New York

Eight members of the Latin King Goonies, a Bronx, NY street gang are in custody, after they allegedly beat and tortured a new recruit they thought was gay, and two other men in separate, gruesome assaults earlier this week. [ Read more → ]

More than 300 LGBT activists dropped to the floor in Grand Central Station in New York City Friday evening in a demonstration of death, aimed at calling attention to the rash of recent bullying, torture, suicides, and murders of LGBT Americans. At around 6 p.m.... [ Read more → ]

Community organizations, activists, local politicians and others joined together in New York City this week to celebrate the debut of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) “I Love My Boo” campaign aimed at increasing the visibility of Black and Latino gay men. [ Read more → ]

Three men have been arrested in connection with a pair of alleged ant-gay attacks against gay men in New York City this past weekend. In an incident at the famed Stonewall Inn -- widely considered the birthplace of the gay rights movement when rioters clashed... [ Read more → ]

Over 300 supporters of same-sex marriage gathered in Manhattan's Foley Square on Sunday to rally and march across the Brooklyn Bridge on the 7th NYC Wedding March. A colorful crowd trekked over the Brooklyn Bridge armed with rainbow flags during the Seventh Marriage Equality Wedding... [ Read more → ]

A new New York State law permits unmarried partners -- including gay couples -- to jointly adopt a child. Governor David Paterson announced Sunday that he signed the adoption bill, which was effective immediately. The law also substitutes the gender-neutral term "married couple" in the... [ Read more → ]

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo told the reporters that, if elected governor this fall, he would push to legalize gay marriage in the Empire state during his first year in office, adding he thinks a bill could pass the Legislature in 2011. [ Read more → ]

Gay best friends Charlie Ferrusi and Timmy Howard have been voted prom king and queen at Hudson High in upstate New York, winning the student vote by a landslide. [caption id="attachment_8149" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Ferrusi (left) and Howard"][/caption] The teens said they ran the idea past... [ Read more → ]

New York City officials began offering wedding-like ceremonies for same-sex couples this week, drawing as much criticism as praise from gay rights advocates who want nothing short of full marriage rights. The ceremonies provide no new rights or advantages to same-sex couples -- other than... [ Read more → ]

Under a new ruling by New York’s highest court this week, same-sex parents are guaranteed consideration for custody or visitation in the event of divorce or death. Previously, the non-biological partner had these rights, but only if that parent legally adopted the shared child. But... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_7620" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Kanyon"][/caption] Former WWE and WCW wrestler Chris Kanyon was found dead in his New York apartment Friday night, the victim of an apparent suicide. Kanyon, whose real name was Christopher Klucsaritis, ended his professional wrestling career in 2004, and was the... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_7562" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Gonzalez-Andujar"][/caption] A transgender woman was found dead in her ransacked New York apartment on Tuesday, her naked body sprawled across the bed, the Daily News reports. Edelbuerto Gonzalez-Andujar, 29, who lived as a woman and went by the name Amanda, had... [ Read more → ]

[caption id="attachment_7490" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Jacob"][/caption] A federal judge on Monday approved a settlement that includes a series of reforms for an upstate New York school district in a gay student’s harassment lawsuit. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the Mohawk Central School District last... [ Read more → ]

In the largest transaction in Fire Island history, an investment group has purchased the vast majority of commercial property and establishments in Fire Island Pines, the internationally famous gay community. [caption id="attachment_7430" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Hotel Ciel at Fire Island Pines"][/caption] The $17 million purchase includes... [ Read more → ]

Gay rights activists in New York, buoyed by the state senate defeat of gay marriage opponent Hiram Monserrate, are renewing their fight to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, hoping to bring the issue back [...] [ Read more → ]

Former U.S. congressman, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) Tuesday night refused to answer a blunt question by CNN's Larry King: "are you gay?" Massa is accused of groping male staffers and the House ethics committee is [...] [ Read more → ]

Harold Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman and potential U.S. Senate challenger to New York's Kirsten Gillibrand, got a cool reception Wednesday from gay rights advocates who are skeptical of his new found support for gay marriage. Speaking at the Stonewall Democratic Club of New... [ Read more → ]

Angered by the defeat last year of a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry, a group of well-financed gay rights advocates has started a political action committee to take aim at state senators who have opposed same-sex marriage. According to The New... [ Read more → ]

Four gay rights activists were arrested Friday morning after staging a protest in which they chained themselves to a New York City marriage bureau. The group, members of the LGBT civil disobedience group Queer Rising, chanted “one struggle, one fight, marriage is a civil right [...] [ Read more → ]

A woman is now charged with a hate crime, after a New Year's Day stabbing outside a gay and lesbian bar in Buffalo, NY. Suzanne-Deanna Grover, 21, was charged with assault and a bias-motivated crime -- or a hate crime -- for a stabbing outside... [ Read more → ]