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Ernest Hardy Wins the PEN
Ernest Hardy wins for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award his collection Bloodbeats: Vol. 1—Demos, Remixes & Extended Versions:
Writing from a critical center that is melanin-based/feminist/pro-queer/unabashedly-leftist, LA-based writer Ernest Hardy […] pens essays, interviews and reviews whose subject matter ranges from underground hip-hop and American indie film to modern French cinema; from revealing interviews with Warren Beatty, Meshell NdegeOcello and Les Nubians to an essay on gay rappers and queer rap audiences that pushes beyond the cliches of the media-stoked “down-low” phenomenon.
See Mark Anthony Neal’s review. Congratulations, Ernie!
Gay Men’s “Rhythm Method” Unreliable
The popular tactic of choosing sex partners because they “look” or claim to be HIV-negative gets another beating.
Researchers from the university of California found that “HIV-negative men were at much higher risk if they chose to have unprotected sex with men they believed to be HIV-negative, but who were actually seroconverting, than if they had unprotected sex with HIV-positive men on successful treatment.
This comes on the heels of the study linking oral sex to HPV and throat cancer.
Tom Ford Goes Commando
As if you need another reason to heart Tom Ford. He drinks vodka tonic on the rocks while giving an interview:
It’s not every day one gets to see the penis of a sex god. But Tom Ford, among other ostentatiously masculine habits, doesn’t wear underwear. And on a recent afternoon, while we were talking about the ladies who also do not wear underwear—Spears, Lohan, Hilton—Ford is saying that he doesn’t necessarily think they are gauche
Chicken Soup For Your Ass
It’s certainly possible to have a healthy sex life without anal sex. However, the butt is a popular part of gay men’s sex lives. LifeLube attempts to take the shame away from our fascination by providing very candid information, health tips and other resources.
The website is sponsored by Sexual Health Xchange, a partnership of AIDS Action Committee, AIDS Foundation Chicago, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis. Naturally, they have a blog (often NSFW).
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