Happy New Year! The New Year’s Eve festivities reminded me of when it was obligatory for gays and lesbians of my era to not just attend New Year’s Eve parties, important school dances and formal proms, but horror of horrors, show up with a date of the opposite sex! These ordeals started with a push…
Several recent studies have dealt with the age discrimination and problems senior gays and lesbians face as they age. More often than with the general population, we have no children to take care of us; we have higher breast cancer rates and half of Americans living with HIV will be over 50 by 2015. Lacking,…
The blind date has never lost its popularity. With my family, it was to make me happy with a nice young woman; later my friends assumed the unasked for obligation and tried to make me happy with a nice young man. Recently, the difference of being “young” has morphed into “young at heart.” I have…
Aging has changed me to a point where many things I once enjoyed are now things I just can’t take. This includes much of the TV fare of today. For example, take those appalling Housewives. Most are rich (thanks to rarely, if ever, seen husbands) and seem to do nothing but shop and bitch, eat…
Casually interested in my high school classmates I have kept up with the gossip, I mean, the news through a few old pals, but I never attended the reunions until recently when my curiosity peaked and I sallied forth to the rock-bound coast of Maine for my 50th. About 60 classmates plus spouses showed up…
Of course, “full-time” drag queens and kings are people who love to dress up. But every weekend they are joined by accountants, doctors and hamburger flippers who turn into leather-loving bikers, cowboys, T-shirt-and-jeans bears and many other costumed characters. For the rest of us, there’s always Halloween. All Hallows Eve is nearly upon us, and…
Too often, young or old, we see and hear, but don’t look and listen. There is a parade of interesting sights to be discovered in something as simple as a trip to the supermarket. Here are a few random observations from a recent venture into the wilds of Hillcrest to Ralph’s. At the deli counter…
Too many seniors sit home and turn down invitations thinking, “Been there; done that.” But the future can hold many adventures. Don’t let them slip by. Forget the length of that future, it’s irrelevant. We are here. This is now. Do it! I am amazed at what older people have never done. No, not climbing…
For theatrical events, what a great town we live in. Look at our choices of old favorites and originals here in San Diego and its nearby regions; comedy, drama, Elizabethan, musical, horror, etc. and the quality is top notch. Most from Broadway, but some heading that way! Need I tell you several productions or those…
Those of us of a certain age can remember Katherine Hepburn’s “Mrs. Venable” as she archly quavered and croaked her beloved son Sebastian was, “Chaste, not chased” (wrong on both counts, dearie). For people of that generation the state of chastity was, and still is in many groups, deemed unsuitable for a “normal” young man,…
