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    What I Learned
    • Dec 21, 2020
    • 6 min

    What I Learned

    STORY: It was one of those days I will never forget. It was the Spring of 1999, probably in late March, just after my birthday. It was on...
    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...
    From My Past: Obsession—John Duka, The Passion of Fashion
    • Feb 1, 2020
    • 3 min

    From My Past: Obsession—John Duka, The Passion of Fashion

    STORY: “One of the requisite skills for sitting at a fashion show is being able to roll your eyes, talk to the person behind you, chew...
    Seven Revelations of Gay Spirituality
    • Jan 14, 2020
    • 4 min

    Seven Revelations of Gay Spirituality

    COMMUNITY: I am starting to see an amazing, life-changing movement surfacing through what is now called the “LGBTQ movement,” although...
    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: Author David Nimmons Discusses Gay Community
    • Jul 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    BAMMER and Me: Author David Nimmons Discusses Gay Community

    PODCAST—EPISODE 3: Mike interviews Dave Nimmons on gay male bonding and how gay men can find meaningful ways to connect and create...
    On Trial
    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    On Trial

    STORY: It was like being naked and shot at by a firing squad. The year is 2010 and I am in court, battling for the custody of my...
    Gay Life in Brooklyn in the 1800s – New Exhibition Opening
    • Mar 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    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...
    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,...
    On the Rainbow Screen
    • Oct 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    On the Rainbow Screen

    COMMENTARY: NewFest, NYC’s LGBTQ film festival, is celebrating it's 33rd year and will host a hybrid virtual/in-person week of more than...
    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...
    Don’t Let The Parade (March?) Pass Me By
    • Jun 26, 2018
    • 4 min

    Don’t Let The Parade (March?) Pass Me By

    COMMENTARY: The 2018 NYC Pride Parade got me thinking. I’d heard rumblings from others about the new and shortened parade route. And that...
     The Changing Face of Pride
    • Jun 23, 2018
    • 3 min

    The Changing Face of Pride

    COMMENTARY: When I first arrived in NYC in 1976, the LGBTQ Pride Parade was a half dozen years old. In those days, it was just called the...
    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...
    At the Gay Games IV
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    At the Gay Games IV

    STORY: In June 1994, the world gathered in New York for Gay Games IV as well as for a massive march outside the United Nations marking...
    No Queens
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    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....
    Greek Fraternity or Gay Fraternity?
    • Jun 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    Greek Fraternity or Gay Fraternity?

    STORY: June 25, 1978: In December 2017, I reconnected with a younger fraternity brother I hadn’t seen since Gay Pride in NYC 39 years...
    The Closing of Chicago’s First Gay Bathhouse
    • Jun 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Closing of Chicago’s First Gay Bathhouse

    COMMENTARY: One of our members, Alex Kacala, generously contributed the linked story below, which he’d written for an online gay...
    Richard
    • May 25, 2018
    • 1 min

    Richard

    STORY: Richie and I met as teenagers in the gay clubs in Boston and both moved to NYC in 1979. We used to go to Studio 54 and Mudd Club...
    Gayborhoods – Sutton Place
    • May 25, 2018
    • 4 min

    Gayborhoods – Sutton Place

    STORY: In the early 1980s, Sutton Place on Manhattan’s East 50s and 60s were very gay, especially after work when the bars would fill...
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