In The Atlantic

The Power of Choosing Resilience This feature article marked the 

first time I focused on the subject of resilience. It set the stage for 

later writing Stonewall Strong.

In The Washington Blade

How Many More Ed Bucks Are Out There? Commentary on the Sept. 17, 2019 arrest of the Los Angeles LGBT activist after two men died in his apartment, and a third came close, when Buck injected them with large doses of crystal meth. The situation shined a long overdue light onto the epidemic of crystal meth abuse among a large minority of gay men--an estimated 1 in 4 in major US cities--and the predatory intergenerational drugs-for-sex exchanges that can end badly.

In the Huffington Post

Claiming 'Gay Power’ History 48 Years After Stonewall

What the War Movie ‘Billy Lynn’ Teaches Us About Resilience

AIDS at 35: Surprising Life Lessons from Living with HIV

How HIV and Henry David Thoreau Taught Me to See

How LGBT History Can Inspire Hope, Support Health, and 

Even Prevent HIV

Former Boston Dance Boy Still Finds Freedom in P-town

Live Heroically By Claiming Our Heroic LGBT Legacy

How About an LGBT Institute for Community Resiliency and Climate Adaptation to Support 

Our Health and Wellness?

First Build Gay Men’s Resilience. HIV Prevention Will Follow

For Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 9/27: Becoming Men of Memory and Hope

For Pride Month, Daring to be Wild and Precious in a New One-Man Show

Of Fathers and Father Figures: Supporting or Undermining Gay Men’s Health

Sharing Gay HIV-AIDS History Should Be a Source of Hope and Pride

Recovering Your Balance After the Doctor Breaks the News (And Your World Turns Upside Down)

My First Bass Weejuns: How Trying to Fit Into a Champagne Culture Can Undermine  the Health of Gay Men With Beer Budgets

To Show Real Gay Pride, How About Reframing Safe Sex as What 

Proud, Healthy Gay Men Naturally Do?

Don’t Be Angry at Spencer Cox; Be Angry at the Stigma that Pushes Gay Men Into Drugs and Unsafe Sex

For World AIDS Day: Dance Music Helps Keep Us Balanced, Pressing On

My Tuesday with Morrie (Or, What We Can Learn From Our Elders)

Warrior or Victim? How Shall We Live in the Face of the Continuing AIDS Plague

From Entitled to Entitlements: My Journey From the Middle Class, Through AIDS, To a Place I Never Imagined

On Being Young and Wanting a Father’s Love, and the Men Who Prey On Us

Gay Pride Means Embracing Our Differentness—From Other Gay People, Too

Claim Your Power and Climb Out of the Crab Bucket

Celebrating Gay America’s Heroic Legacy in the AIDS Plague

Come Home to Yourself For the Holidays

My "Stonewall Strong" blog shares lessons on resilience from my own and other gay men's experiences.