Welcome to the Family
Four years ago Amanda* met Julie at a club in San Francisco. It was love at first sight, though they were both cautious and went through a formal “Let’s see […]
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1 Automatic Rifle, 180 Rounds of Ammunition/Minute, and 49 Dead
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 […]
‘Revolutionary’: A 250-year-old story of gender rebellion
In September 2015, Alex Myers came to the Southwest Harbor Public Library in Maine to talk about his first novel, Revolutionary (Simon & Schuster, 2014). If the advance publicity for […]
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 […]
In Gay Families and Straight Families Alike, Being a Grandparent Is Wonderful
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 […]
Two Gay Men and a Baby
“All my life Eileen, my mom, always told me to do what I had to do, not what I wanted to do.” In spite of this principled attitude, Eileen got […]
Lessons from Alan Turing: Prejudice Is a Dangerous Enemy
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 […]
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 […]
Debrah: Staying Close to a Trans Child
Gay, lesbian, bi, trans or queer? Trans can be either male to female (MTF) or female to male (FTM). Queer is an umbrella term for those who reject traditional gender […]
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 […]
The Gay World as Navigated by a Straight Mom 