May 28, 2021Stop Waving The Rainbow Flag If You Haven’t Earned ItA gay, white, male Creative Director friend of mine was casting a series of commercials and having a boardroom showdown over diversity. The highly resistant client lost their temper and accused him of trying to fulfill some personal mission. He replied, no. That diversity is just what the world looks…LGBTQ6 min readLGBTQ6 min read
Mar 12, 2021The Yes BirdIt’s our anniversary. A year of COVID. And almost a year since a little bird paid me a visit. Last March, after watching the news creep over the continent, panic buying at the supermarket, and upping my Netflix membership I knuckled down for what I thought would be a…Covid5 min readCovid5 min read
Jan 22, 2021Can Conversation Culture beat Cancel Culture?And breath out… I’ve been holding mine for four years. Let’s talk about that inauguration. All the flags, nice touch. Fashion. It was like a primary color collection from the House of Pantone. And I loved it. The Winner? Michele. Best Outfit in a Supporting Role. Gaga. Amazing. J-Lo. I…Inauguration4 min readInauguration4 min read
Dec 27, 2020Hello From Between The YearsHallo von Zwischen den Jahren I’ve been staring at the keyboard for hours. Starting a piece. Stopping. Deleting and starting again. After doing this a few times, I realized that this is a pretty good analogy for this year. I started a piece about a greatest hits of New Year’s…Berlin Stories5 min readBerlin Stories5 min read
Dec 20, 2020The Great Reset and The Year 1ACWhat to say about this year? It was the year where you couldn’t avoid the news because we were all right in the middle of it. I hear people calling this year, The Great Reset. It got me thinking that maybe it’s not such a bad idea to make it…6 min read6 min read
Dec 13, 2020How To Travel In 2020: By TurntableHow does your city sound in 2020? When I’ve been on social feeds or texting with friends, you see pictures, memes and messages about how the cities we live are now wastelands. Everything is shut, there’s nowhere to go, everyone has locked themselves away. But earlier this year, when I…Berlin7 min readBerlin7 min read
Dec 6, 2020What Can We Learn About Post-Vaccine Life From Gay Men and PrEP?There were two very important pieces of news this week. The first is that three working vaccines are rolling off production lines and being distributed globally. It’s possible that people in Europe are going to start receiving vaccinations in January, maybe even earlier. …Covid-197 min readCovid-197 min read
Nov 29, 2020A Weirdly Intimate Trip To The DentistGreetings from Berlin, dear reader. I don’t how you’re doing with your lockdown, but our sequel here in Berlin has been going OK for me. And when I say OK, I mean good and bad. Besides the Netflix junkie behavior, obsessing over bread on Instagram yet cooking none myself, and…Berlin8 min readBerlin8 min read
Nov 25, 2020The Chancellor Who Cancelled Christmas’Twas the month before Christmas, and all through Berlin, Not a raver was stirring, there’s no clubs to get in, Fishnet stockings were hung in the WG with care, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there, But a fear keeps us up as we lay in our beds, …Berlin7 min readBerlin7 min read
Nov 20, 2020Berlin Stories: I finally meet my twin Hugh Jackman. Well, almost.In the world of the X-Men films, ordinary people develop fantastical powers via a small genetic mutation. Hugh Jackman as the Wolverine had the ability to automatically regenerate his body. Through a small genetic mutation, I also have an X-Men power. Which is to look like him. Hugh, that is…Berlin9 min readBerlin9 min read
