Archive for January, 2011

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

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

Some would argue that 2011 will be as uniquely pivotal for shaping the national destiny over the next decades. What will the impact of the Tea Party be now that over 40 of them are in the U.S.

With last month’s historic repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the online Box Turtle Bulletin’s Timothy Kinkaid wrote a commentary entitled, “Trading in Our Sparkle and