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Like many queer Americans I cried when the New York vote on marriage equality came in late Friday night. I spent years in New York, having worked at OutWeek, QW and POZ and free-lanced for the Village Voice and New York Times. New York remained my second home for many years. I’m thrilled for my [...]
I really thought that the election might shake the tone-deafness off Obama or, barring that, at least silence his apologists for a time. Neither has happened. Although on of Obama’s primary apologists, the NYT’s Frank Rich finally realized that Obama is as mistake-prone as Bush was, just more articulate about it. Today’s news was DADT–again. Secretary of [...]
In 1994 I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. I was having a severe episode of atrial fibrillation, a life-threatening heart irregularity. I have had a life-long congenital heart problem, but it didn’t start to really cause problems for me until I was in my 30s. There is nothing more frightening than being in [...]
