Parting Glances: Getting Plymouth Rocks Off
DRUMSTICK #1: If you're looking for a ploy to come out to your family this Thanksgiving, you might casually remark that according to "Biological Exuberance" by [...]
Parting Glances: Show Us Your Left Behind, Mary!
About 137 years before Good Ol' Charlie Brown waited hopefully on Halloween Night for the Great Pumpkin to appear, William Miller, a Baptist preacher, [...]
Parting Glances: Micro-Dotting Us And 'Them'
The human brain is often called "the three pound universe." It contains a hundred billion neurons, allowing for more connections among these busy, busy, busy [...]
Parting Glances: A Hug At A Time
I don't recall growing up as a kid and getting or giving hugs. Hugs were not part of my family life. I also don't recall as a teenager getting or giving hugs [...]
Parting Glances: Gay Ghosts On Parade
For five dynamic years — 1940 to 1945 — Detroit was America's Arsenal of Democracy, a vital source of war material. First for England's defense. Later, for our [...]
Parting Glances: Ah! Those Days Long Gone, Number 2
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: Ah! Those Days Long Gone
I went to my first gay bar, the Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. Just 19, I used borrowed ID, escorted authoritatively by two [...]
Parting Glances: Not Our Hillary, Too!
Ah, the forbidden, secret pleasure of enjoying the sudden — or, the prolonged — misfortune or misery of others. The Germans — some of whom were experts at [...]
Parting Glances: Square Pegs, Round Holes
How many of the 7.125 billion earth humans are you personally acquainted with? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, that's the world's last population count as [...]
Parting Glances: Candles At Both Ends
"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 [...]
PARTING GLANCES: Is Mary's Little Lamb Gay?
Every family has at least one stray sheep contentedly nibbling forbidden pasture under the shade of the mythic forbidden-apple tree. Ours was my 80-year-old [...]
Parting Glances: Remembering 'Honey' Combs
Mart Crowley's "Boys In the Band" opened Off-Broadway 47 years ago. I bought a copy of the play in Chicago in 1968 and read dialogue aloud while driving back [...]
