Flowers covered the entrance of the inconspicuous Stonewall Inn in New York. A mostly silent, sad crowd of 30-something young men and women was busy writing placards bearing the names […]
What I Did For Love Kiss today goodbye The sweetness and the sorrow Wish me luck the same to you But I can’t regret what I did for love Look […]
I smiled at the magazine cover: two modishly clad men holding an infant in a pink dress. I could hardly believe that Architectural Digest, the upscale decorating bible of the […]
On Sunday, June 28, New York City will celebrate Gay Pride with a parade that honors the 1969 Stonewall riots during which a group of members of the LGBT community, including some very flamboyant […]
David, Last month Russia’s premier ballet company, the Mariinsky, came to town to perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Their program included Swan Lake. I am such a dance […]
He who saves one life saves the entire world. -Talmud Last weekend I went to see The Imitation Game, a film based on Alan Turing’s breaking of the Enigma code […]
Religion was always important to Brian Besser. He took his bar mitzvah very seriously, and for many years thereafter joyfully attended a special high school program held every Sunday morning […]
The AIDS epidemic has been with us for 33 years and has killed about 36 million people. Like Ebola it is still “raging,” and it is a much bigger medical […]
“God did not make me [or anyone else] gay; nature did. There is nothing supernatural about being or not being gay. Being gay is like the color of your skin […]
If your son is mature you have little to worry about. Most gay men practice “safe sex,” i.e. they wear a condom that prevents the actual transfer of semen and […]
The Gay World as Navigated by a Straight Mom 