Archive for September, 2011

The standing ovation given by the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week to Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ call to grant full U.N. membership to an

The “AIDS Dark Age” was horrific beyond words. For most of us, it extended from July 5, 1981 to December 30, 1996, starting with the New York Times’ first public report of a new

When I became a vocal gay liberation leader in San Francisco after completing graduate seminary and coming out with a bang in 1969 (shortly before the Stonewall riots across the continent), I

Are you surprised that a right-wing tool like Ann Coulter is a big fan of the Grateful Dead? You shouldn’t be. The “paradigm shift” of American culture in the 1970s – the

Far from being a benign and marginal experiment to enhance interrogation techniques, the CIA’s Operation MK-Ultra that dispensed massive amounts of the psychedelic drug, Lysergic Acid

Those who will read these installments in their eventual book form will appreciate that with their publication week-to-week, it’s often necessary to recapitulate central themes, as each week

In “Dancer From the Dance,” Andrew Holleran wrote about the rampant, excessive hedonism that swept the gay world in New York in the 1970s, as Larry Kramer did in his novel,

In their just-released compelling book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum acknowledge the