Here’s a list of some favorite essays and stories on this blog.
on writing
- seeing god naked
blaming Michelangelo for my fascination with art, religion, and naked men
on relationship
- time capsule to my teenaged self
40 years of unimaginable changes that would have made a difference for the closeted gay teen that was me at 17 - things i can’t take for granted
a panick attack on the Garden State Parkway raises question of marriage equality - meeting someone in new york
finding myself lost for good in the best city to do so
on body image
- tall > small
dealing almost head on with the things that bother me most - un-fair pigment: red hair, pale skin and mercurochrome
red hair, pale skin, and the summer of 1972
on family
- working-class heirlooms
the best memento a mother could leave to her gay son - the whisker on my earlobe
remembering my father’s wit, wisdom and Modess - my first christmas dinner at bubba’s
my introduction to the upside-down world of my “in-laws” - entrance day, 1976
driving across Kansas with my parent to my first day in the Jesuit novitiate
on new york
- meeting someone in New York
finding myself lost for good in the best city to do so - groundhog day
a poem for winter’s end - 2020 hindsight: how restaurants saved new york
thoughts on the hospitality industry’s community service during the pandemic - ascension
rapture in the caverns of Port Authority - sidewalks of new york
a field guide for taming the wild pedestrian - f*ck
after 25 years, I hardly notice that quintessentially New York word - week one: september 2001
reflections from the first days after 9/11
on photography
- brooklyn boys
the photography of danny fitzgerald and les demi dieux - the hairy pendulum swings
how culture has embraced male body hair over the past century - los angeles transformations
on “beefcake” photographer Bruce of LA
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