Justin and I had only been dating a year when same-sex marriage was legalized in NY. And from that point…
Theater can make you do strange things - like convincing one of your best friends to pose nude with fruit.…
A few months ago, I was anxiously awaiting the birth of my sister Beth’s first child. I had some experience…
The year is 1999. I’m at home in New Jersey after my freshman year of college, and having gotten a…
Looking at the walls of my home today — generously sprinkled with framed photos, prints, posters and the like —…
When I was a freshman in high school, my then-best-friend Pete had an older sister who was (more-or-less openly) a…
It did not start out as a good night. my then-boyfriend Jonathan and I had fallen into a pattern of…
It was the Christmas season of 1990, and I was beginning to have my doubts about this whole Santa Claus…
It was on an assignment nearly 15 years ago that I received my first massage. Reviewing a new spa, I…
There’s something romantic about the idea of bridges. Like most great relationship stories, they are essentially about overcoming obstacles to…
As we’ve spent recent weeks finishing up this issue about 2016’s “People We Love,” it occurs to me that this…