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...
top of page
Jul 1, 20205 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, 20202 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...
May 19, 20201 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,...
Feb 10, 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...
Mar 4, 20191 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 3, 20194 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...
Feb 13, 20193 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 8, 20191 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....
Oct 22, 20183 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...
Aug 8, 20181 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...
Jul 18, 20187 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...
Jun 25, 20184 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 22, 20181 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, 20183 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 17, 20181 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 7, 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...
bottom of page