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The Mostly Non-Professional Writings of James F. "Jym" Andris

Articles

• National Gay Blue Jeans Day in the Sticks, unpublished, April, 1978.
• Education and Gays, Gaylife Magazine, Is. #1, October, 1978.
• Even Alexander the Great?, No Bad News, July, 1980.
• ERA, Homosexual Rights, and the New Era, The Gay News-Telegraph, Vol. 2, No. 3, December, 1982.
• I Finally Got It! A Reflection on Gay Marriage, The Vital Voice, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 25-July 8, 2004, pp. 18-19.

Blogs

• Of Course, It's Boring, Idiot (My old blog; 2005-2009. Comment by email only.)
• For Lack of a Better Wor(l)d, 2009-present

Selected Blog Posts

• An Oddysey Comes Home, September, 2023
• He Left a Stamp on my Heart, July, 2023
• Where Do You Go after The End? May, 2023
• The End, as Far as We Know It, March, 2023
• I Am a Music Box, January, 2023
• A Day in the Life, September, 2022
• We’re all trying to get it right, March, 2022
• Rest in Peace, Jim Pfaff, January, 2022
• Why hating haters is not a good idea, August, 2021
• It's All My Fault, August, 2021
• Beethoven Is My Hero, July, 2021
• It Turns Out This Is What I Wanted, June, 2021
• Impeachment: a Break in the Clouds, January, 2020
• What Is Pride, Anyway? June, 2019
• Bad Trip, June, 2019
• How an Ethics Course Changed My Life, May, 2019
• A Mothers Day Tale, May, 2019
• Realizations at the Return Counter, April, 2019
• Going Home at Christmas, December, 2018
• Old Age Ain’t for Sissies. Oh, really? International Transgendered Day of Remembrance, November, 2018
• Happy 108th Birthday, Dad, October, 2018
• Unlocking Gender Prison, October, 2018
• Eulogy for a Friend, October, 2018
• Bully for Me, October, 2018
• My Brother, Tom, Is Born, July, 2018
• Riding the Train in Sedalia: It Takes all Kinds, July, 2018
• This time, the sky really is falling: Living in the Era of Trump, June, 2018
• It’s the Patriarchy, Part I: Fundamentalism, November, 2016
• On Peace, July, 2016
• On Gender and Murder, June, 2016
• On Science and Faith, June, 2016
• A Personal Reflection on Gay Marriage on this Historic Day, June, 2015
• Un Encuentro en las Tiendas, April, 2015
• My Strength and my Redeemer (Conclusion), April, 2015
• In Honor of Lucille, October, 2014
• A Hummingbird Tale, July, 2014
• Omega on my Face, May, 2010
• Why Is This Happening to Me, November, 2009
• The Dirtiest Month of my Life, October, 2009
• A Perfect Summer Day, May, 2009
• Thoughts while Attending a Vigil, April, 2009
• Bea Arthur, Rest in Peace, April, 2009
• What Is Religion, March, 2009
• It's Lent Again Already, February, 2009
• Mom, January, 2009
• Three Years Later: Adventure Is the True Meaning of Advent, November, 2008
• Do unto Mothers as You Would Have Them Do unto You, February, 2006
• How Do I Write Thee; Let Me Count the Ways, January, 2006
• Everybody's Got To Pick Themselves Up, December, 2005
• The True Meaning of Advent, December, 2005
• Who Is the King?, December, 2005
• Family of Choice, December, 2005
• My Heart Is a Stable, December, 2005
• Abraham, Jesus, and Mom, November, 2005
• Being about Our Creator's Business, November, 2005
• The Most Precious Thing in the World, October, 2005

Books

• Thinking about Writing a Book, soon to be published e-book.
• The Sexy Seventies, written, next to be published as e-book.
• The Etherial Eighties, 2/3 written, in line to be published as e-book

Channelings

• A Handbook for Unicorns: Preface and Acknowledgements, October 26, 1983.
• A Handbook for Unicorns: I. Fact
• A Handbook for Unicorns: II. Philosophy
• A Handbook for Unicorns: III. Fable
• A Handbook for Unicorns (complete, Mac EPUB)
• Unicorn Transmissions II, Summer, 1984.
• And it truly was the unicorn that spoke. (PNG) by Diane Trippensee, 1984.
• The Unicorn's Reverie (PDF), October 14, 1983
• Fantasy of the Seven Doors (PNG)by Diane Trippensee, 1984.

Interviews

Over a period of several years starting 2010, I did hour long interviews of people who played a significant role in creating the "first" St. Louis Pride celebration in 1980. These interviews were done under the auspices of the St. Louis LGBT History Project.

• Cea Hearth (Glenda Dilley), by Jim Andris, 8/6/2010 at my home
• William Wesley (Bill) Spicer, by Jim Andris, 10/30/2011 at his home
• Frank Sprayberry, by Jim Andris, 1/16/2012 at my home
• John Hilgeman, by Jim Andris, 2/16/2012 at my home
• As a result of the above four interviews, I completed the article, The Magnolia Committee on June 7, 2012, and later in 2012 the article The 1980 Walk for Charity and the 1980 Celebration of Lesbian and Gay Pride in St. Louis, Mo

• Jim Pfaff, by Jim Andris, 5/9/2012 at my home
• I wrote this widely read and appreciated tribute, Rest in Peace, Jim Pfaff, when he died in January of 2022.

• Suzanne Goell, by Jim Andris, 8/20/2013, phone interview
• I wrote this history of the significant community newspaper, No Bad News, based on the interview with its founder, Suzanne Goell.

• Jim Thomas, by Jim Andris, 7/17/2012 at my home
• Jane Levin, by Jim Andris, 12/6/2013 phone interview
• I wrote this article on the St. Louis Organizing Committee, which organized St. Louis' partipation in the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979.

• Don Conway-Long, by Jim Andris, 1/17/2014 and 1/24/2014 phone interview
• I wrote this article on St. Louis Organization for Changing Men, based on my interview with Don Conway-Long

• Pat Murrell, Judy Hunter, Janet Utley, 8/14/2013 file and transcript at my home, viewing and discussing slides of Pride 80. Steve Brawley and Jim Andris present.

• Cea Hearth (Glenda Dilley, by Jim Andris, 2/9/2014 at my home)
• In 2014 there was a call for marshalls from the 1980 Pride Parade. I worked with Ellen Vanscoy, and we got the participation of Cea Hearth, Bill Spicer, Frank Sprayberry (RIP), John Hilgeman, and Jim Pfaff.
• I also have put up a tribute site for Cea Hearth which contains a lot of the original Pride music written and performed by her.

• Allan Levin, 5/14/18. Tee shirt maker from late 70s, early 80s

• There are many other important articles, documents, images and recordings on the same website.
• Recently supplied information on the First LGBTQ Radio Show on KADI FM in 1979-80 called "GayTalk"
• 1977. An in-depth analysis of the Save Our Children anti-gay campaign in Missouri, voice recordings of all the speakers at the 2nd Annual Gay Rights Rally at MCC St. Louis, and how the benefit screening of A Very Natural Thing was organized by Rick Garcia and others.
• My take on how it is that "gayborhoods" emerge: through the support of progressive establishments.

Plus:

• Kris Kleindienst, by Monietta Slay, 8/3/1994, complete synopsis and transcription by Jim Andris is available.
• Laura Ann Moore, by Jeanette Sanchez, at the Missouri Historical Society, 9/25/2011, complete synopsis and transcription by Jim Andris is available.
  complete synopsis and transcription by Jim Andris soon to be available.

Plus:

• An actual interview of me by Charles Koehler in 1990, talking about the radio show GayTalk and also my songwriting career.
  

Other Stories

• The Angel Made Me Do It, written around 1990.
• A Rose Is a Wave Is a Rose, January 6, 1994

Family History

• My German-American Ancestors (online pdf)
• Descendants of Abraham Fickeisen and Margaretha Mueller (online pdf)

Talks

• Sinabism in Gay Men: Description, Etiology and Treatment, Presented to: Lutherans Concerned St. Louis, St. Louis MO, April 12, 1981
• Planetary Metaphysics and Education, Presented to: The American Humanistic Education Conference, Pheonix, Arizona, April 22, 1983.
• A Response to David G. DuBois: The Appreciation of Diversity from a Queer Perspective, Presented to: a Diversity Conference held at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, January 27, 1995.
• The impact of quantum theoretical models of consciousness on the study of education, Presented as a poster session at Consciousness and its Place in Nature: toward a Science of Consciousness, Skövde, Sweden, August 10, 2001.

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