Trinity Lutheran Church to Advent Lutheran Church and Broadway United Church of Christ. PHOTOS BY DONNA ACETO/ REPORTING BY PAUL...
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Gay Crown Heights Party Promoter Charges Police Brutality
Jabbar Campbell said the NYPD’s efforts to shut down his party turned into a homophobic assault. | GAY CITY NEWS BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Roughly 50 people marched on Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct to protest the...
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Panel on Police Abuses Highlights Obstacles to Reform
Emily Jane Goodman, Jethro Eisenstein, Robert Gangi, Carlton Berkeley, Susan Tipograph, and Leonard Levitt at the Jim Owles club forum on March 19. | GAY CITY NEWS BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | A discussion...
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At LGBT Forum, Mayoral Rivals Hit Quinn on Sick Leave, Term Extension
Comptroller John Liu and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn at the March 20 mayoral forum. | DONNA ACETO BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The conventional wisdom is that Christine Quinn has the queer vote sewn up...
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Two Arrests in Second of Recent Madison Square Garden Area Bashings
Kevin Atkins and Nick Porto following their assault on May 5. | FACEBOOK BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE AND PAUL SCHINDLER | Port Authority police made two arrests in a May 10 assault on a gay couple outside a...
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Gay Men Claim Police Violence, Anti-Gay Slur, False Arrest in Brooklyn
Ben Collins, Antonio Maenza, Josh Williams, Councilman Daniel Dromm, and FIERCE’s John Blasco (with AVP’s Sharon Stapel with her back to camera) at the June 11 press conference. | GAY CITY NEWS BY PAUL...
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Elliot Morales Repeatedly Told NYPD He Killed Mark Carson
Mark Carson in a photo handout distributed by the NYPD. BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | The accused killer of Mark Carson made multiple statements to police following the May 18 fatal shooting in which he admitted...
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John Liu Leans Left
City Comptroller John Liu, flanked by Queens City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, at a March 28 press conference outside the Manhattan federal court where a trial about police stop and frisk practices was...
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Suspect Sketches Released in Attack on Gay Couple in Chelsea
Sketches released by the NYPD in connection with an August 14 attack on two gay men. | NYPD BY ANDY HUMM | Police have released sketches of two men suspected of assaulting a gay couple walking through...
View ArticleA New Script for Law and Order?
BY NATHAN RILEY | Anyone following the stop and frisk story knew that Judge Shira Scheindlin would curb the practice, but the reaction among Republican mayoral hopefuls and their supporters was...
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Grand Jury to Weigh Indictment in Islan Nettles Killing
An August 28 vigil participant who identified herself as Naye delivered the evening message. | DONNA ACETO BY PAUL SCHINDLER | The 20-year-old Manhattan man arrested for what witnesses said was a...
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Fighting For New York’s Future
COVER ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL SHIREY GAY CITY NEWS ENDORSEMENT | It’s been 20 years since New York, an overwhelmingly Democratic town, has had a Democratic mayor. During that period, a number of trends...
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Racial Profiling Patterns Seen in Porn Shop Busts
A 2009 Sheridan Square rally to protest the arrests of gay men in video stores in Manhattan. BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Police department documents filed in a federal lawsuit suggest that racial profiling in...
View ArticleFrom Bratton, A New Direction Needed
BY NATHAN RILEY | For Bill de Blasio and William Bratton’s NYPD to make a clean break with the troubled recent past, there must be a fundamental redefinition of the crime problem in New York City. No...
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Meet the New Boss: Same as the Old Boss?
ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL SHIREY BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | While Bill de Blasio’s choice of William Bratton to head the city’s police department likely reassured New Yorkers that the declines in crime seen...
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Harnessing Familiar Hands to Chart Progressive Course
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s pick for deputy mayor for health and human services. | GAY CITY NEWS BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | When introducing Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, his pick for deputy...
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Lynne Stewart Is Out — Should Queers Care?
Lynne Stewart arriving at LaGuardia airport on January 1. | FLAVIA FONTES BY SUSIE DAY | Lynne Stewart is out of prison. Lynne Stewart, the defense attorney convicted of providing material support for...
View ArticleMidtown Vigil for Randy Gener, Journalist Beaten in Brutal Attack
BY MICHAEL LUONGO | As darkness fell on a cold January Sunday afternoon, a cluster of 70 people gathered on the corner of 53rd and Seventh Avenue, candles in hand, local television trucks parked at the...
View ArticlePolice Release Sketch, Description in Randy Gener Assault
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | An artist’s sketch and a description of the suspect in the January 17 brutal assault on Randy Gener, an out gay journalist, has been released by the NYPD. The description includes...
View ArticleQueens Man, 24, Arrested in Randy Gener Attack
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Police have arrested a 24-year-old Queens man in connection with the January 17 assault on Randy Gener, a gay arts journalist badly beaten a block from his Midtown apartment at 53rd...
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