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Descent into Chaos

Posted on August 31, 2013 by gar

Art Spiegelman’s masterpiece Maus deftly illustrates the slow descent into chaos experienced by European Jews as the Nazi menace took hold over their lives. The nightmare did not hit all at once, but in slow, dreadful paces. During the descent, everyone tried to live as normal a life as possible.  They went to the store. …

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Encore from the Archives: Fabulous Clayton Goes to Hollywood

Posted on August 15, 2013 by gar

[Originally published in August 2012] For a 12 year old, Clayton Simmons maintained the most peculiar habits.  By a calculus all his own, he computed the precise number of movements and amount of time necessary to complete his morning rituals so that he ended up looking fabulous for the day.  Teeth brushing required one minute,…

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Encore from the Archives: The Sad Crusade of Mrs. Cobb

Posted on July 20, 2013 by gar

[Ed.’s Note: This piece was first published in August, 2012. It is loosely inspired by real events.] Mrs. Cobb stood in the classroom doorway during recess watching her flock.  Two of her colleagues stood by an adjacent classroom talking, their voices deliberately hushed.  Mrs. Cobb paid no attention to them, nor did she take their…

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Ender’s End Game – The Bigotry of Orson Scott Card

Posted on July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 by gar

This is an easy one. On the one hand we have Orson Scott Card, an award-winning science fiction writer, who is also a raging homophobe who lives in his own little world of homophobia-land. On the other hand we have reality. One of Mr. Card’s works, Ender’s Game, has been made into a motion picture….

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The Big Tent

Posted on June 21, 2013 by gar

Shirley and Patty were invited to attend a local revival to give a presentation on the intersection of African-Americans, gays, and the black church.  They asked me to come, too, and I said yes, though I had my reservations. Unlike Shirley or Patty, or their friend Grace who they also asked to come, I was…

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Morally Straight?

Posted on April 24, 2013April 24, 2013 by gar

I have a jingle going through my head that may or may not be from an old Boy Scouts ad. It went something like, “Join the Boy Scouts of America Today, and together we can form a better USA!” A manly male chorus sang it a cappella, with an echo, giving it an almost hymn-like…

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Avowed – Part II (Conclusion)

Posted on March 19, 2013 by gar

Bernard’s mood lightened suddenly and he began shushing Pauline, before lowering his voice and leaning his head over the table.  “What you heard is true,” he told her with a mock-serious tone of voice.  Then he confided that there really was a secret cabal of gay priests.  The more she laughed, the more he furrowed…

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Avowed – Part I

Posted on March 12, 2013 by gar

Bernard kept a cutout newspaper article folded and stuffed in his wallet.  The article’s story went like this: A middle-aged man with mottled skin and ratty clothes pushed his way through the throngs entering and exiting St. Peter’s Square until he stood in a fairly obscure spot between a street vendor and traffic sign just…

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An Ideal Heaven – Part III (Conclusion)

Posted on February 10, 2013 by gar

The man stood.  He did some stretches, side-to-side, back and forth.  He clasped his fingers and stretched his hands in front of him.  He turned around and looked out the window. “Not much of a view,” he said.  Mr. Little said nothing.  The man turned around to face him again. “You said something about living…

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That Sweet Stuff — How Sweet It Is

Posted on January 31, 2013 by gar

Something happened to me the other day on Facebook which has never happened before.  I put up what I thought was an innocuous post about 82 year old Jim Nabors marrying his partner of 38 years in the Great State of Washington.  Mr. Nabors and his now-husband Stan Cadwallader live in Honolulu, but hopped across…

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