In the last three days I've had the pleasure of watching the fabulous movie, The Big Sick, the incredible musical Fun Home, and reading Trumpet, A Novel. All three are great art. The first two are based on the writers' lives. All are about "coming out", or not, to one's self and one's family and
Last week, I was contacted by a sincere, heartful, intelligent man who wanted to hire me for EMDR consultation. After a 45 minute conversation, I turned him away because he doing “reparative therapy”, seeking to "help" gay people become straight. He uses EMDR and other methods to target the attachment issues of gay men, so
If you are gay, treat gay people, know a gay person, and/or want to see a great movie, watch Gus van Sant's movie, Milk. Milk follows Harvey Milk from the closeted early 70's business world in NY city, to his exhuberant personal and political awakening in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood to his becoming the first openly
David France wrote "The Science of Gaydar" in the 6/25/07 New York magazine. It talks about the research in physical differences between gay and straight people. Basically, men's differences are more easily measurable. Gay men are more likely to have counterclockwise hair whorls in the back of their heads; to be the 2nd, 3rd, or