I realized rather late in life that I admire my father very much. While not my genetic dad, he is the only father I have known. We're t...

This is, as Harry Potter would have it, the War Against That-Which-May-Not-Be-Named. The enemy here is not Terror. It is a very specific en...

I read an article recently which included an excoriation of someone’s viewpoint on non-Europeans in Europe as “xenophobic”. This ended the...

This is the second in a three-part post,  from the perspective of a gay man,  about what is wrong with homosexuality.   Part O...

(I’m going to do this in installments.) “What’s wrong with homosexuality?!!”. Aha! See! Now the self-loathing, the deep internalized ho...

My favorite names: Thomas, Michael, Jeff, Jack, David, Kevin. Names are stories. Thomas: first boy I fell in love with. Old and wonderful fr...

On the set of the TV series, “Grey’s Anatomy”, castmember Isaiah Washington referred to fellow castmember TR Knight (out of his hearing) as ...

Been down with bronchial infection and feeling pretty blue about it, so I’m gonna post about something I like. Any reflections on sex, polit...

In the fall of 2004, I revealed to a longtime friend that I was thinking of voting for George Bush. He emailed me that he feared for my men...

There is a blog I have been reading for well over a year now, whose author is the subject of my reflections today. I should say, in the int...