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...
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