World AIDS Day, 1994
STORY: In 1994, I was wheatpasting posters around New York City late at night (when the police tended to be in doughnut shops, not on the...
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- Apr 3, 2018
- 1 min
Jeanne Moreau
STORY: Early 1980s—I lived in Washington, D.C. and worked on Capitol Hill. In those days, a presentable young gay man who owned his own...
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min
Family
STORY: I’m thinking about the seasons of our lives this morning, as I lie in bed with my husband, Chuck, in our home in Chandler,...
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min
On the Pioneer
STORY: “Pioneer,” an Amtrak train that once ran from Chicago, through Wyoming, to Portland, Oregon. I’ve met and lusted over 100s and...
- Apr 2, 2018
- 13 min
A Memory from 1985
STORY: “Hiya Edwood.” “Just a minute.” I hold the kitchen phone up in the air and call to my mother. “Ma, it’s for you.” “Who is it?” I...
- Apr 2, 2018
- 3 min
Dear Ellen
STORY: Ms. Matlock: This week we are going to learn how to write a well-structured letter. Me (to myself): Cool Ms. Matlock: Each of you...
- Apr 2, 2018
- 1 min
Beauty
COMMUNITY: Many of us have at least one photo that when displayed elicits the response from others, “You used to be hot.” The gay male...
- Apr 2, 2018
- 1 min
Sailing the Mediterranean
STORIES: May 1994, the ex, my BFF Doug, and myself jetted off on a 2-week adventure in Turkey. We began in the port of Marmaris, where we...
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
No Gay People in Cambodia
STORY: 2006– I’ve had the great privilege to work from age 26 to 70 educating people around the world with the truth on lesbian, gay,...
- Mar 27, 2018
- 2 min
Willie
I’ve described how, in 1976, I met Willie Wilson, who introduced me to the passionate joy of infatuation between men. While visiting DC...
- Mar 24, 2018
- 1 min
My Birthday Dance
STORY: I grew up in Albany GA, which is nothing like Atlanta. I may not look excited in this picture, but I will never forget this...
- Mar 12, 2018
- 1 min
Summer in the Pines 1981
STORY: 1981 – In this photo, I’m with my housemates and my weekend date from Boston (John Shade, with our arms around each other) on the...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 4 min
We Are Family
STORY: 1979-2017: My first relationship with another man began when I met Jim at the YMCA in 1979. I was 26, about to leave a job I...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 2 min
Hidden Costs
STORY: 1981-2017: If I had to select one photo from my archives which personifies the devastation wrought upon my generation by the AIDS...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 2 min
Eighties Envy
STORY: May 1983: From the moment the discovery of a “gay cancer” (GRID, or “gay-related immune deficiency”, later renamed AIDS) was...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 1 min
Role Reversal in Rome
STORY: May 1985—Have you ever had a business relationship morph into a romantic one? Or, a friendship turn romantic? What happened when...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 1 min
Muscle on the Rocks
STORY: Gay Games III in Vancouver (British Columbia) in August 1990 was a transformative experience for me and many others: it was the...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 3 min
(Mine)shafted
STORY: October 1979: Shortly after I returned to Manhattan from my cross-country road trip spent trying to find my “gay self,” Bo, the...
- Mar 11, 2018
- 1 min
Tuxedo Rebellion
February 1992 – I went on consecutive RSVP Caribbean winter cruises in 1991 and 1992. The cruise line used to require its mostly male...
- Apr 3, 2017
- 2 min
Remembering Luis
STORY: Luis Eduardo Quiros (1948-1986) was invited to a weekend at the Tuna Walk house of Jacques Haran, the chairman of my employer,...
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