50 Years This Friday
Parting Glances Back in the mid-80s a group of friends gathered monthly for dinner and sharing at Detroit's historic artist venue, the Scarab Club. We called [...]
Sharing Unsalted Almonds
Parting Glances According to specialists in brain neuroanatomy, each of us is anatomically blessed with an amygdala. If you're gay, your amygdala is similar [...]
Pet Reparative Therapy
Parting Glances I received an e-mail from a conservative group calling itself Balaam's Ass of America (after the OT story of the fabled talking mule), asking [...]
To Botox Or Not To Botox
Parting Glances You're never too old to cross dress. At 70 something-or-other I'm tempted, if only I could find an outfit that won't make me look too matronly [...]
View From 2,665 Feet
Parting Glances $9.49 is pittance to pay for a glamorous trip down memory lane. (The older I get the more trips I take; the intervals growing shorter and [...]
A Hug In Time
Parting Glances I don't recall growing up as a kid and getting or giving hugs. Hugs were not part of my straight-laced family life. I also don't recall as a [...]
Preydar Comes Out
Parting Glances It's a sociological truism that gays and lesbians are mainstreaming American metropolitan societies almost invisibly, certainly seamlessly, [...]
Memento Mori Pt. 2
Parting Glances Though perhaps unspoken among gay men and doctors thirty years ago when the AIDS crisis started, the presumption of a death sentence was [...]
How's Your Quincunx, Mary?
Parting Glances A pleasure of English is the language's imaginative and poetic use of collective nouns. Their fanciful pedigree as names for persons, places, [...]
My Blue Heaven ...
Parting Glances There's a new genre of book that's been on the New York Times Best Seller List for weeks. And weeks. And weeks. I'm not sure whether [...]
P'Town Here I Come!
Parting Glances PROVINCE TOWN – It's Friday. Outside a light rain. Nothing too serious. Cozy inside. There are six Dyer House B&B guests quietly [...]
Memento Mori Pt. 1
Parting Glances It's been over 30 years since media stories began to appear about what seemed the onset of a pandemic among gay men (and drug users). The [...]
