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    Portrait of a Gay Adolescent
    • Jul 12, 2020
    • 3 min

    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...
    BAMMER and Me: Cliff Morrison, The First AIDS Ward (Part 1)
    • Dec 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    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...
    Unlimited Possibilities
    • Jun 10, 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...
    Same Sex Marriage, 1972
    • Jun 10, 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...
    No Queens
    • Jun 9, 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....
    Guilty Pleasure
    • Jun 9, 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...
    The Queen of Disco
    • Apr 5, 2018
    • 2 min

    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...
    My David Kopay Story
    • Apr 5, 2018
    • 6 min

    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...
    Willie
    • Mar 28, 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...
    We Are Family
    • Mar 12, 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...

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