So, whoever would have guessed that Ricky Martin was gay?
OK, all of us really.  But it matters.  And it shouldn’t matter - that’s the trouble.  I can remember years ago as a scared gay teen desperately looking for any sign of gayness in singers, actors, public figures: I just wanted to know there were […]

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Once again I am forcibly reminded, I am my body. Crossing Queen St on Wednesday on my way to a meeting at the AIDS Foundation, I felt this sudden Bang! like someone had slammed the back of my left calf with a hammer. I’d pulled a muscle, just by running across the road. Pain! And […]

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I was out dancing the other weekend and “Forever Young” came on.
I was dancing with a small group of old friends, some of us have been dancing together for 30 years. I’m 48 and I often go out dancing. Do I want to be forever young, as the song says, or not? Should I have […]

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