New York's Number One Daily Newspaper?

The morning tabloid, amNew York, has been tooting its horn by calling itself "New York's #1 Daily Newspaper." I don't know how that could be when the distribution in Upper Manhattan is terrible. When the paper was owned by Newsday, it was available five days a week and could easily be found in street corner boxes near transit lines at various locations in Harlem and the Upper West Side. Finding the paper these days can be hit or miss. And finding its sibling paper, the Gay City News? Fuhgedaboutit! Finding money on a sidewalk is a whole lot easier. My advice to Schneps Media, which is owned by a mother-and- son team, is that it needs to beef up its distribution system.

New York Nightlife Is Not Heterocentric

The front page story in the April 20, 2010 issue of amNewYork and Metro New York was the same--New York is a guy's town. Both papers had clever headlines: "Men-hattan" (amNewYork) and "Dude, NYC Is the Place to Be"(Metro). (If there was a contest, amNew York's headline would be the winner.)
According to askmen.com's editor-in-chief, James Bassil, as reported in amNew York, "There's a huge range of opportunities there. Although it may not be the best place to meet a wife, it 's the best place to meet a lot of women."
Unfortunately, the findings published in both morning tabloids were heterocentric. Too bad they didn't include single gay men. The last time I looked, they were a part of the New York nightlife scene.

Mickey Rourke and the F-Word

According to Julie Gordon's "Buzz" column item about actor Mickey Rourke ("Not Sorry for Slur," amNewYork, Oct. 12, 2009), he used a slur word that is used against gay men, during what was described as "a drunken rant." Rourke refused to apologize for using the unprintable "f-----" (presumably "faggot" and not "fruit" or "fairy") and told TMZ.com that the word "has nothing to do with gay."
Does he also use the equally offensive slur "nigger," brushing it off as not having anything to do with black people? Just asking.
When Larry Kramer titled a novel Faggot in the 1970s, he got the cold shoulder from a lot of people in the gay community. Let's see what the reaction will be from GLAAD and other gay groups to Rourke's use of the F-word.