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Everyone who lives in the U.S. since Glee first aired knows there are two kinds of people in the world – the dorks, and the assholes – and that a gay man’s allies are the dorks. Dorks are people who band together because of a common disposition, being that they’d rather relate to each other [...]
Straight men who struggle with dating will sometimes say they wish they were gay. They suspect gay relationships are easy because men are so simple and straightforward; there is no mystery or confusion, no complex net of heartstrings to unravel, no fine line to walk in somehow coming across as confident yet vulnerable. What it [...]
If a straight man suddenly strips off his shirt in public, it means he wants to fight somebody. Either that or he just found out there’s a bee in it. But the bottom line is, wearing shirts is considered the norm for straight guys. Not so for gay men, who take great pleasure in letting everyone know [...]
Gay men come from all backgrounds; some are raised by pothead hippies, others grow up in a religious family on a farm. Some track high-fashion like a bloodhound, dropping huge wads of cash at every venture; others are distinctively blue-collar. In turn, some think the sublime is found in donning Uma Thurman’s hairdo and lip-synching [...]
Somewhere between a health freak and a trainwreck is the ordinary person, following a rule of moderation. Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables each day, have an occasional beer with dinner, sleep at least seven hours a night, jog twice a week, take a multivitamin. Another way to find that happy medium is to [...]
Acting is a matter of survival for gay teenagers. Since the first time he closed his eyes and silently chanted pretend she’s a boy pretend she’s a boy pretend she’s a boy when he kissed his first girlfriend by the dumpsters during lunch hour, he had the bug. Right away he was passing the news [...]
If you ask youth group leaders and high school guidance counselors, a crisis is rocking America. No, not obesity or meth; it’s teenagers and college students sending each other sexually-suggestive text messages or pictures, art that promises to destroy their future lives and families. Young people are being warned to ask themselves how they’re going [...]
Angelo lives in the middle of the gayborhood. His gaybors, Anders and Lionel, are a sweet older gay couple who live in the condo next door with their Shi-tzu, Michael. Down the block is the gay grocery store, affectionately nicknamed “Gayfeway,” and a cute little independently-owned lesbian bookstore called the Labiarary. Whenever Angelo’s mom comes [...]
Your first visit to your gay friend’s home can tell any story. You might learn is a reclusive intellectual, whose wall of classic novels spills out onto the tables and chairs. He could be a tortured artist, who has covered his home in homemade paintings and novelty objects arranged poignantly – if chaotically – like [...]
Instead of boring plains, gay people like to live where there are things above and around them, wrapping the view-plane like a cozy hug. That means hilly places, like California, or forested places, like Massachusetts. But what gay men like most of all is living under 30-story buildings – which make up the least flat landscape you can think of – in a city wrapped in hills, under a cover of permanent clouds and fog, in a region blanketed by hundreds of miles of breathtakingly tall redwood trees