Dec 21, 20191 min read

BAMMER and Me: The Phluid Project and Gender-free Fashion

PODCAST—EPISODE 11: Rob Smith, the founder of The Phluid Project, talks about his journey from being a successful fashion executive to...

Dec 4, 20191 min read

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...

Jun 27, 20191 min read

BAMMER and ME: Eric Sawyer and the Queer Liberation March

PODCAST—EPISODE 2: Mike talks with LGBT Activist Eric Sawyer about the Queer Liberation March on Sunday, June 30, 2019, which ran three...

Mar 4, 20191 min read

Gay Life in Brooklyn in the 1800s – New Exhibition Opening

COMMENTARY: When someone says gay community in NYC we think of Greenwich Village in the 70s and Chelsea in the 90s, but Brooklyn in the...

Mar 11, 20182 min read

Eighties Envy

STORY: May 1983: From the moment the discovery of a “gay cancer” (GRID, or “gay-related immune deficiency”, later renamed AIDS) was...