From the New York Times: FOUR out of five black women are seriously overweight. One out of four middle-aged black women has diabetes. With $174 billion a year spent on diabetes-related illness in America and obesity quickly overtaking smoking as a cause of cancer deaths, it is past time to try something new. What [...]
I could use some support about my status. It gets lonely sometimes. That’s why I’m coming out. I want the world to know. I got to let it show. That’s right y’all. I’m finally coming out of the closet. I am HIV-Negative. There. I said it. This has been a difficult decision to make—-coming [...]
Acting like a black man equals homophobe? Black film Act Like A Man debuted on Friday and as was expected by movie pundits premiered first place at the box office at $30 million in ticket sales so far. That’s no small cheese. With that kind of opening one would think that gay watchdogs like GLAAD [...]
David Kaufman, arguably the most well known critic of Gay Inc and its miseducated angst with President Obama (we’ll happily take second place here) has resurfaced. Hurray! Yes yes folks, Kaufman’s back. On Tuesday, apparently after reading yet another pointless tirade over at that gay white bastion of stupidity Americablog, Kaufman just couldn’t take it anymore and whipped [...]
Editor’s note: Rob Smith is a writer, lecturer and openly gay U.S. Army and Iraq War veteran. His work has appeared in USA Today, The Huffington Post, Metro Weekly and Salon.com among others. He is also a contributing author to “For Colored Boys …,” an anthology featuring the stories of gay men of color to be [...]
Black Churches: Are They Addressing Our Concerns? From LOOP 21: Church used to be the cornstone of all activity, what is it now? In the past decade the black church’s image has been one of mega churches with its Bentley driving pastors. In addition to saving the souls of thousands, pastors branched out to [...]
Amazon review: What is really a bonus here is to see Etta James perform! Last time I saw her, she was in a concert setting called Etta James and the Roots Band – Burning Down the House, and the house didn’t quite burn. But to watch and hear her sing “I’d Rather Go Blind” is something, [...]
