Community Thank You for Dining with Me As a 20-plus year resident of Norfolk, I’ve orbited the cycle of arriving as a stranger, ultimately meeting and knowing lots of folks from a variety of walks of life, being invited to house parties pretty regularly, and then once again becoming a relative stranger.
LGBT National Coming Out Day: Don't Let Go From a distance, I could not be certain, but was hopeful. "Is that two dudes, perchance, holding hands?" I wondered, as I arrived on the block on which my building sits.
LGBT Expressions of Pride 2017 in Norfolk, Virginia -- and Particularly in Ghent A few years ago, I began flying on my porch a flag bearing the Human Rights Campaign's equality emblem, inspired largely by the feeling of solidarity and support I experienced when seeing that
LGBT Time-Travel Tuesday: A Night Out in Richmond In today’s installment of time-travel Tuesday, we’re turning back the clock to 1982 (for the bedspread; I jest, I jest!) and to 2003 (for the person sitting on the bedspread, and
LGBT The Marvels of PrideFest, the PrideFest Bubble, and the Importance of LGBT Visibility One, amongst many, reasons that I so enthusiastically support and attend PrideFest and its companion events is that, in Hampton Roads, the event creates an unparalleled level of visibility for the LGBT community
LGBT A Relative Stranger Who Was Dear to My Heart: Becoming Better-Acquainted with "Our Own," An LGBT Newspaper Based in Norfolk, VA When first I moved to Hampton Roads in 1998, I'd never been in a gay bar, save for one impromptu visit with friends to a place in Charlotte, NC several years prior. After
LGBT William & Mary Undergrads Delve Into Archives to Help Document Virginia's LGBTIQ Past Yesterday, I journeyed to Williamsburg, VA to hear the student presentations associated with the William & Mary Mattachine LGBTIQ Research Project "Documenting the LGBTIQ Past in Virginia." Charles Francis, President of
Life Gifts from Granny's Passing: A Candy Dish with a Past and Conversation from the Heart After my grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago, my mom asked me if there was anything I'd like to have from her house as a keepsake. What came to mind initially
LGBT Street Slurs: The Return of the F-Word Ended My Longest-Ever Winning Streak Sometimes, the inability to remember is symptomatic not so much of a faulty sense of recall as it is of a scar not subjected of late to a new injury. In this particular
LGBT Finding One's Tribe: LGBT Documentaries "Coming of Age in Cherry Grove" and "Straight Acting" I initially intended this post as a quick shout-out for two LGBT-related documentaries I'd seen in the last few days and enjoyed, though since I wound up straying into review territory for at
Observation May We Survive Our Gashes May we survive our gashes and may they, in their healing, generate character more apt to be described as patina, rather than rust. (Images from last night's walk.)
Community Cohort Program A New Adventure: Cohabitating with Shakespeare Well, I've a new adventure to report: I'm cohabitating. And with Shakespeare, no less! Oh, wait -- I must make a slight amendment to that assertion. I'm actually "cohorting,” or, more accurately
Images One must always hope that in the adversity of one's neglected crevices, something of beauty flourishes. Marigold, Virginia Beach, VA | Photographed November 14, 2014
Lessons About Life A Final Journey: Compassion and Clarity as My Uncle's Life Neared Its Conclusion As children, there is much that most of us would’ve avoided, had we had the option: shots, the dentist, lengthy homework assignments, and bullies, to name a few. As adults, we sometimes
Community "Looking" for Meaningful Connections My craving for emotional connection and meaningful interaction typically exceeds the degree to which I actually find them. It's a testament, then, to the quality of HBO's "Looking" that its resonance
Bostic v. Rainey A Celebration in Solidarity: GLBT Virginians Finally Get a Win of Their Own in Court I don’t know about you, but I don’t reside in an environment such that a party, or even a party spirit, is likely to envelop me as I rest peacefully on
GLBT The Sparkle & The Fade: The Purported Closing of a Former Favorite Haunt Spurs Memories of Coming Out and Coming of Age "love this place, will miss it. Memories with Aaron, dance tunes and dancers.. laughing and lusting, and sometimes feeling like a diamond." The quote was an anonymous comment left on the
