Tag: #GayMen

Erwin Sigueroa and (Freddy) Garcia on their makeshift wedding day. / Screenshot via YouTube @QVoiceNews This’ll probably be the sweetest and saddest thing you’ll see all week. Alfredo Garcia III is currently receiving treatment at Chicago’s Seasons Hospice MacNeal Inpatient Center for Stage IV liver cancer and Hodgkin’s lymphoma (a cancer that spread through the lymph system). And unfortunately, Garcia is losing the fight. But, it was in these moments that he was granted a beautiful wish. When greeted by the...

Screenshot via Twitter @TaigaIshikawa Japan has gained its first openly gay member of the House of Councilors. While the nation has seen openly LGBTQ politicians before, this is the first instance of one winning a seat within the House.  Taiga Ishikawa was elected to the Upper House for the first time by winning a seat in the proportional representation system on July 21. The 45-year-old came out as gay in 2011 before becoming a social activist speaking out for gay rights....

Men.com’s in trouble with PETA, but the director says no animal was harmed during their shooting. / Photo credit: Twitter @Men Men.com is under fire after it used an animal as a prop for its latest scene. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (or PETA) is known of its crusades in the name of protecting animal rights. Sometimes, they are known for going too far to make their point, and is their newest fight more of the same or justifiable? The...

Credit: Ryan Shea There seems to be a very sad disconnect going on in the gay community. The divide between men who are in shape compared to ones that aren’t are still rampant in our world. Deny it all we want, but it exists.  This is something that I, along with many others, have seen at plenty of gay events where the muscle dudes hang on one side and everyone else scatters to their own groups. I will have to admit, however, that...

Photo by Sayo Garcia on Unsplash Gay men are feeling lonely and rejected in China. A new study by the University of Hawaii at Mānoa says that Chinese gay men ages 25-29 are eight times more likely to feel criticized and rejected in their country than men ages 20 and down. The study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, was created as a part of public health researchers’ wish to understand LGBTQ people. Knowing the mental health...

Photo by Emir Saldierna on UnsplashAre gay and bisexual men contracting gonorrhea through kissing? A new study published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections found that men who have sex with other men, or MSM, are getting STIs through kissing at alarming rates. The study was focused on survey information from 3,677 men around the age of 30. All of whom were tested for oropharyngeal (throat) gonorrhea, but only 6.2% got a positive...