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. Forget the...

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 I can’t identify....

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 Watcher with her...