Inside my new memoir: Drama Club In 1982, a 50s theme school dance was embraced whole heartedly by our crew of high school drama kids. Always looking for ways to push the envelope, we did a couple of things off script. First, Michael Marriott wore a dress. HE WORE A DRESS! I was shocked and confused that his offering was received with sustained enthusiasm. It was triumph over Idaho masculine ideals that taught me [...]
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Drama Club: He loved and protected me
onMy stepmom called me from Idaho to give me the news of R.L.'s death from a brain tumor. She didn't know who R.L. was, or why his mom had called her and asked her to share one of R.L's dying wishes with me, but my mom obliged the request. Standing next to the phone (they were all land [...]
Gay Political Empathy
onTRIBE Thoughts Once the room is organized and a sign is posted on the sliding glass entry door inviting men to “come in”, the room we meet in for the monthly TRIBE Gay Men’s Discussion Group always feels to me like sacred space. We come in from the common world, a culture that generally is [...]
What kind of world is this?
onThis is one of those days we are going to be talking about years, or even decades, from now – the time when it was against the law for two men or two women to get married. Maybe the weirdest part of today is how commonplace everything around us is while something so extraordinary is [...]
Gay Men vs. Gay Men
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This article is indeed, food for thought. Gay Men vs. Gay Men It makes me sad because I believe that most of it is true. As gay men, we do attack each other with alarming frequency and vitriol. I try to remember that the queen and/or gay bully spewing the venom is simply mirroring the world [...]
Fantasy Fire Ritual: Supporting The Diverse In Diversity
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An essay written for Letherati The One True Banner Deep in the North American state of California, in the high altitudes of the Sierra Forest, the Leather Council convenes under a star lit sky and the glow of a roaring bon fire. Upon a giant granite rock, under the One True Banner, the First and [...]
