Paul Schindler

In the sixth episode of “Talk It OUT: LGBTQ Voices In A Queer Election Year,” I speak to Leo Murrieta, director of Make the Road Action - Nevada, a group that

In the fifth episode of “Talk It OUT: LGBTQ Voices In A Queer Election Year,” we focus on Georgia, a state that swung to the Democrats in 2020 for the first

Out gay State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta of Philadelphia, the Democratic nominee for State Auditor General, talks about the threats to democracy posed by

In the second episode of “Talk It OUT: LGBTQ Voices In A Queer Election Year,” Dr. Patrick Egan, a political science professor at New York University, talks

In this debut episode of Talk It OUT: LGBTQ Voices In A Queer Election Year, host Paul Schindler speaks with Brian Derrick, political strategist and founder

“Talk It OUT: LGBTQ Voices In A Queer Election Year,” presented by New York’s Gay City News and gaycitynews.com, is a weekly podcast exploring the political

Opera critic James Jorden, whose incisive must-read, at times scathing or snarky, and always crackling commentary graced the pages of publications from Gay

John Weir’s “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me,” alternately identified as “Short Stories” and “Linked Stories” — 11 in all — is wise, often funny, and poignant

LGBTQ media voices and other community leaders reacted with shock and dismay to the news that Rebecca Juro, an uncompromising transgender advocate, print

As darkens descended on the New York City AIDS Memorial in the West Village on December 1, 10 activists who, in the words of one, have long been “thriving” with HIV paid tribute to an equal number of writers, poets, and novelists who fell to the first of the pandemics we encountered in our lives. [……

Leading LGBTQ legal advocates and others in the legal world reacted with shocked dismay on March 31 to the news that Court of Appeals Judge Paul Feinman, who

With public consciousness of income inequality widespread in the US and the demand for a $15 minimum wage nationwide growing louder every day, President Joe Biden comes into office with high expectations about what he must do to help the American worker. His campaign promises reflected that reality,…

Today’s issue of Gay City News is the last one for which I will serve as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief.

Out gay Manhattan State Senator Brad Hoylman appeared in Times Square on October 29 to promote legislation passed this summer under his leadership in tandem

Early voting in New York State, an option that only became available last year, is proving to be popular in a high-turnout presidential election year in which the COVID-19 epidemic is also on the minds of those choosing to cast a ballot ahead of November 3. According to state and city election offic…

At the height of the spring coronavirus crisis in New York, three-term Democratic State Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright came in for a rude shock in her effort for another term in Albany. Her campaign’s failure to file cover sheets for the voter signatures required to put her on the June primary bal…

Just weeks after the most prominent member among the five out gay city councilmembers — Speaker Corey Johnson — bowed out of the 2021 race for mayor, one of his colleagues, Brooklyn’s Carlos Menchaca, floated the possibility that he would step up for the contest. Mid-afternoon on October 9, Ben Max,…

When Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, in her Senate confirmation hearings on October 13, responded to California Democrat Dianne Feinstein’s question about whether she shared her mentor the late Antonin Scalia’s hostility to LGBTQ rights, her response — “I have never discriminated on the basis…

On a still-summerish Saturday, September 26, Phil Velez and Joe Craven, who met five years ago at the Nowhere Bar on East 14th Street, took to the rooftop terrace of their Manhattan apartment building to exchange wedding vows. Velez’s wedding caught our attention not only because he is a longtime LG…

During a lecture at Florida’s Jacksonville University just days before the 2016 presidential election, Amy Coney Barrett, who was then a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, argued that Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court ruling from the year before that acknowledged the right…