Author: geohrinj

It has been some months at least since I have quoted Grateful Dead lyrics in one of my written pieces here so I think it’s about time. A line from one of their classic songs, Uncle John’s Band – a

So since I have missed the past two sessions and I have had thoughts on the three most recent topics I am going to write a single piece addressing all three: “Believe it or not this really happened to me…”,

I thought for a short while I might just copout on this one and simply write a long string of single words to complete the phrase. The first that came to mind was: Being Gay is fabulous. That of course is true

I really was never much of a clothes person. Growing up on a farm did not lend itself to high fashion and certainly not in rural Indiana in the 1950’s. My family could certainly be considered lower middle class even

Harry Hay is best known for founding the Mattachine Society in 1950 an organization certainly seminal as far as the modern gay movement is concerned. He is also fairly well known for helping create the Radical Fairies in an attempt

A secondary definition of “drifting” is to be driven into heaps by the wind. This particular definition reminds me of one of my favorite childhood experiences when growing up in Northern Indiana in what is called the Snow Belt. That

I was first introduced to John Burnside in the 1978 classic queer film The Word is Out. John was Harry Hay’s loving companion from 1962 until Harry’s death in 2002 with John to follow him in death in 2008. The

The above quote is one lifted yesterday from the Facebook page of an old friend of mine. Someone I would describe as a commie, pinko faggot with strong pacifist, socialist and Wiccan leanings, definitely my kind of queer. A description

When looking at the definition of the word “wisdom” -‘having or showing experience, knowledge and good judgment’ – I have to honestly say it seems not much of that applies to me at age 65. Perhaps real wisdom will come

Reframing reality seems to be the heart and soul of being queer. In fact we could as easily substitute “I am reframing reality” for “I am coming out”. If we don’t create our own queer reality we often live very