Gay Mountaineer Outed on TV in Islamic Kyrgyzstan (Part 2)
PODCAST—EPISODE 26: Dastan Kasmamytov, a 30 y.o. Krygyzstani, is an LGBTQ activist and founder of Pink Summits, a mostly queer...
Gay Mountaineer Outed on TV in Islamic Kyrgyzstan (Part 1)
PODCAST—EPISODE 25: Growing up in the central Asian nation of Kyrgystan, Dastan Kasmamytov had no idea he'd ever become an LGBTQ activist....
Stirrings
Each of us can recall our earliest awareness of affectional and then sexual attraction to others. Gay men often have a clearer...
Andy Tobias: Noted LGBTQ author and former Democratic Party Treasurer
PODCAST-- EPISODE 24: Andy Tobias' journey from being the "Best Little Boy in the World" (the title of the best-selling coming out memoir...
Khalleed Ahmed: The Journey of a Gay Somalian Refugee, Part 2
PODCAST—EPISODE 21: Khalleed Ahmed and his family fled civil war in Somalia, spent eight years in Kenyan refugee camps, and finally were...
David Mixner: Longtime Civil Rights, Anti-war, and LGBTQ Rights Activist
PODCAST—EPISODE 20: David Mixner has been an author, political strategist, and civil rights activist for more than a half-century. He was...
Khalleed Ahmed: The Journey of a Gay Somalian Refugee, Part 1
PODCAST—EPISODE 19: Khalleed Ahmed and his family fled civil war in Somalia, spent eight years in Kenyan refugee camps, and finally were...
Jolly Roger!
BAMMER47: I recently was sent an article on the concept of matelotage, a common rite among pirates and some other sailors on the open...
Re-introducing Hook-ups Post-COVID
BAMMER47: How do you expect to recommence hooking up, or at least having sex with someone outside your COVID pod, once conditions permit?...
The One that Got Away?
BAMMER47 (1976): Have ever felt like you missed a golden opportunity for a relationship with the person you were meant to be with? The...
A Typical Manhattan Evening
STORY: 1981—After my intense three-month affair with Bill Masi, a successful male model, had run its course in early 1981, we became...
BAMMER and Me: Joel Tucker, The Backstreet Cafe Shooting
PODCAST—EPISODE 15: Mike interviews Joel Tucker twenty years later: one of six survivors of the horrendous Backstreet Cafe shooting in...
Group Travel, Mykonos - 1990 Style
STORY: 1989 to mid-1990s—My husband, Ron Oyer, had a travel business in the 1990s that catered to gay men, geographically mostly from...
BAMMER and Me: Cliff Morrison: The World's First AIDS Ward (Pt. 2)
PODCAST—EPISODE 14: Cliff Morrison talks about forming the first AIDS ward in San Francisco General Hospital in 1983, as well as, his...
What's the Secret to a Long, Happy Relationship
BAMMER47: In the LGBTQ world, until recently (and depending on where you reside, even now), we lacked the advantage of support from our...
Porn Star Turned Therapist
BAMMER47: When I met Stu Fenton at a Fire Island pool party in August 1999, he didn’t divulge much about his life. But, when we...