Author: geohrinj

The quote [ on the left ] referenced from the online entity The Slant is from an interview done recently with Martin Duberman. Duberman for those perhaps unfamiliar with the name is a queer, radical activist with a very long and impressive academic background

A good thing about packing up one’s stuff and moving it across country repeatedly is that you have the opportunity to go through things and the result is on occasional an interesting surprise. It is also a great way to

In thinking about this word I realized that it is something that I have many times been accused of when acting my most “queenly” and uninhibited. I do though think that exaggeration may be an innate queer quality that has

In this presentation I hope to facilitate a discussion of how the rich palette of gay male sexual expression across the lifespan can perhaps be incorporated into an integral, holistic health movement. From the start I would like us to

I grew up in an all white Irish farming community and went to Catholic schools where African Americans, or any people of color for that matter, were as rare as hen’s teeth. FYI, hens have no teeth. I did though

So having now been a San Francisco resident for several months there have been a few observations I have made that make me realize I am no longer in Denver. This is a town I have visited many times over

My own personal political radicalization occurred around the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war efforts of the late 1960’s in particular. I would like to think in hindsight that it was the profound immorality of the Vietnam conflict alone that was

This is one topic that I drew blanks on for the first few attempts at putting something to paper. The James Broughton poem “Nipples and Cocks” kept running through my head for some reason. Fingers and toes – nipples and

The description “drama queen” has been and certainly continues to be one used most commonly by gay men to on occasion or perhaps quite frequently describe one another. If we as gay men have not actually been called a drama

I really believe that we Queers are much more than social constructions. We are more than just a jumble of responses to societies hatred and oppression of us. I am now and have been for several decades quite convinced that