by Jeff Stookey | Sep 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-1990) has created an intriguing and challenging body of work that is as relevant today as it was when he was coming of age during the rise of the Nazis in Germany. Two specific aspects in Durrenmatt’s work epitomize...
by Jeff Stookey | Aug 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Changing attitudes When I participated in the Pathfinders intergenerational program at the Q Center, LGBTQ elders were paired with middle school Gay Straight Alliance kids. In discussion with an African-American teenage boy, who said his family was religious, I...
by Jeff Stookey | Jul 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is not unusual for young military men to form intense emotional relationships, perhaps at times sexual. Some combination of youth, fear, camaraderie, lack of contact with women, separation from familiar environs, male bonding, and young male hormones...
by Jeff Stookey | Jun 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
This month is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, considered the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. I didn’t hear about the Stonewall riots until years after it happened. But my partner, who was in the military at that time, was subscribing...
by Jeff Stookey | May 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
With the UN report on the danger of losing one million species to extinction within our lifetime and continued reports on the growing perils of systemic global climate disruption, we must confront the fact of human overpopulation. The World Population...
by Jeff Stookey | Apr 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
book cover: The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, 1933, mixes politics and horror. My friend J D Chandler is writing a serialized werewolf story inspired by The Werewolf of Paris (by Guy Endore, 1933) but Chandler’s is set in Portland and titled,...
by Jeff Stookey | Mar 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Originally, I imagined writing this blog about the flap over Gillette’s controversial #MeToo commercial alongside a discussion of beauty standards and what’s being called “beauty-standard denialism.” First, the Gillette ad has been both praised and damned. From...
by Jeff Stookey | Feb 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
That’s Ernestine in the white-framed sunglasses. Her sign reads: “Denial of Equality of Opportunity is Immoral.” Photo from the Making Gay History website, referenced below. I recently discovered the Making Gay History podcast, now in its fourth season, and I can’t...
by Jeff Stookey | Jan 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
photo from The Guardian article of 30 Dec. 2018 Medical historian Merilee D Karr alerted me to a recent Guardian article about a new book: Ike’s Mystery Man, Peter Shinkle’s biography of Robert Cutler. “…the big headline is about Cutler’s shepherding of...
by Jeff Stookey | Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently spent a large part of an afternoon at the Department of Motor Vehicles waiting to renew my driver’s license. While waiting, I was reading about the collision of cultures of three peoples on three continents—Europeans, Africans, and indigenous...
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