As a young gay man growing up in Chicago in the 1970’s and 1980’s, and being involved in the gay community, wandering aimlessly through Boys Town, it was hard not to know an iconic man in the neighborhood: Chuck Renslow. I was never deeply involved with him, just meeting him […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Lately I’ve been more angry than usual, and to be honest, I don’t have anything to get my knickers in a bind over. It just seems to me that everything now makes me see red, which isn’t quite like me. I’m usually aloof and distant from the general machinations of […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I had a dream months and months ago which surprised me, since I don’t normally dream about anything. I close my eyes when my head hits the pillow and then begrudgingly open them when my husband calls out it’s time to get up. I know that people say, “you still […]
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I was raised Roman Catholic. Even as a young boy, I remember the fascination with the church and the rituals. I was an altar boy at every church we belonged to and even intended to go to seminary to become a priest. Can you imagine!? This was all before I […]
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I must apologize to the world for my vehement protestations on society. The truth of the matter, it appears to me, is that they can’t help themselves. I think that society as a whole have been coddled, wrapped in bubble-wrap, set upon a soft path to their own unaware demise. […]
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes