June 10, 2021
By Molly Meisels
Mx. Meisels is a graduate of Yeshiva University and an incoming art history M.A./Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
No one within earshot batted an eye at the slur. I was at a festive Shabbat dinner with other undergraduates at Yeshiva University, a few months into my freshman year at its Stern College for Women. âHeâs a fag,â I overheard a student in a spiffy suit say to the woman seated next to him.
A year earlier, as a senior at an all-girls Hasidic high school in Brooklyn in 2016, I had looked forward to being surrounded by open-minded, religiously committed Jews at the renowned Modern Orthodox university in New York City. But in that moment, my fantasies crumbled. As the slur echoed in my mind, glasses clinked, cheerful conversations continued, and the only visible concern in the room was mine. It was my first encounter with casual bigotry at Yeshiva, but not my last.
Theater to Stream: Pride Goes Online
Highlights include the latest edition of “Broadway Bares,” Jackie Sibblies Drury’s “Marys Seacole” and a new play by Caryl Churchill.
This year’s edition of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund-raiser “Broadway Bares” will be virtual, with a dozen new videos and 170 dancers.Credit.Nina Westervelt, via Broadway Cares
June 9, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
Let rainbow-festooned theater and cabaret take over your computer, tablet or television this month: With streaming, you can now bask in Pride from home.
You have to love any event featuring a hair team like the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund-raiser “Broadway Bares,” which has been bringing on the saucy and the naughty since 1992. A return to form is expected in 2022, but for now, this year’s edition, “Twerk From Home,” will be virtual, promising a dozen new videos and 170 scantily clad dancers.
Legal Basics for L.G.B.T.Q. Parents
The L.G.B.T.Q. community has more family planning options than ever before, but a patchwork of state laws and loose regulations can make the process difficult to navigate.
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This guide was originally published on May 3, 2019.
It’s never been easier for L.G.B.T.Q. people to become parents. We can now adopt and serve as foster parents in every state in the country. Thanks to advancements in assisted reproductive technology, otherwise known as ART, and innovative co-parenting and known-donor arrangements, we’re also having biological children in greater numbers. Despite this progress, a complex network of state laws, regulations and restrictions affect many of our most common paths to parenthood, meaning would-be L.G.B.T.Q. parents can face a far more complicated legal landscape than our straight counterparts.
Many of New York City’s most outwardly gay-friendly parishes are concentrated in Manhattan, a center of both gay culture and efforts to build a gay-friendly Catholicism.
How Did a Gay Scientist of Jewish Descent Thrive Under the Nazis?
Otto Warburg was a “a true Faust,” Sam Apple writes in his biography of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, someone so “ravenous for knowledge and power” that he would do anything, including sell his soul to the devil, to achieve “full mastery over life.”Credit.Jung/ullstein bild, via Getty Images
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RAVENOUS
By Sam Apple
At the start of the 20th century, the German Empire was the undisputed hub of the scientific universe. From 1901, when the Nobel Prizes were established, through 1932, Germans won almost a third of all the Nobels awarded to scientists 31 in total. (American scientists, in contrast, won five during the same time period.) This impressive track record was fueled, in part, by Jewish researchers who just decades earlier would have been excluded from prominent academic positions. When the Nazis seized power in March 1933, it was not unusual for major scientific i