Parting Glances: In drag for Jesus, Lady T and Chance
GATORADE, Ariz.: I'm a skeptic concerning things supernatural; but the wonder-working weekend I spend reporting for BTL on the Drag Queens for Jesus confab is, [...]
Parting Glances: JWs Go Trumpeting Door-To-Door
1. In the year of the Trumpeted Mongrel 666 Beast of War endlessly chasing his flea-bitten tail, a prophet of restless dudes scaled Mt. Rush-No-More, seeking [...]
Parting Glances: It just might happen again ...
During the Nazi reign of terror that ended only in Germany's defeat by the American, English and French Allies in 1945, about 15,000 gay men were incarcerated [...]
Parting Glances: Nickname Footnotes to Stonewall
Fifty years ago when gay ID closets were leased for a lifetime, it was SOP – standard operating procedure – to go by a catchy nickname. Some gay/lesbian [...]
Parting Glances: May Babies May Be Gay Babies!
The "Coffee Table Book of Astrology" tattles that "taurus is the astrological sign of sexual deviancy." Or, as a friend of mine used to tell me year after year [...]
Parting Glances: Have a hateful Easter for Jesus
Just in time for Easter 2019, Fools for Christ (and Donald Trump) — an American Bible GOP group headquartered in Lumbago Falls, Texas — held a press conference [...]
Parting Glances: A Hug in Time
An open house I attended a blossoming spring or two ago was winding down at the home of BTL co-publishers Jan Stevenson and Susan Horowitz. Two boys of some of [...]
Parting Glances: Alexander Birth: a Guinness First?
As a gay teenager, I hung out at the Hub Grill in downtown Detroit, a greasy spoon of a place, located at the corners of Farmer and Bates in convenient walking [...]
Parting Glances: Go for Gluten-Free Communion Wafers
According to a tad too many fundygelical church know-it-alls, we LGBTQs are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. (Purgatory be damned!) So agree President [...]
Parting Glances: Remember Life! Keep 45 in Mind!
For over 50 years Life magazine informed Americans about what was happening here and abroad. Photos and content were dramatic. Mostly conservative. [...]
Parting Glances: The Queer Occasion of Sin
Perhaps it's ironic — if not a touch appropriate given his name — but a prominent Villanova University professor is quoted at the beginning of 2019 as saying [...]
Parting Glances: Capnippers and Boners Go Gay!
A veterinarian funded study by People & Friends of Cats and Dogs, or P-FCD, reports that "persons of rainbow personality make the best dog owners, but have [...]
