Category: Radical Gay Politics

At first blush when talking about favorite holidays I would have to say Thanksgiving would be mine. I have enjoyed many wonderful Thanksgivings. Two in particular stick out and those were in northern New Mexico at a B&B in the

It was December in 1972 in Urbana, Illinois. A group of us, the exact number escapes me, but at least a half dozen, were living in a small bungalow type house on Main Street.  We were all in various stages

My first few paragraphs of this piece are largely paraphrasing from Judy Grahn’s wonderful tome published in 1984 entitled; Another Mother Tongue along with a dash of Wikipedia. Grahn and most other sources seem to agree that the roots of Halloween date

It was probably in the 5th grade that I started feeling that I was somehow out of sync especially with other boys my age. I was quite precocious in the third and fourth grades and got good enough grades to

Over the years I would say that I have fallen in love or much more accurately fallen into lust on numerous occasions. Or perhaps to put more of a Buddhist spin on it I have fallen into intense wanting or

Like many folks I grew up believing that disease was the result of doing something wrong. God’s punishment for some indiscretion or the other was often the explanation for illness. Ironically of course many things considered sinful actually in certain

The Opera dates back to 17th century Italy. It is most often a dramatic work set to music for singers and instrumentalists. Plural word form is OPUS, which can be defined as any artistic work especially on a grand scale.

For me personally when I think of “Resort” in a gay context my mind soon drifts to those uniquely gay male sex palaces called fondly the “tubs” or simply the “baths”. Bathhouses of course have been around for thousands of

No! this is not a story about the latest intestinal parasites to be raging through the gay bowels of Denver. Rather it’s a short, incomplete look at the emerging body of information (scientific, quasi-scientific and philosophical) lending credence to the

My personal connections with the approach to LGBT people, and specifically gay men, being a distinct cultural minority, a separate people whose time had come, was through Harry Hay and John Burnside. From the mid-1970’s on I was immersed in