Sean Hayes Wishes He Came Out Sooner, But We're Just Happy for Him
The Emmy-winning actor embodies a remarkable transition from closeted dodger to confident advocate.
www.advocate.com/comedy/2016/10/25/sean-hayes-wishes-he-came-out-sooner-were-just-happy-him
충북도교육청 모든 직원들에게 '동성애 반대' 책자가 발송됐다
충북도교육청 모든 직원들에게 동성애의 문제점 등을 다룬 책자가 무더기 발송됐다. 교육청은 부정청탁 및 금품 …
기사 보기: 동성애, 사회, 교육, 충북도교육청, Korea News
Westworld, Colin Powell, Peter Thiel, Gilmore Girls, Game of Thrones, Laverne Cox: HOT LINKS
REMEMBER. Why aren’t the male hosts on Westworld being equally sexualized as the female hosts? “A nude man lies silently at Logan’s side, stroking his arm and chest, as Logan busies himself more directly with two women. And… that’s it. If this is the closest we’ll come to seeing a male host engage in sexual activity with a guest (or the closest we’ll come to seeing two men having sex at all), I’ll be disappointed in Westworld, in which the female hosts are rarely depicted as anything but sex objects. It’s as if anything that doesn’t directly conform to the heterosexual male gaze is an afterthought, which is especially ironic considering this is supposed to be a place where guests can live out their every fantasy.”
HILLARY’S LEAD. Pundits come around to the idea that it’s not just because Trump is an awful candidate.
ENDORSEMENTS. Colin Powell is with her: “At a business event in Long Island, New York, Powell called Trump “not qualified.” Acknowledging he will vote for Clinton, he called Donald Trump a “national disgrace,” who “insults us every day” and is “selling people a bill of goods,” as The Daily Beast notes. Newsday’s Robert Brodsky first reported the news.”
LIP SYNC FOR YOUR LIFE. Laverne Cox takes on Nicki Minaj.
BAD BLOOD. Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and John Mayer all attended Drake’s 30th birthday last night.
TECH. What to expect from Apple’s MacBook Pro event this week.
SORRY, NOT SORRY. Peter Thiel’s politics are causing problems for him in Silicon Valley: “Dismay over the billionaire venture capitalist’s stance on the Republican candidate has been showing up all across the technology landscape — from a startup founder saying he regrets taking a Trump backer’s money to a prominent diversity group refusing to work with any company associated with Thiel. In one recent case, it also throttled the flow of cash into a fledgling VC fund.”
BUT FIRST, LEMME TAKE A SELFIE. Justin Timberlake may get in trouble with the law for taking a voting booth selfie.
SPOILERS! On set photos reveal major plot point from upcoming season of Game of Thrones.
WHERE YOU LEAD, I WILL FOLLOW. Return to Stars Hollow in new Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life trailer.
INSTAHUNK. Zachary Jones.
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Westworld, Colin Powell, Peter Thiel, Gilmore Girls, Game of Thrones, Laverne Cox: HOT LINKS
「選挙区に住んでいない」と言われたことも。LGBTの法律どうなる？ 自民党の牧島かれん氏と宮川典子氏が語る
自民党の牧島かれん議員、宮川典子議員がスピーチし、LGBTについての思いや党内の取り組みなどを語った。
もっと見る: ライフスタイル, Lifestyle, Lgbt, 政治, 牧島かれん, 宮川典子, LGBT弁護士・支援者ネットワーク, Llan, Japan News
Fall TV's Most Moving LGBT Love Story Is on 'Black Mirror'
The dark drama’s strongest episode is about the love of two women and the technology that brought them together.
www.advocate.com/television/2016/10/25/fall-tvs-most-moving-lgbt-love-story-black-mirror
WATCH: Is Halloween Really The Gay Superbowl?
Last we checked, the “gay Super Bowl” was Pride. And the Olympics. And Memorial Day weekend. OK, any holiday really.
So by that logic, yes, Halloween is also the gay Super Bowl.
Related: “Slutty Halloween Costume” Guy Is Back With A New Array Of Looks
In an ad for the upcoming Halloween episode of The Real O’Neals, this metaphor is brought to life, and more importantly, to dance!
Since this is the first Halloween for fictional Kenny as an out and proud teen, he has big, big plans.
Watch below:
Populations Most at Risk of HIV Infection Have Worst Access to PrEP: STUDY
A new study from the University of California has found that those most at risk of contracting HIV have the least access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
Populations that are most vulnerable to seroconversion are Latino and Black men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, and those who live in southern states.
In a survey of gay and bisexual men in California, only a handful of participants reported having taken PrEP. PrEP use was highest among young white men, at 13.9 percent. For young Latino men, that figure was cut by more than half, while young black men represented less than 10 percent of people who started PrEP.
“This is not reflective of the HIV epidemic at all,” says Shannon Weber, founder of Please PrEP Me, an online directory of over 230 clinics in California that provide PrEP. “It is reflective about access, and where and how people are getting that information.” […]
“Black and Latino men who have sex with men, who are overrepresented in the epidemic, have low threshold access to the services,” says Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, assistant health commissioner overseeing the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
It’s a broad racial disparity first reported in June by Gilead Sciences, the biopharmaceutical company that makes Truvada. White gay and bisexual men made up the biggest gains in PrEP usage in 2015, although they’re far less likely to contract HIV in their lifetime. PrEP use among black men, on the other hand, has dipped since 2012. So while prescriptions for Truvada continue to rise significantly, McCord says, “What we’re not seeing is perhaps where PrEP is needed and that is in higher risk communities.”
Interestingly, Republican opposition to Obamacare plays a factor in the limited availability of PrEP in the American south:
Those Southern cities most susceptible to an HIV outbreak – El Paso, Atlanta, Jackson, to name a few – are also in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, which does cover the costs of Truvada after a small co-pay. That means the preventive drug, which can cost upward of $1,564 for a month’s supply, has become financially out-of-reach for hundreds of thousands of eligible PrEP users because GOP lawmakers refused to make healthcare accessible to people living in poverty. “Low cost services for HIV-negative people [are] practically nonexistent,” says David Evans, director of Research Advocacy at Project Inform.
Some major population centers have, however, begun expanding access to PrEP for at-risk communities:
Last year, San Francisco and Los Angeles ramped up efforts to increase PrEP use among men who sleep with men and transgender women after receiving grants from the CDC as part of the agency’s Project PrIDE initiative. In June of this year, MAC AIDS Fund announced a two-year, $1 million citywide program in Washington, D.C. to educate and promote PrEP use among black women — one of the groups most at risk in a city that once had the worst HIV rates in the country. Last week, researchers from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta launched a searchable nationwide PrEP provider database. And in the coming months, about 70 community-based clinics in underserved areas throughout New York City will start providing PrEP with the support of the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
“People who don’t have a voice aren’t going to be walking into a clinic with a giant rainbow flag on it,” like the ones in Chelsea, the West Village and other LGBTQ-friendly neighborhoods, says Daskalakis. “We’re creating the infrastructure in places that may not have that giant rainbow flag, and we’re really proud of that.”
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Populations Most at Risk of HIV Infection Have Worst Access to PrEP: STUDY
Those Simon Rex Leaked Scenes Have Apparently “Resurfaced” Online
There was a time, and it wasn’t terribly long ago, when male celebs didn’t have explicit GIFs and jpegs pouring out all over the Internet every waking moment of every waking day.
Related: Adult Film Stars Who’ve Retired: Did They Have Happy Endings?
And before these semi-scandals became as commonplace as the very air that we breathe, there was MTV VJ Simon Rex, whose career was somewhat derailed when it became widely known that he’d filmed a series of lengthy solo scenes at the tender age of 18 under the nom de porn Sebastian.
Related: One-Time Solo MTV Masturbator Latches on to Lance Bass’ Fame Vehicle
For whatever reason — and we have a hard time believing there are many who who haven’t seen these a million times over, but you tell us — these Rex videos are once again titillating the masses, as C&C reports.
Next week, we’ll be presenting a rarely seen cachet of photos featuring Michelangelo’s David in all of his glory. Stay tuned.
Scotland Moves to Pardon Gay Men Convicted Under Outdated Indecency Laws
Scotland plans a blanket pardon for gay men convicted under outdated indecency laws, the Guardian reports:
Holyrood’s justice secretary, Michael Matheson, told the chamber on Tuesday afternoon that the parliament would bring forward a Scottish “Turing law” to automatically pardon gay and bisexual men convicted of sexual offences that are no longer criminal.
He added that his officials had also been in discussion with Police Scotland to identify the most effective way of ensuring that past convictions for consensual sex between men no longer appeared on a person’s criminal record.
A similar law intended to apply to England and Wales was scuppered by the Conservative justice minister, Sam Gyimah, on Friday after he spoke so long that it ran out of time.
The BBC reported earlier this week that Gyimah had proposed an alternative bill that “would grant similar pardons for those who have died but would make those still alive go through a ‘disregard process’ to receive official pardons.”
The Scottish MPs hope to avoid that application process and offer a full blanket pardon.
Labour MP Chris Bryant got emotional when talking about the new law, which has been proposed as the Turing Law, after Alan Turing.
Bryant wants the bill named after Ronald Cartland, Jack Macnamara, Anthony Muirhead, Robert Bernays and Victor Cazalet, a group of gay MPs from the 1930s.
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Scotland Moves to Pardon Gay Men Convicted Under Outdated Indecency Laws
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