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April 5, 2010 Posted by GorgeousBoys in Milestones

Gay Professional Wrestler Found Dead in NYC

Police say a man who identified himself as one of the first openly gay professional wrestlers was found dead of an apparent suicide in his New York City apartment. Police say Chris Klucsaritis (KLOO'-suh-REYE'-tihs) was found by his brother in the living room of his apartment Friday. A suicide note has been recovered. The 40-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. The Medical Examiner's office is investigating to determine the exact cause of death. Klucsaritis wrestled under the name Chris Kanyon. He started his career in the late 1990s and was part of the championship tag team "Men at Work." He later joined World Wrestling Entertainment. He retired in 2004. But Klucsaritis still wrestled on occasion, billing himself as an openly gay wrestler. Associated Press Reporting
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September 19, 2009 Posted by GorgeousBoys in Politics, Diversity & Rights, Special Reports

Special Report: 640,000 Homeless Gay Youth (150 on a given night in NYC engage in 'survival sex')

homeless_youthIn the United States 575,000 to 1.6 million youth are homeless each year, of which 20-40% identify as LGBT. (Source for numbers is a report from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) This means 115,000 to 640,000 LGBT youth are homeless per year. Twenty-six percent of LGBT youth that come out to their parents are kicked out of their home. Twenty-five to thirty-three percent of homeless youth have engaged in survival sex. Forty-two percent of LGBT youth abuse alcohol. Nearly 50% of LGBT homeless youth have attempted suicide. Across the United States, thousands of kids are kicked out of their homes each year for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT ). In some cases, homophobic families dump them on the streets like litter. In other homes, kids run away in fear of retribution or as a result of ridicule.

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homeless_boyThey have nowhere to go. And the problem grows worse as American youth are “coming out” at increasingly early ages. Across our country we are failing to address this problem. Carl Siciliano is the executive director of the Ali Forney Center in New York City. The organization provides emergency and transitional shelter for LGBT youth. As Siciliano himself admits, the gay rights movement and its allies are failing to address the problem. “I don’t think there are 200 beds in the country for gay youth,” he says. “I have stood on the steps and declared war on homelessness. I have done as much as I can to raise awareness,” Fidler (New York council member Lewis Fidler) said. “And still, Brittany [Spears] can climb into a cab without underwear and get three pages in the paper, but I can’t get three columns on kids who are couch surfing, who are selling their bodies to survive, who are exposed to unspeakable horrors.” Fidler believes the only way to truly address the issue is through a mass social movement. “My belief is that if people knew that on the streets of this city in this day there are children by the hundreds who are sleeping on the streets, if this problem were known, then the public would create the political will to solve it.” Meanwhile, however, young people like Damien Corallo will remain on the margins. “A lot of us feel rejected, like there is no place for us,” Corallo said. “We’re the bottom of the barrel.” Damien is 18 years old and transgender, and his brother is gay.
“One day our aunt told us she didn’t want any faggots in the house. And we figured out that she had given our rights over to the state. So we left,” Corallo said. “I’ve lived in 32 group homes or foster homes. I’ve lived in shelters, halfway houses, safety houses. I’ve been into lock-up, stuck in residentials. I have been in every kind of home. I went to juvie for drugs. I used to inject drugs and snort coke. I was in for about a year. It was not friendly. It was a Missouri state jail and then I went to rehab.”
You can read Damien's story and the stories of others at the Indypendent.  
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June 29, 2009 Posted by Matthew Conaster in Celebrations, Travel & Lesiure

Gay Pride around the World

Gay pride celebrated around the world

People took to the streets around the world on Sunday to participate in gay pride parades.

BarcelonaSpain Several men take part in a gay pride parade in Barcelona, Spain.

StPatricksCathedral Long strings of colorful balloons float above the street past St. Patrick's Cathedral during New York's annual Gay Pride Parade. Marchers marked the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings, a raid on the gay-friendly Stonewall Inn that was the starting point for riots that lasted several days in Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

NewDelhiIndia A participant looks on during a gay pride parade in New Delhi, India.

WeddingCake Stephan Hengst, left, Patrick Decker, center, and City of Amsterdam Deputy Mayor Carolien Gehrels pose for a photo in front of a traditional Dutch Delft Blue porcelain wedding cake during New York's annual Gay Pride Parade in New York. Hengst and Decker are one of the chosen 5 Trans-continental couples to get married in August's Amsterdam Pride.

PrideNewDelhi People participate in a gay pride parade in New Delhi, India. Hundreds of gay rights supporters waived flags and danced past traffic during marches through three Indian cities Sunday to celebrate gay pride.

BangaloreIndia Representatives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community gesture as they participate in Pride March rally in Bangalore, India.

DressedSpain A participant is all dressed up for the gay pride parade in Barcelona, Spain.

NYCLiza A drag queen dressed as Liza Minnelli waves to spectators during New York's annual Gay Pride Parade.

HairSpain A participant in the gay pride parade in Barcelona, Spain, on Sunday, June 28.

Turkey Participants kiss during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Istanbul, Turkey. Several hundreds of gays, lesbians and transsexuals participated in the parade, condemning homophobia and violence against them and demanding equal rights.

MichaelJacksonPrideNYC A man dressed with elements of Michael Jackson's costumes marches in the Gay Pride Parade in New York.

ChicagoPride Thousands lined the street or stood on balconies of buildings lining Halsted Street to watch Chicago's 40th annual Gay Pride Parade on Sunday

HalstedBelmont Thousands line Halsted near Belmont for Chicago's 40th Annual Pride Parade.

Seattle Parade participants of all shapes and sizes walk in the Seattle Pride Parade.

SFPD Mock cops make their way to the Pride Parade on Sunday in San Francisco.

SFran The Pride Parade makes its way up Market Street on Sunday in San Francisco on Sunday, June 28, 2009

TorontoFire A Toronto fireman hose down spectators during Pride parade along Yonge Street in Toronto, Ont., June 28, 2009.

TorontoSpectators A group of spectators watch the Pride parade from an open second story window along Yonge Street in Toronto, Ont., June 28, 2009.


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February 4, 2009 Posted by TheBoss in Politics, Diversity & Rights

NYC Bookstore Says Bye

books3The Oscar Wilde Bookshop in Greenwich Village (photo left - click image to enlarge), which is believed to be the oldest gay and lesbian bookstore in the country, will close on March 29 09, its owner announced on Tuesday, citing economic troubles. The store nearly closed six years ago, only to be sold and given a last-minute reprieve. It was opened in 1967 on Mercer Street by Craig L. Rodwell, who was influential in the gay rights movement. It later moved to 15 Christopher Street. Mr. Rodwell, who inspired owners of gay bookshops around the country and who helped organize the city’s first gay pride parade in 1970, died of stomach cancer in 1993.

A store manager, Bill Offenbaker, bought the store, which was then sold to Larry Lingle in 1996.  In 2003, after Mr. Lingle said he could no longer afford to keep the store open, Deacon Maccubbin, the owner of Lambda Rising Bookstores in Washington, agreed to buy the store and keep it afloat. In 2006, Kim Brinster, the store’s manager since 1996, became the store’s fifth owner.  The bookstore, which occupies a storefront not much bigger than a typical Manhattan studio apartment, became a popular place for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities.

The store said it would continue to take orders through e-mail and through its Web site until mid-March. Ms. Brinster said the store would extend special offers and discounts to liquidate its inventory.  “What a shame,” said Martin B. Duberman, an emeritus professor of history at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, when he heard of the store’s closing. Professor Duberman knew the store’s founder, Mr. Rodwell, and wrote about him in his 1993 book “Stonewall.”

“Craig struggled very hard,” Professor Duberman recalled in a phone interview. “He had no real backing from other sources. It was pretty much always hand to mouth. In the early years, some people objected because he refused to carry any pornography. He eventually relented, though I can’t tell you how long it took, but I’m sure that helped him move from a marginal life to at least a semiprosperous one.”

The current owner, Ms. Brinster, 51, started as a manager at the store in 1996 when Mr. Lingle was the owner. Raised in Texas, she moved to New York City in 1979 to get a master’s degree in religious education at Fordham University and later worked as a letter carrier until moving into the book business.  In a phone interview, she cited declining sales figures and said that on Tuesday, the store had only two paying customers.  “People are hemorrhaging, and we’re no exception,” she said.  Ms. Brinster said she paid $3,000 a month in rent, which she said was already below market value.

“Even if we were rent-free, it wouldn’t be enough for us to cover the bills we have,” she said. “This is one instance in New York where it’s not a case of the landlord gouging the tenant. Our landlord has always been remarkable with us.”

nytlogo153x23Story Taken From Today's New York Times Edition

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Tags: NYC, Oscar Wilde, stores