Reflections on BOYS IN THE BAND

COMMENTARY: Brian Hutchison, Charlie Carver, Zachary Quinto, Robin de Jesus, Jim Parsons and Tuc Watkins in Los Angeles, during the...

Sep 29, 20207 min read

Pride and Protest: LGBTQ Pride Meets Black Lives Matter (June 28, 2020)

COMMENTARY: The Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality took place this past weekend and was a spirited,...

Jul 1, 20205 min read

Black Lives Matter – Why We March

COMMENTARY: As we approach the 2020 LGBTQ Pride commemoration on Sunday, the focus in most locations will be on supporting the Black...

Jul 1, 20202 min read

Comparing the AIDS Crisis to COVID-19: AIDS Veterans Weigh-in

COMMENTARY: BAMMER hosted its first Zoom webcast “Reflections on the AIDS Crisis in the Age of COVID-19” on Saturday evening, May 9th,...

May 19, 20201 min read

What “Ordinary People” Thought About Gays – 200 Years Ago

COMMENTARY: We can change the past by what we choose to remember. Too often historical narrative is controlled by the status quo, those...

Feb 10, 20201 min read

Gay Life in Brooklyn in the 1800s – New Exhibition Opening

COMMENTARY: When someone says gay community in NYC we think of Greenwich Village in the 70s and Chelsea in the 90s, but Brooklyn in the...

Mar 4, 20191 min read

Holding Our Ground at Mardi Gras

COMMENTARY: Just a week before Mardi Gras in 2019, two of New Orleans' most popular gays bars were getting harassed. According to Bobby...

Mar 3, 20194 min read

Who Exactly is Our Tribe? The Evolution from Gay to LGBTQ

COMMENTARY: When I was coming out in the late ‘70s, I was part of a large community that included men of different ages, races,...

Feb 13, 20193 min read

Barbra “Babs” Siperstein, R.I.P

COMMENTARY: Barbra “Babs” Siperstein, a founding member of Bammer.co‘s Advisory Board, passed away on February 3, 2019, due to cancer....

Feb 8, 20191 min read

On the Rainbow Screen

COMMENTARY: NewFest, NYC’s LGBTQ film festival, is celebrating it's 33rd year and will host a hybrid virtual/in-person week of more than...

Oct 22, 20183 min read

Keeping Our Story Alive

COMMENTARY: A couple of years ago, I was interviewed by Steve Rodrigues, host of “Talk About Gay Sex” (or TAGS), a weekly podcast...

Aug 8, 20181 min read

Another Boy in the Band

COMMENTARY: Capturing Rainbows member Brian Hutchison appeared in "The Boys in the Band", a limited run production that appeared on...

Jul 18, 20187 min read

Don’t Let The Parade (March?) Pass Me By

COMMENTARY: The 2018 NYC Pride Parade got me thinking. I’d heard rumblings from others about the new and shortened parade route. And that...

Jun 25, 20184 min read

Remember the Upstairs Lounge Fire

COMMENTARY: Every year, the NYC LGBTQ Pride parade falls on the anniversary of the fire at the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans in 1973,...

Jun 22, 20181 min read

The Changing Face of Pride

COMMENTARY: When I first arrived in NYC in 1976, the LGBTQ Pride Parade was a half dozen years old. In those days, it was just called the...

Jun 22, 20183 min read

The Pope Announces That Gays Cannot Be Considered ‘Families’

COMMENTARY: in 2018, Pope Francis, speaking to the Forum delle Famiglie, an Italian lay movement representing Catholic families, stated...

Jun 17, 20181 min read

Gay Star News Feature

COMMENTARY: Thanks to Gay Star News (and David Hudson) for running the following story about Mike Balaban and BAMMER (then called...

Jun 7, 20181 min read

The Closing of Chicago’s First Gay Bathhouse

COMMENTARY: One of our members, Alex Kacala, generously contributed the linked story below, which he’d written for an online gay...

Jun 7, 20181 min read