The New York Times

The candidate next door irritates La Jolla neighbors

Michael Barbaro - The New York Times
June 7th, 2012

SAN DIEGO -- On Dunemere Drive, it seems as if just about everyone has a gripe against the owners of No. 311.

The elderly woman next door complains that her car is constantly boxed into her driveway. A few houses over, a gay couple grumbles that their beloved ocean views are in jeopardy. And down the street, a widow grouses that her children’s favorite dog-walking route has been disrupted.

Bellyaching over the arrival of an irritating new neighbor is a suburban cliché, as elemental to the life on America’s Wisteria Lanes as fastidiously edged lawns and Sunday afternoon barbecues.

COMMENTARY: Remember who signed the NOM Pledge

Ken Williams - SDGLN Editor in Chief
April 3rd, 2012

Bravo to The New York Times editorial board for condemning the National Organization for Marriage and shaming the Republican presidential candidates for not repudiating NOM’s strategy to “Divide and Discriminate.”

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Proposition 8 plaintiffs urge Ninth Circuit to uphold public's right to view historic trial's video

SDGLN Staff
November 15th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO – The plaintiffs in Perry v. Brown, the landmark federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, late Monday filed a brief defending the public’s right to see the video recording of the historic public trial in this case.

The brief urges the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm the District Court’s decision granting plaintiffs’ motion to unseal the digital recording of the trial.

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Meet Mr. Manners: Steven Petrow to discuss his ultimate book on LGBT etiquette at San Diego luncheon

Ann Feister - SDGLN Staff Writer
July 11th, 2011

SAN DIEGO -- With the advent of gay marriage in New York coming July 24, some people may be finding themselves invited to enough matrimonial events to make one’s head spin.

So with new traditions come new rules and social mores upon we base our behaviors. Sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with all of the little details in life, but it’s the little details that can predicate whether we have a good day or a bad day.

New York Eagle raided as patrons celebrated same-sex marriage vote

Al Baker and Mick Meenan – The New York Times
June 27th, 2011

NEW YORK -- An unannounced inspection that several agencies carried out at a gay bar in Manhattan on Friday night occurred at nearly the same time that patrons were celebrating the passage of legislation in Albany legalizing same-sex marriage.

Police officials said on Saturday that the inspection was part of a routine operation planned long ago. But Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president, said that he was troubled by descriptions of what took place at the Eagle bar, on West 28th Street off 11th Avenue, and that the actions amounted to a raid.

NYT appoints their first openly gay Op-Ed columnist

Chris Geidner - The Metro Weekly
May 25th, 2011

NEW YORK -- A development that may surprise some, based on assumptions about The New York Times opinion pages, came on Monday, May 23, with the naming of Frank Bruni as a new op-ed columnist for the daily newspaper.

From the Times: "Mr. Bruni, 46, is the first gay op-ed columnist in The Times's 160-year history. He said he would take on a wide variety of subjects in his writing." Bruni joined the newspaper in 1995.