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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...
Apr 19, 20221 min read
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...
Mar 14, 20212 min read
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...
Mar 26, 20196 min read
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...
Jan 4, 20194 min read
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,...
Dec 17, 20181 min read
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...
Nov 9, 20182 min read
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...
Oct 8, 201811 min read
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...
Jul 31, 201810 min read
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...
Jul 19, 20185 min read
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...
Jun 9, 20184 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, 20182 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, 20185 min read
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...
Jun 9, 20182 min read
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...
Jun 9, 20181 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 9, 20183 min read
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...
Jun 9, 20182 min read
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,...
Jun 9, 20186 min read
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...
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....
Jun 8, 20181 min read
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...
Jun 8, 20182 min read
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