A great photo of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr addressing New York City Officials in 1964.
MYD remembers Dr. King today and strives to live his dream.

(source: Divine 9, Bro. Lawrence C. Ross, Jr.)

After Sen. Ruth Hassell-Thompson’s touching speech during her unexpected “yes” vote on marriage equality in the New York Senate, openly gay New York Sen. Thomas Duane expresses his thanks.

Express appreciation to Sen. Hassell-Thompson by phone or email here.

Photo credit: Nathaniel Brooks/NYT

Love, New York

Photo by Leomage, courtesty of Flickr

Why not? Just your typical New York City cabbie sprucing up his dash on the Van Wyck expressway in Queens.

Image elegantly captured by Joseph O. Holmes of www.joesnyc.streetnine.com. Joe and other great New York photographers will be exhibited tonight! at The Jen Bekman Gallery’s Mixtape show in Soho.

From Monday’s Light the way to Equality! pre-session vigil at Union Square Park.

More photos at here. To learn how you can take action for marriage equality in New York, visit www.meny.us

Thompson lost by a margin of less than 5%, despite being outspent by Bloomberg 10:1.

A lot happened on Tuesday. The Republican Party imploded in upstate NY and allowed Democrats to gain a House seat we hadn’t held since 1852. However, two Democratic legislatures have gone Republican and there were widespread losses sustained across the state by Democrats.

Here, in our own City, we elected a Democratic Comptroller and Public Advocate, and we came within a hair’s breadth of taking the mayoralty.

We almost won it.

But almost is not enough. Last year, most of us got on the phone, traveled out-of-state, urged our friends to vote, and donated to help elect Obama. This year, too many of us sat on the sidelines. Don’t take it in stride. Help organize for 2010 RIGHT NOW!

Don’t sit this one out. You can play a pivotal role. Help us keep New York blue.

Give as little as $5 and make sure we elect the right people next year! Come to MYD meetings and help us strategize! They’re the 3rd Tuesday of every month.

Just some kids out for the ceremonial first pitch of World Series Game One on Wednesday night.

Happy Halloween!

El Museo hosted the New York City election’s first mayoral showdown Tuesday night, and also celebrates its 40th anniversary/reopening since renovation this Saturday.

Image: Joaquín Torres-García
Fourteenth Street, 1920
Oil on board, 22 x 18 inches
Collection of CDS Gallery, New York
© 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid

A perfect reminder of why support of next weekend’s National Equality March in D.C. is so very necessary.

Photo courtesy of Erica, FIPS

The Empire State Building unveiled its new $12.5 million Art Deco lobby this week, designed by architect Frank Prial.

We had originally planned to feature the Building’s display of green Thursday night, for the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz (and much to the delight of Iranian activists opposing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to our fair city this week). However, the powers that be at ESB lost their nerve, and last night’s color was decidedly red.

(Photo by Katie Sokoler/Gothamist)