Bar Wars – Quarter Stories 16

STORY: Fourth of July on Bourbon Street, hot muggy and so crowded you couldn’t move on the street or in the bar. I squeezed my way into...

Mar 26, 20196 min read

Ben, Minnie, and Ben’s Guardian Angel

STORY: Gananoque, Ontario (2015)—It was my last day in Canada before returning to the United States. Driving south on the Queen Elizabeth...

Mar 21, 20194 min read

Nigeria Gay Life

STORY: Welcome to my world! I’m Nigerian, 33, Christian born and bred in the city of Lagos, where life is comfortable, at least for the...

Mar 4, 20193 min read

My Savior Max

STORY: Istanbul/Berlin, 2008-2019 – I don’t have a fond memory of the first time I had sex with another man. One night in 2008, hornier...

Mar 4, 20195 min read

Soothsayer

STORY: “Ya know, I can see it all. You and that girly little voice…You’re gonna’ grow up to be a faggot.” I was 12, on the verge of 13,...

Feb 9, 20194 min read

“We Rebuke This Spirit of Homosexuality!”

STORY: I had looked into those blue eyes many times before. When he would jump on me to wake me up whilst still in just his briefs,...

Jan 12, 20193 min read

All American and Gay

STORY: 1977—I hated my first job. I was spending long hours in a rigorous bank training program in Manhattan and, besides infreq uent and...

Jan 4, 20194 min read

The Ins and Outs of Dating

STORY: August 2012 - September 8, 2013—For a lot of closeted gay men, the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps offer an excellent...

Jan 4, 20194 min read

Just Another Day in Chelsea

STORY: 2004ish – I was staying in a friend’s apartment on 17th Street off Eighth Avenue in Chelsea, then Manhattan’s gayest neighborhood,...

Dec 17, 20181 min read

Bartending is a Dance – Quarter Stories 10

STORY: At Lafitte’s Bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the bar was made of thick old bayou cypress planks polished by thousands of...

Nov 9, 20183 min read

First Love

STORY: 1978—Werner Seelig and I met in the South of France. He was twenty-one and from Indiana. I was twenty, a hippy from California. We...

Nov 9, 20182 min read

Peacocks – Quarter Stories 9

STORY: 1979 - The crowds were still in full force around the stage for the Bourbon Street Awards and the only space available was under...

Oct 8, 201811 min read

A Circle Of Friends

STORY: 1964: Growing up in the Deep South in the 1950s and 1960s was what they call a character-building experience. For anyone like me,...

Aug 9, 20185 min read

Mark

STORY: 2008 - I was living at the Russian River and a good friend, Russ, called me up and said you have to see this astrologer. “He is...

Jul 31, 201810 min read

Marcus

STORY: 1989—I met Marcus Lutsky at Uncle Charlie’s Downtown Bar in NYC in the Spring of 1989. It was a Saturday night and I was on the...

Jul 19, 20185 min read

My First Trip to Fire Island

STORY: 1980—I started going to Fire Island in the summer of 1980. My first time, I was invited by friends who’d rented a house on the...

Jul 17, 20183 min read

Marking 25 years

STORY: In New York City, in the early 1990s, Gustavo Otto, a beautiful man who’d emigrated there from Chile, became my photographic muse....

Jul 12, 20182 min read

The Bundeswehr Strategy (1988)

STORY: I started my career as a journalist in 1976 as a news reporter, one of a generation of journalists inspired by the investigative...

Jul 11, 20183 min read

The Torch – Quarter Stories 14

STORY: 1982—Max was at work at the point station, his head down deep into the jockey box scooping up ice in the cups taking orders three...

Jun 20, 20185 min read

Feral Boys

STORY: The Feral Boys were a group of a little over a dozen young gay men in San Francisco who formed a sort of fraternity in the early...

Jun 9, 20182 min read