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

Who knows who’s listening for what, but in my careful real-time examination of President Obama’s State of the Union message Tuesday night – replete with a transcript and notation pen in hand,

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

As a lifelong journalist myself, I agree fully with remarks by veteran news editor Lloyd H. Weston, assailing decisions by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and Wayne State University

“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

It is this writer’s recommendation to the editors of Time magazine that they add the name of Clarence W. Dupnik to its short list for “Person of the Year” in 2011. Less than two