I sometimes get asked about what it’s like dating or living with an older gay man. I also get asked for tips and advice on how to deal with family and friends or how I dealt with my family and friends when they found out I was dating and in fact now living with aContinue reading “Dating & Living With an Older Gay Man”
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UK Sherlock Fans Call for Gay Relationship in Series
Fans of the popular BBC series Sherlock have been lobbying show creator Mark Gatiss to write a gay relationship between Sherlock and Watson into the plot. Gatiss said he had been inundated with plotline ideas and even explicit drawings sugeesting a relationship between Sherlock played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Watson (Martin Freeman). Gatiss told DNAContinue reading “UK Sherlock Fans Call for Gay Relationship in Series”
The Spirit & The Flesh: Sexual Diversity In American Indian Culture
American Historical Review 93 (February 1988):218-219 By skillfully integrating historical and anthropological literature with the results of his own unique cross-cultural fieldwork among contemporary berdaches, Williams provides an extraordinarily perceptive study of the berdache and the most comprehensive treatment of this controversial topic to date. One of the goals of this work is to “allowContinue reading “The Spirit & The Flesh: Sexual Diversity In American Indian Culture”
The Gay, Lesbian, and Feminist Backlash
The modern era of the gay & lesbian rights movement is usually marked as starting on a hot July evening at the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The New York police, as many city police departments across the United States did, made period raids on sexual minority bars to harass and arrestContinue reading “The Gay, Lesbian, and Feminist Backlash”
Male on Male Sexual Violence
Male Survivors of Incest or other Sexual Assault It is estimated that 5-10% of reported cases of rape or sexual assault each year involve male victims (Scarce, 1997) . Some rape crisis centers see nearly equal numbers of girls and boys up to age 12. Researchers report one out of six boys will have beenContinue reading “Male on Male Sexual Violence”
What Are Young Gay Men’s HIV Prevention Needs?
Are young gay men at risk? Unfortunately, yes. Accumulating research shows alarmingly high HIV prevalence rates among young gay men and high rates of sexual risk-taking, suggesting that young gay men in their 20’s are forging a “second wave” of the AIDS epidemic. During the 1980s, the median age at HIV infection was older thanContinue reading “What Are Young Gay Men’s HIV Prevention Needs?”
Making Colleges and Universities Safe for Gay & Lesbian Students
The following is a summary from Making Colleges and Universities Safe for Gay and Lesbian Students: Report and Recommendations of the Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, Warren J. Blumenfeld, Principal Author. (For a free copy of the report, write to: The Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, Room 111, State House, Boston,Continue reading “Making Colleges and Universities Safe for Gay & Lesbian Students”