So much for my 2020 vision
By Buddy Early, July 2020 Issue. Not even the most inventive Hollywood minds could script a three-and-a-half year run like we’ve had. Sure, individually the phenomena of [...]
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You’re not a patriot; you’re a flag-waver
By Buddy Early, June 2020 Issue. There’s something wrong with me. I’m not talking about my inability to wink or my obsession with people fake-eating hamburgers in [...]
Life A.C.: After Corona
By Buddy Early, May 2020 Issue. As I am writing this, I have been quarantined in my apartment due to the Coronavirus pandemic for, oh, I guess about six months. Actually [...]
Phoenix Pride
By Buddy Early, April 2020 Issue. This column ought to come with a warning: you may interpret this as one of those “things used to be better back in the day” meditations. [...]
Nobody grabs my butt anymore
By Buddy Early, March 2020 Issue. When I was in my 20s and early 30s, I suppose I was a bit of a barfly. You could’ve found me in any one of a half-dozen watering holes [...]
Love the job you’re with
By Buddy Early, January 2020 Issue. My senior year in high school I wrote in multiple yearbooks: “Watch for me on Saturday Night Live.” That’s when I thought I was [...]
Security Blankets: Dr. Brenda Combs aims to provide warmth to Phoenix’s homeless through winter months
By Buddy Early, December 2019 Issue. Arizonans are known for touting “eight months of beautiful weather” while other parts of the country are fighting off freezing [...]
News is real, Trump is fake
By Buddy Early, December 2019 Issue. When the buffoon who currently occupies The White House moves out — whether that’s in January of 2021 or sooner — this nation can [...]
Celebrating a Flirty Thirty
By Buddy Early, November 2019 Issue. Happy 30th Anniversary to Echo Magazine! I had to get that out of the way immediately; otherwise, I’d forget the same way I do on [...]
The Past I Heard …
By Buddy Early, November 2019 Issue. To celebrate Echo’s 30th birthday, this year I will be catching up with some of Arizona’s LGBT personalities from past and present to [...]
The Past I Heard …
By Buddy Early, October 2019 Issue. Janus Theatre was theater for gays (and everyone else) To celebrate Echo’s 30th birthday, this year I will be catching up with some of [...]
Appalachia is purt near heaven
By Buddy Early, October 2019 Issue. This summer I was able to cross something off my bucket list. Most things on that list involve sporting events — the Summer Olympics, a [...]
Why every day is casual Friday
By Buddy Early, September 2019 Issue. I’ve been told on occasion I clean up well. That usually means a person is so surprised to see me wearing a dress shirt and/or tie [...]
The Past I Heard …
By Buddy Early, September 2019 Issue. To celebrate Echo’s 30th birthday, this year I will be catching up with some of Arizona’s LGBT personalities from past and present [...]
Sleeping single in a queen-size bed
By Buddy Early, August 2019 Issue. I am approaching a monumental milestone at the end of the year. No, I’m not talking about a birthday with a zero at the end; nor am I [...]
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