Archive for October, 2011

This series begins its culmination treating the issues of our gay identity, new (or, very ancient) gay morality and our future from the standpoint of the American revolutionary promise of

President Obama has Tea Party and other GOP congressional obstructionists rocking back on their heels from his “We Can’t Wait!” offensive, making deft use of the power of the

It was by a remarkable and gracious coincidence that the first weekend after the passing of our gay movement’s greatest pioneer, Franklin Kameny, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was

While the Republican presidential candidates continue trying to “out-conservative” each other in debates that none but those in that rarefied purgatorial stratum reserved for political

Frank Kameny, who at the age of 86 died of apparently natural causes in his Washington, D.C. home yesterday, qualified as a genuine American hero. He is to the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual

I am asked why I focus so much in these installments on what I call our gay “Age of Contagion” from 1972-96. Isn’t it ancient history? Isn’t it better to just move on? Hardly, I reply.

What makes the Tea Party tick? Mainstream elected leaders and pundits who got their start in politics by majoring in political science in college or by graduating from law school are ill equipped

Gay men during the “AIDS Dark Age” (1981-1996) were frightened out of their minds, especially in the first years of its outbreak when so little was known about it, or about who or how