Gaywheels

Are you wearing purple? You should be: today is Spirit Day, a nationwide event that draws attention to the dangers of bullying and generates support for LGBT youth. [...]

Small cars are a big deal nowadays, and perhaps no one knows that like the LGBT community. [...]

In Minnesota, Richard Herod III has taken the “Vote No” message off of the rear bumper and made it larger than life. Herod’s idea began as a response to a rule imposed against him – right at his home. [...]

My “Driven” series is essentially about entropy; it’s the automotive equivalent of “ruin porn”. I’m attracted to the textures of old, beat up cars, the weeds growing up and around the abandoned vehicles, and the left-behind, lonely nature of the cars — once driven and beloved — left to the elements by their owners. [...]

On Tuesday night, the auto industry made quite a splash at the 2012 GLAAD Amplifier Awards. [...]

The “Lebanon Valley” series is one of my more personal series because it involves family and memory. When I was a kid, my sister and I were occasionally allowed to go with my cousins and uncles to the races there. One uncle had started racing cars at 16, and worked on a pit crew for a friend’s car. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, and I would sit in the stands with my father watching the cars and carefully frame my photos, believing in my naive eight-year-old-heart that my picture was special and it would look like a pro shot of a racing car, not a crappy snapshot with the chain link fence between me and the blurry car. [...]