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So Much Coming Out

February 15, 2025

(Originally posted 10/10/2019.) National Coming Out Day (NCOD) was founded on October 11, 1988 by Robert Eichsberg and Jean O’Leary to celebrate the anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. [read more]

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LGBT History Months

January 31, 2025

June is celebrated in many countries around the world as LGBT Pride Month (or, perhaps a Pride Week or Pride Day that month). Of course there are some locations where another month is selected- whether [read more]

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Pink Triangle Day 2025

January 30, 2025

What (if anything) do you celebrate on February 14th? For some the day is just another corporate-driven excuse to spend money; as the credit card bills from last year’s Holiday season are coming due. There [read more]

Brushing Fame

Grandma, Robin, Joan, AIDS and more

August 11, 2024

Originally posted Sept.6, 2014 Re-posted on the 10th anniversary of Robin Williams shuffling off this mortal coil. I’ve resisted writing this post because so many people have commented on Robin Williams’ passing- what could I [read more]

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Bathhouse Raids

February 5, 2024

On This Day Originally shared some years ago February 5, 1981, 11 p.m. Squads of undercover (under towel?) ‘peace officers’ raid four gay bathhouses in downtown Toronto. Over 300 people were charged with crimes ranging [read more]

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World AIDS Day

December 1, 2023

“What is remembered, lives“ I Came Out in 1978. Before I turned 25 what we now know as hiv/aids erupted in gay communities across North America- and elsewhere. Large swaths of my generation (and others) [read more]