Category Archives: Homosexuals

Castro District

April 24, 2013

Al wanted to be close to Jewish Film Festival. He didn’t want to worry about parking in San Francisco. He wanted to walk to Castro Theater. He got Spartan hotel room three windy blocks away. He needed good dinner before first of three movies that night. Around corner from theater [...]

Also posted in Jewish Film Festival, Movies, San Francisco, Short Pieces - GTC

Romney’s Preparation for Republican National Convention

September 2, 2012

Please click here to read an excerpt from “Obama on Edge.”

Also posted in 60 Minutes, Barack Obama, Campaign 2012, Economics, Israel, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republicans, Russia, Vladamir Putin

“La india” of Abraham Angel

August 13, 2012

i like her fingers
and hands on her
long orange dress and
her toes underneath
and especially i like
her pretty brown face
and black hair between
mountains overlooking
the home where every night
she takes off her dress
To see “La india,” 1923, by Abraham Angel, please click here.

To read “Who was Abraham Angel?”, please click here
Editorial note: Abraham Angel lived only nineteen [...]

Also posted in Abraham Angel, Art, Cocaine, Drugs, Mental Health, Painters, Poetry - GTC, Suicide

Gay Moscow

June 10, 2012

moscow bans
gay parades
hundred years
when president
putin will
lead procession

Also posted in Moscow, Russia, Vladimir Putin

Margaret and Bill

April 28, 2012

Click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Also posted in Families, Infidelity, Infideltiy, Marriage, Poetry - GTC, Short Pieces - GTC

Margaret and Bill

December 5, 2011

Please click here to read an excerpt from “Snapshots of Distressing Events”

Also posted in Families, Infidelity, Marriage, Poetry - GTC

Thomas Eakins Gets Physical

August 12, 2010

I’m honored the renowned Los Angeles County Museum of Art is presenting a major exhibition of my work entitled “Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Images of Thomas Eakins.” With a substantial, though not entirely toxic, level of bitterness I must inform you that such recognition was rarely forthcoming during my lifetime, and then quite late [...]

Also posted in Art, Education, LACMA, Museums, Painters, Philadelphia, Realism, Sex, Thomas Eakins

Obama and Palin in Effigy

October 29, 2008

Please click here to read an excerpt from “Obama on Edge.”

Also posted in Barack Obama, Campaign 2008, Racism, Sarah Palin

John Wayne Reviews “Brokeback Mountain”

December 28, 2005

I hadn’t had any offers in a long time, and these guys come to me and ask if I want to be in a western with lots of action.  Damn right, I say.  Don’t bother showing me the script.  Let’s just start rehearsing.  I tell them I don’t care if I play Ennis Del Mar [...]

Also posted in Heath Ledger, John Wayne, Movies