Tag Archives: NYC

The Saint At Large continues their gifties to JMG readers as today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two more tickets to The Christmas Party at Pacha, which takes place this Saturday, December 20th. Pacha is at 618 W. 48th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The party features DJs Michael Magnan, Eddie Elias, and Jonathan Peters and runs from 10PM to 6:30AM. …

My cable box is still busted, but I guess I’m slightly mollified by the cutesy 2009 calendars Time-Warner New York is sending out, which feature local cable guys (and a couple of gals) in various seasonal poses. The calendars are free to customers, view the “cable babes” here.

Room Eight, the NYC politics site founded by Politico’s Ben Smith, reported this weekend on a federal lawsuit filed against the NYPD regarding their refusal to grant press credentials to online journalists. “The system of granting press credentials in New York City has run amok and needs to be changed immediately,” said Norman Siegel, a prominent civil rights attorney who …

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out yesterday for the memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the Ecuadorian immigrant who was beaten to death with an aluminum baseball bat last week because his attackers thought he and his brother were homosexuals. The event was covered by over a dozen television crews from local, national, and Hispanic news channels, as well as print …

On Friday, hours before his mother arrived from Ecuador, Jose Sucuzhanay’s heart stopped and he was declared dead. An Ecuadorean immigrant who was brutally beaten with a bottle and baseball bat last week by men said to be shouting anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs has died, a family spokesman said on Saturday night. Three Sucuzhanay brothers — from left, Romel, Diego …

Another great night at Blowoff last night with just about everybody I know in the tri-state area in attendance. Musical highlights: Bob Mould spinning a ripping remix of Yelle’s Ce Jue and Rich Morel playing his own Shoe Gazer Disco. If you don’t want to appear in the above slideshow, please email me. RELATED: Here’s the most recent San Francisco …

On Thursday night, Aaron and I attended Jingle 2008, the fifth annual holiday fundraising party for the Ali Forney Center, NYC’s shelter for homeless LGBT youth. Held at the lovely Meatpacking District loft of David Raleigh and Richard Bahl, the party brought out a nice crowd of Gotham’s homorati including pop star Ari Gold, Tony winner B.D. Wong, gossip maven …

Blowoff’s beary beer-soaked band of bouncy brutes returns to Manhattan tonight at the Highline Ballroom. Doors open at 11:30pm, advance tickets are here. Next week I’ll happen to be in DC when Blowoff returns to the mothership at the 9:30 Club, making it four Blowoffs in four cities in five weeks for me. What’s the bear version of a Deadhead?

Man, you really know Wall Street has been hit hard when Scores, Gotham’s jiggle-titty mecca, is closing. It’s the last lap dance for Scores, the strip club empire whose comely babes attracted A-list celebs and money-burning execs. Once the highest-grossing strip club chain in the world and a hangout for Madonna, Howard Stern, Russell Crowe, Jason Giambi and countless others, …

The memorial vigil for Jose Sucuzhanay, the victim of Saturday’s brutal anti-gay, anti-Latino attack in Brooklyn, will take place Sunday at 2pm at the scene of the hate crime. Facebook link here. Let’s hope the “gays don’t get beaten up enough” crowd has taken notice. Embiggen the image for instructions.

This is the second major prize for Milk this week and first of what I predict will be many for Sean Penn. “Milk,” Gus Van Sant’s movie about gay rights leader Harvey Milk starring Sean Penn, has been named best film by the New York Film Critics Circle. Penn was also chosen as best actor by the critics, who announced …

Contrary to widely published reports yesterday, the more seriously injured brother of the two attacked in Brooklyn is not dead, but he has been found to have no brain function. The New York Times has amended the story I linked yesterday. Today the NYPD released the sketch at left in the hopes the public can identify the assailants. Police have …

An HIV-positive New York man faces eight years in prison on charges that he forged an HIV-negative test result in order to convince his girlfriend to have unprotected sex with him. Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn says Duane Lang could spend up to 8 years in prison if convicted of reckless endangerment and possession of a forged instrument. …

Richard Burns, the longest-serving head of any LGBT organization in the United States, is resigning after 22 years as executive director of the NYC LGBT Community Center. Via press release: Richard Burns, Executive Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City, has announced his departure from the Center. The longest serving leader of an …

In a landmark but nonbinding resolution, today the United Nations will call for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. Eighty-six countries in the world still criminalize gay sex with punishments from years of imprisonment to death. France will bring the resolution to the General Assembly with the backing of the entire European Union, many non-EU European nations, Canada, Israel, Japan, Mexico, …

One of the two brothers attacked in Brooklyn yesterday has died of his injuries. He was beaten to death with a baseball bat because the attackers thought he and his brother were lovers. The two brothers from Ecuador had attended a church party and had stopped at a bar afterward. They may have been a bit tipsy as they walked …

Courtesy of the Saint At Large, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to The Christmas Party at Pacha, which takes place Saturday, December 20th. Pacha is at 618 W. 48th Street in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The party features DJs Michael Magnan, Eddie Elias, and Jonathan Peters and runs from 10PM to 6:30AM. Tickets are $30 advance, $40 at the …

A Jewish man in Queens is suing a European research group for libel because it incorrectly stated that he was uncircumcised. Angered over an online claim that he was not circumcised, a Queens man is suing a research group that mentioned the delicate subject on its Web site. John Singer, 49, is seeking unspecified damages for the allegedly libelous statement …

I got several emails from NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s office this morning, the last of which said: I was outraged to learn this morning that two men were assaulted at Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn, and especially horrified to learn that anti-LGBT and anti-Latino slurs were used by one or more of the assailants – raising this …

First & 68th, Thursday, 8PM Girl 1: So last night I dreamed I was on Deal Or No Deal.Girl 2: Did you win?Girl 1: No! And when they opened my suitcase, there was a pickle in it.Girl 2: Oh my God, you really miss him.Girl 1: Tell me about it.