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States With Most Same-Sex Couples + The Amazing Mark S. King + More

Gay couple in the park (via Depositphotos)

Some news items I thought worth your time:

• The Advocate: Check out this Top Ten list of states with the most same-sex couples living together. One hint – my state is number 4.

• Kenneth-in-the-212: This week’s round-up of the latest LGBTQ publications including the ‘Miami Spice’ issue of Wire Magazine. Continue reading “States With Most Same-Sex Couples + The Amazing Mark S. King + More”

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World AIDS Day 2022 – Rock The Ribbon

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While the coronavirus has hogged the spotlight for nearly three years, World AIDS Day is still recognized every year on December 1. Because it’s important to remember this 40-year health threat is still with us. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day. Continue reading “World AIDS Day 2022 – Rock The Ribbon”

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A Terrifying Secret From The Life Of A Meth Addict

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Award-winning health and HIV/AIDS journalist, Mark King shares a decade old secret from his days of meth addiction.

He is sitting across from me and we are naked. Seconds earlier, we had both injected ourselves with meth. The pounding rush of the drug is in full force and the possibilities feel endless. I’m looking forward to the sexual promises we had made to one another when we chatted online. Desperately. Now.

But even in my delirium, I have the feeling that something is off. I am blinking through watery eyes and have begun to focus on him. He is staring at me, his gaze fixed with an intense and completely unexpected contempt.

And there is a gun in his hand. A gun a gun a gun a gun.

“You’re not who you say you are,” he says, softly and suspiciously. He trembles from the impact of the meth. As he speaks, the gun the gun the gun is moving this way and that, pointed mostly in my direction.

I have no response. I don’t know what he is capable of, or if the gun is loaded, if he will pull the trigger, if this is a sadistic sex game. I met the man maybe an hour ago. I wonder if you can die of fright.

Read the full personal essay over at Queerty.

Mark is a recovering addict and is the author of the blog My Fabulous Disease. I highly recommend checking out more of his inspiring and powerful writing.

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News Round-Up: May 1, 2017

Some news items you may have missed:

• A bit of Man-Crush Monday (above) with Rodiney Santiago (photo credit: Jeffrey Beasley).

• Very interesting dialogue between two long-term HIV survivors who have polar opposite views on longterm survivorship, Mark King and Sean McKenna. I really recommend reading it.

• Researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga say they may have a clue as to what might make a gay man a bottom. According the scientists, tell-tale signs include having an older brother and being left-handed. Additionally, the preference could be linked to the amount of prenatal testosterone they received in utero. Interesting stuff! Read more here.

• Virulently anti-LGBT Brian Brown, of the ironically named National Organization for Marriage, says he’s found kindred spirits in Russia as he travels the world campaigning against marriage equality.

• Neo-nazi adviser to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka, will be leaving the White House in the aftermath of his “PhD” being exposed as fake. The professor who discovered Gorka’s fake doctorate has said the degree “is as real as one issued by Trump University.”

• Kelly Ripa announced today that her new talk show co-host will be…. Ryan Seacrest!

• Check out this terrific Star-Spangled Banner moment – Game 3 of the Stanley Cup playoffs between the Ducks and Oilers in Edmonton, and the performer’s mic has a technical prob. So, he gets the whole place, Canadians and all, to sing our National Anthem. #Awesome