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 1, 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 1, 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 19, 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 10, 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 4, 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 3, 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 13, 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 8, 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 22, 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 8, 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 18, 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 25, 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 22, 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 22, 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 17, 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 7, 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 7, 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...