Recovery
Las Vegas “Daddy” Cancelled Due to “Sex Work”
Saturday, February 5th, 2011I have cancelled the Las Vegas workshop run of my new solo play WHO’S YOUR DADDY? because the owner of the theatre suggested that I return to escorting. Seriously. I feel like I need to share this because I have many friends and fans who were anticipating seeing the show in late March. I, too, [...]
“Ayn Rand Stole My Boyfriend”
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011I keep seeing everyone on the subway reading THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED. Even my Republican Mormon family reads Ayn Rand. Well, I think I know all I need to know. So I thought I’d written a new art song worthy of Lincoln Center. It’s a bit long. But it’s not over ’til the fat [...]
Emotional Dependency/Romantic Intrigue/Sex Addiction . . . Solution?
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011The original quest for distraction from life’s tensions and responsibilities, for relief from past guilt and present frustration, now led us into oblivion. The brave new worlds of morality where “anything goes” because “nothing matters” boomeranged, leaving us grasping for some residual sense of meaning or reality in life. Obsession and compulsion, now our masters, [...]
Reborn?
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011Here in New York, the word “God” can often be looked at with disdain and disgust. I’ll admit, it’s a loaded word. But once one looks past the negative connotations, it becomes an umbrella-word for “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower” as Julia Cameron quotes Dylan Thomas in her spiritual work [...]
“Runaway Bartender”
Monday, December 20th, 2010RUNAWAY BARTENDER Music and Lyrics by Steven Fales August in the Village — No place else to be. The Hamptons and Fire Island — Not my cup of tea. I met him at the stage door in the light of day. Never thought I’d meet someone at my matinee! But then again hey! Maybe he’ll [...]
I’m Nervous! or What Would Elton John Do?
Thursday, October 14th, 2010I’m very nervous about the media blitz going on as they bring well-meaning but extreme attention to all of these suicides. I am nervous that an unintended side effect will actually be more suicides and that “honoring” them so extravagantly is a way of not looking at our responsibility WITHIN the gay community. Pointing the [...]
I am HIV-positive. My boyfriend is not. He is riding for me and all of us.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010Before I started dating Christopher this summer, he had already pledged to ride for a cure for HIV/AIDS. It was one of many things about him that initially inspired me. I now find myself in a beautiful, mutually committed relationship with an HIV-negative man as I have just started coming out about my HIV-positive status. [...]
New York Is My Mistress
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010“New York Is My Mistress” By Steven Fales, New York City, November 2009 New York is my mistress I shall not want. She maketh me to lie down in dark pastures. She leadeth me beside the crystal meth waters. She cheateth my soul. How can I tame you, lover? You cost all I have. You [...]