Richard Socarides, an attorney and Senior Advisor during the Clinton Administration, shares his experiences coming out as gay while he was in this twenties to his father who was already at the time a preeminent scholar on the “gay cure” and widely regarded as the father of conversion therapy.
Produced by a 21-year-old student, My best gay friends has become a nationwide phenomenon with the first episode of the 15-part series breaking the one million view mark on Youtube over the weekend.
Festival organisers have unveiled their line-up of 25 events over seven days including a parade, volleyball tournament, street parties, film screenings, bowling competition and the Mr Gay Fongkaew Phuket competition.
Extremely concerned by their findings, investigators recommend that healthcare providers, policy makers and communities of gay men need to make plans for screening and treating pre-cancerous anal lesions.
Although cheating is not specific to any sexual orientation, is it more tolerable or even acceptable among gay men than among heterosexuals? This writer wonders if gay men have learnt (implicitly) that not only do we not get censured for our misdeeds, but we may even get rewarded for it.
Meet 20-year-old gay activist and mountain climber Cason Crane, who has raised US$100,000 for the Trevor Project which provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBT youths in the US, by climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
Two historic appeals on marriage are being argued in the US Supreme Court this week. One is a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The other is about an amendment to the state constitution in California. Douglas Sanders, Professor Emeritus in Law at Canada’s University of British Columbia and Thailand's Chulalongkorn University, provides a backgrounder to the two cases.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has become somewhat of a hero for rebutting a shareholder who complained that the company's support of same-sex marriage was hurting the company’s stock price at the company's annual meeting last week.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was approved in the US in July 2012, following trials showing its efficacy in preventing sexual transmission of HIV. But, as Gus Cairns finds out, it remains a controversial addition to the HIV prevention options available to gay men in the US.
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