Parting Glances: Now that the Election's Finally Over
For my first go-around at passing for 39, I spent a lot of time in Chicago fancying I was a new face. Especially if the bar lighting was Gloria Swanson dim, [...]
Parting Glances: JFK, Nixon, Ford, Sipple and Me
I was working at a discount records shop in downtown Detroit in 1959, the year two ill-fated contenders — Sen. John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Vice President [...]
Parting Glances: Chance and Dr. J Go Drag
GATORADE, Ariz. – I'm a skeptic concerning things supernatural, but the wonder-working weekend I spend BTL-reporting on the Drag Queens for Jesus Halloween [...]
Parting Glances: Hare Today, Gonads Tomorrow
"Your problems can be solved with this box of amazing cure-alls," hOOty hOOted Exodus P. Barn Owl, Q.D., shoving a package of Miracle Elastics, Assorted [...]
Parting Glances: Were You Ever 'Known' or 'Alleged'?
Just a few generations ago, the term homosexual was often qualified by adjectives. Alleged. Avowed. Rumored. Known! The descriptions were used by cautious [...]
Parting Glances: Heil Trump! And the 23 LGBT Per Centers!
There's a scene in the popular film/musical "Cabaret" where several German, blond, Aryan youths seated at an outdoor cafe, prompted by Nazi zeal and bombastic [...]
PARTING GLANCES: You May Say I'm a Dreamer
About a dozen days ago tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow — at my age how can I be sure? — I was gifted with a pair of John Lennon enchantment glasses. Gold [...]
Parting Glances: Five Arfs & a Who Cares? Purr
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: Memory goes back to school
Thirty-five right. Twenty-five left. Fifteen right. Click! After 60-plus years I can still recall my locker combination at Harry Burns Hutchins Intermediate [...]
Parting Glances Getting rocks off for Jesus
PG Friends: I'm sitting in on a meeting of Gay Bashers for Jesus Anonymous with — unknown to the bashers gathered here — my pocket-size recorder, [...]
Parting Glances: 1964: It seems a lifetime ago
For over 50 years Life magazine informed Americans about what was happening here and abroad. Photos and content were dramatic. Mostly conservative. [...]
Parting Glances: Wrinkle, Wrinkle 'little star'
There's nothing quite as ho-ho-hum as other people's sex lives. Unless, of course, they're young, pretty, age legal and available of their own good-natured [...]
