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Remembering the Super Bug of 2005

On February 5, 2005, the New York City Department of Health in conjunction with the Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center called a press conference and issued an urgent health alert to the public. The event was especially targeted towards men who have sex with men. According to health officials, one individual had been infected with what appeared to be a never before seen particularly potent and apparently mutated strain of HIV that had rapidly progressed to full blown AIDS.

The Million "Individual" March-Gay Pride NYC (EDGE)

This day transforms Gotham into a hubbub of pink-inspired Mardi Gras festivities, and according to Heritage of Pride, the group that organizes the massive event, more than 300 organizations, which included religious, school, corporate, activist and AIDS organizations, politicians and even a gay sailing instruction company

Downtown Gotham laments closure of Meatpacking District eatery :: EDGE

After 23 years of serving countless steak frites, muscles and Boudin Noire in an area more known for beef racks, leather daddy's, transgender prostitutes, club kids and Hogs and Heffers, the modern landmark 24 hour French diner that served the fashionable alongside the "freaky" has closed its doors. News reports account Morellet signed a lease for $6,000 in 1995. The landlord reportedly sought to increase the rent to around $700,000 per year-or $58,000 per month-this past year. And Morellet was left with little choice but to close shop after a period of unsuccessful negotiation.

Political Cortex: Gym Pundits Worry About Obama Nomination

When seeking to challenge his Obama friend, he asked him about the lopsided Clinton victory in West Virginia and the other wins in Pennsylvania and places like Ohio, places in America where progressives have work to do and trust to win, where aggressive attempts to prove to the economically disenfranchised or higher education denied and affordable universal health care starved people that government can do good things for people, the Obama supporter cut deep.

New York City Gay bloggers make their mark :: EDGE New York City

"The mainstream media is so full of lies and distortions that we need the unfiltered information which comes from some of these blogs" she said. "Unfortunately too many gay men have the body of Gods and the brains of 15-year-old school girls. So I try to mix in some politics with more entertainment-oriented posts to trick them into caring about issues other than Jennifer Aniston's new hair style."

World's Cheapest Dress Designed by Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker recently designed a summer dress for clothing retailer Steve & Barry's. The dress has been dubbed by The New York Times, 'the cheapest dress in the world'. It retails for the amazing price of $8.98 .

EDGE New York City ::NYC Forum on Rising HIV Rates Among Young Gay Men, MRSA, Media and Bathhouses

The intersecting issues of a new strain of staph, rising HIV infections among young gay men, and the potential to shut down sex venues in New York packed a meeting at the Center, where health officials were grilled on policy regarding gay men having sex.

Young Homeless and Gay in New York CIty

"Being homeless is not some musical like "Rent" where everyone can sing along and be happy about it," she said. "They [LGBT youth] are afraid to go to any place for help because they ve been taught their whole lives that the way they are is wrong. They are afraid someone will hurt them; kill them."

America's Finger Pointing Mayor

OPINION- A quick stroll down New York s political memory lane indicates a silent Giuliani is not likely. Instead, Giuliani the politician is more known to dismiss or attack, often with divisive and sometimes hurtful rhetoric. Many observers say that in the past, the former Mayor often used such tactics to further a self serving agenda along with the interests he represented.

Wal-Mart's paranoid spying operation

Wal-Mart can't take a trick. The world's biggest retailer seems to lurch from one screw-up to another. Now the New York City comptroller's office is demanding that the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission investigate the company for illegally spying on its shareholders and critics.

Those Vintage Chrismas Lights

How a vintage Christmas display in the East Village won a New Yorker's heart

CodyLyon'sblogolater: New York's Eastern Bloc-An East Village Portrait

There s no denying the historical irony and unspoken sense of triumph over the oppression and drabness that much of the Eastern Bloc once represented. In fact, from 1934 to 1986, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality, considering it to be a product of western decadence, landing thousands of gays in gulags. Inside this 2006 New York City version of the Eastern Bloc, a little decadence was acceptable, perhaps encouraged. Story of three bartenders creation.