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

Feral Boys

STORY: The Feral Boys were a group of a little over a dozen young gay men in San Francisco who formed a sort of fraternity in the early...

Jun 9, 20182 min read

The Lavender Line – Quarter Stories 11

STORY: Sunday was my favorite day to go out. Friday and Saturday shifts were over. I could go out on my own down to the Quarter and hang...

Jun 9, 20184 min read

Unlimited Possibilities

STORY: March 1976: The year was 1975 and I was 23 at the time, living in D.C. I was working in the U.S. Treasury Department for a...

Jun 9, 20182 min read

The Barbarian and the Gay

STORY: 1998-1999—In 1998, my investment bank offered me a position heading up a group in its Tokyo office. I was reluctant to go, but it...

Jun 9, 20185 min read

A Double-Edged Sword

1974—“I’m like you,” the hand-printed and hand-delivered note said. “My name is Jimmy. I live on this street. I am 12. Will you meet me...

Jun 9, 20182 min read

Summer Heat

STORY: 2005—While most people think of Fire Island as the gay summer escape from New York City, there were other places just as special...

Jun 9, 20181 min read

Same Sex Marriage, 1972

STORY: Spring, 1972 – As a third-year American student at the University of Manitoba (UM) in Winnipeg, Canada in the early 1970s, I was...

Jun 9, 20183 min read

A Tribute to Jackie Yordan

STORY: Jackie Yordan was, according to many who knew him, an “incredible sweetheart and an amazing person… He was truly one of the...

Jun 9, 20182 min read

Alabama M4M

STORY: 1999 - I stumbled into this “chat room” innocently enough thinking how cool it was that I could talk to other people in my small...

Jun 9, 20185 min read

Making My Grandmother Cry

STORY: I make my grandmother cry. I come out to her and her fists close and her eyes fill up. She is silent for the longest moment and...

Jun 9, 20185 min read

Thankful for Chosen Family

STORY: Thanksgiving used to be a time when I would go home and see family. This tradition ended 6 years ago when I moved across the...

Jun 9, 20182 min read

Cajun Sweat (Louis Pt. 2 )- Quarter Stories 13

STORY: Louis had vanished. I looked for him, but he kept out of the bars, strange hours, whatever jobs he picked up. Saw Jeff again, who...

Jun 9, 20185 min read

Hotlanta Hotmen

STORY: August 1991/1992 - One of the more enjoyable phenomena to emerge from the 1980s, a challenging decade for gay men, to say the...

Jun 9, 20183 min read

Group Travel, Rio–1990’s style

STORY: 1989 to mid-1990s– My husband, Ron Oyer, had a travel business in the 1990s that catered to gay men, geographically mostly from...

Jun 9, 20181 min read

Coming of Age

STORY: Life was good for a 19-year old kid. I was a Division 1 athlete, attending the same top-tier university as my grandfather and...

Jun 9, 20184 min read

Trip to Toronto

STORY: July 1983—I was seventeen years of age when I first met another gay person. My dad was an executive with a company in Ireland,...

Jun 9, 20186 min read

Me and Michael

STORY: A few pictures of Michael Dowell and me in the early-to-mid-90s. We lost Michael in 1995. This next shot is a self-portrait he...

Jun 8, 20181 min read

Guilty Pleasure

STORY: August 1972 - I chose this photo for a reason. It was taken one month after, at 20 years of age, I’d had my first sexual...

Jun 8, 20182 min read

Fire Island Weekends

STORY: In all my years at the Pines, my housemates were always fellow worker bees who toiled hard for our time at the beach. Our delight...

Jun 8, 20181 min read