A Memory from 1985
STORY: “Hiya Edwood.” “Just a minute.” I hold the kitchen phone up in the air and call to my mother. “Ma, it’s for you.” “Who is it?” I...
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Apr 2, 20183 min read
Dear Ellen
STORY: Ms. Matlock: This week we are going to learn how to write a well-structured letter. Me (to myself): Cool Ms. Matlock: Each of you...
Apr 2, 20181 min read
Sailing the Mediterranean
STORIES: May 1994, the ex, my BFF Doug, and myself jetted off on a 2-week adventure in Turkey. We began in the port of Marmaris, where we...
Apr 2, 20182 min read
No Gay People in Cambodia
STORY: 2006– I’ve had the great privilege to work from age 26 to 70 educating people around the world with the truth on lesbian, gay,...
Mar 27, 20182 min read
Willie
I’ve described how, in 1976, I met Willie Wilson, who introduced me to the passionate joy of infatuation between men. While visiting DC...
Mar 24, 20181 min read
My Birthday Dance
STORY: I grew up in Albany GA, which is nothing like Atlanta. I may not look excited in this picture, but I will never forget this...
Mar 12, 20181 min read
Summer in the Pines 1981
STORY: 1981 – In this photo, I’m with my housemates and my weekend date from Boston (John Shade, with our arms around each other) on the...
Mar 11, 20184 min read
We Are Family
STORY: 1979-2017: My first relationship with another man began when I met Jim at the YMCA in 1979. I was 26, about to leave a job I...
Mar 11, 20182 min read
Hidden Costs
STORY: 1981-2017: If I had to select one photo from my archives which personifies the devastation wrought upon my generation by the AIDS...
Mar 11, 20182 min read
Eighties Envy
STORY: May 1983: From the moment the discovery of a “gay cancer” (GRID, or “gay-related immune deficiency”, later renamed AIDS) was...
Mar 11, 20181 min read
Role Reversal in Rome
STORY: May 1985—Have you ever had a business relationship morph into a romantic one? Or, a friendship turn romantic? What happened when...
Mar 11, 20181 min read
Muscle on the Rocks
STORY: Gay Games III in Vancouver (British Columbia) in August 1990 was a transformative experience for me and many others: it was the...
Mar 11, 20183 min read
(Mine)shafted
STORY: October 1979: Shortly after I returned to Manhattan from my cross-country road trip spent trying to find my “gay self,” Bo, the...
Mar 11, 20181 min read
Tuxedo Rebellion
February 1992 – I went on consecutive RSVP Caribbean winter cruises in 1991 and 1992. The cruise line used to require its mostly male...
Apr 3, 20172 min read
Remembering Luis
STORY: Luis Eduardo Quiros (1948-1986) was invited to a weekend at the Tuna Walk house of Jacques Haran, the chairman of my employer,...
Apr 3, 20171 min read
Terry
STORY: This is Terry, pictured on the left, my first boyfriend. He managed Albert’s Menswear in my hometown in Southern Illinois, where I...
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