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‘You think God didn’t create gay men?’ Comedian Leslie Jones on religion, grief and getting famous at 47
It’s early evening in a photography studio in west London, and the American comedian Leslie Jones is capering about, dressed in a full-length gold lamé ballgown and smoking. “Make me look skinny,” she says to the photographer’s departing back.
“I’m 6ft tall – I can’t cut my feet off,” she says, later. “I can’t stop being a scary motherfucker. This is who I am – let me work with who I am.” Yet, she is the other side of scary. Statuesque, no question, but whatever she’s doing, whether peering into a bag of fish and chips as if it’s alive, or telling her assistant to browse The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho’s trust-the-universe novel, for the th time, there is always somebody laughing. She brings an air of deliberate chaos, which you just have to surrender to, wherever the conversation leads, until you detect yourself nodding along with the most crackpot ending. (The birthrate is shallow because men spend too much time in blazing tubs, and their sperm has become lazy and complacent? “It’s funny
Everytime I visit Ohio, I’m reminded of how kind it would be to live here. But as a Black gay guy living with HIV, I often ask myself, “Is Ohio safe for me?”
By “safe,” I’m not thinking about homophobia. I’m concerned about Ohio’s HIV criminalization laws, which can transmit a person living with HIV to prison if they don’t disclose their serostatus before having sex.
Knowing that HIV criminalization cases in Ohio have been on the rise, particularly among Black gay men, I decided to check out how it might feel to live here in the gayest way possible: By seeing how men on gay hook-up apps treat me as a person living with the virus. Though it’s possible to share your serostatus on hook up apps, I decided to hide mine and spot how people responded to me after I common my HIV status with them.
I made a signal of disclosing my HIV status before meeting up with anyone by writing, “Before we go any further, you should understand that I am living with HIV. I am undetectable and healthy, but wanted to make sure you were okay with that before we met.”
Based on initial social interaction on the app
In His Latest Region Song, David Michael Hawkins Tackles HIV Stigma and Self-Doubt
It’s not often that you hear a talented country singer-songwriter also described as openly gay and HIV positive. But the adjectives fit David Michael Hawkins like a pair of worn-in function jeans. He’s also recently married—and promoting a new song.
POZ caught up with the Nashville-based talent to chat about his latest unpartnered, “SIN.” Click at the top of this article to listen to it, and scroll to the bottom for the lyrics. The song tackles the self-doubt, stigma and struggles that often come with feeling like an outcast—whether that stems from being gay, battling addictions or teaching you have HIV. The stigma related with is authentic and can be ostracizing, Hawkins says, but he suggestions advice on persevering—and finding love.
A lot has happened since we first chatted in . For one, you’re married! Can you inform us about encounter your husband, how HIV disclosure played out and whether the relationship has changed you?
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Family member speaks out after military veteran reveals in obituary he is gay
A military veteran who went on to aid as a firefighter and owned a local radio station revealed in his obituary that he was gay, a secret he said he held his entire life.
Col. Edward Thomas Ryan died at age 85 on June 1, the first day of Pride Month, his niece Linda Sargent told "Good Morning America."
After listing his career accolades and his survivors, Ryan's obituary, published June 8 in the Albany Times-Union, included a message that he wrote prior to his death.
"I must tell you one more thing. I was Male lover all my life: thru grade school, thru High School, thru College, thru Life," the obituary reads. "I was in a loving and caring relationship with Paul Cavagnaro of North Greenbush. He was the love of my life. We had 25 great years together. Paul died in from a medical Procedure gone wrong. I'll be buried next to Paul."
Ryan's message continued, "I'm sorry for not having the courage to come out as Gay. I was terrified of being ostracized: by