Meet my voyeur
Hey, I found your nose. It was sticking in my business. Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s [...]
He, she, they
Italy's recent lockdown forced many of us to come up with something to occupy our time. Northern Italy was the [...]
Shameless sheep
The expression "beware a wolf in sheep's clothing" goes back millennia. The ancient Greek slave and storyteller Aesop probably used [...]
Never let them see you cry
Why is it that being bullied as a kid can stay with you for a lifetime? I'd had a cappuccino [...]
A plague’s lengthy shadow
Our 25-year-old friend Nicolo came to dinner a couple of weeks ago. Suddenly, over pasta, he told my husband Alberto [...]
A toy story
Play is the way that intelligent animals learn. It's also the way children discover who they are and how they [...]
The Yellow Brick Road
It’s Saturday evening and I’m hanging out with my English speaking "Meet Up "group on Milan's Via Lecco. By midnight, [...]
Thoughts on Grindr
I’m sitting with my friend Fabrizio in a shabby chic cafe that charges more for table fees and service than [...]
My life, your tale
Gay literature is a testimony to love, pain and suffering. As with any group, particularly a minority group, it is [...]
Sweet as a peach
It's a big deal in the gay community when a film that deals directly with homosexual desire makes it to [...]