Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair
Bring me a higher love
-Higher Love, Steve Winwood and Will Jennings
As a Denver DJ in the m...
Beady, red eyes zeroed in on his head; razor-sharp claws reached and clenched, and as sharp teeth were about to bite his throat.Joe woke up, crying out.
His e...
Is that guy in the sling really getting, you know...by a snake?
That question—and others about sex vignettes—had been asked by my Colorado dancing buddies at...
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...
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'..."
