“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in…
Category: Spirit
Surviving Anti-LGBT Politics Part 6: Navigating Toxic People
They are everywhere, the haters of all things colorful and good. We have to work with them, shop with them and often live around them in our families. In this…
World AIDS Day thoughts
I was just budding into puberty and starting to feel the feelings of who I am when the AIDS crisis struck. Already scared and slapped back by the kids at…
Don’t discount your Daddy Superpower
The first time some young gay man called me “Daddy” I recoiled in horror. What disrespect. What gut punching rude shade coming off these little Millennial bitches! I’m not that…
I am an imperfect being
am an imperfect being. At age 55 I still struggle to maintain that perfect weight, to find enough time in the day for whatever and to manage that list. On some days I notice in the little corners of my being that I am slowly losing the sharp edge of my youth. I always feel like I have a shit ton of unfinished business in this life. And I do.