The Past I Heard …
By Buddy Early, March 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 [...]
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The youth fairy ain’t a-coming.
By Buddy Early, March 2019 Issue. There are certain things that become part of your routine when you get older. You take an Ibuprofen that’s on the counter, even if it’s [...]
Boycott This Column, But With Good Reason
By Buddy Early, February 2019 Issue. I made it through 2018 without any major crises to speak of — no deaths in the family; no loss of employment; no waking up to find a [...]
New Year, Same Old Me
By Buddy Early, January 2019 Issue. “Do you have any resolutions?” Has anyone ever really asked this question with a genuine concern? It has always struck me as the [...]
The Reason I Dread the Holidays — It’s Not Why You Think
By Buddy Early, December 2018 Issue. As I was contemplating what my column would be about – back-to-school craziness, NFL predictions, new fall movies and television shows [...]
I’m Here for a Melrose Place Reboot
By Buddy Early, November 2018 Issue. It’s been over two decades since I accidentally walked into a bath house in Washington D.C.’s gay district. It was both terrifying [...]
The fine line between selflessness and self-loathing
By Buddy Early, September 2018 Issue. It might surprise you to learn that I sometimes engage in online debates with people who spout bigotry and ignorance. That is, if [...]
Wedding Belle Blues
By Buddy Early, August 2018 Issue. There’s a common saying that goes “If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get gay married.” Or something like that. “Gay [...]
The most groundbreaking thing you’ll read in the next five minutes
By Buddy Early, July 2018 Issue. Earlier this year I saw an advertisement for the movie Love, Simon, and it struck me very odd that the poster included the word [...]
The Year of The Purge
By Buddy Early, June 2018 Issue. The tiny home phenomenon is something that has caught my attention lately. While most people accumulate “things” as badges of their [...]
Slobulous And Owning It
By Buddy Early, May 2018 Issue. “Why are you not more successful?” a friend asked me recently over coffee. This wasn’t really what he said but I fancy myself as someone [...]
Our Compassion CAN Make the Difference
By Buddy Early, April 2018 Issue. An optimistic person—someone I am trying to be—approaches each spring with a mindset of rebirth and/or renewal, or perhaps as a time to [...]
The Art of Drag
By Buddy Early, October 2017 Issue. “She’s an America Girl.” To those in the know, that phrase means a female impersonator who has a polished look, is intelligent and [...]
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