Dear Reader, Ghosts from the past can be difficult to exorcise. When I received an invitation to my fiftieth high school reunion, I was ready to ignore it, just as I had done for all the others before. But this time our class president, who has been organizing these things Read more…
Dear Reader, I can’t say if it’s an age thing or what, but I have found great sweetness in recent years in returning to a place I love. And this Labor Day weekend was no exception. We just got back from Provincetown—our third annual visit. The city and its inhabitants Read more…
Dear Reader, It is with great pleasure and pride I announce the completion of Volume III of my Love Trilogy, AND LOVE ENDURES. The process was particularly joyous. As before, wonderful new characters showed up in my head and introduced themselves. And it was particularly satisfying to welcome back old Read more…
Dear Reader, Sonya Teclai, our social media director, asked me the other day what it was like growing up gay in the South in the 1950s and ’60s. “And living to tell about it,” was the understood part of her question that didn’t need voicing. I thought deeply about it, Read more…
Dear Reader, I had forgotten that July 4 follows so quickly on the heels of Pride Month. Independence. A heady concept, indeed. Essential, and yet such a new idea in the history of civilization. Today I’m pondering the blessings of independence. I don’t usually work up a whole lot of Read more…
Dear Reader, LGBTQ pride is an everyday thing. And yet it is right and fitting to assign it a unique month. June always feels special to me, because each day reminds me of the great progress made in the struggle for equality. And the fight for essential rights still not Read more…
Dear Reader, It is fitting that the new Supreme Court ruling called Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission should have been decided during Pride Month. Like most Americans, all I knew about the case was the mainstream media pronouncement, “The Baker Won.” Well, not so fast. I turned to Read more…
Dear Reader, Memory is a strange phenomenon. Just when we think we’ve pinned it down, it throws us a curve. My memories have been all over the place recently as I write about a particularly vulnerable section of my life. I’m sure I’ve told you that my narrator shares certain Read more…
Dear Reader, And now, on to Volume III! AND LOVE ENDURES is an even more intimate story than the previous two. In order to plan it and write our narrator’s adventures, I’ve had to dig down into everything I know and remember about love and relationships. Some of it is Read more…
Dear Reader, I hope you’ll tell me when you find typos. They have the inevitability of Greek tragedy. But as far as I know, the text is right, and the covers—ebook, paperback, and hardcover—are stunning. Thank you, Tim Barber (dissectdesigns.com). LOVE AND THE EPIDEMIC is live! The process of getting Read more…