Posts Tagged ‘ Gay ’

Labor Day seemed the perfect time to bring you suggestions for something that requires no labor!  Reading.  Though we haven’t decided if this will be a regular feature, we bring to you today three book reviews of GLBT books.  If you find them helpful, and would like us to continue this feature, be sure...
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It’s been a wild and crazy two years. It would have been wild and crazy even without my assorted misadventures. Two years ago this month our brother was electrocuted in a workplace accident, and we didn’t know if he would live, or if the brother we’d always known and loved would ever be the same...
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Readers who grew up in pre-gay liberation times, or who come from conservative religious families, will remember the loneliness of the deep closet.  Mine, in the 1960s was no different, but was exacerbated by my living in a foreign country. In the 1960s, Europe was still a very foreign place: few people spoke English, the...
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It’s hot out – Poppin’ grease hot. I’m sweating through my mustard yellow dress shirt and, every so often, I use the baby blue tie hanging from my neck to wipe my forehead dry. I’m sweating like a beastly buffoon even with my car’s air conditioner set on super-duper-turbo jet-speed. Not necessarily my idyllic image of...
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“Just stick the hook under the duck, and grab the rope,” Joe’s uncle said as he pulled up to an orange painted floating duck. “I got it!” I shouted. “Good, now pull it in, fast.” I pulled and pulled on the yellow rope as cool Oregon salt water dripped down my right arm. “Look, it’s almost...
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Summer is coming to an end. That means it’s back to school time across the country. The upcoming school year is a very special one for students at Riverdale High. On September 1, Archie Andrews and company welcome their first openly gay student, Kevin Keller. When this news hit the ‘net last spring, I...
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Last month I told you all about my new job in the porn industry and just a few of the things that I have learned.  Since being familiar with the product is sort of a necessity with my position, I have been watching a lot of porn. A LOT of porn. Like, enough porn that...
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When I was 18, and just out of high school, I was still in the closet and I had landed the butchest of jobs – retail associate in the china department at Macy’s. I spent my days matching china and silver for eager brides to be, and I don’t know, I guess after all that...
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A friend of my partner Kelly told him he was recently at a relative’s wedding reception and not in the best of moods. But his already-stretched tolerance for the festivities was strained even further when he considered that he was celebrating an institution that was denied to him, at least in our state. How...
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My daughter doesn’t like me writing for Our Big Gayborhood. She’s evinced this before, of course, refusing to read more than a sentence or two of the articles that I write, asking straight-out why I “write for that thing.” Tonight, after I’d told her that I had some writing to do, she decided to...
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