Family, Identity

My Language

April 19, 2025

What are my pronouns? Well, I’m much less concerned with what word you use than your intention in doing so. We who’ve been abused know all too well what power lies in words. A side note, and an explanation. One of the Post Categories here [read more]

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So Much Coming Out

February 15, 2025

(Originally posted 10/10/2019.) National Coming Out Day (NCOD) was founded on October 11, 1988 by Robert Eichsberg and Jean O’Leary to celebrate the anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. In these current turbulent times Coming Out continues to be [read more]

Brushing Fame

Grandma, Robin, Joan, AIDS and more

August 11, 2024

Originally posted Sept.6, 2014 Re-posted on the 10th anniversary of Robin Williams shuffling off this mortal coil. I’ve resisted writing this post because so many people have commented on Robin Williams’ passing- what could I add? The passing of Joan Rivers, a recent article about [read more]

LGBTITQQ2S

World AIDS Day

December 1, 2023

“What is remembered, lives“ I Came Out in 1978. Before I turned 25 what we now know as hiv/aids erupted in gay communities across North America- and elsewhere. Large swaths of my generation (and others) passed on no, were sacrificed. They died. Often horrible, painful, [read more]

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R&P at 40

October 19, 2023

In 1982 Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips made their debut at San Francisco’s Valencia Rose Cafe as the musical break for Gay Comedy Open Mic Night. In 1984 they released “I Thought You’d Be Taller“- their first full-length album. For two decades they toured across [read more]

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R&P on Bandcamp

October 6, 2023

The first Friday each month is ‘Bandcamp Friday‘; on that day the website waives their (reasonable) marketing fees so artists pay only the direct payment processing costs on sales. Today is just such a day. Six albums of music by Romanovsky & Phillips and four [read more]