Everyday Courage in the Face of Everyday Horrors: American Queer Life
Bran thought about it. “Can a man still be brave if he is afraid?”
“That is the only...
For thousands of years, religions damned, persecuted, and murdered LGBTQ people. In February, the United Methodist Church continued that exclusion, albeit less ...
For thousands of years, religions damned, persecuted, and murdered LGBTQ folks. In February, the United Methodist Church continued that exclusion, albeit less v...
Because the politics of religion—the unholy alliance of officeholders and pious institutions—seeks to deny LGBTQ people equal rights, our lives continue to be a...
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...
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'..."
