Designs I Like

Queer Gift Idea- December Rose

October 25, 2025

December Rose World AIDS Day 2010 All the photographs in this volume were taken on December 1st 2010; World Aids Day. “Why roses?” you might ask. I could talk about their near-universal symbolism or ruminate [read more]

Poetry

In Pursuit of a Dream Revised

July 11, 2025

In Pursuit of a Dream, my small chapbook of poetry from the 1980s is out of print. Most of the contents of that book, along with 8 pages of selections written this century, are now [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

R&P at 40

October 19, 2023

In 1982 Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips made their debut at San Francisco’s Valencia Rose Cafe as the musical break for Gay Comedy Open Mic Night. In 1984 they released “I Thought You’d Be Taller“- [read more]

Designs I Like

December Rose Prints

August 27, 2017

Special Edition Prints available on Canvas, Acrylic, Metal, Wood and Fine Art Papers in select sizes from our Fine Art America galleries. 90% of our Artist’s Royalty is donated to registered non-profit hiv/aids organizations in [read more]

Politics And More

Dora: A Headcase- A Review of Sorts

March 1, 2017

DORA: A Headcase © 2012 by Lidia Yuknavitch Hawthorne Books, Portland OR ISBN: 978-0-9834775-7-0 This book is filled with examples of gorgeous if not stunning language and imagery: “the scent of something too sweet and [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

Review- Missed Her

November 29, 2016

Missed Her by Ivan E Coyote Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver BC ISBN 978-1-55152-371-2 © Copyright 2010 Another collection of two dozen plus short stories. This was a quick read, partly because some of the stories [read more]