“We Rebuke This Spirit of Homosexuality!”
STORY: I had looked into those blue eyes many times before. When he would jump on me to wake me up whilst still in just his briefs,...
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Jan 4, 20194 min read
All American and Gay
STORY: 1977—I hated my first job. I was spending long hours in a rigorous bank training program in Manhattan and, besides infreq uent and...
Jan 4, 20194 min read
The Ins and Outs of Dating
STORY: August 2012 - September 8, 2013—For a lot of closeted gay men, the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps offer an excellent...
Dec 17, 20181 min read
Just Another Day in Chelsea
STORY: 2004ish – I was staying in a friend’s apartment on 17th Street off Eighth Avenue in Chelsea, then Manhattan’s gayest neighborhood,...
Nov 9, 20183 min read
Bartending is a Dance – Quarter Stories 10
STORY: At Lafitte’s Bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the bar was made of thick old bayou cypress planks polished by thousands of...
Nov 9, 20182 min read
First Love
STORY: 1978—Werner Seelig and I met in the South of France. He was twenty-one and from Indiana. I was twenty, a hippy from California. We...
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...
Oct 8, 201811 min read
Peacocks – Quarter Stories 9
STORY: 1979 - The crowds were still in full force around the stage for the Bourbon Street Awards and the only space available was under...
Aug 9, 20185 min read
A Circle Of Friends
STORY: 1964: Growing up in the Deep South in the 1950s and 1960s was what they call a character-building experience. For anyone like me,...
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 31, 201810 min read
Mark
STORY: 2008 - I was living at the Russian River and a good friend, Russ, called me up and said you have to see this astrologer. “He is...
Jul 19, 20185 min read
Marcus
STORY: 1989—I met Marcus Lutsky at Uncle Charlie’s Downtown Bar in NYC in the Spring of 1989. It was a Saturday night and I was on the...
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...
Jul 17, 20183 min read
My First Trip to Fire Island
STORY: 1980—I started going to Fire Island in the summer of 1980. My first time, I was invited by friends who’d rented a house on the...
Jul 12, 20182 min read
Marking 25 years
STORY: In New York City, in the early 1990s, Gustavo Otto, a beautiful man who’d emigrated there from Chile, became my photographic muse....
Jul 11, 20183 min read
The Bundeswehr Strategy (1988)
STORY: I started my career as a journalist in 1976 as a news reporter, one of a generation of journalists inspired by the investigative...
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 20, 20185 min read
The Torch – Quarter Stories 14
STORY: 1982—Max was at work at the point station, his head down deep into the jockey box scooping up ice in the cups taking orders three...
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