Parting Glances: Looking Bassackwards (Pt.3)
By Charles ALexander When I was 19, if I slept with a guy twice, I was "in love," and T.D., the lanky stud I met outside of the downtown Hub Grill gay teenager [...]
Parting Glances: Looking Bassakwards (Pt. 2 of 4)
"Let's go to the Hub Grill for a bowl of chili and a trick," was our weekend rallying cry as gay teenagers. A dollar or two — and our youthful, reasonably [...]
Parting Glances: Looking Bassakwards (Pt. 1 of 4)
In the late-50s there weren't any nationwide advocacy groups. No newspapers like Between The Lines. No TV programs like "In the Life." No Affirmations LGBT [...]
Parting Glances: Sing Out! Gay Poetry Month
Who among us reads, scans, rhymes — knows by heart — poetry these days? Who among the "oh, so busy we" can name one poet for L, for G, for B, for Transgender [...]
Parting Glances: Inner Office Memorandum 2050
Well, there was Jay Hovah, CEO, minding his own damn corporate — military/industrial complex — business when along comes a cataclysmic stock market crash (Red, [...]
Parting Glances: Remembrance Of Womyn Past
There were lots of kids in the apartment complex I grew up in at 444 Peterboro, ZIPPER code 48202. And, although — through the careless grace of God –I was [...]
Parting Glances: What's Past Is Pretense
You can't judge a gay book by its cover. Its author. Or, its nom de plume. Case in point: Groundbreaking 1951 sociological expose, "The Homosexual in America." [...]
Parting Glances: Render Unto Caesar's Pizza
Following an unexpected backlash — best described as a concerned public whiplash — Fools for Christ, Inc. announced on Easter Sunday its cancellation of their [...]
Parting Glances: Well Bless Our Hate!
Just in time for Easter 2015, Fools for Christ — an American Bible group headquartered in Lumbago Falls, Texas — held a press conference Palm Sunday to [...]
Parting Glances: Save A Dolphin For Jesus
An overly zealous biblically based consortium called Noah's Ark Angels is spending big tax-free bucks providing dolphins with bodysuits to stop that species' [...]
Parting Glances: Our Apostle Of S-S Marriage
Unions, weddings, ceremonies, celebrations uniting same-sex couples are not uncommon in the ancient world. Written records in Ancient Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, [...]
Parting Glances: Nuthin' Bout Birthin' No Babies
It's been 75 years since Margaret Mitchell's classic novel of the Civil War South, "Gone With The Wind," had its movie premier in Atlanta, Georgia, Dec. 15, [...]
