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 […]
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 […]
I trust that I was never a homophobe. My parents had gay friends. Two highly respected members of my family were gay and my mother took great pain to tell […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Every in-group has a language of its own, and the gay community is no different. A few decades ago, terms used to talk about gay people often were derogatory or […]
I attended my first gay pride parade twenty-six years ago in San Francisco. My companions included my son David and three of his pals: Robert, Dave, and Frank. David cross-dressed from the […]
Many parents are upset when they realize that one of their children is gay. Carol W. Berman, MD, a New York University Medical Center psychiatrist, believes that a parent’s discomfort […]
The Gay World as Navigated by a Straight Mom 