Category: SAGE Story Telling Group

“With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively…for the full first-class citizenship of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.” Harry Hay 1950 In writing those words

The two words “Sunday Afternoon” almost immediately conjured up for me the Young Rascals tune Groovin from the summer of 1967 with the iconic line that is really imprinted on my mind: Groovin on a Sunday Afternoon”. Though I readily

Last week on Monday the 17th of September I was marking the 23rd anniversary of my partner David Woodyard’s death from complications related to AIDS. Earlier that day I got word through Facebook that a dear friend of 40 years

If I honestly look at my life currently and the topic for this week I’ve got nothing! Perhaps this is due in part to the ease of access to the volumes of free Internet porn full of fantasy on demand

It is probably always good to have a Plan B at the ready since so many things can turn on a dime and go south in life.  Most likely due to my 42 years in health care I immediately thought

“The earth is 4.6 billion years old. Lets scale that to 46 years. We have been here 4 hours. Our Industrial Revolution began one minute ago. In that time (that would be one minute mind you) we have destroyed 50%

I am sure I can be heard to say often in a loud whiny voice when confronted with having ‘to deal with it” – “oh, but do I have too”. There is so much it seems to deal with these

I think it can be said with certainty that “eye of the storm” could easily be a metaphor for impending climate catastrophe. Actually in many ways we are already out of the relatively calm eye of the storm and into

The quick answer here is NOPE! It would I imagine involve much too much self-doubt and introspection to answer any other way after over 50 years of quite dedicated queerdom. To be very honest this is not something I have

Lordy, where does one start with this topic?  At first blush I would say that Catholicism was certainly an inhibiting factor when it comes to my gayness until the age of about 16. Then it became, or at least the