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Jason Collins Comes Out

May 1, 2013 – 7:01 am

This week NBA basketball center, Jason Collins, announced in Sports Illustrated, “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” This statement was the first outing for a major professional athlete and considered courageous by nearly everyone. Rarely a starter Jason Collins played with the Celtics and Wizards this season, his 12th in the [...]

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Pink Equal Signs

April 1, 2013 – 7:13 pm

Millions of facebook users have changed their profile photo to a pink equal sign to show their support for gay/lesbian/whatever marriage equality. The GOP and Supreme Court have refused to accept that their version of America no longer is accepted by the majority. One day and one day soon they will have to accede to [...]

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Donnie Ward of the 1270

February 23, 2013 – 10:13 pm

The 1270s was a decade of turmoil throughout the known world of the Christians, Muslims, and Mongols, but the number 1270 for members of Boston’s gay community was revered, for the city’s best dance nightclub was the 1270 on Boylston Street near Fenway Park. I was introduced to the duplex of disco by a passenger [...]

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Shazaam Gomer Pyle

February 3, 2013 – 6:32 pm

One of the more enduring gay myths was that of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors of Gomer Pyle having a Hollywood affair. Rock denied these allegations to me in Deauville, for he never wanted to let people know his true self. Jim Nabors was the same way, but this week the 82-year-old actor best known [...]

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All Inclusive

January 21, 2013 – 10:16 pm

In his 2008 inaugeral speech Barack Obama declared that the USA was a country of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and non-believers. “Non-believers.” I hadn’t ever heard anyone mention ‘non-believers’ without adding ‘hang em’ and for the first time in my life since renouncing the God of my ancestors I realized that I was part of the [...]

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