Archive for April, 2011

In this sound-bite world, one develops the skill of delivering messages in the shortest and pithiest of forms. Having only seconds to speak to Donald Trump at an event in New York’s Central

My argument in these installments is to establish that what primarily defines what society calls us as “homosexuals” lies beyond, or prior to, the domain or erotic same-sex attraction and

Reviewing the long historical record of matters concerning same-sex erotic attraction in the West that’s come to light in the years since Stonewall, there are two important overarching

The biggest cause of the alarming trends toward obesity, diabetes and self-centered social passivity in the U.S. population today is the general rise of our marketing-deluded, consumer-oriented

The problem is this: We post-Stonewall gays are collectively as if an entirely new species, being fully open and “here” for the first time in the history of the species. Yet we have

A few salient observations about President Obama’s tour de force speech on deficit reduction yesterday. First, its focus is 180 degrees opposite of two years ago, when the president was

Suddenly, the world has lurched into a new matrix of madness, war and chaos. Current Japanese, Libyan and U.S. domestic “government shutdown” developments paint, in combination, a wasteland

The earliest ancient Greek myth with an explicitly homosexual theme is the story of the abduction of Ganymede, the most beautiful among mortal boys who is abducted by no less than Zeus,