“There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America” is a famous quote often attributed to German chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898).

As everyone knows, the present pandemic forced many groups (queer or otherwise) to stop meeting in person. Instead, group members gather in front of their computers or other devices to attend virtual meetings or events.  

This is a troubling year for the American people.

In 1722 Daniel Defoe, the author of “Robinson Crusoe,” wrote “A Journal of the Plague Year.” This was a semi-fictional account of the Great Plague, an outbreak of bubonic plague that struck London from 1665 to 1666.

In 1978 the historian Barbara W. Tuchman published “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century.”

The last time I wrote my Coronavirus Journal it was still 2020, an “awful year” that I compared to Barbara W. Tuchman’s calamitous 14th Century.

Anyone familiar with cable television programs knows that Americans love the occult.

In a previous column I wrote about the financial troubles of Vitambi Springs Florida Wilderness Resort & Camp and worried that this LGBT community treasure might not be with us much longer.

I met Joseph McQuay in 1982 when he was hired as an editor of The Weekly News, Miami’s gay community newspaper.

I love thrift stores. The price is mostly right, the quality is surprisingly good, and my money usually goes to good causes. I began to shop thrift stores at a time when my finances were not so good and now, though my finances are better, I continue to do so.

“You don’t look Latin,” people sometimes say to me when they learn about my background. “What does a Latin look like?” I reply, knowing full well what their answer might be.

On LGBTQ History Month, we remember and celebrate those of us who lived our truths at a time when to do so was a dangerous thing.

When I came out (almost 50 years ago), I learned much about being gay from older gay or bisexual men, Hispanic and Anglo, who I met in Miami’s then-flourishing gay bars.

It is seldom a good time to be a dissident Cuban, in Cuba or in Miami. As far as my compatriotas are concerned, I am not a very good Cuban.

This is not an easy time to be a political progressive in Florida.

I met Morris Kight (1919-2003) in 1978. That year, Kight came to Miami to serve as Grand Marshal in the annual Pride Parade.

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) have gotten a bad rap from Homo sapiens, the species that competed with them and eventually replaced them.

On September 28, 2021, Tommy Kirk died at his home in Las Vegas. He was 79.

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, it unleashed a wave of worldwide sympathy not seen since the World Wars of the previous century.

I’m loitering in the foyer of my local Publix repeatedly stepping onto their vintage Toledo floor scale working through an OCD in bloom.

Dear President-elect Biden: I’m writing you this open letter as you prepare to take office as president.

In one of my son’s favorite video games, an artificial intelligence system promises the player cake if she completes various challenges. As the player proceeds through the game, however, she finds graffiti claiming “The cake is a lie,” and it becomes clear that the AI is stringing her along with malicious intent.

What’s this buzz term, “Glow-Up” all about? It’s a fancy-sounding term that sounds good — sounds fabulous actually. 

Well, Christmas is over once again. My favorite time of year has come and gone.

Have you ever had an important appointment that you prepared for, got up early to make, or arranged your schedule to prioritize for only to have it changed by the other party at the last minute?

There is one event that ties all of us in the gay community together. An event like no other. A climax of experience.

For most young people, adolescence is a time filled with fashion and romantic concerns. For Alex Koren, his teen years were the beginning of a quest for equal access for the hearing impaired.

A cold case is making progress after an arrest in the 2010 murder of an Oakland Park man.

The last administration has almost destroyed our democracy, damaged our justice system and polarized the country like no other before.  

The idea of a direct route across the Isthmus of Suez was considered a fantasy until the 19th century.