In the mid ’80s, I lived in Houston with two cats, two dogs, two enormous koi, and a lover, as...
I’m writing this a few days before another birthday in the month of Pride. As always, I ruminate senility’s question:...
Were you a 97-lb. pencil-necked bag of bones? When you went on the beach, did bullies with massive pecs kick...
In the mid ’80s, I spent two miserable years editing a gigantic, regional home and garden magazine in Houston, Texas....
When I was a young homo of eight years old, the woman across the street scooped me up and took...
Bad news for old people: fascism is arriving before you die I used to tell friends that a short-term future...
I’ve written a restaurant dining column for Creative Loafing, “Grazing,” for more than 30 years. For most of that time,...
In 1970, my friend Dina and I met up around midnight at the Majestic Diner. I had talked my father...
Nothing makes an old gay person more annoyed than death. We have better reason to resent it than straight people...
When I was 21 and just out of college, I took a newspaper job in a Southern Gothic town. I...
Before dementia, there are flamingos and nosiness. Long before clinical dementia overtakes the brain, aging has mental effects that change...