Sep 30, 20207 minReflections on BOYS IN THE BANDCOMMENTARY: Brian Hutchison, Charlie Carver, Zachary Quinto, Robin de Jesus, Jim Parsons and Tuc Watkins in Los Angeles, during the...
Jul 2, 20205 minPride 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, 20202 minBlack Lives Matter – Why We MarchCOMMENTARY: As we approach the 2020 LGBTQ Pride commemoration on Sunday, the focus in most locations will be on supporting the Black...
May 20, 20201 minComparing the AIDS Crisis to COVID-19: AIDS Veterans Weigh-inCOMMENTARY: BAMMER hosted its first Zoom webcast “Reflections on the AIDS Crisis in the Age of COVID-19” on Saturday evening, May 9th,...
Feb 11, 20201 minWhat “Ordinary People” Thought About Gays – 200 Years AgoCOMMENTARY: We can change the past by what we choose to remember. Too often historical narrative is controlled by the status quo, those...
Mar 5, 20191 minGay Life in Brooklyn in the 1800s – New Exhibition OpeningCOMMENTARY: 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, 20194 minHolding Our Ground at Mardi GrasCOMMENTARY: Just a week before Mardi Gras in 2019, two of New Orleans' most popular gays bars were getting harassed. According to Bobby...
Feb 14, 20193 minWho Exactly is Our Tribe? The Evolution from Gay to LGBTQCOMMENTARY: 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, 20191 minBarbra “Babs” Siperstein, R.I.PCOMMENTARY: Barbra “Babs” Siperstein, a founding member of Bammer.co‘s Advisory Board, passed away on February 3, 2019, due to cancer....
Oct 23, 20183 minOn the Rainbow ScreenCOMMENTARY: 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, 20181 minKeeping Our Story AliveCOMMENTARY: A couple of years ago, I was interviewed by Steve Rodrigues, host of “Talk About Gay Sex” (or TAGS), a weekly podcast...
Jul 19, 20187 minAnother Boy in the BandCOMMENTARY: Capturing Rainbows member Brian Hutchison appeared in "The Boys in the Band", a limited run production that appeared on...
Jun 26, 20184 minDon’t Let The Parade (March?) Pass Me ByCOMMENTARY: 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, 20181 minRemember the Upstairs Lounge FireCOMMENTARY: 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, 20183 min The Changing Face of PrideCOMMENTARY: 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, 20181 minThe 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, 20181 minGay Star News FeatureCOMMENTARY: Thanks to Gay Star News (and David Hudson) for running the following story about Mike Balaban and BAMMER (then called...
Jun 8, 20181 minThe Closing of Chicago’s First Gay BathhouseCOMMENTARY: One of our members, Alex Kacala, generously contributed the linked story below, which he’d written for an online gay...