Washington, D.C.
Leonard Matlovich grave
Congressional Cemetery
1801 E Street, S.E.
Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich’s (1943-1988) tombstone reads “Never Again, Never Forget — A Gay Vietnam Veteran — When I was in the military they gave me a metal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.” Matlovich, who did three tours of duty in Vietnam [...]
Archive for April, 2009
“The harder I prayed, the queerer I got”
Posted in District of Columbia, gay and lesbian, military on April 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Gay Key West
Posted in Florida, gay and lesbian on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I received the following press release today about an upcoming film that looks kind of interesting, on the history of gay Key West. A friend of mine – a gay male architect – once pointed out the fact that queer resorts often tend to be at the tips of land: Key West, Provincetown, Fire Island. [...]
His Town
Posted in Connecticut, gay and lesbian, gravesites, playwrights on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hamden, Conn.
Thornton Wilder gravesite
Mt. Carmel Cemetery
3801 Whitney Avenue
If you’ve visited my other blog, “A Very Gay Play,” you know that I wrote a play called Their Town on the topic of same-sex marriage that was inspired by Thornton Wilder’s classic Our Town. It seemed to me the height of irony that the most-produced play in [...]
To Queer a Mockingbird
Posted in Alabama, gay and lesbian, historic sites, novelists on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monroeville, Ala.
Old Courthouse Museum
31 North Alabama Ave.
I’m currently reading Mockingbird, a portrait of writer Harper Lee, and enjoying the bits and pieces of her life that match up with her classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. That novel is a favorite of mine, as is the movie of the same name – I even have [...]
