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 […]
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 […]
“Coming Out” About Having a Gay Child
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Gay World as Navigated by a Straight Mom 