Patrick Madden on the Essay
"The essay is a meditative form in which the author's personality is revealed not but what she has done but what what she has thought." -- Patrick…
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Robert Root on Teaching
"The great thing about teaching writing is that you remind yourself of things you already knew." From Robert Root, nonfiction writer, editor, and teacher, co-author…
UPDATE: New Shelter for Homeless LGBTQ youth in NYC
This is great news: On the evening of Monday, November 7, The Ali Forney Center ...reopened a 20-bed emergency shelter in Brooklyn as a shelter…
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Voices of the Movement for LGBTQ Homeless Youth
I attended a rally on Monday of this week put on by a coalition of organizations fighting for more homeless shelters for LGBTQ young people.…
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Video of Occupy Wall Street in Times Square
I shot some video at last night's Occupy Wall Street protests in Times Square (commentary by my friend Matthew Palevsky, a strategist at Purpose): By the…
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OccupyAmerica: Burden of Proof Always Falls on the People
While I have visited Occupy Wall Street twice over the past few weeks and have supported the movement in various ways, I refer to the…
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Look Ma! I wrote fiction!
And you can read it here! I entered a literary contest and my piece didn't win but I got to read it out loud anyway…
“Certain Parts of Queens Are Looking a Little More Like Certain Parts of Brooklyn”
This is the kind of writing I love (and I know my friend Josephine loves, too). This quick blog post from the Village Voice is…
Glory Behold Ye, Chocolate Babka
Yesterday, I introduced eight or so people to the joy that is Chocolate Babka. If you don't know this food, god's biggest gift to the…
Gays at NY’s Chinese New Year Parade for 1st Time
Queer APIs (Asian Pacific Islanders) were invited for the first time ever to participate in New York City's annual Chinese New Year Parade held in…
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