Dallas voters approve protections for LGBT city employees
The vote is the first time a Texas city approved nondiscrimination language by the ballot
Jamesw
www.gaystarnews.com/article/dallas-voters-approve-protections-lgbt-city-employees051114
Radical Anti-LGBT Leader Elected to Colorado Legislature
Radical Anti-LGBT Leader Elected to Colorado Legislature
A radical anti-LGBT activist was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives yesterday.
HRC.org
Steve Grand Drops Something Other Than His Pants: Two New Tunes
Steve Grand Drops Something Other Than His Pants: Two New Tunes
Out country singer Steve Grand, who seems to have become just as famous for jumping naked into bodies of water as he has for making music — not that we’re complaining — has just dropped something other than his pants: two new songs.
Actually, one is new, the other is a remake. Again, no complaints.
Grand, who became an overnight sensation when his “All-American Boy” video (which featured him skinny dipping with former Fratmen model Nick Alan) went viral in July of 2013, has just blessed us with “Time,” a yearning romantic-sounding tune produced by Aaron Johnson, and a cover of Elton John’s 1974 hit “Bennie and the Jets.”
The Huffington Post reports that “Time” will appear on the 24-year-old musician and former underwear model’s upcoming album, for which he raised more than $114,000 in less than 24 hours on Kickstarter.
Listen to the tunes below. Watch Grand jump naked into Lake Superior as part of a fund-raising effort for the ALS foundation here.
Winston Gieseke
The Cast Of 'Looking' Leathers It Up For The Out100 – PHOTO
The Cast Of 'Looking' Leathers It Up For The Out100 – PHOTO
As part of Out Magazine‘s annual Out100 honors, out gay actors Jonathan Groff, Murray Bartlett and Russell Tovey of Looking channeled the first Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco circa 1984. The boys seemed to have formed quite a bond working on what Out named the TV show of the year:
Groff and his rowdy band of brothers — […] Raúl Castillo, Murray Bartlett, Frankie J. Alvarez, and Russell Tovey — taunt and tease and riff off each other like they’ve been playing dress-up together their entire lives. Without missing a beat, Alvarez dubs Groff’s impish attitude “hashtag chapswag,” and the nickname sticks. The show’s creators and many of the crew are queer, but you’d need a cheat sheet to remember who’s not actually gay (Castillo and Alvarez, if you must keep score).
Sean Mandell
www.towleroad.com/2014/11/the-cast-of-looking-leathers-it-up-for-the-out100-photo.html
OFFICIAL LGBT TRAILER FOR THE FEATURE FILM "Romeo & Romeo"
OFFICIAL LGBT TRAILER FOR THE FEATURE FILM "Romeo & Romeo"
In this LGBT thriller, Zak Lawson was a pop star who came out of nowhere, and reached the top of the billboard charts at the age of 14. He met bad boy Trent at the peak of his career, bad news….
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7E2AJ54X-k&feature=youtube_gdata
Out Basketball Star Brittney Griner Faces Knife Attacker in China
Out Basketball Star Brittney Griner Faces Knife Attacker in China
Brittney Griner, who is playing basketball in China, was attacked by a man with a knife this week.
Annie Hollenbeck
www.advocate.com/sports/2014/11/05/out-basketball-star-brittney-griner-faces-knife-attacker-china
Your Least Favorite 'How To Get Away With Murder' Couple Always Has YouTube Fan Videos
Your Least Favorite 'How To Get Away With Murder' Couple Always Has YouTube Fan Videos
After only six episodes and what seems to be a consensus that their coupledom is peripheral to the plot of “How to Get Away with Murder,” we’d like to inform you that Laurel and Frank already have several homemade YouTube montages devoted to their relationship. We’d also like you to know that commenters on said videos have apparently nicknamed the pair “Flaurel,” as if that were a something the Internet has been doing all along. (Don’t worry, Internet, no need to start now.)
No affront meant to the creators of these videos, of course — they’re all quite well-made — but Laurel and Frank (sorry, we can’t bring ourselves to call them Flaurel) are hardly a couple most viewers have vested interest in. They don’t often appear onscreen together, and, when they do, their relationship is tertiary to almost everything else happening on the show. Of the more than 360 “How to Get Away with Murder” photos on ABC’s press site, we couldn’t find a singe shot of the pair alone together. That’s why we’re so tickled with these declarations of adoration. Usually this treatment is reserved for Sam and Diane types, but these days everyone is a fan favorite somewhere, apparently.
Without further ado, we now give you Flaurel:
All American Boy singer Steve Grand surprises fans with two new recordings
All American Boy singer Steve Grand surprises fans with two new recordings
As his debut album nears completion, singer shares new song Time and cover of Elton John classic Bennie and the Jets
gregh
Non-Discrimination Amendment Passes in Dallas
Non-Discrimination Amendment Passes in Dallas
Yesterday, voters in Dallas approved nondiscrimination protections for LGBT city employees to the City Charter.
HRC.org
Are Young Gay Men Relying Too Much On Monogamy As Protection From HIV?
Are Young Gay Men Relying Too Much On Monogamy As Protection From HIV?
A new survey from the University of Glasgow has revealed some interesting trends in the sexual practices of young gay men in monogamous relationships.
While speaking at GAYCON 2014, the 5th National Conference for Scotland on Gay and Bisexual Men’s Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Boydell presented the results from a series of interviews she conducted with a group of 30 gay men ages 18 through 29 years.
Boydell asked the men what their thoughts were on condoms use. What she observed was that many of the subjects viewed bareback sex differently, depending on the nature of the relationship.
“Anal sex is more risky than any other type of sex,” one man said. “But with a regular partner [it] is less risky than with a casual partner.”
(Just for the record, this isn’t true. According to a 2010 study released by San Francisco State University, primary partners are a major source of HIV-infection.)
Another man said: “If it was just like a casual thing, I would always use condoms and then if we’re going out like, at the start, for like a couple of months, depending on the person, we would use a condom. Then after that, if like we trusted each other, if I trusted him, we wouldn’t.”
Boydell says that, while some respondents said both they and their partners underwent HIV testing before giving up condoms, others relied simply on the belief that, if their partner was HIV-positive, he would tell them. They also reported that being monogamous was enough for them to feel safe.
“At the moment we’re monogamous,” another man said. “But at the same time, we both appreciate other men, and there have been occasions when we’ve both been together with other guys, but we use protection in that instance.”
Boydell also says that, despite many of the men claiming to be in monogamous relationships, few had actually discussed the topic with their partners.
“I don’t think we’ve ever sat down and discussed [monogamy], but I know that’s… we must have discussed it in bits over time, because I just know that’s, that’s the case,” one man reported.
Boydell concluded that young gay men in relationships need to develop better ways of communicating around sex and HIV.
What do you think? Is a promise of monogamy enough for you to feel safe? And have you and your partner ever sat down to discuss what “being monogamous” really means? Sounds off in the comments section below.
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Graham Gremore is a columnist and contributor for Queerty and Life of the Law. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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