Family, Identity

An Update On My Memoir

February 15, 2026

Are you thinking “I didn’t know he’s writing his memoir!“? That’s OK, so was I when a friend asked me for ‘the latest update’. My reply was that there are no immediate plans for one; which is true enough. But the question rattled through my [read more]

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Bathhouse Raids

February 5, 2026

On This Day Originally shared 10 years ago February 5, 1981, 11 p.m. Squads of undercover (under towel?) ‘peace officers’ raid four gay bathhouses in downtown Toronto. Over 300 people were charged with crimes ranging from ‘running a bawdy house’ to ‘being a found-in a [read more]

Family, Identity

What’s My Gender?

January 27, 2026

An interesting question. To the extent I think about it, I identify as male– although with the understanding that I am very much a GNC: Gender Non-Compliant male. As a sexually-active gay man with a Husband in ‘modern Western society’ I am clearly out of [read more]

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LGBT History Months

January 25, 2026

June is celebrated in many countries around the world as LGBT Pride Month (or, perhaps a Pride Week or Pride Day that month). Of course there are some locations where another month is selected- whether due to overlapping celebrations or climate considerations. Although June was [read more]

Designs I Like

Bespoke Digital Gryphon Designs

January 21, 2026

My poetry, art & design are licensed to selected Production Partners, as I don’t have the resources nor the space to stock dozens of designs on dozens of colours of dozens of styles of apparel- to say nothing of mugs, totebags, oracle decks, printed books [read more]

Designs I Like

Turning Pain Bright

January 15, 2026

Spinning pain into joy I started my TeddyBear Tears Kaleidoscopes series (“deceptively bright expressions of pain and anger over repressed childhood trauma“) in 2017. I don’t know if my resistance to a palette of only/mostly dark shades and muted colours is a strategy to keep [read more]