Parting Glances: Lights (and Gurgles) Remembered
"I'm burning my candle at both ends. It will not last the night. But, oh, my foes, and, ah, my friends. It gives a lovely light!" These words are by bisexual [...]
Parting Glances: Book in progress #1
I keep on my laptop desk a corner of chalky red brick. It's all that's left of Cassboro Apartments, 444 Peterboro, Detroit. I found this memento among broken [...]
Parting Glances: Any Gay Name but Mine
To diddle an old saying: You can't judge a gay author or his book by its — or by his — cover. Case in point: the groundbreaking 1951 sociological expose, "The [...]
Parting Glances: In Cass Park with Bobby Burns
Detroit's imposing, massive, block-wide Masonic Temple was built in 1922 — cornerstone-dated 5022 — following the Hebraic custom of noting esoteric history. At [...]
Parting Glances: Diary of Theocratic Days Ahead
June 28, 2025 [Editor's Note: Translated Cursive English] Dear Diary: Another same-sex couple has been "relocated" – my neighbors two doors down, the boys who [...]
PARTING GLANCES: Wet nosing with Suzuki
"Animals can also zero in on clues that we provide without knowing it." One supposes it's called, Straydar. The Grim Reaper in the guise of a mild-mannered [...]
Parting Glances: Tomorrow's world belongs to whom?
There's a scene in the popular musical "Cabaret" where several German, blond, Aryan youths seated at an outdoor cafe, prompted by Nazi zeal and bombastic [...]
Parting Glances. A Slogan Come True Big Time!
"Gay is good. You are not alone." This was the slogan when the Affirmations LGBT Center opened its doors in Ferndale more than 20 years ago. It was a bold [...]
Pride Rainbow
some with caution some with confidence some seeking rainbow courage (now!) all join hands and promenade: black, white yellow, red stripes and [...]
Parting Glances: Ys Beyond my Wildest Dreams
Long, long before The Village People made "Y.M.C.A." the unofficial, persistent national anthem of Winter Olympian skater Brian Boitano, the Young Mens [...]
PARTING GLANCES: Gaymes with Sr. Scatterpin (3 of 3)
FRIDAY (a.m.) I ride backpack on Sister Scatterpin's Heavenly Harley, the two of us heading to Chicago for Gay Games VII. Sister keeps to an ecumenical 85 mph [...]
Parting Glances Best of Sr. Scatterpin (2 of 3)
I had a tarot reading last Sunday by a psychic friend of Sr. Serena Scatterpin. "She's a marvel and a looker," was Sister's intro. "If just a tad off her [...]
