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    Reflections on BOYS IN THE BAND
    • Sep 30, 2020
    • 7 min

    Reflections on BOYS IN THE BAND

    COMMENTARY: Brian Hutchison, Charlie Carver, Zachary Quinto, Robin de Jesus, Jim Parsons and Tuc Watkins in Los Angeles, during the...
    Pride and Protest: LGBTQ Pride Meets Black Lives Matter (June 28, 2020)
    • Jul 2, 2020
    • 5 min

    Pride and Protest: LGBTQ Pride Meets Black Lives Matter (June 28, 2020)

    COMMENTARY: The Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality took place this past weekend and was a spirited,...
    Black Lives Matter – Why We March
    • Jul 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Black Lives Matter – Why We March

    COMMENTARY: As we approach the 2020 LGBTQ Pride commemoration on Sunday, the focus in most locations will be on supporting the Black...
    Comparing the AIDS Crisis to COVID-19: AIDS Veterans Weigh-in
    • May 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Comparing the AIDS Crisis to COVID-19: AIDS Veterans Weigh-in

    COMMENTARY: BAMMER hosted its first Zoom webcast “Reflections on the AIDS Crisis in the Age of COVID-19” on Saturday evening, May 9th,...
    What “Ordinary People” Thought About Gays – 200 Years Ago
    • Feb 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    What “Ordinary People” Thought About Gays – 200 Years Ago

    COMMENTARY: We can change the past by what we choose to remember. Too often historical narrative is controlled by the status quo, those...
    Gay Life in Brooklyn in the 1800s – New Exhibition Opening
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    Gay Life in Brooklyn in the 1800s – New Exhibition Opening

    COMMENTARY: When someone says gay community in NYC we think of Greenwich Village in the 70s and Chelsea in the 90s, but Brooklyn in the...
    Holding Our Ground at Mardi Gras
    • Mar 4, 2019
    • 4 min

    Holding Our Ground at Mardi Gras

    COMMENTARY: Just a week before Mardi Gras in 2019, two of New Orleans' most popular gays bars were getting harassed. According to Bobby...
    Who Exactly is Our Tribe? The Evolution from Gay to LGBTQ
    • Feb 14, 2019
    • 3 min

    Who Exactly is Our Tribe? The Evolution from Gay to LGBTQ

    COMMENTARY: When I was coming out in the late ‘70s, I was part of a large community that included men of different ages, races,...
    Barbra “Babs” Siperstein, R.I.P
    • Feb 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    Barbra “Babs” Siperstein, R.I.P

    COMMENTARY: Barbra “Babs” Siperstein, a founding member of Bammer.co‘s Advisory Board, passed away on February 3, 2019, due to cancer....
    On the Rainbow Screen
    • Oct 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    On the Rainbow Screen

    COMMENTARY: NewFest, NYC’s LGBTQ film festival, is celebrating it's 33rd year and will host a hybrid virtual/in-person week of more than...
    Keeping Our Story Alive
    • Aug 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    Keeping Our Story Alive

    COMMENTARY: A couple of years ago, I was interviewed by Steve Rodrigues, host of “Talk About Gay Sex” (or TAGS), a weekly podcast...
    Another Boy in the Band
    • Jul 19, 2018
    • 7 min

    Another Boy in the Band

    COMMENTARY: Capturing Rainbows member Brian Hutchison appeared in "The Boys in the Band", a limited run production that appeared on...
    Don’t Let The Parade (March?) Pass Me By
    • Jun 26, 2018
    • 4 min

    Don’t Let The Parade (March?) Pass Me By

    COMMENTARY: The 2018 NYC Pride Parade got me thinking. I’d heard rumblings from others about the new and shortened parade route. And that...
    Remember the Upstairs Lounge Fire
    • Jun 23, 2018
    • 1 min

    Remember the Upstairs Lounge Fire

    COMMENTARY: Every year, the NYC LGBTQ Pride parade falls on the anniversary of the fire at the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans in 1973,...
     The Changing Face of Pride
    • Jun 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Changing Face of Pride

    COMMENTARY: When I first arrived in NYC in 1976, the LGBTQ Pride Parade was a half dozen years old. In those days, it was just called the...
    The Pope Announces That Gays Cannot Be Considered ‘Families’
    • Jun 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Pope Announces That Gays Cannot Be Considered ‘Families’

    COMMENTARY: in 2018, Pope Francis, speaking to the Forum delle Famiglie, an Italian lay movement representing Catholic families, stated...
    Gay Star News Feature
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    Gay Star News Feature

    COMMENTARY: Thanks to Gay Star News (and David Hudson) for running the following story about Mike Balaban and BAMMER (then called...
    The Closing of Chicago’s First Gay Bathhouse
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Closing of Chicago’s First Gay Bathhouse

    COMMENTARY: One of our members, Alex Kacala, generously contributed the linked story below, which he’d written for an online gay...

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