Topic: Tom Duane
What is your coming out story?. And we were doing tenant organizing together and he asked me to run his campaign. And he was running to be the first openly gay and openly HIV positive member of the City Council and it ...
Transforming the rent guidelines boardOn May 1 2008, the tenantrights group, Real Rent Reform Campaign introduced a bill put together by NewYork Senator Tom Duane, which would overhaul the Rent Guidelines Board whichhas come under scrutiny over the years for questionable rent ...
From professor to perpetrator. . Manhattan: I was deeply saddened by the fall of former New York State Controller Alan Hevesi ("Yep, I'm a scheming...
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) will directly campaign against New York state senators opposed to the legalization of gay marriageThe Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest gay rights advocate, will directly campaign against New York state senators opposed to ...
Senator Tom Duane called the NY Senate 'a cesspool of homophobia and transphobia' after a key panel rejected a transgender protections billOpenly gay Senator Tom Duane called the New York Senate “a cesspool of homophobia and transphobia” after a key committee ...
A long-anticipated gay marriage vote in the New York Senate has ended in disappointment for advocates of gay marriage A long-anticipated gay marriage vote in the New York Senate has ended in disappointment for advocates of gay marriage. Openly gay Senator Tom ...
Debate over a gay bill in New York is deteriorating into a verbal slug fest Debate over a gay bill in New York is deteriorating into a verbal slug fest. The state's most vocal opponent of gay marriage, Senator Ruben Diaz ...
The gay marriage debate spilled onto the streets of New York Sunday as thousands rallied for and against the institutionThe gay marriage debate spilled onto the streets of New York Sunday as thousands rallied for and against the institution, reports New York-based ...
The Democrats have patched together a ruling coalition in the State Senate, but how well it will work is another story.In order to create peace with the gang of three renegade senators who had withheld support for him as majority leader ...
ALBANYThe Capitol is still trying to make sense of what happened in a leaders' meeting earlier todayit was long on theater but short on conclusions.The legislaturespecially convened todaywill not act on David Paterson's proposal to bridge a budget deficit. I ...
