by itabix | May 27, 2014 | Larry Kramer
Before I arrived in Boston in 1984, I didn’t know anything about AIDS, or, as it was called, Gay Cancer, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID), before AIDS was settled on in 1985. Nobody else did either. We knew that it was fatal. And we knew that they didn’t know...
by itabix | May 25, 2014 | Larry Kramer
Tomorrow night, at nine, HBO will carry The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s play about the first years of the AIDS epidemic, from 1981 to 1984. It was originally produced in New York by Joseph Papp. Kramer’s play is about one of those times in the lives of men when there...
by itabix | May 19, 2014 | Anger
I said, “Of course I’m angry. My generation of gay men tends to be angry. We experienced abuse, and we were treated like shit for much of our lives—by the government, by the churches, the State Department, the military, the courts, by our families and by the people we...
by itabix | Oct 19, 2013 | Fighting Back, Walking wounded
Many people—both gay and straight people—think because gay people can be married in thirteen states that we have solved that problem, and, at least in those thirteen states, we can move on to other issues. That’s only partly true. Think of the long fight for...
by itabix | Aug 17, 2013 | Fighting Back
This week the news is out of Russia and has to do with the anti-gay laws there, their effects on Russian LGBT people and on the Winter Olympics 2014, and what the rest of the world is going to do about it. First response was from gay bars around the world dumping...
by itabix | Jun 26, 2013 | SCOTUS
What we are looking at here is a developing definition of gay man that is very porous. There isn’t really such a thing. Alfred Kinsey collected data on sexual histories that resulted in his creation of a seven point scale in which he said everyone could be placed....
by itabix | Jun 25, 2013 | SCOTUS
When I was growing up, everybody around me—my parents, my grandparents, my sister and brother, my cousins, my scoutmaster, my teachers, the priest, politicians—thought the same way about how I was feeling. I was definitely aroused by men and by particular aspects of...
by itabix | Jun 25, 2013 | SCOTUS
In this video (one of “Law Talks” that I have just discovered), Ari discusses the effect of the decisions already announced on the decisions not announced and on the drive of gay people for equality. Watch it here.
by itabix | Jun 25, 2013 | SCOTUS
Ari Ezra Waldman has a post up on Towleroad about the implications of the affirmative action decision for the marriage cases tomorrow. The post can be read here.
by itabix | Jun 24, 2013 | SCOTUS
Ari Ezra Waldman and Towleroad published the fourth post in the run-up to the Supreme Court decisions this week. He gives us eight things to keep in mind when we read the decisions. Here is the
by itabix | Jun 23, 2013 | SCOTUS
It’s at the end of the last, the third, night of the fighting, people are drifting away, some of them to go down to the piers for sex and some to the trucks, but our guys are still sitting on the high stoop next door to the Stonewall, watching and listening to things...
by itabix | Jun 22, 2013 | SCOTUS
Yesterday I posted two links to Ari Ezra Waldman’s posts on Towleroad under the heading “Gay Rights After SCOTUS.” Here is a third. It’s on “The Future of Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships.” I’ll keep up with Ari’s posts and will pass on the links...
by itabix | Jun 21, 2013 | SCOTUS
Towleroad and Ari Ezra Waldman are aware that the Supreme Court will probably be releasing the decisions in the marriage cases Friday morning, June 28, 2013. Ari is running a series of explanatory blog posts in preparation for these decisions, which promise to...
by itabix | Jun 8, 2013 | SCOTUS
This month, the Supreme Court will decide the Prop 8 case, known as Hollingsworth v. Perry, and the DOMA case, known as US v. Windsor. An analysis of what these cases are and what they mean for the gay community and the prospects for a gay success can be found on...
by itabix | May 29, 2013 | Fighting Back
We have to fight to improve our situation in America, in order to become, as the character Joseph says in Adam in the Morning, “Americans,” merely coming out won’t do it. The post before last was the second of two on Tim DeChristopher and an elaboration of his...
