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Send us Fan Mail Paul Hietter Paul is a true renaissance man - having worked in a number of industries, with his favorites of being a caterer and event planner to the stars and a new thought minister. He is always happiest when he is of service and learning something new.    Overcoming life’s obstacles seems a good hobby and with hiking, working out, being a Chef and humanitarian, there is never a...

Send us Fan Mail Lucas Schelkens Sometimes things happen in life which we interpret as negative events. But in hindsight, often it's those events which propel us to success in other areas of our lives. Lucas paints a word picture of such things in his own life.  We join him in his journey as hardships launch him into several successful careers.  And sometimes failures in a relationship can le...

Send us Fan Mail Jesse Rosenberg and Ken Avedisian: Finding true love in their sixties. It IS possible! So many times, as single gay men reach their third chapter in life, they believe that it's no longer possible to find love. Ken Avedisian and Jesse Rosenberg prove that this is not always the case.  After a chance meeting on a street corner during Leather Pride when they were each visiting...

Send us Fan Mail Charlie Harding is an accomplished actor and singer, with a diverse mix of projects. He began his professional acting career with a co-starring role in the independent film Proxy.    Charlie is also the host and an executive producer of Underground and Out and About travel shows for Here! TV ,  and Planet Out. He recently played the Bouncer in the upcoming film Here We Are , and s...

Send us Fan Mail Adam's story and his struggles. Even though we each have dreams for that perfect life, many times we self sabotage ourselves for some hidden reason.  Adam shares the struggles he's had over the past several years with failed gay relationships, hurting himself and hurting others whom he's loved and lost.  Thankfully, his suicide attempts were not successful and he&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Gordon is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in Palm Springs, CA.   His life's path progressed from his days as a youth in NYC through various careers including a brief stint as a gypsy in the New York theater world to a landscape designer in Santa Fe, NM and then on to graduate school for counseling psychology at university outside of San...

Send us Fan Mail Sam Salar is a Persian, Jewish Gay man who has created the law firm LEGALLY QUEER in order to give back to the LGBT community. Sam discusses the struggles he had growing up in his Persian, Jewish family/community. His parents struggled to understand and accept who he was as a gay man, but they ultimately came around and became the ones who would help other Persian/Jewish parents u...

Send us Fan Mail Aneela Zaman is the author of Goodbye Isn't Goodbye . Still recovering from her separation and divorce, she meets an older gentleman in her yoga class.  Though obviously smitten with her, nevertheless, he accepts her wish to be merely friends, and not cross the line to be romantically involved.  She tells the story of her gradual realization that this gentleman (although far...

Send us Fan Mail Growing up, Edras Cordova's father constantly reminded him of a saying.  Edras chose to remember his father's teaching by having it tattooed across the top of his chest.  Roughly translated, the words say:  "Only the one who carries a knapsack knows what's in it".  We never know what another person is going through.  Edras took the message to heart and it...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Hassett is a singer- song writer and recording artist (His 6th album of original songs is coming soon).  Chris is also the co-author of Friendship Chronicles -  Letters Between a Gay and a Straight Man. About Chris Hassett Chris Hassett has been delighting audiences with his unique style of singing, song-writing &  story-telling for four decades. An accomplished entertai...

Send us Fan Mail Bill Kavanagh, LMFT Author of “Keep Your Fork; Something Sweet is Coming”  Bill was determined to dedicate his future towards helping others discover the path of healing that he had personally discovered after a life of extreme highs and lows.  Today, his writings and therapy techniques are focused on creative methods of dealing with the challenges that life offers us.  As a write...

Send us Fan Mail From an article by Max Berlinger in Vogue Runway: "Some designers create for fantasy, some designers create for reality, and then there’s Rio Uribe of Gypsy Sport, who doesn’t bother differentiating between the two. In fact, that blurring of the lines is a hallmark of his brand, which draws deeply on the Chicano American experience and then filters it through Uribe’s viewpoin...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, Eddie discusses what circumstances in his life brought him to the place he is today.  It's an interesting and poignant story of this father of eight, now living his best gay life in Palm Springs. Bonus: He reveals why he wears a cape while dancing each week at Oscar's Sunday Tea dance, and what the cape symbolizes. And Eddi talks about the group...

Send us Fan Mail I met Anthony some time ago. He was an Airbnb guest at my place in Palm Springs.  He made the decision at a birthday party that his coworkers had thrown for him.  He just couldn't spend the rest of his life in that corporate job .  So he carefully made plans for his exit strategy and then began a journey to discover parts of the world that he hadn't seen before.  And in...

Send us Fan Mail This is my second episode with Mark as my guest.  In the first episode, he primarily discussed his own personal journey and then he touched on his energy work toward the end of the recording. In this episode, he explains in more detail how he approaches the energy work that he does. EVERYTHING IS ONE WITH SOURCE CREATOR.   "That makes us all co-creators. We are, I AM, conscio...

Send us Fan Mail In 2015, Alan Fraser was in the best physical condition of his life.  But then one day after training he went home and realized that something just wasn't right.  Thankfully his (now) husband Tim jumped into action and drove a couple hours to see why Alan had stopped responding when Tim kept checking on him.  Tim found Alan unconscious in his bed, helped revive him and then r...

Send us Fan Mail The last two weeks, I visited my middle son Dave, his wife Meredith and my two grandsons Henry and Jack at their home in Dartmouth MA. Dave is a good sport.  He agreed to be interviewed for my podcast.  After we were finished, he told me that it was now my turn and that he was going to interview ME for a podcast episode! I was surprised at what I was feeling at first.  I guess I w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview one of my favorite people in this world: my son David.  Two people can experience the exact same event and yet they can have two different perspectives on what happened.  So we discuss what I saw as an amazing turnabout in his life from a very average high school student, to his life now as an attorney with multiple law offices on both coasts. He talks...

Send us Fan Mail RICHARD H JESSUP Richard has been Producing, Directing, Choreographing and Teaching Dance since 1982. He has focused his work in the genres of Musical Theatre and Concert Dance. Richard has directed and/or choreographed over 100 productions. Richard was the founding member of Against the Grain/ MEN IN DANCE , and is the Producing President for the organizations Festival of MEN IN...

Send us Fan Mail An Interview with Bar Bionic: A Non-Binary* Visual and Musical Artist. Pronouns: They/Their/Them* Bar and their friend came to visit Palm Springs over the 4th of July holiday weekend and they stayed at my Airbnb.  I found Bar's story, look and history to be fascinating.  In this interview, we chat about Bar's life in Israel, coming to the USA and landing in New York City...

Send us Fan Mail An Interview with Ben Miller. Searching: The Wanderlust of a 60-Year Old Gay Man from Pender to Pittsburgh, From Lincoln to LA, and Many Points in Between. Ben Miller and I discuss his interesting sixty year journey to where he is today.  He shares some of his spiritual practices which he uses to find peace and ground himself.  And he discusses a long term struggle with addiction...

Send us Fan Mail LUI GERVAIS is the author of "The Nipple Whisperer and other erotic epiphanies". Here is the review that I wrote after reading his book:      "When Paul, my Seattle friend called and told me that he received Lui's new book, I immediately ordered a copy. I was familiar with Lui from some past experiences with him. Notably, he offered a portion of the material in...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jallen Rix "Sex educator, author and activist Jallen Rix holds a Doctorate of Education in Sexology from Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, where he later taught as  a Professor. He maintains a private practice in Palm Springs CA, which includes personal consulting, sacred intimacy work, and surrogate-style partner experiences. He has appear...

Send us Fan Mail From the Prologue to Jill's book: "In a million years I could not have predicted that I would become the Dancing Queen of Palm Springs.  I could never have foreseen my growth and evolution into someone who the Gay Community would come to love and respect.  I did not know that I had so much in common with gay men, yet I do. It still amazes me that it is through my Dancing...

Send us Fan Mail Barry Schoenfeld is the creator of the California Community of Men. Barry Schoenfeld founded and runs Clear Vision Partners, an independent marketing consultancy, based in Palm Springs.  Before moving to Palm Springs in 2014, he held several executive roles in advertising agencies in New York and Los Angeles. In 2012, he founded The California Community of Men ("CalComMen&quo...