SirTommyBoi's Blogging

As I write this, the first night of the Republican National Convention is a’happening. I’m not watching because I value my life, but much has been made about the lack of, shall we say, star power in the RNC […]

In early September of last year I was attending the United States Conference on AIDS in Orlando and running late for a dinner I had been invited to that evening. AIDS conferences are the endurance marathons for […]

Bon Voyage is a cheerful collection that travels back to the 60s, the height of the industrialization boom in Barcelona when thousands arrived from smaller towns and cities. It was called “Catalan Manchester…

Lesbian Cartoon Alert: The return of Harriet The Spy

Beloved children’s novel Harriet The Spy, by lesbian author Louise Fitzhugh, has endured through the decades, almost certainly bolstered by the fandom of y […]

The Attorney General’s office in Texas is not exactly known for being a friendly place for LGBTQ people. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is NOT a fan, to say the least, and apparently Assistant Attorney G […]

Billy Eichner developing Paul Lynde biopic Man in the Box

Queer and square at the same time is a good way to describe the legendary Paul Lynde, the comic actor who worked in film and TV for decades, but is most […]

If you’re planning on selling your home soon, you want to be able to set your asking price as high as you can. You may need to make a down payment on a new property or make enough from the sale to pay off debts o […]

Greetings and F.U. to Trump and his enabling Republicans who pretended COVID-19 was a Democratic hoax and STILL have no national plan to mitigate the virus, because my kid started his first day of middle school […]

For years I have heard about Salt Lake City’s thriving LGBTQ community, but I had yet to experience it firsthand. The Advocate even called Salt Lake City, one of the ten ‘Queerest Cities in America.’ Recen […]

The day the universe decided it wanted to see sugar, spice and everything nice, it was June 10, 1991 – the day I was born. Even as a child, I was always talkative and quite the jokester. Winning “Loudest,” ” […]

Jessie Ware sees all the fan-sent rainbow emojis on her Twitter feed, and “definitely a lot of Spanish writing and I don’t know what they’re saying to me but I love it,” gushes the British balladeer turned dis […]

‘Bring My Flowers Now,’ Tanya Tucker

Country music legend Tanya Tucker’s elegiac coda from her first album in 10 years, “Bring My Flowers Now” off While I’m Livin’, is a frank reflection of leaving this life […]

The only things I knew about Kansas City prior to visiting, were the tales of legendary BBQ and the Chiefs. I went with an open mind and little expectations. The city has been generating a lot of positive buzz as […]

In “Dystopia”, their newest activewear line for men and women, ES Collection imagines a post-apocalyptic world that is the direct result of today’s extreme capitalism, consumerism, technological dependence and […]

“Pull your pants up.” How many times have we heard this admonishment directed at young Black men? Even Barack Obama, in a 2008 interview with MTV, said, “Brothers should pull up their pants.”

Mind you, he did […]