Boy in Bushwick

Growing up in Southeast Manchester [N.H.] throughout the 1990s, Michelle Morse was a familiar face. We rode the bus to school each day. We s...

Yesterday's steady stream of severe thunderstorms may have made Fire Island one of the Tri-State's least desirable places yesterday,...

Hate crimes remain some of the most difficult things I have covered as a journalist. They are barbaric. They are gruesome. And they are most...

The beach in the Fire Island Pines provided locals and visitors alike with an escape from the heat. Another weekend has come and gone on Fir...

My publisher and I were putting the fifth issue of this season's Fire Island News to bed yesterday, so I didn't have time to opine ...

Openly gay New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson remains one of the most fascinating--and awe-inspiring--people I have interviewed, and his ...

I always welcome the opportunity to opine on something beyond the trials and tribulations of the movement for LGBT rights, and the Rev. Jess...

The Fourth of July has come and gone and Fire Island continues to slowly recover from the holiday weekend onslaught. The past few days featu...

As New Yorkers take time to mark the 39th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots--and their LGBT pride--it is important to take a moment to step...

This story seems to continue to spark conversation and even gossip as the facts of what happened in the famed Meatrack become more and more ...

This sign appeared on a bulletin board in Cherry Grove last Sunday after reports of arrests inside the Meatrack began to circulate wildly ac...

A sudden illness kept me in bed for a majority of the past weekend here on Fire Island, but I did have enough energy to purchase two wigs, a...

The debate over whether transgender people are actually included within the LGBT acronym the leaders of the movement for [gay and lesbian] r...

The question of whether marriage for same-sex couples is an issue on which the broader movement for lesbian and gay (and transgender) rights...

Fire Island was, in many ways, an escape for New York's theatre elite as far back as the late 1800s. Oscar Wilde and Christopher Isherwo...

With Pride month in full-swing here in New York, a number of random thoughts continue to go through my mind as I sit in my apartment in Bush...

This sailboat battens down the hatches as a powerful squall line descends upon Cherry Grove on Sunday, June 8. Another weekend has passed an...

The New Hampshire primary, which took place on January 8, seems like a arguable distant memory. The think overcast that hung over Fire Islan...

Another quiet weekend has passed here on Fire Island, but gays and lesbians across the country continue to gear up for the frenzy of parties...

As activists continue to applaud the California Supreme Court for ruling in favor of nuptials for same-sex couples, New York Gov. David Pate...