Boy in Bushwick

Less than 24 hours after Barack Obama became the first black person to accept a leading party's presidential nomination, Republican riva...

After the longest presidential campaign in American history, the Democrats have formally nominated Barack Obama as their party's nominee...

Tomorrow marks the last deadline day for the Fire Island News this summer, and I'm honestly feeling a bit bittersweet at the prospect of...

The common theme of a number of previous postings is the need to leave Fire Island for at least a few days in order to appreciate it even mo...

Boy in Bushwick is actually at home today as he prepares to attend the annual National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Convention in Washingto...

With the Democratic and Republican conventions two weeks away, local politicos continue to gear up to support their respective candidates an...

There remains often intense debate within the movement for LGBT rights as to whether the Human Rights Campaign actually advocates on behalf ...

It's Monday morning and the predicted downpours have so far failed to materialize over Fire Island. The sun is out and a slight Septembe...

Transgender and gender variant youth continue to gain more visibility in the media as a result of the high profile murder of Lawrence King i...

There comes a time towards the beginning of August when locals and seasonal residents alike begin to grow extremely weary of the influx of d...

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 ...