Category: SAGE Story Telling Group

Since all of us sitting around this table are likely pretty Queer I assume the “identity” the topic refers to is our LBGTIQ true self-realization. If I address that assumption head on I guess I certainly started the process of

As many of you know the first permit issued for a pride Parade was obtained by Chris Sloan (aka Christi Layne) for the princely sum of $4.00. Chris has attended this Story Telling Group on several occasions and as I

As I think about this interesting topic of “pet peeves” I am realizing I seem to have many fewer than I did a few decades ago. Implied is that a pet peeve is something that is at least mildly irritating.

“The beginning of all wisdom is to call things by their right name.” Confucius As I was prompted to look back some 55-years to my teenage days for this piece I was continually distracted by the shooting deaths of ten

The truth is I am a very lazy writer when it comes to putting fingers to keyboard and coming up with something for our weekly SAGE topics. I genuinely feel that my story, at least from a historical perspective, has

It is well documented that suicides spike in the spring and then again in the fall but less so.  A popular myth is that it is the holiday season when suicide is most likely but this is simply not the

For me personally “when I knew,” relates to when I first realized that I was different in some intrinsic way from my peers. It was not the discovery that I liked other boys in any sexual way. That was years

Ah, escape, the act of breaking free.  This word could well be one more synonym for “coming out”. This does seem to be a recurring theme, if one chooses to so interpret, for many of our Story Telling topics. It

“I have talked so much in the past few days that sometimes I feel like I might have used up all my words and I’ll never speak again. And then I hear someone say something really stupid and I can

“I don’t make history. I am history” Joan Baez   As with many quotes I begin my pieces with this one is tangential. In fact it is so tangential that I may not be able to twist it around to