Jay Blotcher

Still dancing like Emma Goldman... Jay reads his essay from a new anthology on Lower East Side activism. Tuesday, June 26, 6:00-8:00PM at the Tenement Museum Visitors Center, 108 Orchard Street at Delancey Street, NYC....

The 1990s belonged to the drag queen. RuPaul became a media star and two drag films, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, grabbed heartland America by the short hairs....

This photograph from 1991 depicts me holding the factsheet I created for the July, 1989, protest against The New York Times. That summer, ACT UP held a march and protest which challenged the Newspaper of Record for its chronic...

Dear Eric Alterman, Since you wrote a most evenhanded piece (for The Nation) about my January dismissal from The New York Times, I wanted to share this epilogue.  Granted, it's more of a whimper than a scream, but it is...

Conflict of whose interest? National gay journalist group drops fired gay reporter from panel By CHRISTOPHER SEELY Houston Voice Friday, May 07, 2004 When the New York Times fired freelance reporter Jay Blotcher over his past affiliation with AIDS group...

This photograph from 1991 depicts me holding the factsheet I created for the July, 1989, protest against The New York Times. That summer, ACT UP held a march and protest which challenged the Newspaper of Record for its chronic...

Yet another development in my seemingly ceaseless NYT dismissal story. The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association has barred me from appearing at their Plenary on Journalistic Objectivity, scheduled at the June Convention in NYC. The plenary session was created...

NY Times Confronted on Ethics Policy by Andy Humm Gay City News, New York, NY April 15, 2004 http://gaycitynews.com/gcn_316/newsbriefs.html San Francisco AIDS activist Michael Petrelis, a shareholder of stock in the New York Times, attended the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting...

Photograph depicts me holding the factsheet created for the July, 1989, protest against The New York Times. We challenged the Newspaper of Record for its chronic record of inaccurate and spotty AIDS coverage during the first years of the...

I'd like to highlight some points that have been overlooked in the ongoing media dissection of this issue......

Lowdown by Lloyd Grove New York Daily News Thursday, March 4, 2004 All fired up over Times Gay activist Larry Kramer, who gained celebrity status as founder of the militant AIDS awareness group ACT UP, has written The New York...