Portrait of a Gay Adolescent
STORY: I’ve just come in from coffee at my downtown spot, the Zoot Cafe—downtown being all of two blocks long in the quintessential...
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Dec 4, 20191 min read
BAMMER and Me: Cliff Morrison, The First AIDS Ward (Part 1)
PODCAST—EPISODE 10: Cliff Morrison arrived in San Francisco as a nurse in the late 1970s, as AIDS was about to erupt. In 1983, while...
Jun 9, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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 8, 20182 min read
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, 20181 min read
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....
Apr 4, 20182 min read
The Queen of Disco
STORY: June 1978–The cracks in my closet appeared slowly. By 1978, I was out with my family and my college fraternity brothers, but I had...
Apr 4, 20186 min read
My David Kopay Story
STORY: I was raised in the arch-conservative Florida panhandle near the Alabama border in the late 1950s and 1960s. In those days, and...
Mar 27, 20182 min read
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 11, 20184 min read
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...
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