Mack And The Boys: A look deep inside the secret world of gay male escorts in the nation's capital and inside ourselves
Telling other people’s stories was my life’s work. I worked as a journalist in Kentucky for more than 25 years, right up to the time I was told by my employer to walk away from a privately funded reporting project I was researching in Washington, D.C., or be fired.  I left the job I loved at a paper I cherished in order to tell you about the secret world of gay male escorts in the nation’s capital. I left the Lexington Herald-Leader and my journalism career because of my life-long history of standing up against discrimination and supporting a person’s right to be who they really are or want to be. I have also always been a dreamer. Dreams are special things; they encourage us to do what logic tells us to run away from. The United States of America was founded upon the dream that its citizens would have the freedom to be themselves, no matter how out of step that might seem to others. It is a dream not yet fulfilled for all. Those of us who march to the beat of a non-traditional drummer are often labeled by society as being “different.” I have been “different” all my life. There is a cost for being “different.” It is a price some of us decide to pay for being able to be who we really are. Reading Mack And The Boys, you will come to know what the secret world of gay male escorts in the nation’s capital is really like. You will learn how the boys and I came to meet senators, congressmen, high-ranking government officials, corporate leaders and lots of ordinary people. Each has a dark secret, one that often ends relationships, careers, and sometimes, even lives.