More about coming out
I'm about to turn 76 and I have 30 years of "out and about" to be thankful for, but the previous 30 years weren't pretty. My particular status pro ante was Roman Catholicism and I parted company with...
View ArticleAbout those golden years
SAGE has released a new study that focuses on several high-profile issues related to LGBTQ ageing. Their home page includes a link to the full report and Gay Voices at Huffington Post has an article...
View ArticleStates I will never visit.
Arizona, where the citizenry soil themselves with racist hatred. New Mexico, where police are murderous thugs. Utah, where rigid ideology destroys the semblance of democracy. Missouri, where the police...
View ArticleMore about travel plans
Ah, would that my attitudes were just generalizations. Thanks to everyone who commented and I won't forget the caveats and defenses of the good life around our country. But after half a century of...
View ArticleChoosing the company you keep
I ran across a "tells-all" report about a new hire on the Jeb Bush team. the fellow in question may be a whiz at digital thises and thats, but his attitude toward women surely ought to have kept him...
View ArticleWho's on first.
A pet peeve on my part, but here goes. I watched the footage on Huffington Post this morning when an unarmed homeless man was shot repeatedly and killed while several LA police officers stood by as...
View ArticleAn Out-of-Touch President
President Obama calls the Baltimore kids "thugs". Did he throw that term around when he was working in Chicago's South Side before he found his place in history? How about calling those sadistic...
View ArticleA rising tide for Bernie
I saw the long lines on Sunday, here in Minneapolis. People were surprised, undeterred, and all smiles as they waited almost 4,000 strong to send a message to the usual suspects in our dysfunctional...
View ArticleWisconsin in transition
I was not "of age" when Joe McCarthy had his way with the Wisconsin electorate, but I did have some contact with people who were still anxious about the possibility of specious denouncement of their...
View ArticleComing out
I've been "out and about" now for more than thirty years and it's worth mentioning that what took bravery and a real sense of risk at mid-life, give or take a few years, has quieted down in my late...
View ArticleWalk in their shoes
There’s a back and forth on Huffington Post’s Gay Voices wondering whether it’s easier now for LGBT youth to come out of the closet than it was a generation or two ago. Superficially, I agree with...
View ArticleSurvivor guilt expunged
By the end of the 1980s, I was the chair of the board of the Lambda Sobriety Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We were — and still are as individuals — living a life of daily challenge and recovery...
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