Mart Crowley, the author of the groundbreaking gay play “The Boys in the Band,” lives in a Manhattan apartment building that he used to visit frequently, for parties, in the late 1960s, when “Boys” had its theatrical debut. It’s on East 54th Street, No. 405, and its nickname, he told me, used to be “four […]
25 April 2018 To: The Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S., Parkland, Florida Dear Students: It has taken me some time to compose this message, as I feel that I have so much to say but must keep my message to one page. Born exactly one week after D-Day, I am old enough to be […]
Trump’s entire mission is to suppress and destroy. The fact Michelle Wolf has created a wedgie for Trumpty Dumpty is in fact a good thing. Did Wolf cross the line a couple times? Yes. Perhaps Wolf’s “shock therapy” has ignited a fire among members of the press corps who have become too lax, too easy […]
Susan del Percio: “I guess it’s a different political norm we are facing today.” In other words, there is no MORAL norm today. Grimm is a thug and a bully. The videotape of his threatening to throw a reporter over a balcony puts Grimm in status with crime families. The Republican candidate from West Virginia […]
Thank you for your commentary! I came out in 1968 at age 24, two years after my honorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force. Right around Memorial Day weekend of that year, I met the man who would become my first partner. We remained in our relationship for eight years; bonded as close friends until […]
Quote, “And the repair of our public life will eventually require a restoration of rhetoric.” End quote. Good luck with that one! I have watched with considerable sorrow over the years how our nation has been sliding into a national sewer. Trump calls it a “swamp”, but Trump replaced the swamp with his own style […]
Evangelicals writ large have contaminated and corrupted Christian faith; at least insofar as many have come to understand and embrace the Faith. Hatred and intolerance form the core values of evangelicals. They are self-righteous ideologues who believe that they and only they hold any true faith. Yet, they are among the least faithful and the […]
Dear Ms. Parker: In your column in yesterday’s Sunday Washington Post, your next to last paragraph reads, “Politicians don’t change or fix things until their constituents demand it . . .” That is a huge part of our national problem. Politicians, who are by their nature parasitic non-leaders, fail to be proactive. Even when constituents […]
We have devolved into a society of lies and deception, with the despotic king of lies and deception residing in the White House. The United States of America is being splintered into multiple parts as never before, with vile, vulgar and vibrant misinformation taking control of the narrative. We are witnessing the rise of consummate […]
It has been recorded that upon adjournment of the Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin was asked what had been created. Franklin responded, “A Republic, if you can keep her.” It has become increasingly clear during this last year of Trump that our Republic is under siege. The very tenets that have been the underpinnings of the […]