World AIDS Day 2015: A Tribute to the First Generation We Lost
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 […]
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Mothers Can Be Their Gay Children’s Best Allies
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 […]
Swan Lake and Memories: Letter to My Son on What Would Have Been His 59th Birthday
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 […]
World AIDS Day: December 1, 2014
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 […]
Our son told us he is gay. Will he get AIDS?
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 […]
Gay Pride Day
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 […]
The Gay World as Navigated by a Straight Mom 