Dear Reader, The days sweep by this holiday season. Thanksgiving is behind us—and the first round of over-indulgence—and now I’m staging my own little celebration: Volume III, AND LOVE ENDURES, goes live on Saturday! Amazon will deliver its ebook preorders that day, and the paperback and hardcover will come online Read more…
Dear Reader, As promised, today I’m offering a free download of Volume II, LOVE AND THE EPIDEMIC , to celebrate the December 1 release of Volume III, AND LOVE ENDURES. Any book in the trilogy stands alone, but I do think it’s a better experience to read all three, in Read more…
Dear Reader, As always, the days speed by, and now it’s only one month until the December 1 release of Volume III, AND LOVE ENDURES. The writing of it was joyous and deeply moving for me, as I hope the reading of it will be for you. It felt good 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, 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, 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…