Columnists :: Steve Weinstein

Let’s Call Fox News Host’s Bluff About Gay Bar

By Steve Weinstein | Aug 19

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld may have been facetious when he proposed a gay bar next to the proposed mosque in Lower Manhattan, but it’s actually a great idea!


Other Recent Columns

The role of weather in the Stonewall uprising

By Steve Weinstein | Monday Jun 28, 2010
In all of the dissection of the monumental Greenwich Village riots that sparked the modern gay-rights movement, the misery of late June in New York City can’t be discounted.

Newsweek Writer Keeps Digging That Homophobic Hole Deeper

By Steve Weinstein | Monday May 17, 2010
The author’s response to the unanimous outpouring of derision for his ridiculous assertion that out-gay actors aren’t believable in straight roles has only cemented the opinion that he is in way over his head.

The Catholic Church Is Rotten to the (Apple’s) Core

By Steve Weinstein | Thursday Apr 8, 2010
Problems like systemic child abuse will never go away from the Roman Catholic Church, because the theological foundations of the church themselves condone and abet such behavior.

The Myth of Military Cohesion

By Steve Weinstein | Monday Mar 29, 2010
Why more studies on the gay military ban when we have every other Western democracy’s experience at hand? In the U.K., an elite soldier gets married and his mates applaud; here, we get nonsense about the end of unit cohesion.

The Gay Decade in Entertainment

By Steve Weinstein | Monday Dec 28, 2009
My Top 10 plus one for the major events and people in the arts and entertainment during the not-so-naughty Naughts.

Why Gay Marriage Failed in New York State

By Steve Weinstein | Wednesday Dec 2, 2009
Like everything else in Albany, the reasons why the State Senate voted down gay marriage has a lot less to do with grand issues of the day, public morals, justice. Look to crass political considerations.

Why Cleveland Was Best Choice for Gay Games

By Steve Weinstein | Wednesday Sep 30, 2009
Both Washington and Boston are great towns, but the enthusiasm of the Ohio city’s government and citizens makes it a slam-dunk for the 2014 event.

Michael Jackson & Queer Theory

By Steve Weinstein | Monday Jul 27, 2009
An essay in the prestigious New York Review of Books doesn’t tell us much about Michael Jackson’s sexual preference, but it reveals plenty about the idiocy of academic ’queer theory.’

Why ’Bruno’ Is Very, Very, Very Good for The Gays

By Steve Weinstein | Wednesday Jul 15, 2009
Like all truly brilliant satire, ’Bruno’ has been willfully misunderstood and decried as fostering the very prejudice it so effectively skewers.

Why a March on Washington Is a Terrible Idea

By Steve Weinstein | Thursday Jun 18, 2009
A fall gay-rights march in the nation’s capital is a waste of time, money and resources, and may even be counter-productive.