Tag Archives: NYC

NYC 2010 GLAAD Media Awards

Last night I attended the 2010 NYC GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, where industry hotshots mingled with wealthy supporters as media contributions to LGBT equality were recognized in numerous categories. Joy Behar and Cynthia Nixon were honored for their outspoken activism and other top awards went to ABC’s Brothers & Sisters for Best Television Drama, …

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NYC Teacher Sued For Threatening To Out A Nine Year-Old Boy

A NYC charter school teacher is being sued by the parents of a 9 year-old boy, who say the teacher forced him to write a note to a female crush, falsely “confessing” that he is gay. According to court papers filed this week, the teacher, Jared Alessandroni, 29, threatened to “out” a straight 9-year-old boy, James Pastrana, to his class …

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NYC Taxi Drivers In Massive Fraud

The NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission has uncovered a massive scam on the part of the city’s taxi drivers, many of whom are are charging out-of-borough rates to unsuspecting riders. The drivers’ scheme, the commission said, involved 1.8 million rides and cost passengers an average of $4 to $5 extra per trip. The drivers, officials said, flipped switches on their …

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Prop 8 Attorneys Ted Olson & David Boies Speak At The New York Times

Last night Perry Vs. Schwarzenegger lead attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies spoke before about 150 journalists at the New York Times headquarters in Manhattan in an event called “Unlikely Allies.” In attendance among the print journalists were uber-blogger Andy Towle, activists Corey Johnson and Brendan Fay, former Clinton advisor David Mixner, and former GLAAD director Neil Giuliano. Olson and …

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Evening View – 42nd & & 7th

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NYC Schools: Respect For All Week

This is Respect For All Week in NYC public schools, during which students will take diversity workshops and learn how to diffuse bullying and harassment. GLSEN is one of the NYC Department of Education’s partners in the program. “We applaud the Department of Education for recognizing the importance of the ongoing project of providing safe and effective learning environments for …

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Today In Frivolous Lawsuits

A woman in Queens is suing the maker of her big floppy clown shoes because when she dressed up as Bozo for Halloween, her defective big floppy clown shoes caused her to trip and injure herself. Presumably this isn’t the Queens woman of the Diana Ross wig head fame.

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Morning View – Jackhammer Hell

The co-ops behind my apartment building are removing several thousand square feet of concrete patio in order to put in a community garden, probably so they can feed themselves during the coming End Times. So I’ve got a month of 30-feet-away multiple all-day jackhammering coming. I am rather cranky about this.

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Queens: St. Patrick’s For All

Here’s a slideshow from today’s LGBT-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Sunnyside, Queens. It was a gorgeous day, almost t-shirt weather. Lots of well known folks and groups attended, from Mayor Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (mine!) to activists Ann Northrop, Brandon Brock and the folks at Marriage Equality New York. (That’s them in the green t-shirts towards …

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Disney Yanks ABC Signal In NYC

The image above was ABC7’s misleading final message to NYC last night just before their parent company Disney yanked their signal to Cablevision’s three million subscribers. Disney wants a $40M annual chunk of the dough that Cablevision collects for local/basic channels like ABC7 and the cable provider won’t pay it. So Disney pulled the plug, not Cablevision, despite what the …

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Today In Frivolous Lawsuits

A women in Queens is suing a local wig shop because as she was trying on a Diana Ross wig, the saleswoman accidentally knocked a plastic mannequin head onto her foot, leaving the customer unable to have sex with her husband. Her lawyer says that nerve damage has left his client unable to curl her toes. Or her husband’s, somehow.

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Now Airing In NYC

As amusing as this ad may be, the cynic in me wonders if this personal injury firm wasn’t forced into this campaign as part of some fraud settlement.

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Photo Of The Day – Rush Limbaugh’s Pad

Rush Limbaugh has placed his $14M Fifth Avenue penthouse on the market and lawds, there’s some tacky ass shit up in that joint. Gawker has many more hilarious photos.

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The Gay Housewives Of NYC

LOGO has rejiggered their casting call for their gay take on the Housewives phenomenon after their first concept about houseboys, Kept, resulted in few applicants. The new title: The Gay Socialites Of New York. Retch. (Via Brian Moylan @ Gawker)

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Little Kid Runs JFK Air Traffic Control

Well, this is reassuring. An air traffic controller at JFK took his kid to work with him and let the child deliver a few directions to pilots over the radio. Gothamist notes: “To be fair, he does sound pretty darn cute.” The FAA is vowing that heads will roll.

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint At Large, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to BPX: The Black Party Expo & Bazaar (NSFW), a porn star-infused event that precedes this year’s annual legendary Black Party at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan. Billed as “Behind The Scenes At The World’s Sexiest Party” and benefitting The LGBT Center, The Black Party Expo & …

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You Thought Flying Couldn’t Get Worse?

JFK’s main runway shuts down on Monday for a four month repair and retrofit. And passengers all across the country will suffer. About a third of airport traffic – and half of departures – will have to be diverted from the Bay Runway to smaller runways, leading to longer lines on the ground and in the air. Millions of passengers …

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Action Alert: GENDA Phonebanking In NYC

The Empire State Pride Agenda is looking for volunteers for a phone-banking push to get the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) passed in the New York Senate. The phone banking schedule is as follows: Tuesday, March 2ndThursday, March 4th Tuesday, March 9thThursday, March 11th Phone banks take place at our NYC office at 16 West 22nd St. 2nd floor, between …

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Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, Brockway

Gothamist reports that a group called Auto-Free New York has a plan for the city’s traffic problems. MONORAIL! Well, “light rail,” but we’ll take it. According to George Haikalis, founder of Auto-Free New York, an auto-free light rail boulevard that would run along 42nd Street could be expanded into a loop around the island. He estimates the 61-mile light rail …

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Winter Wonderland

February 2010 was the snowiest month in the history of NYC. A record-breaking winter storm dumped more than 20 inches of snow on the city Friday, closing schools and offices, grounding flights and cutting off power to thousands of homes. By the afternoon, 20.8 inches had fallen in Central Park, for a monthly total of 36.9 – more than 3 …

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