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Bear Culture is the Subject of a New University Study in the UK
Bear culture is here to stay as a part of the gay community. How can you tell? There's a university funding a study looking into the relatively recent phenomenon. "Bears," as defined in our glossary of LGBTQ+ terminology, is commonly understood as the more burly, brawny and hairier strain of gay men — a concept… more...
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Gay Voices
A Coming out Story of Abandonment, a Prodigal Son Finds His Family.
I came out of the closet in 1992 in Indianapolis In. I had an abusive father, a subservient mother and was kicked out of the house. I had already told my mother and siblings a year prior to telling my father in one on conversation. He and my mom got into a fight about and… more...
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Can I Let This Straight Man Be My Sugar Daddy for a Weekend?
After going through a rough patch, Sebastian receives an invitation for an out-of-town adventure with a straight friend from college that initially seems too good to be true. I was folding towels when my iPhone went off - lighting up the laundry room at work with the promise of adventure. The name was one I’d… more...
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The Stations of My Gay Divorce
On the day my divorce was finalized, I accidentally ended up in the neighborhood where I took so many of the steps which led me to that moment. As I shared in an earlier column (which you can read here ), I have long wanted to be unequivocally considered an adult. Though it may be… more...
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