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Interview: Marijane Meaker, prolific lesbian rebel writer
I interviewed authors Mary James (youth), M.E. Kerr (young adult), Ann Aldrich (lesbian non-fiction), Vin Packer (suspense), Laura Winston (magazines), and Mamie & Edgar Stone (confessions) all at one time in my conversation with the pseudonym-friendly and prolific author Marijane Meaker. Now nearly 83 years old and living in East Hampton, New York, she spoke with me to discuss her career, living...
Interview: Independent Folk Artist Tret Fure
Independent aggressive folk artist Tret Fure’s career spans four decades. From her early days at Michigan coffee houses to playing blues guitar to rock to punk to her long-lasting partnership in women’s music with Cris Williamson to her current work in aggressive folk, her music continues to evolve. I had a chance to speak with her last week about that evolution, her life, her loves, and her...
Happy Lupercian Festival Bacchanal
Today, I would like to speak to you about a very serious matter. Valentine’s Day. I didn’t remember how Valentine’s Day got started. I know they told us in grade school. All I remember was that in 1st grade we made a giant cardboard “post office” and as we each took turns as “postmaster” delivering those cheesy little Valentine’s Day cards with those little candy hearts with messages...
How Does It Make You Feel And Other Tales Of Reparative Therapy
Truth IS stranger than fiction. And, no, Pope Benedict did not HUG A GAY today on his visit to the UK.
Just a little while ago, our own Chris Hemming, stunning soothsayin’ writer that he is, told a story about his own imagined visit to ex-gay therapy, and then what happens? Dr. Paul Miller, who runs the Abeo “umbrella” organization for therapists in the reparative therapy business in Northern...
Interview: Independent Folk Artist Tret Fure
Independent aggressive folk artist Tret Fure’s career spans four decades. From her early days at Michigan coffee houses to playing blues guitar to rock to punk to her long-lasting partnership in women’s music with Cris Williamson to her current work in aggressive folk, her music continues to evolve. I had a chance to speak with her last week about that evolution, her life, her loves, and her...
How Does It Make You Feel And Other Tales Of Reparative Therapy
Truth IS stranger than fiction. And, no, Pope Benedict did not HUG A GAY today on his visit to the UK.
Just a little while ago, our own Chris Hemming, stunning soothsayin’ writer that he is, told a story about his own imagined visit to ex-gay therapy, and then what happens? Dr. Paul Miller, who runs the Abeo “umbrella” organization for therapists in the reparative therapy business in Northern...
World HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Arthur, Remembered
Those of you who were long-time readers of my former blog will remember this post. I hope you don’t mind reading it again…
World AIDS/HIV Awareness Day is today, December 1st. I’ve seen some pretty eloquent blogs on the topic and felt a little inadequate to post anything particularly insightful. Every single person afflicted has a story. Today, that would make over 40 million...
World HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Arthur, Remembered
Those of you who were long-time readers of my former blog will remember this post. I hope you don’t mind reading it again…
World AIDS/HIV Awareness Day is today, December 1st. I’ve seen some pretty eloquent blogs on the topic and felt a little inadequate to post anything particularly insightful. Every single person afflicted has a story. Today, that would make over 40 million...
Veteran’s Day
I remember being terrified as I climbed warily into my recruiter’s car early that frigidly cold January morning in 1979. I was just a week post-early high school graduation.
My motivation for leaving my working class town was to better myself, get an education, travel, and somehow find a place for myself outside of what was most assuredly going to be my future if I stayed.
By the next day,...
Election 2009 – No Surprises
I followed the reporting throughout the day on the state of the elections across the country. Of particular interest to me personally were the attempts to repeal Same-Sex marriage in Maine and the domestic partnerships question on the Washington ballot.
As of this morning, we can count Maine a loss. Maine voters, with 87 percent reporting, have repealed the ability of queers to marry there by...
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