Family, Identity

Community Support Request

May 10, 2026

We are planning to activate Husband’s Perm. Residence when we drive up on June 20th. See this post for our backstory. Already owning or leasing a place would make getting his PR Card faster- they won’t mail it to a PO Box, or c/o someone [read more]

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]

Family, Identity

The Price of Freedom

November 27, 2025

See my March 2026 update. Regular readers and visitors to my various social media accounts (these days I’m primarily on Insta) know that my husband and I are working to move to Canada. As I’m a Canadian (actually, dual) citizen I can sponsor his application [read more]

Designs I Like

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]

Poetry

In Pursuit of a Dream Revised

July 11, 2025

In Pursuit of a Dream, my small chapbook of poetry from the 1980s is out of print. Most of the contents of that book, along with 8 pages of selections written this century, are now available as This Future Is No Gentle Trophy from our [read more]

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Joe Bracco; Songwriter and Musician

May 2, 2025

Joe Bracco, born May 2, 1960 on Long Island NY, is but one of the hundreds of thousands (millions?) of bright talents lost to AIDS; he passed away March 3, 1991 in NYC. I did not have the pleasure of attending any of his performances; [read more]