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8 Gay Actors Who Could Replace Chris Evans As Captain America; More Racial Issues On Dating Apps; Japan's Most Successful Male Geisha

8 Gay Actors Who Could Replace Chris Evans As Captain America

Here's a real novelty we don't read about often. Chris Evans won't be playing Captain America anymore. And here are a few gay suggestions for the future...

Marvel’s loss, however, could be LGBT geeks’ gain… if producers replace Evans with an actor who is, ahem, not so frustratingly straight. And yes, we have ideas!

Here's more. I think gay people are more than eager to see more openly gay actors getting roles in the mainstream. One su...

When They Call Lindsey Graham Gay; Gay Couple Audition For The Voice; NYC LGBT Icon Ms Columbia Found Dead

When They Call Lindsey Graham Gay

This has been happening a lot lately with straight people, and if you google it you'll find all kinds of articles. They've been joking about Lindsey Graham being gay. But it could be anyone.

There's a problem with this way of thinking, and someone should tell them we don't appreciate it.

It's a form of gay shaming. They use gay as a pejorative, with lame jokes, at our expense. And they're sending out the wrong message to the world.

Kate McKinnon impersonated Sen....

Bette Midler's Racist Tweet; 12-Man Out In Public Gay Sex Scene In Public Restroom Leaves Grocer Stunned; Matthew Shepard Legacy

Bette Midler's Racist Tweet

I saw this myself last night on Twitter. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and I had to keep re-reading it to see if it was real. At first I thought it might be a parody account.

Unfortunately, it was Bette Midler. 

Awful.

I'm not going to post her tweet here. It still bothers me to see it. It's the kind of thing that never gets better. But you can read more about it at this link. There are also shots of tweets in reply to her original tweet.


12-Man Out In...

Controversial Gay Film In India and Censorship; Stephen Colbert's Sexuality Questioned by CBS Vice President; Serious Medical Scare At Gay Club;

Controversial Gay Film In India and Censorship

This has been trending all week, but I didn't know much about it until I saw this article. The film's creators have been fighting a ban in India for 2 and a half years because there's gay romance.

It's finally going to be shown this Friday in the state of Kerala.

The movie tells the story of a gay painter, his partner Vishnu, and their activist friend Sia who rejects feminine gender identity. It depicts the trio’s struggle to find space and happines...

Leonardo da Vinci As A Gay Man; Doctor Who Sprinkled Cocaine On His Penis; Gray-Haired Couple Have Public Sex;

Leonardo da Vinci As A Gay Man

Every year I see Walt Whitman's birthday trending on Twitter, and every year the straight people on Twitter (Twitter is very heteronormative) ignore the fact that there's proof he could have been in a long term gay relationship, that his poetry is probably laced with hidden gay references, and that he could have been gay. They whitewash it by ignoring it, as if it never happened. Just the possibility alone seems to freak them out. Some will tell you they don't li...

NYC Gay Bar and Racism; Jake Choi Is Sexually Fluid; A Tinder-like App For Trans People: TRANSR

NYC Gay Bar and Racism

Here's a story about something that happened at a gay bar in NYC.

Lopez sparked a huge backlash after describing a flyer for “Manster”–a drag night hosted by popular queen Honey Davenport–as “like we’re promoting black night and I don’t like to get into black rink night people cool get the wrong idea and is not good for the businesses.”

Here's the rest. The comments are interesting. 


Jake Choi Is Sexually Fluid

Here's another one who's claiming to be sexually fluid. Loo...

Miami Beach A Gay Paradise; Anti-Gay Persecution In Chechnya; Catholic Minister Fired For Liking A Gay Marriage On Facebook

Miami Beach A Gay Paradise

I can remember back in the 90s when South Beach started gaining popularity with the gay community. It was THE place to go. Madonna was there, and so was Versace. My own brother has always gone there. He's owned homes, and he still does a good deal of business there. But it has changed a little, just like every other place where there was once a huge gay presence.

It’s true, back in the 90’s and 2000’s there more than double the number of gay bars in South Be...

Glendora Hill Series Gay Fiction by Ryan Field; Ian Mckellen's Vintage Throwback Photos; Weirdest Wildest Gay Hookups; The Queen's Gay Footman Is Demoted

Glendora Hill Series Gay Fiction by Ryan Field

The other day a reader contacted me about the Glendora Hill series. He wanted to know if there's a sequence, and how he should read the series.

So I replied that each book is a stand alone and it's not necessary to read them in any specific order. However, I did mention that I try to move the characters forward in any series I write, and that it might make a slight difference if you read them in the order in which they were written.

So here's a list...

Man Tricks Straight Men Into Sex; 10 Vintage Bob Mizer Homoerotic Images; Transphobic Stickers Found In Gender Neutral Bathrooms;

Man Tricks Straight Men Into Sex

With all the talk going around the Internet about sexual assault, this is interesting. Keep in mind, however, that the alleged "victims" in this case chose to wear blindfolds and they knew they were going to hook up for a sexual encounter.  The problem is they thought it would be with a woman, not with a man. And the straight men wearing blindfolds didn't like THAT. 

Xavier stands accused of tricking four straight men into having sex with him. He alle...

Catholic School Students Support Gay Teacher; A Bisexual's Thoughts About Bisexuality; Gay Bar In Austin Closes

Catholic School Students Support Gay Teacher

This is always why I have faith in younger people today.

Pupils at a church-run school in Germany protested their administration's decision to backtrack on a job offer to a popular teacher. The gay man's plan to wed his partner left officials with "no other alternative."

Here's the rest. I see a lot of grouchy older people on social media complaining about technology (which I love), and younger people who won't put down their phones, but I happen to b...