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While listening to the BBC News on New York's public radio station WNYC-AM 820, I heard that the TV actress June Lockhart ( Lassie and ...

I recently found a letter I forgot I wrote to the editor of the now-defunct New York Native , a weekly gay newspaper. At the time the lette...

I  recently found Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen (Berkley/Penguin Random House, 2019) in a Little Free Library kiosk in Harlem. This his...

About four or five years before I was an employee at Mount Morris Baths in Harlem, I went there to interview the owner Walter Fitzer and his...

In the mid-1960s, my sister, her son, and I were invited to the Black Muslim mosque in Los Angeles to hear the boxing champion Muhammad Ali ...

For the April 17, 2025 issue of the Gay City News , I wrote an article about what it was like to work at the Mount Morris Baths in Harlem. O...

The New York Times a few years ago published an article about the death of the black dance historian Joe Nash whose Harlem apartment was fi...