Boy in Bushwick

Started writing at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 28, while on Amtrak train 175 as it passed through Rahway, N.J., en route to Washington, D.C. ...

I truly never thought I would see the day when a woman would threaten to pull a knife on someone at the South Station bus terminal, but this...

While the South End slowly begins to dig out, the blizzard that has buried Boston under more than a foot of snow continues to rage. A storm ...

I will probably remain here in Boston through Tuesday morning, but the blizzard has certainly made its presence known. Here are some vid...

The latest snowpocalypse that has already paralyzed travel throughout the Northeast has caused this writer to become something of a snow ref...

More than half a dozen New York City Councilmembers joined activists and young people on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 21, to blas...

Boy in Bushwick was among the guests who appeared on "Same Sex Sunday" on Sunday, Dec. 19, to discuss the LGBT-specific issues th...

President Obama calls members of Congress from the Oval Office ahead of the U.S. Senate's vote to repeal "don't ask, don't ...

Yesterday's bitter cold temperatures did not stop Becky, Gloria and me from enjoying an overly festive afternoon at the Mandarin Orienta...

A band of light snow that coated the city earlier tonight provided a particularly festive reminder of the season. The flakes were falling wh...

It's a stormy night here in Bushwick, but here's a link to the Same Sex Sunday segment on which I appeared alongside Tobias Barring...

It is entirely logical to describe Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage as pleasant in personal interactions, but her ...

Those who continue to defend California's Proposition 8 apparently failed to read the Constitution before they delivered their oral arg...

Started to write around 9:25 a.m. as I drank coffee on the terrace of our room at Tempo Miami. The cold reality of Washington, D.C., awaits ...

Bizarre and surreal are two of the more appropriate ways to describe Manchester Memorial High School’s Class of 2000’s 10th year reunion at ...

On this Thanksgiving eve, here are four snapshots of Bushwick from earlier this morning. From 322 Jefferson Street Maria Hernandez Park Play...

My “does not care one iota about anything related to ‘Dancing with the Stars’” Facebook proclamation sparked four comments and nine likes, b...

Willow Palin apparently has a homophobia problem of her own. The teenager called a critic of her mother’s new reality show a “faggot” in a ...

This past weekend in New York City felt more May than mid-November. I spent Saturday afternoon perusing the Middle Eastern food stores along...

Today marks the first anniversary of the brutal murder of gay Puerto Rican teenager Jorge Steven López Mercado. Juan José Martínez Matos st...