Category Archives: gay lesbian

World AIDS Awareness Day

December 1, 2019 – 1:21 pm

In the Fall of 1978 I was hired as security at an uptown punk disco uptown. The job paid $100 a night and free drinks from the gay bartenders. I came home from Hurrah smelling of cigarettes, beer, and perfume. Alice slept on the bed. I crashed on the couch. Late one night a doctor […]

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Remember Our Gone

December 1, 2019 – 6:05 am

Remember Our Gone

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Shazaam Gomer Pyle

September 24, 2019 – 6:32 pm

One of the more enduring gay myths was that of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors of Gomer Pyle having a Hollywood affair. Rock denied these allegations to me in Deauville, for he never wanted to let people know his true self. Jim Nabors was the same way, but this week the 82-year-old actor best known […]

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GAY BOY by Peter Nolan Smith ON SALE

March 27, 2018 – 12:10 pm

GAYBOY is a semi-fictional novella of my experiences with gay friends and family. The central character is my baby brother Michael Charles Smith, a gay radio personage in Boston. He like so many of others succumbed to AIDS and GAYBOY is an attempt to reincarnate my younger brother and the good times that exist in […]

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TRANNY TRICK OR TREAT by Peter Nolan Smith

February 21, 2017 – 2:47 am

My friend Richard is teaching school in Saudi Arabia. He says it sucks, but he’s coining good money. He asked if I want to join him. If all else fails, “Why not?” Saudi Arabia is closer to Thailand than New York. He sent an old joke yesterday. A man is in bed with his Thai […]

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