Tag Archives: New York Times

After my Saturday post about the New York Times’ claim that the Empire State Pride Agenda was in a “quiet period” during the most exciting time for gay activism in decades, the ESPA contacted me to dispute the story. I offered a chance to make a correction to the Times report and below is their response. The author is Josh …

A source advises us that the Beckett Fund will be taking out a full-page New York Times ad in the next few days to decry the gay community’s “campaign of violence” since the Prop 8 vote. According to the source, the Beckett fund is presently looking for other major religious activism groups to sign on to their ad, which will …

I couldn’t find a single local paper today to read over lunch. Every newsstand is completely wiped out and now I see that Towleroad is reporting that people are lined up around the block at the NY Times headquarters to get today’s issue. I should have realized that today’s papers would be collectors items. Even worse, I had to read …

I’ve read this weekend’s lengthy New York Times Magazine article on internet trolls three times now and I still don’t know what to think. (Did the reporter himself get trolled by his subjects?) In a way, I came away feeling like the troll nonsense we have to deal with in the LGBT blogosphere is waaaay less severe than the shit …

This little gem appeared in yesterday’s new etiquette column in the New York Times: You’re at someone’s house who starts talking about how wrong gay marriage is. You are gay. What do you do? Anonymous Assuming you’re an advocate of gay marriage, you should calmly make your best argument for equal treatment. Your host may not have heard a persuasive …

Captioned with photos that mock the misty 1950’s image of domestic bliss, the lengthy cover story in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine tells the story of several gay male couples in their 20’s who have married in Massachusetts since it became legal in 2004. The author, a young gay man himself, was bewildered when some of his peers started getting …

NY Times ombudsman Clark Hoyt has blasted his paper’s recent McCain/lobbyist hottie article, calling it “wrong to report the suppositions or concerns of anonymous aides about whether the boss is getting into the wrong bed.” A newspaper cannot begin a story about the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee with the suggestion of an extramarital affair with an attractive lobbyist 31 years …

From the New York Times’ always funny David Pogue.