Five Tips For Getting Your Sexy On This School Year

Five Tips For Getting Your Sexy On This School Year

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Ah, college. Four glorious years of studying, self-discovery, and sex, with a little underage drinking, reckless spending, and recreational drug use thrown in for good measure… Not that we’re condoning (or condemning) any of those things.

Related: College Guys Reveal The Secrets Of Gay Life On Campus

The point is: College is a time for having fun. It’s basically an extension of your teenage years without the threat of being grounded for missing curfew. And a lot of that fun, to be perfectly frank, involves getting naked with as many people as possible.

Here are five tips for getting your sexy on this school year…

Tip #1: Remember that sex is meant to be a blast!

Too many people take sex way too seriously. Sure, it can be an intimate act of love between two connected individuals. “2 Become 1” as the Spice Girls sang back before you were born. It can also be an opportunity to unleash your inner pervert and casually let off steam after a mentally-exhausting all-night study session.

Tip #2: Don’t be a fool. Wrap your tool!

According to the CDC, sexually active young people demonstrate an increased risk for contracting STDs compared to older adults. In 2014, for instance, 66 percent of all reported chlamydia cases in the U.S. were from patients under the age of 24. The good news is: avoiding STDs is pretty easy. Just go down to your school’s health services building and take a handful of free condoms from that giant bowl on the counter. While you’re there, grab a pamphlet on STD transmission. Oh, and get tested every six months.

Tip #3: Exercise discretion with those naughty photos.

Sending racy photos can be loads of fun, but remember, the internet has a very, very long memory. And dick pics have a strange way of reemerging years later. Just ask any number of the guys who had their x-rated pictures leak this past summer. If you’re going to show off your naughty bits on camera, be smart about who you send them to and what other identifying features you reveal.

Tip #4: You’re probably not going to marry your college boyfriend.

Never say never, of course, but chances are, you and that guy you’re boning in your dorm room when you’re supposed to be in Biology 101 aren’t going to be walking down the aisle together. And that’s OK! Think of your college boyfriend as a warm up act for when you meet your future husband. And, remember, practice makes perfect.

Tip #5: Just because everyone else is hooking up doesn’t mean you have to as well.

Not to toss a wrench in the machinery here, but… Even though we live in a “hookup culture,” a recent study actually found that young adults today are less sexually active than ever before. Researchers surveyed over 26,000 people and learned that 15 percent of 20- to 24-year olds reported having no sexual partners since turning 18, compared to only 6 percent of Generation X’ers when they were in their early 20s.

In other words: Do what you wanna. Or don’t do what you don’t wanna. Everyone else is. And isn’t.

Happy humping!

Related: Back To School: 10 Essential Items Every Gay Guy Must Bring To College

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World Health Organization Warns Some STIs Are Outsmarting Antibiotics

World Health Organization Warns Some STIs Are Outsmarting Antibiotics

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Look out, world — chlamydia’s getting clever, along with a whole host of other STIs. About a million people sexually transmit an infection every day around the world, according to the World Health Organization, and a lot of them are becoming harder to treat.

The primary concerns are chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. All three are developing increasing resistance to anti-bacterial drugs, in part because doctors are prescribing them too much and patients aren’t taking them correctly.

The consequences of an untreated infection can be severe, and can also expose people to a greater risk of transmitting HIV. The WHO is recommending that local officials monitor infection rates more closely, and advise doctors when they see something unusual in transmission rates. Than could help prevent over-prescription, and might indicate where more intervention is needed to ensure compliance by patients.

The WHO also said that doctors should concentrate their anti-syphilis efforts on one particular drug, known as benzathine penicillin. You may be familiar with that one — it’s one of those grueling shots that goes into your butt.

And of course, there remains an even more sure-fire way to slow infection rates: safe sex. Condoms are the best line of defense when hooking up, as well as frequent testing and disclosing your status.

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Labor Day: LGBTQ and Workers' Rights

Labor Day: LGBTQ and Workers' Rights

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While many are celebrating a day off from work, grilling burgers (or vegan alternatives) and, perhaps, taking advantage of all the Labor Day sales, it might be lost on most the relevance and history of how the path towards LGBTQ acceptance is an extricable part of the larger civil rights movement. The fact is that in a majority of states, because workers can be legally fired because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, union contracts are often the only line of defense for LGBTQ workers. In order to keep our challenges, struggle and victories alive, documentarians and major film and television producers have chronicled these stories so history will not repeat itself.

The GLAAD Award-winning documentary Brother Outsider and film Milk, as well as the upcoming ABC mini-series When We Rise, all contribute in accelerating acceptance of LGBTQ individuals in their homes, communities and workplaces.  “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” was penned by Martin Luther King, Jr. within his Letter from a Birmingham Jail“.  It is a maxim that speaks to the intersectionality of our shared histories, stuggles and victories.

Bayard Rustin and A. Philip Randolph at Lincoln MemorialBayard Rustin was an often overlooked and marginalized figure at the center of this nation’s struggle for civil and human rights in the 60’s and beyond.  He was an African American openly gay man, born in 1912, who grew up in Pennsylvania and excelled in sports and the arts.  Quickly finding his “civil rights” voice, he found his way to working with A. Phillip Randolph, president of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.  Working with the leader in the black trade union movement, Bayard rose through the ranks of the labor movement learning to fight for equal rights on behalf of everyone in the workplace, including, in the late 40’s, being instrumental in ending segregation in the armed forces by being the voice for change with President Truman’s administration.

Even though the times proved cautious, Bayard lived a relatively open life as a gay man, experiencing prejudice and discrimination for his race and orientation.  Because of the latter, he was often shunted to the background by his civil rights colleagues, even in campaigns when his was the driving voice.  Yet, because of his strategic thinking and organizing mindset rooted in nonviolent action (based on Mahatma Gandhi’s principles), he was chosen by Dr. King to organize several major campaigns…including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which came to be known as the largest civil rights demonstation in the nation’s history.  As history books and popular culture will confirm, this March was the platform where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech…accelerating the passage of major civil rights legislation.

Walter Naegle and Bayard RustinHaving met his partner, Walter Naegle in 1977, Bayard continued to speak out on LGBT issues as someone who was challenged by society on several fronts.  He committed his life to fighting anti-gay prejudice and as a longtime NYC resident, testified on behalf of that city’s gay rights bill.  A strong supporter of labor unions and workers’ rights, he was a member of Actors’ Equity Association, co-founder of the AFL-CIO’s A. Philip Randolph Institute and Educational Fund, and was a member of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council.  In March, 2013, President Barack Obama awarded Rustin, who had died in 1987, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  “As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.”

In a 1986 speech, he vocally and strongly advocated for a change in the landscape of civil rights activism: “The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind:  gay people.”  A collection of Mr. Rustin’ s essays, Down the Line, was published in 1971.  In 2003, the documentary on Bayard’s life, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, was released to critical acclaim.  In addition to the many international accolades, the 2004 GLAAD Media Award-winning Documentary was presented to independent filmmakers Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer.

 

 In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. Many in his company supported and fought for the rights of workers to form and maintain unions.  The 2008 biopic and GLAAD Award winner, MILK, profiles the rise of the civil rights icon and those around him who forged alliances within other groupls

Cleve Jones Trans EqualityCleve Jones was a protege of Harvey Milk during those heady days in San Francisco; marching, chanting and leafletting for LGBTQ civil rights.  After his partnership with Harvey Milk, Cleve went on to found the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and is a driving force behind SLEEP WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE, a coalition between the LGBTQ community and UNITE HERE, a union representing over 300,000 hospitality and manufacturing workers across North America.

Organizing under the banner of  “An Injury to One is An Injury to All”, Pride at Work is the primary voice within the AFL-CIO for LGBTQ workers within the workplace and throughout their lives.  Their work focuses on creating a Labor Movement that cherishes diversity, encourages openness, and ensures safety & dignity.   As Pride at Work co-president Shane Larson states:

Labor rights and LGBTQ rights are intertwined.  When the labor movement is strong, the rights of LGBTQ workers are stronger and safer.

Highlighting the intersection of our shared goals:  Cleve said:

The solidarity between the labor movement and the LGBT movement is a powerful coalition.

Based on his autobiographical book When We Rise, ABC TV is chronicling the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement for an eight-hour air date of early 2017.  MILK screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is writing and producing the series, with MILK director Gus Van Sant also set to direct; while Guy Pearce is portraying Cleve Jones.

 

PRIDE movie bannerPRIDE, a 2015 GLAAD Award nominated film, focused on the true story of UK lesbian and gay activists raising money to help those impacted by the British miners’ strike of 1984, and how they reached beyond geographical and psychological borders to create alliances between communities and achieve workers’ rights victories.

The film’s director, Matthew Warchus, stated that:

It’s a film about two groups of people forming an unlikely alliance and fighting in each other’s corners rather than just their own.

Full of heart, passion and righteous activism, the film is about a group of 1980s LGBT activists who supported a small Welsh town during the UK miners’ strike and won over hearts and minds through common human values.  At its core, it illustrated the power of accelerating acceptance through shared human experiences and values.

 

The fight for social justice and LGBTQ equality can be legislated until laws prohibiting discrimination in housing, health care and employment come tumbling down.  But lasting acceptance, changing hearts and minds, is truly impacted by the images we find within popular culture:  television, film, music videos, comics and video games.  This is why chronicling our LGBTQ history, challenges and successes alike, is so vitally important.; and why finding commonalities and shared goals with other underrepresented and disenfranchised groups is part of how we shape strategies and define progress.  As stated within the recent Accelerating Accepting report, “GLAAD remains committed to its leadership role identifying, amplifying, and ultimately breaking down barriers to full LGBT acceptance.”

September 4, 2016

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Must-See LGBT TV: 'One Mississippi' series premieres, 'Gaycation' returns, 'Difficult People' season finale

Must-See LGBT TV: 'One Mississippi' series premieres, 'Gaycation' returns, 'Difficult People' season finale

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Grab the remote, set your DVR or queue up your streaming service of choice! GLAAD is bringing you the highlights in LGBT on TV this week. Check back every Sunday for up-to-date coverage in LGBT-inclusive programming on TV.

Ellen Page’s Gaycation returns Wednesday night for season two. Page and her best friend Ian Daniel will continue to travel the world and explore local LGBTQ culture at every stop. This year the pair visit Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, India, and more. Vice has also made the full episode of the recent special Gaycation Presents: Orlando available to watch for free on YouTube. Gaycation: Wednesday, 10:30pm on Viceland.

Out comedian Tig Notaro’s new series One Mississippi premieres on Amazon on Friday. The series, written by and starring Notaro, is semi-autobiographical and follows Tig as she returns to her home in Mississippi after her mother’s sudden death. All six half-hour episodes will be available on Friday. One Mississippi: Friday on Amazon Prime.

Sunday September 4: Power (9pm, Starz); Fear the Walking Dead (9pm, AMC); The Last Ship (9pm, TNT); The Strain (10pm, FX); Survivor’s Remorse (10pm, Starz)

Monday: Mary + Jane (10pm, MTV); Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood (8pm, VH1); Major Crimes (10pm, TNT)

Tuesday: Sisterhood of Hip Hop (9pm, Oxygen); Difficult People (Hulu)

Wednesday: Tyrant (10pm, FX); Mr. Robot (10pm, USA); Gaycation (10:30pm, Viceland)

Friday: One Mississippi (Amazon Prime)

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