FDA to Ease Rules For Gay Men Seeking to Donate Blood, Ryan Field Books

 FDA to Ease Rules For Gay Men Seeking to Donate Blood

When AIDS started to kill off gay men, and long before we had drugs to combat HIV, the FDA decided to ban gay men from donating blood. And even though we now have HIV drugs and things like PrEP, there’s a still a ban all these years later. Not to mention the fact that a lot of gay men are not HIV + nor do they live promiscuous lives. 

However, there is hope. The FDA recently announced that it would do away with the 3 month abstinence requirement for men who have gay sex. And now they will be questioned about their risk to HIV which would be based on sexual activity and behavior. 

“Current and former blood donation policies made unfounded assumptions about gay and bisexual men and really entangled individuals’ identity with their likelihood of having HIV,” said Sarah Warbelow of the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy group.

Here’s the rest. It goes deeper into the questions gay men will be asked and a few facts about PrEP. I can understand having these bans years ago. We knew nothing about AIDS, and we were terrified. But not that we know, and now that things have changed, it’s time to revisit these old laws. 

Side note: For those of you on PrEP I am seeing a lot of younger gay men on social media talk about their kidney functions. Some have even gone into kidney failure. Be aware. 

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Florida Bill Hopes to End Gay Panic Defense, Ryan Field Books

 Florida Bill Hopes to End Gay Panic Defense

Finally, something positive coming from Florida. For those who don’t know, there are laws out there that were designed to protect guilty straight people whenever they beat or kill gay people. They are usually referred to as “gay/panic defense.” In other words, if a gay guy accidentally flirts with a straight guy and the straight guy claims he panicked and he beat the gay guy up, the straight guy can get off without little punishment. 

Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book is reintroducing this bill. 

“I think we’re living in a time where people think things like this don’t happen, but they do in fact happen,” said Leader Book. “People in this community are being prayed upon and people are using this as a defense.”

I know that other states have introduced bills that would stop the gay/trans panic defense, and they’ve been successful. I hope Florida does the right thing this time. This has nothing to do with kids or drag queen story hours. 

Here’s the link. They go into more detail and explain it better than I can. 


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Pope Francis Is At It Again With His Opinions on Gay Sex, Ryan Field Books

Pope Francis Is At It Again With His Opinions on Gay Sex 

Every so often Pope Francis comes out with another convoluted message about gay sex. Never mind that so many priests are closet cases, which has always been ignored. He has the audacity to actually comment on gay sex as if everything within his own church is perfect. 

With that said, here is the latest comment from the Pope. He claims that gay sex should not be a crime, but that it is a sin. And I’ll never understand how anyone can distinguish between a sin and the deepest emotional love between two men. How can love, true love, be a sin? 

“It’s a sin,” Francis said, adding: “Let’s make the distinction first between sin and crime.”   

Here’s more. It goes on to mention how he’s fought for gay rights, but gay sex is still a sin. Which leads me to believe he’s okay with gay people as long as they don’t have gay sex. And that, as they say, makes no sense. However, to his credit he seems like a decent person, if you take away the sin of gay sex. 

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Drag Artist Talks About George Santos Leaving Brazil and then Returning to Compete in Drag Contest, Ryan Field Books

 Drag Artist Talks About George Santos Leaving Brazil and then Returning to Compete in Drag Contest

Here’s more on the story about the openly gay politician in Washington D.C. who allegedly lies constantly. The jokes going around on Twitter are both sad and funny. Sad because he’s the kind of gay man who should be representing us well.

In any event, here’s another story about Santos. He once tried to become Miss Gay Rio de Janeiro. But he lost. The person making this next comment is problematic for me. One the one hand, Santos has allegedly lied about quit a bit. But one the other hand she fat shames him, and I don’t believe in that. Drag queens can be nasty little things. 

“The beauty pageant is for boys who dress like women,” she continued. “They are beautiful. The boys are beautiful. And he lost because he was fat.”

Here’s the rest. 

Now, just to be clear here, in general, drag performers are not considered transgender people. They usually identify as gay and the love to impersonate women. But they’re still men. I see a lot of straights on social media who get this confused. 


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The Excellent Gay Stars in the Film "A Knock at the Cabin," Ryan Field Books

 The Gay Stars in the Film “A Knock at the Cabin” and the Straight Guy Who Wrote It

Unlike most films being made nowadays with gay content, A Knock at the Cabin does something completely unusual. They actually hired openly gay actors to play gay roles. When you consider films like Call Me by Your Name, and, The Whale, where straights play gay, A Knock at the Cabin might be one of the most innovative films of all time so far.

Think about it. Openly gay actors getting paid to play openly gay characters. Why it’s almost ingenious.

But sadly, there’s a catch. From what I can gather with many searches, the film is based on a novel written by a straight white man, Paul Tremblay. He’s very secretive about this, and you have to search for a while. But I came up with this.  

There’s always a catch. I think it’s great they hired openly gay actors, but I won’t be watching this one either. No other marginalized group would put up with someone with this kind of privilege writing their stories. So why should I?  I know too many really excellent openly gay authors writing in the horror genre. 

Here’s more.   If I’m wrong about any of this I will update and correct. 

There’s this, also. 


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No, We Do NOT Need to Protect Brendan Fraser, Ryan Field Books

 No, We Do NOT Need to Protect Brandan Fraser

Years ago, Brendan Fraser was in a film titled, Gods and Monsters. In this film, he played the homophobic landscaper to a once famous older gay man. This was when Fraser has a great body, and he was just starting out. The older guy was infatuated with Fraser’s character but Fraser made it clear that he found the older gay man repulsive. 

With that said, Fraser recently starred in a film where he played gayface, in a fat suit. And as Hollywood tends to do, he’s won awards. He even won awards of the excellent and wonderful performance of Austin Butler who really did deserve the awards. And each time Fraser has won an award he’s cried onstage, and people are claiming, “We need to protect Brendan Fraser at all cost.” 

Well, not everyone thinks we should protect Fraser for playing gayface in a fat suit. And the article to which I’m linking now examines it in detail. 

“To finally have a chance to be in a prestige film that might be award-nominated, where stories about people who look like us are being told? That’s the dream,” Franzese said. “So when they go time and time again and cast someone like Brendan Fraser, me and the other big queer guys, we’re like, ‘What the … ?’ We can’t take it!”

Here’s more. I think that comment says it all. And until we, as gay men, all ban together and start shouting out about this cultural appropriation in Hollywood and everywhere else like book publishing, it’s going to continue to happen.

 

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Law Student Missing After Being Seen In NYC Gay Bar, Ryan Field Books

 Law Student Missing After Being Seen In NYC Gay Bar

A young law student in New York is being tracked with his phone because he’s been missing for over two weeks. According to his phone, his last location was in a gay bar in the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. That’s a very popular gay area for gay men in NY. 

The police found his wallet and his phone in two different places. His family and friends are very worried. His brother made this statement. 

“I don’t want to rule out a heinous foul play. Like, I don’t want to think about it, but I can’t rule it out either,” he told NBC New York

Here’s more. I hope we see a happy ending and they find him soon. However, there is a mention that the police are investigating more deaths of gay men leaving gay bars. 


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Philadelphia Flyer Ivan Provorov Boycotts Pride Event, Ryan Field Books

 Philadelphia Flyer Ivan Provorov Boycotts Pride Event

In all fairness, I have to admit that I have never been to a Pride event. I’ve seen them happening where I live, and it’s not that I don’t support them. Like many gay men who are out, I just never felt the need to go to one. And I think that’s partly because I only identify as a gay man and I’m not thrilled with what Pride has become. 

And this has nothing at all to do with the LGBTQ community. From what I have seen in the past 20 years or so, straights have been taking over Pride events and profiting big time. In New Hope, PA, alone, I remember all the straight businesses hanging Pride and rainbow items outside their shops so they could exploit us to the fullest, and when Pride was over, all that Pride swag went back inside for another year. 

So I think Pride has become something different, and I’m not always fond of the direction it’s going. 

With that said, this move to boycott Pride by Ivan Provorov appears to be a blatant slap in the face to LGBTQ people. It looks as though it’s because of his Russian religion, but you have to look deeper. He didn’t have to announce it aloud. He could have slipped quietly away and disappeared and no one would have known. Let’s face it, a good many of us don’t know who he is, nor do we care. But he decided to make a point, and it’s loud and clear. 

When I saw this trending the other day on Twitter I also saw so many homophobic comments it was hard to keep track. The homophobic straights were saying things like, “why do they have to shove Pride down our throats?” Or, “they want us all to be gay.” Well, that’s only the way it appears because the media creates this image. The truth is that we really don’t care whether or not you go to Pride, whether you support Pride, or whether or not some dumb hockey player decides to boycott Pride for his Russian religions reasons. We all know what Russia does to gay people anyway, and I guess this guy supports that, too. But in truth, we really don’t care what they think. 

In fact, most gay men like me aren’t too thrilled with Pride events ourselves, but for very different reasons. Here’s where you can read the article. He really does come off as not too bright. There’s a photo of him with his big mouth half hanging open and you just have to wonder if he’s ever read a book from cover to cover. 

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Arizona Gay Couple Asked to Take Down Gay Pride Flag, Ryan Field Books

 Arizona Gay Couple Asked to Take Down Gay Pride Flag

This story interests me on a personal level because Tony and I are obviously gay, and we live in Palm Springs, CA, which is extremely gay. But more than that, we also live in a gated community in Palm Springs and we have an HOA and there are rules to follow. We also have many gay couples as neighbors. Everyone keeps their homes looking wonderful, everyone worked hard to get their homes, and they don’t put cheesy flags outside their homes…flags of any kind. I’m not singling anything out.  

With that said, I’m not knocking the Pride Flag. But there is a time and a place. And I am just as proud as any other gay man out there who does hang the Pride flag. In fact, I have devoted most of my life to writing gay fiction and getting it published with all the gay presses. So I highly doubt I can be called homophobic just because I believe there’s a time and a place for any flags, not just the Pride flag. But to be perfectly honest, the Pride flag has become something so foreign to me as a gay man I’m not sure how I identify with it anymore. 

Apparently, a gay couple in Arizona who is living in a community with an HOA decided to hang the Pride Flag outside their home, and they’ve been getting a lot of flack for it. Someone slashed the flag, someone stole the flag, and someone even knocked down their flag pole. And now this couple is not feeling safe. Their HOA is going after them for making changes to their property without permission. I don’t know the details of their HOA rules, but I do know that if Tony and I want to even have new stones put down we need an approval from the HOA. This is how HOAs work. For 20 years Tony and I didn’t have an HOA, but we did have one prior to that. And now we have one again. If you follow the rules you have nothing to worry about. 

In any event, this couple is trying to fight their HOA and you can read all about that, here. 

The one thing that I always find interesting is that I don’t need a flag or a symbol to make me feel safe for equal. As a gay man, I take that for myself and I don’t try to shove it down anyone’s throat. 

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Church of England Bishops Won't Back Gay Marriage, Ryan Field Books

 Church of England Bishops Won’t Back Gay Marriage

Just when the UK is trying to stop all conversion therapy for LGBTQ people, this happens. It’s really kind of ironic, and it mimics a good deal of what happens in the US all the time. Especially when it comes to some of these religious zealots. We take one step forward, and then two backward. 

Church of England bishops have refused to allow priests to marry gay couples. It took them 5 years to come to this conclusion, too, and they will still discuss it more next month. What’s wrong with them? These hooded fools refuse to accept gay marriage and continue to enforce that marriage is between one man and one woman. And this is why I have never cared much for organized religions. I will avoid any association with them at all cost.  

The article states that civil marriage has been legal over there since 2013. And the church doesn’t seem to have any issues with that. 

Here’s more. It goes on to discuss other views on the topic with other churches in the UK. For example, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland does do same sex marriage. 

It sounds as though some seem hopeful that this ruling from the Church of England will all change very soon. 




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