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Jesse’s Journal Archive
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Porn Stars: Gay Men’s “Idolized Rock Stars”?
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsA few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting porn star Matthew Rush at the Stonewall Pride Parade and Street Festival in Wilton Manors. Rush, whose real name is... -
Gays on the Titanic
Posted on April 5, 2012 | 2 CommentsApril 15, 2012 marks the centennial of the most famous maritime disaster in history. On that “night to remember” the “unsinkable” passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, collided with an iceberg,... -
Jim Flint: From Peoria to the Stars
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No Comments“Jim Flint: The Boy from Peoria” (Prairie Avenue Productions) is the second biography of a Chicago LGBT community icon by Windy City authors Tracy Baim and Owen Keehnen. (“Leatherman: The... -
New Options for LGBT Jews
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsIn the early 1970s, lesbian and gay Jews (bisexuals and transgender folk were not yet in our collective radar) founded the first gay synagogues: Beth Chaym Chadashim in Los Angeles... -
New Orleans Inferno: Johnny Townsend on the UpStairs Lounge Fire
Posted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsOn June 24, 1973 an arsonist started a fire that consumed the UpStairs Lounge, a second-floor gay bar in New Orleansâ??s French Quarter. The UpStairs Lounge Fire was both the... -
Conversation with David Leddick
Posted on January 16, 2012 | No CommentsDavid Leddick lives in a beautiful home on the Venetian Isles off Miami Beach, surrounded by some of the beautiful art objects that he collects. After years in the business... -
Folsom Street Blues: A Memoir of 1970s SoMa and Leatherfolk in Gay San Francisco
Posted on December 23, 2011 | 1 CommentDuring the 1970s, San Francisco was, in the words of the late Carl Wittman, â??a refugee camp for homosexuals.â?  During the period that author Jack Fritscher called â??the Titanic 1970sâ?Â... -
GLAAD All Over
Posted on December 8, 2011 | No CommentsOn August 30 the political website HuffingtonPost.com â?? named after its founder, community friend Arianna Huffington â?? published an article about gay lifestyles by Amanda M. Fairbanks, apparently a heterosexual... -
Obama, with all his faults
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn 1904 the New York Sun published the following one-line endorsement of Theodore Roosevelt, then running for a full term as President of the United States: â??Theodore! with all thy... -
Tell it to Owen Keehnen
Posted on November 28, 2011 | No CommentsOwen Keehnenâ??s career interviewing the LGBT communityâ??s best and brightest began 20 years ago, when he worked at The Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago: â??One of the first times I was... -
Arthur Evans: The Philosopher as Activist
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsArthur Evans, who died September 11 at the age of 69, was a gay activist who was also a scholar, a rare combination in the United States but common in... -
Pledges Left and Right
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No CommentsPolitical pledges are a fact of life in todayâ??s polarized climate. The rise of the Tea Party has led to a slew of oaths on the political right, from Grover... -
Children of the Black Cat
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the highlights of the 1985 documentary â??Before Stonewallâ? was a reunion of the staff members and patrons of San Franciscoâ??s Black Cat Cafe, â??the most famous Bohemian bar... -
Shiver Me Timbers! Gay Pirates Then and Now
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No CommentsThis essay is dedicated to Cosmo Jarvis, a 21-year old English singer-songwriter who is widely acclaimed in the UK but who is unfairly unknown this side of the pond. Earlier... -
Franklin Kameny Revised
Posted on October 17, 2011 | No CommentsLike many of you, I mourn the passing of Dr. Franklin Kameny, who passed away on October 11 at 86 years young. I wrote about Dr. Kameny in 2006, when...