Episodes

The Smiling Coast tells the story of the rise and fall of Yahya Jammeh, an autocrat who ruled the small country of The Gambia in… Read More »The Smiling Coast

Chapter 2: The Birth of a Post-Mattachine Movement The Transformation of Pride tells the story of how the evolution of the gay pride march in… Read More »The Transformation of Pride

December 16, 1986. It was a cold winter day in Alma-Ata, the capital of the Soviet Union’s Kazakh Socialist Republic. Every Sunday, Pravda, the official… Read More »Alma-Ata, 1986: The First Test of Gorbachev’s Glasnost

Detailing the effects of 9/11 on Catholic New Yorkers, “A Test of Faith” will serve as the book’s prologue. The end of the chapter introduces… Read More »Gotham and Gomorrah: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in New York City

E In the early 1960’s the Conservative Party of New York State is formed as a right-wing protest ticket. It is meant to counter the… Read More »The New Politics

This is the the sixth of nine chapters in my eventual book, and is the sequence of events that occur right before the climactic action… Read More »The Last American Communists: The story of the fall of the Communist Party USA

I Times Square was a center of crime, prostitution and porn in the latter half the of 20th century. This book is about the history… Read More »Times Square: Clean up or take over?

This book is a very personal look at how two of the major American issues of our day – immigration and LGBT rights – came… Read More »Gaining the Right to Love Beyond Borders