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May 3, 20187 min read
Bartender Debut – Quarter Stories 4
STORY: Mardi Gras, 1979: Clyde, Al and I began walking up to Lafitte’s. Clyde started talking about Louie Hartfield and his lover Steve,...
May 1, 20186 min read
Heading to New Orleans – Quarter Stories 2
1978: The stewardess gently told us to fasten our seatbelts, we were now descending into New Orleans. I thought it was part of a dream. I...
Apr 30, 20181 min read
Gay Pride 1994
STORY: NYC Gay Pride, 1994 —That’s me on Fifth Avenue in the almost-Daisy-Dukes, tubes socks and boots (with Little Tom who now lives in...
Apr 29, 20183 min read
Introduction–Quarter Stories 1
STORY: (Late 1970s-1980s): In New Orleans, Bourbon Street runs for thirteen narrow blocks, roughly north to south, a straight line,...
Apr 24, 20181 min read
Meeting Gary
STORY: Mykonos, 1985–In early September 1985, I spent a week on vacation in Mykonos. Early in the week, I spied a handsome, muscular,...
Apr 4, 20182 min read
The Queen of Disco
STORY: June 1978–The cracks in my closet appeared slowly. By 1978, I was out with my family and my college fraternity brothers, but I had...
Apr 3, 20181 min read
World AIDS Day, 1994
STORY: In 1994, I was wheatpasting posters around New York City late at night (when the police tended to be in doughnut shops, not on the...
Apr 3, 20181 min read
Jeanne Moreau
STORY: Early 1980s—I lived in Washington, D.C. and worked on Capitol Hill. In those days, a presentable young gay man who owned his own...
Apr 3, 20182 min read
On the Pioneer
STORY: “Pioneer,” an Amtrak train that once ran from Chicago, through Wyoming, to Portland, Oregon. I’ve met and lusted over 100s and...
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, 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, 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,...
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