The man on stilts in a kilt in the wind

by | Nov 19, 2013 | Assimilation

I wrote about this briefly the other day. The point was that as we assimilate into the heterosexual world, the gay community seems to pull in its horns, so it speak. It seems to become less flamboyant, less “out there,” less extravagant in the way it presents itself....

It could be a bum trade-off

by | Nov 14, 2013 | Coming to terms with the past

Gay people have recognized for a long time that learning how to live in a largely straight society presents the possibility of assimilation, and assimilation presents problems, different ones at different times. Over the weekend, I was reading Gay Men at the...