Tales of West Hollywood

When I was growing up, I was fascinated by a photo of my father sitting on a burro in Tijuana. Dad is tanned, muscular, smiling, wearing...

Every year my father celebrated his birthday by hosting a barbecue for his family and friends, held on the Saturday afternoon closest to J...

Plains, October 2016 In search of celebrity dating and hookup stories, I've been asking all the gay men I know, with little luck.  B...

Garrett, Indiana The cold, snowy day after Christmas.  Cousin Buster and I have already played with our toys, and we're tired of si...

When I was growing up in Rock Island, we visited my parents' family in Indiana two or three times a year, and I always wanted to spend t...

Indianapolis, June 2017 David, the former Baptist minister from San Francisco, is the only guy I know who still uses the telephone inste...

Indianapolis, Summer 1966 Everyone in the Boomer generation and older knows where they were on November 22, 1963, when they heard of th...

Indianapolis, June 2013 The nice thing about having heterosexual relatives is, they tend to reproduce. And their kids grow up into a wh...

Lots of gay men have told me that their first sexual experience came with cousins: mutual j/o in the bathtub, oral behind the barn, anal d...