“Oh, there goes Father Faggot.”
The Rev. Christopher Hofer still recalls the insults children and teens hurled at him in 2004, while he was out running in Wantagh, his new …
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By Julie Mansmann
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6/29/17
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In 1969, the Stonewall Inn was a hole-in-the-wall gay bar, a plain, two-story structure operated by the Mafia. No one would have suspected . . .
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10/20/16
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Sixteen-year-old Sean Flynn, of Bellmore, called all 263 contacts on his cell phone on the afternoon of June 26, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution guarantees the right to gay marriage.
He made the calls in rapid-fire succession. “Marriage equality is legal!” Flynn yelled into the phone. “Woohoo!” Then he moved to the next number, again and again, for two and a half hours.
He was ecstatic, he said.
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By Scott Brinton
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7/15/15
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Lerthon Theuma is one of 15 players on the Hofstra men’s soccer team who was born outside the United States, but Theuma is the only one of them who can say he went to high school in this country. The Franklin Square resident moved here from Malta when he was 12 and spent his teenage formative years adjusting to American cultural norms, both on and off the soccer field.
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By Nathan Weiser
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12/1/14
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The Hofstra men’s soccer team was picked to finish near the bottom of the Colonial Athletic Association, but the lowered expectations from the outside are just one of the many ways the Pride are being driven for success in 2014.
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By Andrew Coen
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9/10/14
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Expectations could not be higher for the Hofstra women’s soccer team. The Pride was picked first in the 2014 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) preseason poll and return seven starters off last year’s 10-6-3 team that reached the CAA semifinals before falling to James Madison.
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By Andrew Coen
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9/10/14
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Our schools, our businesses, our town departments that maintain the roads and infrastructure and the village and county police units that patrol our streets all contribute to the quality of life we enjoy here on the South Shore.
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3/13/14
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Last March, Hofstra baseball coach John Russo and the Pride were in the beginning stages of trying to cope with the absences of then-juniors Matt Ford and Dalton Rouleau from the middle infield and top of the lineup.
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By Tony Bellissimo
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3/13/14
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Legendary Hofstra softball head coach Bill Edwards lost one of the all-time great pitchers to graduation, but his Pride have been just fine in the early going of 2014.
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By Andrew Coen
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3/10/14
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Three years removed from its last NCAA Tournament appearance, Hofstra men’s lacrosse program is taking a “one game at a time” approach for 2014 in hopes that its season gets extended well into May.
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By Andrew Coen
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3/10/14
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