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    Gay Mountaineer Outed on TV in Islamic Kyrgyzstan (Part 2)
    • Apr 20
    • 1 min

    Gay Mountaineer Outed on TV in Islamic Kyrgyzstan (Part 2)

    PODCAST—EPISODE 26: Dastan Kasmamytov, a 30 y.o. Krygyzstani, is an LGBTQ activist and founder of Pink Summits, a mostly queer...
    Porn Star Turned Therapist
    • Mar 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    Porn Star Turned Therapist

    BAMMER47: When I met Stu Fenton at a Fire Island pool party in August 1999, he didn’t divulge much about his life. But, when we...
    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...
    The Ins and Outs of Dating
    • Jan 5, 2019
    • 4 min

    The Ins and Outs of Dating

    STORY: August 2012 - September 8, 2013—For a lot of closeted gay men, the Internet, social media, and smartphone apps offer an excellent...
    Just Another Day in Chelsea
    • Dec 18, 2018
    • 1 min

    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,...
    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...
    Mark
    • Aug 1, 2018
    • 10 min

    Mark

    STORY: 2008 - I was living at the Russian River and a good friend, Russ, called me up and said you have to see this astrologer. “He is...
    Marcus
    • Jul 20, 2018
    • 5 min

    Marcus

    STORY: 1989—I met Marcus Lutsky at Uncle Charlie’s Downtown Bar in NYC in the Spring of 1989. It was a Saturday night and I was on the...
    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...
    Summer Heat
    • Jun 10, 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...
    Trip to Toronto
    • Jun 10, 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,...
    Thankful for Chosen Family
    • Jun 10, 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...
    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...
    The Barbarian and the Gay
    • Jun 10, 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...
    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...
    Shot Boy
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Shot Boy

    STORY: 2012-2013: For better or worse, bars are the center of gravity in the gay community. We make our friends, find our lovers, express...
    Hi!
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    Hi!

    STORY: Without a doubt, New York City is a veritable cornucopia of hot men. However, sanity and stability are for sure not qualities that...
    Me and Michael
    • Jun 9, 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...
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