‘Columnists’ Archives
Growing Up By Eric Bellmann: Harriet Craig
I'm staring out the window admiring my back yard garden and I notice a tiny trace of grime around the window latch. Hmm. It occurs to me that I can clean that with a q-tip dipped in ammonia and that is exactly what I do. I am engulfed in warm feelings of satisfaction. There are web sites dedicated to cleaning, so I'm told. I've never felt the [...]
A FEW BRICKS SHORT by David Hull: Grillin’ With the Gays
I can’t cook. I’ve never been able to make anything more than toast. Or, on a good day, if the stars are in the right alignment, maybe I can make raisin toast. I’ve destroyed dinners, murdered meals and I once accidentally created a completely new and unknown substance with boiled rice that was so sticky, I bet NASA could have used it to [...]
Legally Equal By Marcus Kroll: Traveling while gay
Recently, a Southern Californian couple on a gay cruise in the Caribbean spent time in jail. Dennis Jay Mayer, and his partner of 17 years, John Robert Hart, were arrested in Dominica because they were gay. Dominica, like several other Caribbean islands, has laws prohibiting sex between men. The couple were arrested, paraded before a crowd, [...]
