Kevin Jennings: LGBTQ Activist, Author, and Historian
PODCAST— EPISODE 23: Kevin Jennings grew up in a southern trailer park, son of a homophobic itinerant Baptist preacher, was the first in...
- Aug 8
- 1 min
Jim Fouratt: From Civil Rights to Gay Rights
PODCAST— EPISODE 22: Jim F ouratt has been in the right place at the right time: he co-founded the leading anti-Vietnam war group in the...
- Jul 14
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 24
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 16
- 1 min
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...
- Jun 2
- 1 min
Paula Harrowing: British queer activist
PODCAST—EPISODE 18: Paula Harrowing, a 49 y.o. British queer activist describes what it was like coming out into London's vibrant and...
- May 9
- 1 min
Michela Griffo: A Pioneer in Women's and LGBTQ Rights Movement, Pt. 2
PODCAST—EPISODE 17: Michela Griffo talks about the battle for LGBTQ civil rights from the first NYC Pride March in 1970 onward, the...
- Apr 26
- 1 min
Michela Griffo: A Pioneer in Women's and LGBTQ Rights Movement, Pt. 1
PODCAST—EPISODE 17: Mike talks with Michela Griffo about her life as an early and active member of the National Organization for Women in...
- Apr 26
- 5 min
The Gay Bachelor
COMMUNITY: In my humble opinion, Colton Underwood, the TV bachelor who recently came out as gay, is no role model for gay youth...
- Apr 15
- 2 min
I Feel Ya
STORY: The evening was warm and moonless. The only light was the odd firefly bobbing about as we three slipped into the cool waters of...
- Apr 12
- 1 min
Dave Kopay: First NFL Player to Come Out of the Closet
PODCAST—EPISODE 16: Mike talks with old friend, Dave Kopay, who in 1975, was the first prominent athlete to come out and the first male...
- Apr 6
- 2 min
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...
- Apr 6
- 2 min
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?...
- Apr 6
- 2 min
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...
- Apr 3
- 2 min
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...
- Apr 2
- 1 min
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...
- Apr 2
- 1 min
A Story of the Transgender in Traditional Hawaiian Culture
COMMUNITY: Very rarely do we find stories that provide insight into the roles of non-binary people in traditional societies. The mahu,...
- Mar 30
- 1 min
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...
- Mar 26
- 1 min
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...
- Mar 18
- 1 min
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...