About a year ago, I decided to put more time into this blog. I knew that the previous years or so (or longer!) I was rarely publishing posts, and I had taken time to think about whether I wanted to keep The Gay Vegans going. In the past several months,[…]
Nine years ago, he passed away, and he is always in my heart. Precious Miguel. In February of 2004, Mike and I were heading home to Denver from Bernalillo, New Mexico. It was cold and had snowed as we passed Santa Fe. Up ahead on the highway, I saw what[…]
And there are endless opportunities to end it. I became vegan in 1996 when I decided that I could no longer participate in the cruelty that comes with eating meat and animal products. Becoming vegan was only the start. It can be easy for me to forget my fight against[…]
Our summer road trip was planned because we were attending a wedding in St. Louis. As we were planning, I started thinking of other places and people to visit. Then we added spots in Michigan. Then Chicago. And of course back home to Denver. Our trip was filled with seeing[…]
’Testify to Love,’ a religious song I’ve loved for years, makes a gay comeback. I grew up Catholic. Not the repressive, anti-gay Catholic. The social -justice-seeking, loves-everybody Catholic. I didn’t know the Catholic Church and some Catholics were anti-gay until I came out. The coming-out process, which took several years[…]