Jewelle Gomez was born in Boston, MA and raised there by her great grandmother. Her background is Native American (Wampanoag & Ioway) and African American on her mother's side and Cape Verdean on her father's.
I feel incredibly insulted! After four years of court and a triumph with the Supreme Court the citizens of California lost their minds. Okay only about half of them lost their minds and decided
When I was a colored Catholic (budding lesbian) kid in Boston in the 60s I thought like many teens, I was the only one who felt alone and full of anxiety. Then I started listening to night time
Everything is connected to marriage. It's like that 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game...before his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, got famous for her TV show. Now everyone's next to KB.
Standing in one of my favorite stores, Just for Fun, (3982 24th Street in Noe Valley), my partner, Diane and I were looking over card stock for our wedding invitation. I repeat that in my head
July is usually a continuation of film festival season for me...the Frameline LGBT festival finishes off June, then the Jewish Film Festival kicks in. I sometimes suffer from undefined side effec
Thank you to all the people---Q and non-Q who sent congratulations in response to the Supreme Court decision that supports equal rights for all of us!!! I don't know what words would ably descri
This year many of us mourned the passing of Mildred Loving. Who is she? She was one of the first people I ever wrote about as a young journalist in Boston at WGBH-TV. She was hero and role m
It's actually the other way around...then I found her. Elinor Lipman that is. I don't know how I've missed her work all of these years. Maybe too many books--too little time syndrome. Howe
I just watched a remastered (hate that word) print of the magical movie musical from 1961, West Side Story, at the classic Castro Movie Palace in San Francisco. It was the first time I'd seen
