Tag Archives: Village Voice

The Bizarro Logic Of NY Sen. Ruben Diaz

From a just-published interview with Steven Thrasher at the Village Voice: All right, let me ask you about this. You believe marriage is between one man and one woman, yes? Yes [laughing] So? Why are you asking me this? You know that, you know what I believe. Why are you calling me? Marriage is between a man and a woman. …

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Quote Of The Day – Sen. Ruben Diaz

“If the affront to my personal safety wasn’t enough, it was embodied in an article that was so poorly researched. The two factual errors come to mind: first of all, if as you say my chief-of-staff is gay, no one has bothered to tell her. Also, if any of your readers are interested in attending a counter-demonstration, they shouldn’t bother …

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NYC LGBT Center Israel Flap Continues

Earlier this week the NYC LGBT Center canceled a planned Israel Apartheid Week meeting after gay porn kingpin Michael Lucas threatened to have the Center’s wealthy donors pull their support. Immediately after the event’s cancellation, a petition went online with a demand that the Center not let “wealthy bigots censor free speech.” Among the petition’s sponsors are well-known activists Cleve …

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Lady Musto

Michael Musto’s year in review.

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JMG Wins Village Voice 2010 Web Award For “Best Political Blog”

Last night I attended the Village Voice 2010 Web Awards where JMG was awarded Best Political Blog! I was asked not to blog about it until after the event and I don’t even know who my competitors were, but whatevs! The downtown Manhattan awards show was a hipster mosh-pit and didn’t feel very gay at all, but lots of folks …

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Fifty Reasons To Love New York City

Today the Village Voice published a list titled “50 Reasons To Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live In New York City.” Here’s a few of my favorites. 50. Sending your laundry out for someone else to wash and dry it is not only convenient, it’s just good business. Especially since you will probably never own a washer and dryer. Which …

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Lt. Dan Choi: The Bad Lieutenant

This week’s Village Voice cover story is an exhaustive look at the life and activism career of Lt. Dan Choi, whom author Steven Thrasher describes as personifying “the growing rift between gay-rights activists who want to cooperate with lobbyists and elected officials, and those who demand direct action.” An excerpt: There’s no doubt that when Choi came out last March …

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October 18th In NYC: The 14th Annual Anti-Violence Project Courage Awards

Hosted once again by Law & Order’s BD Wong, this year’s Anti-Violence Project Courage Awards honorees are the Paul Rapoport Foundation, Gay City News journalist Duncan Osborne, and Village Voice columnist Steven Thrasher. Get tickets here. AVP executive director Sharon Stapel raves about Thrasher to the Village Voice: “Your work at the Village Voice, particularly your coverage of proposed state …

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Ladyfingers Musto On The Aughties

For his decade-end roundup, Village Voice gossip maven Michael Musto drags it up as Miss Ladyfingers USA, Susan Boyle, Lady Gaga, and Michael Jackson. From his column: The Naughty Aughties are over, and I’m LMFAO. It will be remembered, if at all, as the decade of the TMI generation. The 15-second fame gang. The micromanaging maniacs. The attention-whoring-for-lunch bunch. The …

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The Worst Songs Of The Decade

This month the Village Voice is counting down the worst songs of the Aughties. Some acts to make the list so far: Simple Plan, Weezer, Santana, and Crazy Frog, whose evil spawn from 2007 is below. The reviewer notes: “Every generation gets the Barbie Girl it deserves. As horrible as we’ve acted this decade, we should actually consider ourselves lucky …

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