Parting Glances: How's your Thanksgiving Parson's Neck, Mary?
DRUMSTICK #1: If you're looking for a ploy to come out to your family this Thanksgiving, you might casually remark that according to "Biological Exuberance" by [...]
Parting Glances: 'Ys' Beyond my Years!
Long, long before The Village People made "YMCA" — the song that would become the unofficial, persistent national anthem of Winter Olympian Brian Boitano – [...]
Parting Glances: JFK: Troubling days gone by
Back in the mid-'80s a group of gay friends gathered monthly for dinner and sharing at Detroit's historic venue, the Scarab Club. We called ourselves "The [...]
Parting Glances: A beard in time ...
There are shared similarities between high-visibility personalities Pastor Joel Osteen and Republican Vice President Mike Pence. First off, each shepherds a [...]
Parting Glances: Emily's Ribbon At a Time ...
The 19th Century poet Emily Dickinson wrote over 1,800 poems in her five-decade life. In one of these exceptional, divinatory and uniquely insightful, poems [...]
Parting Glances: When in Rome ... Slam Doors
One of Rome's more prolific male escorts — who goes by the name of Francesco Mangiacapra, and the nickname Mangi-Me-I-Mangi-you — decided recently to give the [...]
Parting Glances: A Doggy Bag in Time
A $10.5 million, GOP-funded study undertaken by the Institute for the Regionalization and Redistricting of Dogs, Cats, Kittens & Pups sheds new – and [...]
Parting Glances: Chapter from a Memoir in Process
As a teenager I learned the lay of the land from word-of-mouth publicity given from those who had navigated the watering spots years before me. I did, however, [...]
Parting Glances: The Queer Occasion of Sin
It's been almost 125 years since the story, "The Priest and the Acolyte" was published in a collegiate, gay magazine, "The Chameleon," in London, England. It [...]
Parting Glances: When Gay Boys Turn 50 Gaily
A 50th anniversary production of Mort Crowley's groundbreaking play "The Boys in the Band" closed on Broadway Aug. 12 of this year, with big-name stars Jim [...]
Parting Glances: A chance encounter with Dr. Heath
As a gay teenager I hung out at the Hub Grill in downtown Detroit, a greasy spoon of a place, located on the corner of Farmer and Bates Streets. It was in [...]
Parting Glances: To Pee or Not to Pee ...
I can be thinking contentedly of a dozen things — of sealing wax, cabbages and queens — but let me get 100 yards near my studio and without the slightest [...]
