Parting Glances: Fog, Er, Log Cabin Redux
A concerned group of Log Cabin gay men — presumably all tie-dyed-in-the-Woolite Republicans — who voted for Donald Trump — are very worried that their [...]
Parting Glances: Glen Flexit gets fixed!
I rarely write about straight guys. I find them to be, well, rather flighty. But in the interest of LGBT civility to all God's web-footed creatures, let me [...]
Parting Glances: Three Arfs. Six Purrs. A Suggestion!
A federally funded study by People & Friends of Cats and Dogs (P-FCD) reports that "persons of rainbow personality make the best dog owners, but have [...]
Parting Glances: Low Down on the Down Low
I've been out of the LGBT lovebird loop-the-loop for so long that it rarely occurs to me that dating can be hazardous to ones mental and physical well being. [...]
Parting Glances: What's Prologue Is Past
At 19, I went to my first gay bar, The Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. I used borrowed ID, was escorted authoritatively by [...]
Parting Glances: One Thankful Day at a Time
I had my first drink when I was 14 or 15 in the basement of the apartment building that my friend Donny Well's parents managed. Donny was my age, and the half [...]
Parting Glances: P, as in Peeping Tom
I was eight years old when I was exposed to my first pornographic glossy 8" x 10" photo. It was of a muscular naked guy and a curvaceous woman, shown to me by [...]
Parting Glances: Blue-Eyed Winks at T
With all due respect (and a plethora of apologies) to my manifold, religiously eclectic, catholic — as in universal — PG readership, I spent my 2017 St. [...]
Parting Glances: Sequins and Wedding Rice
On the topic of marriage screen legend Greta Garbo boasted, "There are some who get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the [...]
Parting Glances: What's Past Is Unfortunately Prologue
During the Nazi reign of terror that ended only in Germany's defeat by the Allies in 1945, about 15,000 gay men were incarcerated in concentration camps, [...]
Parting Glances: Color Code Penguins Blue
A group called Noah's Angels is spending big bucks to provide shoreline dolphins with bodysuits to stop gay activity among this frisky, highly sexually active [...]
Parting Glances: Whap! Thud! Kick! Kill! Shazam!
An oft-quoted U of M study of juvenile couch-potato-derangement-in-the-making blames adult violence on TV programs that feature heroes who are admired for [...]