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I realize that I am a difficult person to buy presents for – I have a quirky sense of humor that is hard to define and understand. The above is a present that one person got right: my baking is gay tea-towel. It’s utterly ridiculous, yet perfect. Rather than actually using it, I’ve hung […] This is one of my prized pornographic novels – “A Perfect Pair” by Sebastian Lamb. I bought it in Portland, Oregon, at Counter Media, which, sadly, no longer exists. Counter Media was located quite close to Powell’s (still exists) and carried a wonderful variety of progress/queer/strange/new/used books. The story in this novel is about […] Back in December, I went to New York City for Christmas, meeting a friend there, seeing some shows, a concert, the city, and whatever else one does whilst one is in The City. Along the way I stopped by the Bluestockings Bookstore, Cafe & Activist Center (there’s a mouthful) – which is a liberal, […] This piece of art could sit in two places – my bedroom or my kitchen. I chose my kitchen. This was a wonderful present from a dear friend, an amazing piece of fabric art capturing both my love of coffee (well in the past; I quit drinking coffee in November 2018 – save for […] This is a first day cover of a stamp honoring Alan Turing, cancelled at the Bletchley Park Post Office. This is on my mostly gay wall of art in my bedroom. Strangely, I do not remember exactly how I acquired it, but it was likely shortly after issue in 2012, which was his centenary […] This past weekend was CSD Berlin – and I went to the parade, lasting for about 2.5 hours of it – some 40 floats out of the 70+ in the parade. To say it was slow might be insulting to molasses. Regardless, it was fun and, despite my general introversion and need for […] Last weekend I was in Chicago, where I caught up with one of my early gay IU friends. We talked about a number of things – including the coming out process and what it was like to come out (whether to ourselves or to others) at Indiana University in the late 1990s. But the thing […] Rainbows abound at CSD Saturday was CSD / Gay Pride / in Berlin. One of my work colleagues joined me for the parade; we got there maybe 15-20 minutes too late to get the perfect seats, but it was good enough and as the parade went by, I got claim the spot I actually […] For 18 years, October’s cooler weather and shorter days is a reminder that the anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder is fast approaching. It’s somewhat daunting to pause and reflect – how much I’ve changed. How much America and the world has changed. And how much has not changed at all. I want what I write […] |
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