Parting Glances: The Age of Treason? Perhaps
First published in 2013 and again Dec. 2016, one month after the election Donald J. Trump President of the United States If one person can be truly said to [...]
Parting Glances: Were You Ever 'Known' or 'Alleged'?
Editor's Note: This article was originally published in October 2016. Just a few generations ago, the term homosexual was often qualified by adjectives. [...]
Parting Glances: Bases loaded for Prophet Jones
On several sporty occasions I've dined at Angelina's Restaurant in Downtown Detroit with BTL co-publishers Jan and Susan, loyal Tiger baseball fans. From our [...]
Parting Glances: Mason/Dixon Cross Dressers
This first appeared in BTL in Sept. 2012 Footnoted in the pages of Civil War history is the intriguing story of a "Mrs. Nash." First name unrecorded. She's [...]
Parting Glances: Gay History Month #2
This column first appeared in BTL Oct. 2012. Almost 125 years before the birth of Jesus a handsome youth named Antinous was declared a god by the Roman emperor [...]
Parting Glances: 39, and Not Counting
This column first appeared in BTL in April 2014, when Charles was 77. He's now 83 years young. At my advanced age I've come to realize I really don't exist. [...]
Artist's Statement
There is little conscious planning as I create my art. I work intuitively and rather quickly. I start with a geometric shape, a humorous or serious doodle, a [...]
Parting Glances: Green Carnations, Mary?
This column first appeared in BTL Aug. 2017 Somewhere pressed in my book of tattered memories is a green carnation, still remarkably fresh with the passage of [...]
Parting Glances: Blackmail Stonewall Style
This first appeared in BTL 6/26/14 Fifty years ago when closets were leased for a lifetime, it was SOP – standard operating procedure – to go by a catchy [...]
Parting Glances: Looking Bassakwards
This column first appeared in BTL 6/4/15 As a teenager I learned the lay of the land from word-of-mouth sharing from those who had navigated Detroit's [...]
Parting Glances: Washington Goes We'what?
Editor's Note: Contributor Charles Alexander fell ill last monthand was unable to provide his usual weekly Parting Glances Column. This selection was chosen in [...]
Parting Glances: A magic moment recalled!
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 [...]
