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It Is About Being Gay

It Is About Being Gay

[April 16, 2017]Earlier this year I attended a workshop for artists about using social media and analytics to promote their work. At that workshop I shared with my classmates the...

It Is About Being Gay

[April 16, 2017]Earlier this year I attended a workshop for artists about using social media and analytics to promote their work. At that workshop I shared with my classmates the...

Why Monsters?

Why Monsters?

[April 23, 2017]When I was in elementary school, I slept on a pull out couch in the living room because my childhood home did not have enough bedrooms to accommodate...

Why Monsters?

[April 23, 2017]When I was in elementary school, I slept on a pull out couch in the living room because my childhood home did not have enough bedrooms to accommodate...

My Process

My Process

[April 30, 2017]Ever since I was a little kid I have drawn pictures. I used to get up really early on Saturday mornings, sit myself on the floor at the...

My Process

[April 30, 2017]Ever since I was a little kid I have drawn pictures. I used to get up really early on Saturday mornings, sit myself on the floor at the...

Permed Hair, Fedoras, and Pink Bicycles

Permed Hair, Fedoras, and Pink Bicycles

[May 7, 2017]I don’t think that I was ever quite what my father expected me to be. When I was a boy, he assumed I would want to play sports...

Permed Hair, Fedoras, and Pink Bicycles

[May 7, 2017]I don’t think that I was ever quite what my father expected me to be. When I was a boy, he assumed I would want to play sports...

How to get to Rochester from Toronto

How to get to Rochester from Toronto

[May 14,  2017]My mom has a huge family—a huge church-going Roman Catholic family. My maternal grandmother had 7 daughters and 4 sons. After I came out to my immediate family...

How to get to Rochester from Toronto

[May 14,  2017]My mom has a huge family—a huge church-going Roman Catholic family. My maternal grandmother had 7 daughters and 4 sons. After I came out to my immediate family...

What About Me?

What About Me?

[May 21, 2017]In my senior year of high school I wrote and starred in a play called What about me?  I wrote the play as a way of dealing with my...

What About Me?

[May 21, 2017]In my senior year of high school I wrote and starred in a play called What about me?  I wrote the play as a way of dealing with my...