Columnists :: Grinding The Edge
Can Rutgers University Be Fixed?
The way the administration at Rutgers University handed the video showing extensive use of homophobic epithets shows a school in deep denial about a pervasive problem.
Steve Weinstein is a contributing writer of EDGE... and has a razor-sharp opinion. Here it is, in all its glory.
Other Recent Columns
Why the Ravi-Clementi Trial Has Aroused So Much Interest
The media firestorm behind coverage of the guilty verdict in the trial of the man who webcammed his gay roommate entertaining another man (and then, when found out, committed suicide) points more to tech than gay issues.
Want an Oscar: Play Disabled. Or Gay. Or Both!
Christopher Plummer’s Oscar for an obscure film points up, once again, that the easiest way to win is to play gay, disabled (physically or mentally). Or, for the best odds of all, both.
Anti-HRC-Goldman Sachs Protests: Hypocritical & Self-Defeating
When the Human Rights Campaign decided to honor investment banking giant Goldman Sachs & make its chair a spokesperson for gay marriage, activists protested the firm’s ruthless banking practices. But any corporation on our side deserves credit.
Our 1st ’Gay President’ ... Newt Gingrich?
Remember all that hoopla about Bill Clinton being our ’first black president’? Six reasons why a GOP hopeful may be our first ’gay president.
GOP Presidential Race: Bible-Thumping Horndog Hypocrites
One thing we’ve learned from the farce known as a race to the GOP presidential nomination: the more a candidate blathers about morality, the more of a cheating scum he is . The race has thus turned into a remake of ’The Women.’
New York Times ’Reporter’ Alex Williams Is Lazy, Stupid or Both
There’s a story - apocryphal, I’m sure - that at a dinner party many years ago, someone asked an editor at the New York Times why the paper had a bureau in Nairobi but not in the Bronx. "Because," he dryly replied, "we have readers in Nairobi."
Let’s Call Fox News Host’s Bluff About Gay Bar
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!
The role of weather in the Stonewall uprising
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
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
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.
