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Call Me by Your Name: Gay Male Arizona Political Leader Arrested and Accused of Sexual Contact With Minor, Ryan Field Books

Call Me by Your Name: Gay Male Arizona Political Leader Arrested and Accused of Sexual Contact With Minor

With all the battles we're still fighting, this is dismal news and it turns my stomach. It's a Call Me by Your Name story, only this time it's real life and it involves an openly gay Democratic politician in Arizona and a barely legal boy. 

Police closed in on Navarrete, 35, after listening in on a phone call between him and a 16-year-old accuser. On the call, Navarrete allegedly admitted to t...

New Series "The White Lotus" and Rimming, Ryan Field Books

New Series "The White Lotus" and Rimming 

This article is about a new series on HBO called The White Lotus, but they seem to think rimming is a huge part of every gay man's life. It truly is kind of amazing the way they believe so many gay men rim. I can tell you first hand this is not true. Many gay men find that absolutely repulsive. 

But the series does look interesting anyway, and it's not every day you see an article that also talks about "ass-eating." 

The plot “follows the vacations of vario...

The Gay Best Friend Is TV's Laziest, Most Disgusting, Most Awful Cliché, Ryan Field Books

The Gay Best Friend Is TV's Laziest, Most Disgusting, Most Awful Cliché

Whenever I think of the way gay people are portrayed on mainstream TV shows, I think of the most awful cliché there is...the gay best friend. Sex and the City did a few shows like this, the reality show with Joan Rivers did shows like this, and no one can forget how Will and Grace set us back years with the gay best friend cliché.

 In fact, there are so many TV shows that have done this (and books and films) that I can't even ...

Amsterdam Does a "Pride Walk" Instead of a Parade This Year With a Serious Message, Ryan Field Books

Amsterdam Does a "Pride Walk" Instead of a Parade This Year With a Serious Message

Due to the fact that COVID canceled Pride Events this year and last in Amsterdam, they decided to do a "Pride Walk" instead to celebrate and to show support for all the LGBTQ people around the world who are still dealing with hate who don't feel safe anymore. This is significant because we rarely even hear about this in the US. I post about what's happening globally to LGBTQ people all the time, but most in the US ...

The Case of a Gay Man Killed by Doris Duke Is Not Forgotten, Ryan Field Books

The Case of a Gay Man Killed by Doris Duke Is Not Forgotten

This is a fascinating older story that happened in the 1960s involving the heiress Doris Duke and her gay male companion of 10 years, Eduardo Tirella. In short, they were both going out one day, Tirella got out of the car to open the front gates at the end of her driveway in Newport, RI, and she ran him down and killed him. I'm surprised Ryan Murphy hasn't done a miniseries about it. I remember reading about it in a nonfiction book a whi...

Russian Gay Family Takes Refuge In Spain, Personal Memoir "Nice People Once Lived Here" by Ryan Field

Russian Gay Family Takes Refuge In Spain

A gay Russian family appeared in a harmless ad for a food chain and wound up being viciously targeted on social media. They received death threats and actually had to wind up fleeing Russia. 

“We don’t have anti-discrimination laws [in Russia] so we don’t have any protection,” Mila said. “We can’t go to the police.”

Here's more. They went to Spain because they received a lot of support, and most of all they feel safe there. There's a photo of them at this li...

FREE Gay Novel Excerpt: THE WIZARD OF PRIDE by Ryan Field

FREE Gay Novel Excerpt: THE WIZARD OF PRIDE by Ryan Field 

Below is an excerpt from my newest release, THE WIZARD OF PRIDE. Just like "The Wiz" did with an all-black cast, "The Wizard of Pride" is a fresh reimagining of the old classic, "The Wizard of Oz," which puts a modern spin on a heteronormative story with a cast of all gay characters. In other words, in a world where there's mostly straight white content, this gives LGBTQ people a choice.

Here's the cover copy:

In the year 1939, discretion...

Netflix's "Pray Away" and The "Ex-Gay" Movement,

Netflix's "Pray Away" and The "Ex-Gay" Movement

This really is nothing new or shocking, and it's been happening for a long time. I've been posting about it for a long time. In short, there are twisted, vile straight people out there who truly believe they can turn gay people into straight people through a process called reparative therapy, or conversion therapy. It doesn't work, it's totally ridiculous, and it can leave behind scars that never go away. 

And now there's a new Netflix documentary ab...

Matt Damon's Homophobia, Matt Damon's Daughter Tells Him Not to Use Anti-Gay Slurs and This Guy Applauds Him, Ryan Field Books

Matt Damon's Homophobia

When I posted about homophobic Matt Damon in the past I never expected to read something like this. Even I couldn't have predicted this. But then I have never liked the way Hollywood gives gay parts to toxic straight men like Damon and I've never been shy about posting my opinions and reviews. 

And once again, I was right. This just proves that Matt Damon is homophobic. 

Actor Matt Damon says he only recently stopped using the homophobic "f-slur for a homosexual" after his d...

2 Gay Dads in New York Claim Teachers Blamed Gay Son for Homophobic Bullying, Ryan Field Books

 2 Gay Dads in New York Claim Teachers Blamed Gay Son for Homophobic Bullying

This story happened in New York where you never expect to hear about things like this. I'm always telling my friends who blame places like Texas for homophobia that it can, and it does, happen anywhere. And clearly places like good old New York are not exempt. 

What followed, Cianciatto said, was two "horrific" years of homophobic bullying and physical attacks by students and victim-blaming from senior staff at the schoo...