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Conversation with David Leddick
Posted on January 16, 2012 | No CommentsDavid Leddick lives in a beautiful home on the Venetian Isles off Miami Beach, surrounded by some of the beautiful art objects that he collects. After years in the business... -
Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco
Posted on December 23, 2011 | 1 CommentDuring the 1970s, San Francisco was, in the words of the late Carl Wittman, “a refugee camp for homosexuals.” During the period that author Jack Fritscher called “the Titanic 1970s”... -
GLAAD All Over
Posted on December 8, 2011 | No CommentsOn August 30 the political website HuffingtonPost.com – named after its founder, community friend Arianna Huffington – published an article about gay lifestyles by Amanda M. Fairbanks, apparently a heterosexual... -
Obama, with all his faults
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn 1904 the New York Sun published the following one-line endorsement of Theodore Roosevelt, then running for a full term as President of the United States: “Theodore! with all thy... -
Tell it to Owen Keehnen
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsOwen Keehnen’s career interviewing the LGBT community’s best and brightest began 20 years ago, when he worked at The Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago: “One of the first times I was... -
Arthur Evans: The Philosopher as Activist
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsArthur Evans, who died September 11 at the age of 69, was a gay activist who was also a scholar, a rare combination in the United States but common in... -
Pledges Left and Right
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical pledges are a fact of life in today’s polarized climate. The rise of the Tea Party has led to a slew of oaths on the political right, from Grover... -
Children of the Black Cat
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the highlights of the 1985 documentary “Before Stonewall” was a reunion of the staff members and patrons of San Francisco’s Black Cat Cafe, “the most famous Bohemian bar... -
Shiver Me Timbers! Gay Pirates Then and Now
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsThis essay is dedicated to Cosmo Jarvis, a 21-year old English singer-songwriter who is widely acclaimed in the UK but who is unfairly unknown this side of the pond. Earlier... -
Franklin Kameny Revised
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsLike many of you, I mourn the passing of Dr. Franklin Kameny, who passed away on October 11 at 86 years young. I wrote about Dr. Kameny in 2006, when... -
The Gay Seventies: A Survivor Story
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsIn Joseph F. Lovett’s 2005 documentary, “Gay Sex in the 70s,” survivors of the 1970′s reminisce about gay life in New York City during the hectic decade between the Stonewall... -
Michael Schiavi and the Celluloid Activist
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsVito Russo (1946-90) was one of our community’s most important figures during the two decades that followed Stonewall. An eyewitness at the Stonewall Uprising (1969), Russo was an important member... -
Tales of the Radical Faeries
Posted on April 11, 2011 | No CommentsOn Labor Day Weekend, 1979, 200 men gathered in the Arizona desert for the first Spiritual Conference for Radical Faeries. Called forth by Harry Hay (of Mattachine Society fame), Hay’s... -
Gays and Astrology
Posted on March 15, 2011 | 1 CommentI first knew there was something queer about astrology back in my teen years, when I first saw Walter Mercado on television. Though Mercado’s homosexuality has never been established, this... -
A Short History of Physique Magazines
Posted on February 10, 2011 | No CommentsI saw my first physique magazine when I was 13 years old (1966), in a newsstand in downtown Miami. Though I did not yet know what I was, I knew...

















