You Can Expect My Next Caftan Interview April 21-22
Eleventh-hour cancellation left me scrambling for a moment.
Hi there paid and free Caftan subscribers. I hope you’re having an Enchanted April thus far. (Remember that 1992 film with Joan Plowright, among others?) Just a very quick note to say that I’d actually started an interview with someone in late March to run in early April but before we could continue this person told me they had some heavy medical stuff come up and wanted to set the introspection aside for the time being. Which left me a bit at a loss for April, but thankfully on April 19 I’m doing an interview with a certain expert on gay men’s lives that I think will have lots of interesting stuff in it about, to crib from Oprah, “living our best life” when it comes to our relationships with others and ourselves. (Our Gay Bodies, Ourselves!) And I intend to pull that interview together and post it that very weekend before I go away for a week. I tell you this because usually I get a new interview up at the top of the month and I didn’t want you to think I was slacking!
One other note: I would love to do more interviews with gay men roughly age 60 or over who’ve done something really interesting or extraordinary in cities (including non-U.S. cities) outside NYC, SF and LA, which is where most of my interviewees seem to live. One good example is this interview I did a few years ago of the couple who opened iconic Chicago gay bar Sidetrack 1983. Or this story I did (for TheBody.com, not for Caftan) about Jack Kersey, a gay man who provided compassionate care to folks with AIDS in 1980s-1990s Kentucky. Please drop me a line at timmurphynycwriter@gmail.com if you have good such leads. They don’t have to be nonprofit-type do-gooders per se. It could be the guy who DJ’d or was the drag hostess or the favorite go-go dancer at the local club for 30 years. (Of course they have to be alive still so I can potentially interview them!)
Thanks Caftaners and I’ll see you in a few weeks.
xTim