I say this every year, and every year I mean it. But last Saturday’s Pride Parade really was one of Rochester’s best. There could have been more floats. And sure, there could have been a few more bare-chested male dancers. But what made this year’s parade so interesting was the huge number of straight families, […]
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Send comments to themail@rochester-citynews.com, or post them on our website, rochestercitynewspaper.com, our Facebook page, or our Twitter feed, @roccitynews. For our print edition, we select comments from all three sources, and we edit those selections. Think like the Flintstones? On a reader’s letter arguing that preservationists are hindering progress in Rochester: Preservation and re-purposing of […]
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Quack in A&E’s wall of integrity
Well, that didn’t take long. A week after the A&E network suspended production of Duck Dynasty due to show patriarch Phil Robertson’s homophobic remarks in GQ, A&E blinked. And Robertson is back. In its defense of ending the suspension, A&E officials say that Robertson expressed his personal beliefs, not the network’s, and that the show […]
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Gay pride meets Putin
There are reasons why the LGBT community responds so strongly to athletes who come out publicly; it remains an extremely difficult decision to make and can lead to serious consequences, from career damage to physical and emotional harm. The LGBT community’s connection to the world of professional sports and athletics has a strange and sometimes […]
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LGBT poverty bucks stereotype
When I was a kid, one of the boys in my fifth-grade class wore a green shirt with pink stripes. For weeks he was teased and called a queer for wearing pink and green or “fairy” colors. Who knows how the pink and green label got started, but there are hundreds of gay stereotypes. And […]
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Out for same-sex marriage
David was more than a friend. He was family. We met in New York City shortly before he made the decision to leave teaching in public schools in the Bronx to enter Columbia University’s law school. He was probably the most optimistic person I’ve ever known: a rainbow-flag-waving activist back in the late 1970’s when […]
