A Queer POV: Friends, Loves, & Life

In this week’s episode of Friends, Loves, & Life , I sit down with someone I’ve known for nearly 25 years—Dr. Alex del Rosario. He’s an HIV specialist, a leather man, a deeply thoughtful gay doctor, and one of the most open, generous people I know. Talking with Alex always feels like pulling up a chair with someone who just gets it —and this conversation is no exception. We cover a lot of ground....

In this episode of Friends, Loves, and Life , I sit down with my longtime friend Sean Rhodes for a moving, funny, and deeply honest conversation about identity, reinvention at 60, and the messy beauty of starting over. Sean opens up about being adopted, finding his birth mother, ending a relationship in midlife, and what it really means to evolve. We also talk about his final AIDS Lifecycle Ride—a...

Welcome to the very first episode of Friends, Loves, & Life ! I’m so excited to finally share this project with you—and it felt only right to start this journey with the person who’s been beside me for nearly two decades: my husband, Derek. This episode is more than just an interview. It’s a conversation between two people who met in the most ordinary (yet hilarious) way and built an extraordinary...

The Pink Triangle: A Reminder of Our Past—and the Battle We Still Face In Nazi concentration camps, a pink triangle meant one thing—you were a target. A target for guards, who were given permission to unleash unimaginable cruelty. The triangle marked you as less than human, as someone who didn’t deserve to live. But even after the camps were liberated, the nightmare didn’t end. While others were f...