Category: Radical Gay Politics

On first meeting Harry Hay and John Burnside at my home here in Denver back in 1978 one of the first of many teachings Harry attempted to impart to me was his theory of Subject-Subject consciousness. Specifically how this related

I am opening here today with a short read from Larry Mitchell’s iconic The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions, a few personal photos documenting just a few of my own campy experiences and a quote from someone else’s work.. “…

Yes, Dorothy, there is a homosexual agenda. It is not, however, fueled by the paranoid fantasies of the homophobic that we are in the business of recruitment. No it is something much more powerful than that. Our true agenda is

Well where to start with this one? I am gay and I do listen to music but I don’t think that imparts any element of queerness to the music I listen to or that any of that music is making

My experiences with mushrooms have been varied over the years and for the most part quite wonderful with one exception, which I will address further on. I love to cook with them and in the past thirty years my use

My life, as I suspect it has been for most of us, has been one discovery after another. Many of my most memorable discoveries have involved the turning upside down of some of my most dearly held “unexamined assumptions”. One

When I was in grade school in the 1950’s I attended a predominately Irish Catholic institution called St. Peter in LaPorte, Indiana. We would start each day with Mass and then once we had left the church and reached the

My goodness where to start? Perhaps Dan Savage has written the ultimate short three word letter for many of us: It gets better! If I ever needed to hear that advice it was probably around the age of eleven or twelve.

My first adventure with the hallucinogen called LSD was back in the fall of 1968. I had recently moved out of University housing and was living with a bunch of other hippies. I remember little of that trip except that

I initially thought this was a topic I had nothing to write on but it did jog my memory about one early teenage outing that did involve going to a summer camp and a few other life events. I really