Who Bothers To Count?
Parting Glances They slide down so neatly; 75 calories per quickie. I find myself indulging in the delectable savoring of one, two and sometimes three of [...]
A As In Zilch
Parting Glances There's been a bland addition to the soup. (Or is it stew?) The label on the can now reads LGBTA. The LGBT stands for the usual spicy noodles [...]
Gay Footnote To Shoah
[email protected] Parting Glances This year is the 75th anniversary of the infamous Kristallnacht, the start of a mass seven-year pogrom undertaken by [...]
1 Million Say Happy Pride!
Parting Glances I'm sitting on a concrete corner fence at the edge of Walgreen's pharmacy outlet, Belmont and Broadway. I'm an hour early for the start of [...]
How's Your Telomere, Mary?
Parting Glances This month's issue of Brain World (Humanity's New Frontier) carries articles of amatory, ecumenical interest for those of us fascinated [...]
Sneak Preview: E-Bay Collectible
Parting Glances One of my pleasures as an artist, apart from being told that my art is "appreciated" – maybe because it's annoyingly rumored about that each [...]
Bigots Do It Better
Parting Glances I don't know how you feel about bigotry, whether it's innate or a choice – but if you have someone special in your life who's a closet bigot, [...]
Sirens At A Distance Sound
Parting Glances This Motor City Pride 2013 I am closing my eyes – I invite you to mentally close yours as you read – and counting back 44 years, 35 years, [...]
Here, there, everywhere!
Parting Glances I've been rereading Irish author Colm Toibin's book "Love in A Dark Time," as Motor City and Ferndale's Pride 2013 events take place one week [...]
Whose Nose Knows Best?
Parting Glances In the movie "The Ten Percent Solution" master sleuth Sherlock Holmes visits shrink Sigmund Freud for some desperate psychoanalytical advice [...]
How's your lipogram, Mary?
Parting Glances It's one of our crazy, straight cultural givens that a high pitched "s" sound is associated with being gay. It's the lisp that goes with the [...]
My Past, Our Prologue
Parting Glances I will in three days, as this Parting Glances again makes its weekly welcome appearance – number 650 in a long, long series of fascinating, [...]
