Western civilization’s struggle to emerge from a 1,000 year Dark Age brought on by corruption and decadence that fed the decline and fall of the Roman Empire was achieved by the courageous

While the Stonewall riots of June 1969 are considered the storied launch of the modern gay movement, they were but one inflection point in the gradual progress of self-esteem and empowerment of

The progression in America’s development from the gay sensibilities of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton to the next great gay American leader, Abraham Lincoln, is astonishing for the common

America’s greatest poet, the gay Walt Whitman, provided us with our core gay identity 150 years ago with his notion of the “great poet,” combining it with a passion to “cheer up slaves

“The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855). This quote has been framed and posted on the wall in front of my computer in

Those paying attention have seen that in these chapters a number of original notions have been derived from a wider examination of gay identity factors, especially as they have been extracted from