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I've lived as an artist of one sort or another all my life. I spent the '80s and '90s (my 20s and 30s) in New York studying painting, playing in bands, writing songs, singing, making theater. I grew up in Indiana, and, besides New York, I've lived in Nashville, San Francisco, the Utah wilderness, and for two years in a camper on the road.

I'm 48. I came out in 1979. I caught the tail end of the wild years before HIV rewrote the script. I was a member of ACT UP and Queer Nation in the late 80s. My political consciousness was forged in opposition to the threats of that dark time: Reagan, Jesse Helms, the Moral Majority, and the rest. Lately, I find myself pretty far outside the mainstream of the LGBT movement, politically speaking. I can get adamant. I try not to be strident, and I love it when smart people disagree with me. I love the conversation. There's nothing sexier than being persuaded.

I am a writer and artist; I make theater and sometimes film, I write songs and sometimes I perform them. I moved back to New York in 2010 after being away for 12 years.

I'm interested in many things: art, movies, books, sex, love, 70s variety shows, old musicals, porn, comedy, weird stuff, bad stuff. And I have a wicked Judy Garland fetish.

I have a personal blog at golikewater.blogspot.com, and a tumblr at golikewater.tumblr.com.