Several younger queers have asked those of us who live through the worst of AIDS have any lessons from that. My answer is yes, and the lesson is that THIS IS NOT AIDS. Why does that matter? HIV is difficult to transmit. You either have to have sex or share Read more…
THANKS TO HANK, my first feature film, will have its world premiere June 27, 2019, 4:10, and the storied Castro Theater as part of Frameline’s San Francisco LGBT Film Festival. What a fitting venue. The subject of the film, Hank Wilson, hosted the very first gay film festival in San Read more…
The Kickstarter campaign for my feature documentary on the life and work of Hank Wilson has launched! Please give it a look and chip in some money if you can. No amount is too small. A dollar is fine. Thanks to Hank is the story of an unsung hero, a Read more…
I am often amazed at how quickly the present becomes a long gone past. Case in point: how even my news-savvy thirty-something friends know nothing of the Central American revolutions of the 1980s, and thus have no context for understanding the current insurrection against the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. Here Read more…
Announcing the first fundraiser for the documentary I am making about beloved gay activist HANK WILSON. Comedy by Tom Ammiano, Karen S Ripley, and Laurie Bushman. Music by Blackberri Singer and Joe Wicht. And the very first sneak preview teasers of THANKS TO HANK, the Hank Wilson documentary by Bob Read more…
A musician in Berlin, Nicholas Bussman, is collecting revolutionary songs from throughout history, and asked if I would help him out by pointing him to songs from the Central American revolutions of the 1980s. I had not thought much about those songs since those days of revolution, which were long Read more…
With some reluctance, I should say that my next big project will be a documentary movie about the life of Hank Wilson. I usually don’t speak of my projects until they are done, but most of my projects have required no money. This has been fundamental for me: make art Read more…
Thanks to Giuseppe Aiello for this extended profile in the Italian music magazine Blow Up. Giuseppe is also preparing the Italian translation of my book Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines. This will be the first translation of one of my books. Giuseppe is part of the L’Asilo artist and Read more…
Rebecca Ferguson is my new hero. I’ve been asked and this is my answer. If you allow me to sing “strange fruit” a song that has huge historical importance, a song that was blacklisted in the United States for being too controversial. A song that speaks to all the disregarded Read more…
Christopher Williams, an American musician and scholar living in Berlin, just completed his PhD dissertation, which is actually a website: Tactile Paths: on and through notation for improvisers Tactile Paths is a native website — filled with music, scores, videos, and other tidbits in addition to plenty of text about the Read more…