Gay Science

On Gay Pride Sunday, June 13, 2010, marking the 40th anniversary of the first Gay Pride parade, I had the honor of delivering remarks to those assembled a few blocks from the Pride festival at the

“Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” This quote from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians (4:16) in the Bible describes the

Asking, “What does it mean to be gay?,” in this series, I identified three ways in which same-sex erotic attraction is linked to a preponderance of personal qualities of great benefit

Viktor Frankl, in his monumental work, “Man’s Search for Meaning” (1946), drafted in a concentration camp to become a seminal contribution to two decades of post-World War II

The task of this series has been to juxtapose our essence as gay souls to what passes for our current post-Stonewall gay culture. In so doing, I have sought to define our essence through a wide

The conclusion of the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. left a lot of uncertainty and unanswered questions about the status of the epidemic and the chances for ending it. It,

In conjunction with the 19th International AIDS Conference this week in Washington, D.C., Larry Kramer’s prophetic 1984 play, “The Normal Heart,” is being performed at Arena

I began this series in October 2010 with three chapters entitled the same as this, and as I prepare to conclude, I’ll reiterate why I began that way. First, the overall series title,

No one knew better about the worst fate that can beset a homosexual – to become hopelessly jaded, indifferent and cruel – than gay playwright Tennessee Williams. The subject became,

The core thesis of this series is the novel notion that same-sex erotic attraction is a variant and derivative of the natural bond between humans more akin to empathy than the physically