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,...
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Jun 9, 20185 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20181 min read
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 8, 20181 min read
Group Travel, Rio—1990s 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...
May 7, 20181 min read
Group Travel, Puerto Vallarta–1990s style
1989 to mid-1990s –My husband, Ron Oyer, had a travel business in the 1990s that catered to gay men, geographically mostly from...
Mar 11, 20181 min read
Muscle on the Rocks
STORY: Gay Games III in Vancouver (British Columbia) in August 1990 was a transformative experience for me and many others: it was the...
Mar 11, 20181 min read
Tuxedo Rebellion
February 1992 – I went on consecutive RSVP Caribbean winter cruises in 1991 and 1992. The cruise line used to require its mostly male...
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