South African women protest. This is so depressing and upsetting we hesitated to post it. But we feel it is our responsibility to do so if only for the sake of letting our readership know how women are so horrifically dehumanized in some other cultures. There’s not much more we can say about it right [...]
Big shout out to our friend Jim Pickett who blogs at Lifelube.com From Lifelube: Results of the world’s first efficacy trial of an HIV-prevention approach called oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, were released online in the New England Journal of Medicine today. Data from this trial, called iPrEx, indicated an estimated 43.8% reduction of new [...]
Amid the freak out over Pope Benedict’s comments made about prostitute condom usage in the book-length interview titled “Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Time, the latest furor is the argument as to whether he meant men or women when he made the statement.
It’s fairly simple. It’s cause he doesn’t co-sign. Like, communicating on a whole otha’ stratosphere doesn’t co-sign. Tony Kushner seems like the kind of man who in mid-conversation and with unforeseen candor, would ask the lone silly black gay guy at a party why is it that he dates white men exclusively. And before the [...]
The story of Glenn Burke is a bittersweet one. Bitter because this brotha’ was clearly ahead of his time. And he paid a price for it. Sweet, because we’ve come so far in these last several years. Today we have out athletes like Olympic Gold medalist Carl Lewis and former NBA pro John Amaechi, black [...]
Somehow we don’t find this shocking. Of course there’s a direct relationship with homophobia in the black community and HIV infection. All one has to do is look at the behaviors of such black luminaries as Bishop Eddie Long to understand the psychosis in the black community surrounding homosexuality. It’s REALLY BAD. And the tragic [...]
From LA Times: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday vetoed nearly $1 billion in spending on welfare, child care, special education and other programs before signing the budget bill that lawmakers had passed about eight hours earlier after a marathon overnight session. The governor slashed 23 line items from the $87.5-billion general fund budget, including $256 [...]
