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

Joe Bracco; Songwriter and Musician

May 2, 2025

Joe Bracco, born May 2, 1960 on Long Island NY, is but one of the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of bright talents lost to AIDS; he passed away March 3, 1991 in NYC. I did [read more]

Family, Identity

The Price of Freedom

April 15, 2025

Regular readers and visitors to my various social media accounts (these days I’m primarily on Insta) know that my husband and I are working to move to Canada. As I’m a Canadian (actually, dual) citizen [read more]

Family, Identity

Living Past Sixty Six- Big Deal?

June 4, 2024

Living to 66 is not that surprising for most Can-American white cismales of (sometimes) middle-income. I Came Out in 1978. Before I turned 25 what we now know as hiv/aids erupted in gay communities across [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

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]