No, Mr. Potato Head Isn’t Transgender. Yes, Conservatives Are Very Fragile People.
When Mr. Potato Head first appeared on the market in 1952, the toy was very different from the smiling plastic orb we see in the “Toy Story” movie. The original...
Creep of the Week: Electing People Who Aren’t Hateful Ghouls Makes All the Difference
Hip, hip, hooray! The U.S. House passed The Equality Act! We’re all equal now! There’s no more hate, no more homophobia, no more Marjorie Taylor Greene! OK, that’s a bit...
Shots and Shutdown
I received my first COVID-19 vaccination shot last week. My second right-arm shot is scheduled for March 11. Among 300 seniors inoculated in a well-coordinated system at Dearborn’s Henry Ford...
700 PGs later
I started writing my Parting Glances column in 1999. Its premise was simple enough: choose an important LGB — and occasionally T — historical event that actually changed things for...
Parting Glances: Band Boys I Tooted With
Mart Crowley’s “Boys In the Band” opened off-Broadway 53 years ago. I bought a copy of the play in Chicago in 1968 and read tryout dialog aloud while driving back...
