When I was young, about a hundred years ago, Rick Danger was my nom-de-deejay. I spun at a few local clubs, mostly at the Ballpark, a now-defunct bathhouse. I ...
As winter cold yields to warmer weeks, America becomes obsessively patriotic beginning with Memorial Day and peaking with July 4. Between them, Flag Week surrou...
La reine est morte!
I grieve for Eric Engles, queen extraordinaire. My dancing buddy from our gay-glorious days in 70s/80s New York tripped his last light-fa...
My name is Rick Kitzman, and I’m an Oscar-holic.
The 1962 Academy Awards ceremony is the first I remember. I was upset because my favorite film, The Absent-M...
To LGBTQs coming out today, I say, “YOU ARE AWESOME!”
Your creativity, compassion, courage, and community service make me proud and hopeful.
In 1972, at a...
I know, I know—your dog is the best dog in the whole world, or cat, or rodent, or bird. No matter the species, perhaps your loving pet kept you sane through the...
I have been raped.
Too much, too soon? No other words will suffice. My memory is my only proof.
Since the tipping-point exposé of Hollywood producer Harvey We...
Books—printed, audio, online, or on e-devices—make risky gifts. But long after the tie hangs unworn, the toy bores and breaks, or the scent sits unopened, a boo...
The tragedy in Las Vegas last month put yet another tally on America’s rich list of massacres inspiring more unspeakable fear, pain, sorrow, anger, and grief. W...
I stand staring at the blue sky, towering cliffs, and a black cave when a gigantic dragon and a colossal, dog-legged Cyclops wrestling in a macabre death dance ...
Rick Kitzman is a Colorado native and a survivor of the AIDS epidemic in New York City during the eighties. He's been a corporate trainer, Human Resources director, and a club deejay (Studio 54 in New York, The Ballpark in Denver). He is a published author: The Little Book on Forgiving for Science of Mind (published by DeVorss & Co.), and winner of the John Preston Award for his short story The Lady in the Hatbox in Best Gay Erotica of 1997.
He currently contributes to OUT FRONT with opinion articles ranging from political injustice to the Oscars. He has a great partner who treats him like gold and says "he's adorbs and funny as heck!" Rick thinks tweets are for twits. "One word: Trump... just sayin'..."
