Commentary

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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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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