Parting Glances: Lights (and Gurgles) Remembered
"I'm burning my candle at both ends. It will not last the night. But, oh, my foes, and, ah, my friends. It gives a lovely light!" These words are by bisexual [...]
Their Past, Our Present
I recently happened upon a photo from 1921. In it, a quartet of people stands outside an imposing stone structure. All four look as if they were in [...]
Creep of the Week: Voter Suppression
They say if you don't vote you can't complain. This is actually not true. You can complain all you want. Especially if you're someone who has been blocked from [...]
Parting Glances: Book in progress #1
I keep on my laptop desk a corner of chalky red brick. It's all that's left of Cassboro Apartments, 444 Peterboro, Detroit. I found this memento among broken [...]
The First in Michigan
As far as I know my partner and I were the first openly gay men to adopt a child in Michigan. He and I had talked about having children almost from the [...]
Creep of the Week: Bill Schuette
A couple of columns ago I wrote about sitting in a chemo ward getting poison pumped into my body, worried that my insurance was about to run out. My wife's [...]
Creep of the Week: Star Parker
We may be well into July, but the anti-gay panic that comes to a boil in June as a result of gays having done stole the whole month to celebrate our heathen [...]
Parting Glances: Any Gay Name but Mine
To diddle an old saying: You can't judge a gay author or his book by its — or by his — cover. Case in point: the groundbreaking 1951 sociological expose, "The [...]
Parting Glances: In Cass Park with Bobby Burns
Detroit's imposing, massive, block-wide Masonic Temple was built in 1922 — cornerstone-dated 5022 — following the Hebraic custom of noting esoteric history. At [...]
Our Voice, Our Vote! Now More Important Than Ever!
I think about the power of our vote a lot. Maybe it's from hearing my grandmother talk about all they had to endure to have the right to vote. Maybe it's from [...]
