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Send us Fan Mail Dwayne A. Ratleff Dancing to the Lyrics is a timeless and timely coming-of-age tale. Through the eyes of the young protagonist, Grant Cole, we are offered a first-hand account of an African American gay youth who perseveres in spite of personal and family obstacles as well as the larger challenges of his era. As Grant struggles to comprehend his own nature, his world, and the adul...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Mannino Jason has decades of experience in multiple various careers that overlap including careers as an Executive Search Consultant, Executive Coach, Singer, Actor.   In Executive Search Jason has partnered with a variety of mission-driven clients both in house and with some of the world’s top executive recruiting agencies including Korn Ferry and Koya Partners (a division...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Vitale is a gay man who weighed 312 pounds when he went in for his annual check up.  His doctor told him that if something didn't change in his lifestyle, he would die fairly soon.  He was referred to a doctor who did bariatric surgery.  Scott credits a lot of his success to the nutritionist who helped him learn to eat differently.  Under her guidance, he lost 45 pounds...

Send us Fan Mail TED FOX The misadventures of Ted Fox's young gay life in Tennessee: early childhood adventures, a very flamboyant piano teacher, the diving team, begging Jesus to change him, travel, relatives in denial, becoming a trampoline champ, working as a dancer and actor, getting busted for weed, and other adventures! And of course all those adventures have given him great memories an...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Bedard, M.A.,  C.Ht Author of  "Convergence Healing-  Healing pain with energetic love". "The doctors were able to put the bones back together, but they didn't put my life back together..." " Millions of people suffer from some form of chronic pain (whether it be physical, emotional, or existential), and this discomfort silently drains too many...

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...