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REMEMBERING OUR LGBT BROTHERS & SISTERS OF PULSE ORLANDO MASSACRE

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Apr 16, 2017 CAKE, BUTT, FITNESS ANTOINE WARD JR

CAKE ON FLEEK - TIPS FOF YOUR BEST BUTT

Apr 16, 2017 CAKE, BUTT, FITNESS ANTOINE WARD JR

When going into the gym, trying to grow a larger backside. You need to know that there are 3 muscles you need to work on to enlarge your rear end. They are the Gluteus Maximus, Gluteus Medius, and Gluteus Minimus. The appearance of your butt has to do with how much fat is covering your glutes. So please note, if your legs and/or thighs are on the smaller side. A bigger ass may not be in your future. However; you can still sculpt your gluteus to a better liking. Rather you are on the fuller or leaner side, these tips should help you gain your best butt.

Apr 16, 2017 CAKE, BUTT, FITNESS ANTOINE WARD JR

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Apr 16, 2017 HAYWARD AARON

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Apr 16, 2017 HAYWARD AARON

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Jan 1, 2017 DAVE BRIDGEFORTH

ARTIST OF THE WINTER - Bryan K. Jones

Jan 1, 2017 DAVE BRIDGEFORTH

LES BROWN & DAVE TALK MEETING MAYA ANGELO!

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Aug 13, 2017 NATHAN JAMES

What Is The Remedy For Murder?

Aug 13, 2017 NATHAN JAMES

“The remedy for hate speech,” said Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, writing in a landmark decision in June, “is more speech”. Adding “more speech” to the expression of white supremacist bigotry and homophobia, is exactly what hundreds of counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia were doing on a bright, sunny summer Saturday afternoon. Exercising the First Amendment rights the judge wrote about so earnestly, they assembled peaceably, to voice their opposition to the blazing displays of hatred that had run rampant through the streets of this Blue Ridge city for two days. When torch-bearing neo-Nazis, “alt-right” racists, and Trump supporters—many of whom wore his trademark, red “Make America Great Again” hats—descended upon the University of Virginia’s campus on Friday night, it was but the opening salvo in a series of broadsides that would end in horrifying bloodshed, captured on video, in living color, for all the world to see.

Aug 13, 2017 NATHAN JAMES

Apr 29, 2017 Aaron Hernandez, Odin Lloyd, Hernandez' gay lover, Michael Sam, Wade Davis, Suicide, NFL, Hernandez’ Suicide Note NATHAN JAMES

Hernandez’ Suicide Note To Lover Was Also A Parting Shot To The NFL

Apr 29, 2017 Aaron Hernandez, Odin Lloyd, Hernandez' gay lover, Michael Sam, Wade Davis, Suicide, NFL, Hernandez’ Suicide Note NATHAN JAMES

As the sun rises on another dreary weekday morning, the explosive events that marked the end of former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez' life has dominated the water-cooler conversations of many a sports fan across America. Hernandez, 27, hanged himself in a Massachusetts jail cell, shortly after winning acquittal in a closely-watched double-murder trial. Still serving a life term for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd (a case which was on appeal), the despondent young man took extraordinary steps to ensure his suicide would be successful. Before looping the prison-issue bedsheets around his neck and closing his eyes forever, the young athlete posted several suicide letters to significant people in his orbit. One such letter was addressed to a fellow inmate, Kyle Kennedy, said to be Hernandez' gay lover.

Apr 29, 2017 Aaron Hernandez, Odin Lloyd, Hernandez' gay lover, Michael Sam, Wade Davis, Suicide, NFL, Hernandez’ Suicide Note NATHAN JAMES

Mar 17, 2017 NOAHSARC, PATRIKIANPOLK, LGBTQ, BLACKQUEER, BLACKLGBT, KATHRYN SHATTUCK, TRANSGENDER, LOGO, DARRYL STEPHENS, LAVERNE COX NATHAN JAMES

Noah Is Conspicuous By His Absence

Mar 17, 2017 NOAHSARC, PATRIKIANPOLK, LGBTQ, BLACKQUEER, BLACKLGBT, KATHRYN SHATTUCK, TRANSGENDER, LOGO, DARRYL STEPHENS, LAVERNE COX NATHAN JAMES

In February, Kathryn Shattuck penned a listing of 14 TV shows that broke ground with gay and transgender characters in The New York Times, intending to depict the progress the LGBTQ community has made in becoming more visible in popular culture. The article, admittedly limited in scope, cites such programs as Ellen, Queer As Folk, and Orange Is The New Black, all true milestones in the inclusion of gays, lesbians, and transgender people on the small screen. Each entry on Ms. Shattuck’s list is, as she points out, a defining moment in “a turbulent 45-year trajectory from television movies to single episodes involving secondary players to fully fleshed-out characters central to a show’s story line.” However, even among these important developments in our community’s long march towards equality, Ms. Shattuck has rendered one nearly iconic LGBT TV series conspicuous, by its absence from the story. That would be Noah's Arc, which was a great gathering of “firsts” in its casting, theme, and delivery. Conceived and developed by Patrik-Ian Polk, an accomplished screenwriter, producer and director whose career has been defined by his devotion to the stories of Black gay characters, Noah’s Arc made an immediate and lasting impact upon all who were fortunate enough to watch it on LOGO.

Mar 17, 2017 NOAHSARC, PATRIKIANPOLK, LGBTQ, BLACKQUEER, BLACKLGBT, KATHRYN SHATTUCK, TRANSGENDER, LOGO, DARRYL STEPHENS, LAVERNE COX NATHAN JAMES

Oct 3, 2016 LGBT, DEMOCRATS, HILLARY, VOTE, POLITICS NATHAN JAMES Comment

Beyond The LGBT Platitudes: Democrats Over The Rainbow

Oct 3, 2016 LGBT, DEMOCRATS, HILLARY, VOTE, POLITICS NATHAN JAMES Comment

As the historic Democratic National Committee Convention (DNCC) ended in Philadelphia, with the delegates, celebrities, elected officials, and the candidates returning to their daily lives, as the campaign rhetoric of four days died down and began to fade from memory, and as the LGBT community at large reflects on its unprecedented level of visibility during the proceedings, it’s a propitious moment to look beyond the flowery platitudes and high-flown pronouncements of equality and diversity, to examine the real issues facing LGBT people and the Democrats, as they seek to retain the White House. Each session of the DNCC was marked by acknowledgments of the LGBT community and our ongoing struggles to be free of fear, free of injury, and free to be true, equal participants in American life. Political figures from all levels of the party celebrated the accomplishments of the LGBT rights movement, and the dangers we still face, invoking Stonewall and Orlando, polemically decrying the massacre, even as they promised a brighter future ahead. As Hillary Clinton enters the fight of her public life against Republican nominee Donald Trump, how does she, and her party, take us over the figurative rainbow once the election has been won?

Oct 3, 2016 LGBT, DEMOCRATS, HILLARY, VOTE, POLITICS NATHAN JAMES Comment

Oct 3, 2016 LGBT, POLITICS NATHAN JAMES Comment

LGBT Refugees Flee ISIS, Find Nowhere Safe

Oct 3, 2016 LGBT, POLITICS NATHAN JAMES Comment

Among the massive tide of refugees desperately trying to escape the sinister depredations of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria(ISIS) terrorist organization, as it continues to occupy large areas of Iraq and Syria, despite the loss of nearly a quarter of the land it previously captured, are many members of those countries’ LGBT communities. As they evacuate their former homelands, where ISIS has executed gay men in utterly horrifying ways, these uprooted individuals are discovering there may be no real sanctuary for them, as they seemingly face violence at every turn. In countries like Turkey, young gay men are arriving daily, often without documentation, frightened, uncertain of their futures. Believing they’ve left the worst of the horror behind them, the nightmare often catches up, with sometimes fatal outcomes. One such young man was Mohammed Wisam Sankari, who arrived in Istanbul last year, just ahead of ISIS forces. Understanding the danger he faced, Sankari left his native Syria, looking for a sustainable place to call home, where he could live as his authentic self without fear. It was not to be.

Oct 3, 2016 LGBT, POLITICS NATHAN JAMES Comment

Jun 17, 2016 Orlando, shooting, lgbt, pulse NATHAN JAMES

The Night The Rainbow Fell

Jun 17, 2016 Orlando, shooting, lgbt, pulse NATHAN JAMES

Since I was awakened very early this past Sunday morning, plunged into a horrific real-life nightmare from the tranquil dreams of my slumber, I, like the rest of the LGBT community around the world, have struggled to understand the incomprehensible madness of an act that has come to be known as the worst mass shooting our country has ever seen.

Jun 17, 2016 Orlando, shooting, lgbt, pulse NATHAN JAMES

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Aug 13, 2017 NATHAN JAMES

What Is The Remedy For Murder?

Aug 13, 2017 NATHAN JAMES

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Jul 2, 2017 DAVE BRIDGEFORTH

HOW TO EAT THE SUMMER - NOTES ON HOW TO LET YOUR LIFE SPEAK

Jul 2, 2017 DAVE BRIDGEFORTH

As I arrive upon the last Summer of my 20s there are a few things that must be noted about what it takes to let your life speak.

When I was a child I didn’t think much of my future. The life I’ve been able to lead all of my 20s would be considered fiction for me as a kid. I was raised in the belief that Jesus was coming back in a rapture and we the remnant would be gone in a blink of an eye. Therefore I didn't indulge my mind in the pleasures of the world. My brother and I were raised under rumors of war —Momma reminded us daily that it was the last days and that the devil was out to sift us like wheat. So we read the book of Revelations daily during homeschool and that was our reality.

Let the narrative you entertain for your life, serve your greatness.

I now believe that there is nothing but love for me in the universe. I tell myself stories of wonderment within my own life. And for Jesus to come back, would mean he left me and that he can not do. I am clear that no one, no devil, principalities, or powers are out to get me; I don’t run from, I leap into. For if there is no enemy within an enemy outside can do me no harm.

Be full of yourself; how empty of you to be full of anyone else.

Most of my 20s in publishing this magazine has been about the business of show.

Jul 2, 2017 DAVE BRIDGEFORTH