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December 5, 2016

Madonna's Still At It; "Michael's" Manager Gets 32K For Boyle's Homophobic Rants; Oakland Space Was Genderqueer Oasis Before Fire

Madonna's Still At It

Madonna made her claim to fame with some of the most controversial antics of the 1980s. She continued that into the 1990s with books and relationships. And now she's at it again, in the beginning of her twilight years, with politics.

Unflattering images of Trump were projected behind her, such as one with his mouth as a urinal and one where his nose grows to the proportions of Pinocchio’s after telling a particularly big whopper – like, say, claiming millions of people vo...
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Published on December 05, 2016 16:47

December 4, 2016

The Bionic Penis Guy Update; A Horrific Penis Story; When Jamie Oliver Burned His Penis; Stepbrothers In the Attic by Ryan Field

The Bionic Penis Guy Update

I didn't plan to follow up with this story, but I saw it somewhere and figured it had an interesting turn of events.

A guy named Mohammed Abad was in a serious accident, he had his genitals ripped off, and he was given what they refer to as a "bionic" penis. Evidently, ever since he went public he's been getting a lot of messages from women. 

“They’ve heard about my bionic penis and they want to try it out. They are all very intrigued and think I can make love fo...
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Published on December 04, 2016 12:21

December 3, 2016

Amsterdam's New AIDS Monument; The World's Second Largest Gay Hook Up App: Hornet; Anti-LGBT North Carolina Law and Monetary Losses

Amsterdam's New AIDS Monument

Here's something that's worth focusing on for a change.

Just in time for World AIDS Day on 1 December, the city’s mayor, Eberhard van der Laan, unveiled the seven meter tall sculpture called ‘Living by Numbers’.

Designed by openly gay French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel, the AIDSmonument resembles an abacus which counts ‘down the moment that AIDS has left our world for good’.

You can see it here, and read more.

The World's Second Largest Gay Hook Up App: Hornet

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Published on December 03, 2016 12:00

December 2, 2016

Woman Arrested For Selling Baby To Gay Couple; Lifetime's Brittany Spears Biopic; Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Woman Arrested For Selling Baby To Gay Couple

Don't judge the headline with this one. It's far more complicated than what it seems.

Buying and/or selling babies is almost never okay; at least not in Spain. This immutable fact is best exemplified by the following true story of one woman, one infant, and two nefarious gay men who would stop at nothing to give the child a loving home.

The woman in question (her name has not been released) was arrested in Spain for selling her newborn to the couple...
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Published on December 02, 2016 17:16

December 1, 2016

He Survived AIDS For Four Decades; Alisyn Camerota and Trump's Bubble; How Pence's New DC Neighbors React With Rainbow Flags

He Survived AIDS For Four Decades

You hear all kinds of stories about HIV/AIDS, at least I do. But this one is riveting. Of course I know people with HIV, but I never actually met anyone like this, for obvious reasons.

Jim Chud has lived with AIDS for four decades.

When I was 23, I walked into my friend Jerry’s hospital room to find the guy I had been on a backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail a month earlier in a steamed-up oxygen tent, struggling for each painful breath. He had pneumocyst...
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Published on December 01, 2016 16:23

November 30, 2016

Anderson Cooper Wonders About Trump's Tweets; Barney Frank's "Fag Burning" Joke; More Older Men Diagnosed With HIV

Anderson Cooper Wonders About Trump's Tweets

I think this is interesting because I love Twitter so much.

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper wondered aloud on Tuesday (29 November) how Trump remains as prolific a tweeter as he was when he was still a presidential hopeful.

‘We are in uncharted waters with a president-elect who is continuing to tweet as he did – maybe a little bit less – during the campaign.

‘When I first heard that he was tweeting about something that was on this broadcast – a number of t...
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Published on November 30, 2016 16:58

November 29, 2016

Stepbrothers In the Attic Release Day; Male Full Frontal Nudity In Films: Shared Rooms; Farewell America by Neal Gabler

Stepbrothers In the Attic Release Day

Stepbrothers In the Attic is a light parody of a well known story line. Of course the love and romance is my main focus in the book, but I also focused a little on how people treat gays, the shame associated with being gay, and gay reparation therapy.

I've posted about this book on several different occasions and you can read more about it here on this blog. However, I want to make it clear this is not a word for word recount of the original story line, and...
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Published on November 29, 2016 17:44

November 28, 2016

A Possible Gay Utopia; Fidel Castro's Horrific Record With Gays; Stephen Port Gets Life Term For Killing 4 Gay Men

A Possible Gay Utopia

Now this sounds like a fascinating discussion. It was an event held in LA that examined how LGBT people deal with sexual identity and community.

The workshop created a space for LGBTQ people to come together to reflect on their lives through storytelling, art-making, and play. Through this process, they generated innovative ideas on establishing long-term LGBTQ community values that could impact city planning in L.A., and beyond.

As the icebreaker, the participants were as...
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Published on November 28, 2016 17:10

November 27, 2016

Cyber Monday Sale At All Romance E-books; Being Gay and Asexual; Shirtless French Farmers and More

Cyber Monday Sale At All Romance E-books


They're having a Cyber Monday sale over at All Romance E-books on November 28, 2016, and all of my books with Riverdale Ave Books will be included. I'm not sure about the rest of my books, but I will check on them and update this post if needed.

From my inbox...



Readers can access purchases via AllRomance.com, the ARe Android App, or the ARe iTunes App

Check them out for more details. 


If you've never shopped for e-books at All...
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Published on November 27, 2016 16:54

November 26, 2016

70s Gay Subculture and Gay Semiotics; "Shared Rooms" New Gay Production; Aaron Rhodes' Biggerst Turn Ons

70s Gay Subculture and Gay Semiotics

A photographer named Hal Fisher published a book in 1977 called Gay Semiotics, which focused on what it was like to be gay in San Francisco back them. I missed all that and I've always been curious about it. I only know what I've heard through older gay friends.

The most basic definition of semiotics is "the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation." I studied a lot of this in a graduate course I took once called "Communications and Litera...
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Published on November 26, 2016 12:37