Tales of West Hollywood

San Francisco, March 1997 What is it like to live in Gay Heaven, to know that you have achieved something that most gay people can only ...

Fort Lauderdale, September 2001 In August 2001, after completing my Ph.D. in sociology I moved to Florida, on the invitation of my fri...

Remember how precisely potential boyfriends and husbands were rated back at Augustana, my undergraduate college? Mostly on their future ba...

Plains, April 2017 I see the Geezer in the gym a couple of times a week: in his 70s, tall, ugly, and out of shape, with thin arms, no ch...

Philadelphia, March 2013 I'm at the gym at my job in a small private college near Philadelphia, having a bad day  (actually, most da...

Philadelphia, Fall 2012 I always try to join a gay gym, so I don't have to deal with heteronormative comments and lady-gawking, and ...

Plains, August 2018 This morning I went to the gym with Bob, but had to walk home because he needed the car to work.  I couldn't run...

Born in 1959, country-western singer Randy Travis has a face that would send me running for the exit: long and narrow, with a gigantic f...

Plains, August 2016 I love the first day of class.  The campus has been mostly deserted all summer, but today it springs to life with th...