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    Boston After Dark in 1975: My First Time
    • Mar 14, 2021
    • 3 min

    Boston After Dark in 1975: My First Time

    BAMMER47: The first time I had sex with a guy happened after, with much trepidation, I answered a personal ad in the After Dark section...
    The History of Organized Male Nude Swimming in the U.S.
    • Mar 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    The History of Organized Male Nude Swimming in the U.S.

    BAMMER47: Did you know that, until the 1960s, it was a widespread requirement that boys who swam in segregated groups in public school...
    Bartending at Studio
    • Oct 5, 2020
    • 5 min

    Bartending at Studio

    STORY: It was late evening, as just about everything was at Studio 54. I can’t remember who got me the interview, somebody I met in...
    Speedy and Bam
    • Sep 3, 2020
    • 5 min

    Speedy and Bam

    STORY: When I was in graduate school in Boston in the mid-1970s, my attraction to other guys was proving intractable and I feared it...
    First Times
    • Jul 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    First Times

    STORY: I began having sex on a regular basis when I was really young. In fact, the first time it happened, I was only eleven. The school...
    BAMMER and Me: Life in NYC Avant Garde Theatre Scene and Stonewall
    • Oct 31, 2019
    • 1 min

    BAMMER and Me: Life in NYC Avant Garde Theatre Scene and Stonewall

    PODCAST—EPISODE 8: Mike talks with Frank Carucci, a life-long New Yorker, about working in the NYC avant-garde theatre scene, the...
    BAMMER and Me: Edward Field, Gay Life in 1950s' NYC,  (Part 3)
    • Sep 30, 2019
    • 1 min

    BAMMER and Me: Edward Field, Gay Life in 1950s' NYC, (Part 3)

    PODCAST—EPISODE 7: Ninety-five-year-old renowned poet Edward Field shares stories about gay life in NYC amid the social change of the...
    Bar Wars – Quarter Stories 16
    • Mar 27, 2019
    • 6 min

    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...
    If You’re From Baton Rouge—Quarter Stories 15
    • Feb 12, 2019
    • 12 min

    If You’re From Baton Rouge—Quarter Stories 15

    STORY: Stories about my adventures bartending in New Orleans in the late ’70s and early ’80s. To read them all, click #quarterstories....
    All American and Gay
    • Jan 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    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...
    Bartending is a Dance – Quarter Stories 10
    • Nov 10, 2018
    • 3 min

    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...
    First Love
    • Nov 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    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...
    Peacocks – Quarter Stories 9
    • Oct 9, 2018
    • 11 min

    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...
    The Torch – Quarter Stories 14
    • Jun 21, 2018
    • 5 min

    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...
    A Double-Edged Sword
    • Jun 10, 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...
    Cajun Sweat (Louis Pt. 2 )- Quarter Stories 13
    • Jun 10, 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...
    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...
    The Lavender Line – Quarter Stories 11
    • Jun 10, 2018
    • 4 min

    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...
    The First Happy Gay Film
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    The First Happy Gay Film

    STORY: 1974—We’ve just bought tickets to see “Love Simon,” the new, gay coming of age film that we expect to make us happy. The first...
    In Search of (Gay) America
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    In Search of (Gay) America

    STORY: In 1979 and with no gay life to speak of, I scrimped to save a few thousand dollars, negotiated my departure from my firm, sublet...
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