Designs I Like

2026 R&P Wall Calendar

November 20, 2025

Let’s go retro! Romanovsky & Phillips 2026 Wall Calendar Feeling like we need to fight for our rights all over again? Let the music and lyrics of ground-breaking gay folk duo Romanovsky & Phillips light the fire. Resist. Enter 2026 on a high note. Wall [read more]

Family, Identity

All Hallows Eve

October 28, 2025

Hallowe’en is well-known (at least in my world) as a Big GAY Holiday that has all the celebration of modern gay pride parties without the direct connection to our painful history. That’s not meant as a criticism; there’s plenty of evidence that celebration (laughter and [read more]

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Queer Gift Idea- December Rose

October 25, 2025

December Rose World AIDS Day 2010 All the photographs in this volume were taken on December 1st 2010; World Aids Day. “Why roses?” you might ask. I could talk about their near-universal symbolism or ruminate on how artificial modern hybrid roses are; genetically-altered mutants bred [read more]

Card Readings

I Want to See Your Queer Deck

October 16, 2025

As I settle into being a Queer Elder (due to age, some experience, and alotta luck) my energies are devoted to sharing what I’ve learned. One way I can blend my “lived experience” with skills and training is to help bring forward Tarot and Oracle [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

LGBTQ History Month

October 1, 2025

October is celebrated as LGBT/Queer History Month in some places. I have picked out just a few posts from the hundred+ in my LGBTiTQQ2S and Family & Identities categories to highlight. Today in Canadian Queer History looks at “Operation Soap” – the 1981 Toronto bathhouse [read more]

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Book Bargain Bonanza

September 5, 2025

Adulting Is Balance and, sometimes, Compromise. When I created this post I discounted all the titles at Amzn as a short ‘going out of print’ sale, even though as a Print On Demand book there’s no old stock to sell off. As of Sept. 17, [read more]