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A Gay Author and Activist writes about his life, being gay, gay activism, and gay images in the media, as well as issues of concern to Jews, people over forty, and writers.
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Things Change -- But Not That Much
The straight people who went into gay bars twenty years ago are often very different from the straight people who go into gay bars today.Twenty -- or even ten -- years ago the straight people (unless they wandered into the wrong bar) were generally a...
Gay-Bashed at the Stonewall Inn
I've gone to the new "gay-owned" Stonewall Inn almost every week on one night or another since it opened in early 2007. I was very excited when it opened and made sure to be there on the very first day (I wanted to be the first customer but got there...
To Straight Men Who Want to Work in Gay Bars
I try, but it's usually impossible for me to write a short post. Of course, I always meant this blog to be a collection of "think pieces," longer articles that take some time to read and which will, hopefully, provoke some thought and comment. I rece...
Oy vey -- just want we need -- NOT!
Okay, Carson Kressley, or whatever his name is, one of the campy, bitchy "fab four" of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy -- which finally ceased production, although undoubtedly it will live forever in reruns -- has a new show out in which he will undo...
Where Pride Began?
How's this for irony? During Gay Pride week in New York, I saw an ad in a gay magazine for the recently reopened Stonewall Inn. The slogan for the bar is "Where Pride Began." So you can imagine how surprised I was to read the following line in the ad...
Go Go Assholes
More than once I've watched a go go boy in a gay bar -- after collecting lots of tips from the men in the bar -- walk over to the one and only woman in the bar and hit on her. While this doesn't convince me that the man is straight, it does convince...
