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A White Poet's Failed Attempt At Black Vernacular; San Francisco's Male Strip Club Closes; CrossFit Welcomes Trans Athletes

A White Poet's Attempt At Black Vernacular

You know how I'm always talking about gay culture being appropriated by straight white people, but no other culture is. Well, I've been wrong. I truly didn't know this kind of thing was still happening.

This one even mentions Scarlett Johansson.

That debate shows no signs of abating. Earlier this month, after intense criticism, a theater in Montreal cut short the run of a production by the director Robert Lepage that featured mostly white acto...

Travel Blogger: Everything's Bigger In Texas; Identical Gay Iraqi Twins; Transgender Woman Suing Starbucks

Travel Blogger Joey Amato: Everything's Bigger in Texas

Not too long ago an older gay author I know posted on social media that he didn't want to go to a conference in Texas because he didn't like the politics there. He implied the entire state was homophobic. When I commented that I know Texas a little through my own travels and I've never once found it to be homophobic in any way, he dismissed me with a condescending smile emoji. I didn't pursue it because he's much older than I am, and he's...

Who Forgives Older Homophobic and Racist Tweets? Brighton Pride Bus and Possible Gay Footballers; Best Pics of Jerusalem Pride

Who Forgives Older Homophobic and Racist Tweets?

Here's an interesting piece about a baseball player, Josh Hader, who once posted homophobic and  racist content on Twitter when he was 17, and now he regrets it. This kind of thing has been happening a lot more than usual, and there seems to be a few double standards. The New York Times recently defended a young woman who tweeted some very hateful comments a while back. However, a movie director tweeted some hateful comments in the past and...

Photo Series: Men In Their Underpants; "Queer Films Should Be Made by Queer People" Chloe Moretz; People Mock Hugging Baseball Players

Photo Series: Men In Their Underpants

I once worked for an editor at a gay press that sent out a mass e-mail telling his authors that he didn't want any stories or books with the word "underpants." He preferred "underwear." I thought that was a little silly at the time, and I thought that editor was an idiot. But I didn't use that word again for a while.

In any event, photos of men in their underpants is gay culture, too.  (Smile)

To celebrate its three year anniversary, Elska Magazine...

FREE Gay Book Excerpt: Gayest Palm Springs Thanksgiving; Beards That Contain Fecal Matter; Gay Couple Denied Marriage License In New York; Grindr Is Kindr

FREE Gay Book Excerpt: Gayest Palm Springs Thanksgiving

I've posted another free excerpt from my newest book, Gayest Palm Springs Thanksgiving with the In-laws , below, and here's the blurb and a link to Amazon. It's a book about how a dad reacts to his gay son's future husband. Even though the dad is totally OK with his son being gay, he's not too thrilled with his son's fiance. 

Earl Bradshaw's first impression of his gay son's fiance leaves Earl wondering where he went wrong. The fiance,...

What Is the U=U Phenomenon with Regard to HIV? David Furnish Talks PrEP and the “U=U” Phenomenon; Democratic Donor Accused of Killing Young Gay Black Man;

What Is the U=U Phenomenon with Regard to HIV?

I think we all need to know more about this, so that's why I'm posting about it instead of my regular clickbait. I see so many misconceptions about HIV in the course of one day that it amazes me people can still know so little about what's been going on.

Undetectable = Untransmittable is the game-changing notion that helps People Living with HIV, and people at risk of contracting HIV, understand that there is zero risk of contracting HIV...

Marines Have Way More Sex; A Gay Bathhouse In Amsterdam; Justin Trudeau Has Lunch With Antoni Porowski;

Marines Have Way More Sex

There's a new study out that claims Marines have a lot more sex than other branches of the military.

Researchers found that Marines were more likely to “engage in riskier sexual behavior” by having “more than one sex partner of the course of one year.”

You can read it all, here. You'll want to check out the comments. 


A Gay Bathhouse In Amsterdam "NoMoreC"

I haven't posted much about gay bathhouses lately, and that's because you don't see much about them in the news...

Father Comes Out To Son On ABC TV's 'What Would You Do?; Air Force Football Player Comes Out To Team; Parents of Closeted Son Find Out He's Gay

Father Comes Out To Son On ABC TV's What Would You Do?

I'm not sure what bothers me about this so much, but there's an underlying problem I can't quite figure out. Maybe it's because it's not very believable to me. This all happens in a restaurant and I don't know anyone...father or son...who has ever done anything like this in a restaurant. My brother and I actually discovered we were gay in a gay restaurant/nightclub, however, that was by sheer accident. We bumped into each other. The last t...

Christian Conservative Freaks Out About How Gay Fox News Is; Trans Women 45 Years Ago; LGBT Adults, Health Insurance, and Unemployment;

Christian Conservative Freaks Out About How Gay Fox News Is

What always surprises me about the far right wing Christian conservatives is how they are so certain and so positive about everything. Not only do they know it all, they'll tell you what's right and what's wrong. And then they'll tell you what's wrong with you.

In any event, this one is rich. Some right wing Christian conservative isn't liking the way Fox News is supporting LGBT people.

There are some Christian conservatives who are app...

More On Chelsea Handler Playing Gay Face; Gay Friendly Urban Beaches; Pride Is More Than Partying;

More On Chelsea Handler Playing Gay Face

Here's an op-ed piece that questions why it's okay for Chelsea Handler to play gay, but it's not okay for Scarlett Johansson to play trans. He brings up some very valid points.

This seems like some sort of weird double standard to me. I think that Johansson was rightfully berated to take that role. But then why a week later, are we excited that Handler is going to be gay for pay? Roles for queer people are still few and far between, even on a show like&n...