Tag Archives: NYC

New York City’s neverending battle with bedbugs has gone retail. Via Gothamist: Hollister, the teen-oriented clothing store that’s a subsidiary of Abercrombie & Fitch, was shut down yesterday due to what one employee described as “a massive bedbug outbreak” at the four-story SoHo flagship location. And according to our source, who spoke on condition of anonymity so that he/she wouldn’t …

The MTA has caved to pressure from Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews and yanked the ad campaign from a vodka company that features a woman’s butt in a bikini. An MTA rep tells Gothamist: “At the request of community leaders, the Georgi vodka ads were removed from buses that are likely to serve Brooklyn’s Hasidic neighborhoods. It has been our longstanding practice, …

Lots more Pride-related Missed Connections at This Is FYF. (Tipped by JMG reader Foxy)

Justice was at last served yesterday in the hate crime murder retrial of Keith Phoenix (left), who in 2008 beat Ecuadorean immigrant Jose Sucuzhanay to death with a metal baseball bat as he screamed anti-gay and anti-Hispanic epithets. Last month a mistrial was declared when jurors could not agree on convicting Phoenix of murder or manslaughter. The second trial’s jury …

Oh what a difference Section Two makes, as yesterday we crossed the finish line at 2:30pm, four hours earlier than last year. At times we moved so quickly it felt like a Pride run, so kudos to the volunteers and organizers at Heritage of Pride. As is our tradition, near the end of the route we posed for the above …

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan banned a gay Catholic group from marching in the NYC Pride parade with the name of their church on their banner, forcing the group to march with the banner reversed. The gay Catholics lined up directly behind our group, the NYC Gay Bloggers, and one church member told Father Tony that Dolan’s action inadvertently helped …

It was June 27th, 1969. The day that the fags, dykes, and queens of New York City finally said “Enough!” For some historical perspective, I’m posting the story that the New York Daily News ran about the Stonewall Riots. Note how the story drips with condescension and ridicule. We’ve come a long, long way in 41 years and we’ve still …

Thursday night Father Tony and I attended the world premiere of Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market, David Sigal’s documentary of the of famed Meatpacking District restaurant, its flamboyant owner Florent Morellet, and the incredible scenes staged almost nightly over the 25 years that NYC’s night creatures inhabited the place. On hand at the premiere was a who’s who of …

Folks stood in the hot summer NYC sun for a long as six hours to get their iPhone 4 today, its second day of release. It kills me how almost everybody in the line is staring into the perfectly good iPhones they already own. Children of the corrrrrrrrn.

Cafe Figo, First Avenue, 1PM Linda Richman Look-A-Like: So anyway, false alarm, thank the BVM. But I told her that if she EVAH makes me a grandma before I’m 50, I’ll move down to her Nanna Marie’s in Boca so fast it’ll make her weave spin.

Sunday’s forecast looks pretty great!

Tomorrow night NYC’s LGBT Center hosts Summer Fur, a benefit dance party beginning at 9pm. Tickets: $10 at the door, $8 online. Hosts Joe Fiore and New York Metrobears bring you Summer Fur…Be warned…MORE fur ahead! DJ Tony Ruiz will be spinning his magic. Summer Fur is the ultimate fur attack! Hot go-go bears, cheap beer, bear art, hangin’ with …

You are invited to join NYC’s Gay Bloggers & Digital Activists in this year’s Pride March, where we will be stepping off from 40th Street between Madison & Park shortly after 12pm. (But we’re supposed to be there at 11am.) We’ve been moved up from last year’s Section 87 (or something) to Section 2 (hurray!) and will be following the …

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered north of Ottawa was felt across the U.S. midwest and northeast this afternoon, shaking buildings as far as Boston, NYC and parts of Jersey. I felt nothing, but my super says it rattled some equipment in our building’s basement. Any here feel it? The New York Times wants your story.

A just-approved hike in the state tax on cigarettes will raise the cost to around $12/pack in NYC, prompting Bronx Assemblyman Michael Benjamin to claim that Gov. Paterson hates Israel. Because higher cigarette prices encourages bootlegging. Which is done by terrorists. “Criminals and terrorists will be further enticed to take advantage of the price differential between high tax and low …

Booze, bears, and furry mayhem. Blowoff returns to NYC on Friday night at the Canal Room in Tribeca. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets $20. Get tickets here. Subway: A/C/E/1 to Canal Station, one block from the venue. Saturday night Blowoff returns to San Francisco.

NYC’s Gotham Knights rugby club won the Bingham Cup tournament in Minneapolis yesterday, beating the Sydney Convicts, the two-time defending champions. JMG reader Sean Chapin attended and writes: The New York Gotham Knights have won the Bingham Cup 2010 against the Sydney Convicts by a final score of 18 to 15. It was a closely fought battle with three lead …

NYC Pride held its annual Rally at Central Park’s SummerStage yesterday where co-hosts Bruce Villanch and Vickie Shaw entertained the crowd in between performances by the Gay Men’s Chorus, MeShell Ndegeocello, Ari Gold, Billie Myers, the cast of Hair, and Martha Wash. Also featured was Lt. Dan Choi, who delivered a rousing MLK-esque speech, leading the crowd in chants of …

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