The Lavender Line – Quarter Stories 11
STORY: Sunday was my favorite day to go out. Friday and Saturday shifts were over. I could go out on my own down to the Quarter and hang...
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- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min
Unlimited Possibilities
STORY: March 1976: The year was 1975 and I was 23 at the time, living in D.C. I was working in the U.S. Treasury Department for a...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 5 min
The Barbarian and the Gay
STORY: 1998-1999—In 1998, my investment bank offered me a position heading up a group in its Tokyo office. I was reluctant to go, but it...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min
A Double-Edged Sword
1974—“I’m like you,” the hand-printed and hand-delivered note said. “My name is Jimmy. I live on this street. I am 12. Will you meet me...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 1 min
Summer Heat
STORY: 2005—While most people think of Fire Island as the gay summer escape from New York City, there were other places just as special...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 3 min
Same Sex Marriage, 1972
STORY: Spring, 1972 – As a third-year American student at the University of Manitoba (UM) in Winnipeg, Canada in the early 1970s, I was...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min
A Tribute to Jackie Yordan
STORY: Jackie Yordan was, according to many who knew him, an “incredible sweetheart and an amazing person… He was truly one of the...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 5 min
Alabama M4M
STORY: 1999 - I stumbled into this “chat room” innocently enough thinking how cool it was that I could talk to other people in my small...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 5 min
Making My Grandmother Cry
STORY: I make my grandmother cry. I come out to her and her fists close and her eyes fill up. She is silent for the longest moment and...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 2 min
Thankful for Chosen Family
STORY: Thanksgiving used to be a time when I would go home and see family. This tradition ended 6 years ago when I moved across the...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 5 min
Cajun Sweat (Louis Pt. 2 )- Quarter Stories 13
STORY: Louis had vanished. I looked for him, but he kept out of the bars, strange hours, whatever jobs he picked up. Saw Jeff again, who...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 3 min
Hotlanta Hotmen
STORY: August 1991/1992 - One of the more enjoyable phenomena to emerge from the 1980s, a challenging decade for gay men, to say the...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 1 min
Group Travel, Rio–1990’s style
STORY: 1989 to mid-1990s– My husband, Ron Oyer, had a travel business in the 1990s that catered to gay men, geographically mostly from...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 4 min
Coming of Age
STORY: Life was good for a 19-year old kid. I was a Division 1 athlete, attending the same top-tier university as my grandfather and...
- Jun 9, 2018
- 6 min
Trip to Toronto
STORY: July 1983—I was seventeen years of age when I first met another gay person. My dad was an executive with a company in Ireland,...
- Jun 8, 2018
- 1 min
Me and Michael
STORY: A few pictures of Michael Dowell and me in the early-to-mid-90s. We lost Michael in 1995. This next shot is a self-portrait he...
- Jun 8, 2018
- 2 min
Guilty Pleasure
STORY: August 1972 - I chose this photo for a reason. It was taken one month after, at 20 years of age, I’d had my first sexual...
- Jun 8, 2018
- 1 min
Fire Island Weekends
STORY: In all my years at the Pines, my housemates were always fellow worker bees who toiled hard for our time at the beach. Our delight...
- Jun 8, 2018
- 1 min
No Queens
STORY: My first boyfriend, Jim Fragale, was turning 40 and I was 27. It was 1979. He’d moved to NYC from West Virginia in 1963 at 24....
- Jun 8, 2018
- 1 min
At the Gay Games IV
STORY: In June 1994, the world gathered in New York for Gay Games IV as well as for a massive march outside the United Nations marking...
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