O.K. this blog is going to be a bit on the silly side but everything I’m writing is true. My blogs have been so serious because of the nature of the world, I’ve decided to do Through My Queer Lens, Lite. So, I’m a crier and I always have been. Yes, I’m the guy who cries at commercials. Give me a father and a baby and I’m a goner, a dog running home to loving arms, a solider surprising his family, and I’m blubbering…good old fashioned someone-just-died-unexpectedly blubbering.

Beyoncé’s Renaissance: The Soundtrack of Liberation and Resilience . When I first heard Beyoncé’s Renaissance in July of 2022, something about it haunted me. Sure, it’s a dance album, no question. It samples many songs and genres. Out of sixteen tracks she has samples in ten of the songs. The samples range through disco, Jamaican Dancehall, Hyper Pop, and Memphis blues. I kept asking myself, why does this dance album feel so profound? Stirring something deep inside me that

Why did the queer community fall in love with the character of Tanya McQuoid on the series White Lotus? The gifted Ms. Coolidge has been around since her first appearance on Seinfeld in the “Masseuse” episode in nineteen-nighty three, thirty years ago. We have laughed and loved her in American Pie, Legally Blonde, the wonderful Christopher Guest films Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration. She spent six years on 2 Broke Girls, and most recently on The Watche

How I gave my bullies permission to keep hurting me. Are queer movies answering this question? The film Women Talking addresses it in a more profound manner than any other film I’ve ever seen. When does forgiveness give permission? When I was a queer kid growing up in the late ‘sixties, I was bullied, pegged for being a fag, femboy, a girl, homo, a queer, and that list goes on and on. These boys would beat me up, shove me up against a locker, and degrade me with physical an

In my blog I will be using the word queer to encompass everyone in the LGBTQI community. I had the privilege of being part of the...