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We jumped the gun on thinking we had our last swim of the season, as Andy and ...

When you’ve grown up in this country as part of a marginalized community, you see and feel ...

Saving some daylight, night comes early now, increasing its hold and sway for the next two months. ...

With a few hard frosts already under our autumn belt, I assumed that our outside blooms were ...

About Alan Ilagan

Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.