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  • Aaron Carter backtracks slightly on the bisexual revelation

    “I think it was a little misconstrued”

    Reports of the singer being bisexual were “misconstrued”

    It seems Aaron Carter’s coming out as bisexual was over-egged by some in the media after he said that reports of him being bisexual were “misconstrued”.

    When asked whether he could see himself in a relationship with another man Aaron replied, “Yeah, no. It was more so just a story that happened when I was like 17 with somebody, and I can find men and women attractive, but when it comes down to it, I think it was a little misconstrued.

    “I see myself being with a woman and having kids. I want to have a family.”

    Despite this, Aaron did reveal who his male celebrity crush was speaking to TMZ he said, “If I could ask one male celebrity out on a date it would actually be Tom Hardy, but I think he’s already taken.”

    Aaron did admit that he once had a thing with a guy when he was 17. He said he had an “experience with a male that I had an attraction to who I also worked with and grew up with”.

  • 7 places you should never stick your penis

    7 places you should never stick your penis

    Having a penis is fun.

    Be careful where you put your junk…

    Here are seven places you should definitely not stick your purple-headed love monster. You can be warned.

    Your Stoma

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    A stoma is an opening in the body – your mouth, your anus, your nostrils – they are all natural stomas, however, if you have to have an operation to remove part of your intestine or bowel you might be left with a colostomy bag, which will require an artificial stoma to be cut into your stomach, to attach the bag too.

    It seems, however, some think the hole that’s left is the perfect place to put a penis. One nurse shared with us that they had witnessed a patient’s stoma getting incredibly infected. When asked why the patient admitted that he had been putting his penis in the hole. It’s a very delicate area and can become infected relatively easily. So putting your or someone else’s penis in it is not a wise move.

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  • This ABC news reporter just opened up about being HIV positive

    ‘For ten years the stigma and industry professionals have said, “don’t! It’ll ruin you”

    ABC reporter, Karl Schmid has revealed that he is HIV positive and has been living with HIV for ten years. In an emotional post on social media, the 37-year-old admitted that he had been told by co-workers that coming out about his status could “ruin” him in the entertainment industry.

    He said, “For 10 years I’ve struggled with ‘do I or don’t I’? For ten years the stigma and industry professionals have said, ‘don’t! It’ll ruin you’. But here’s the thing. I’m me. I’m just like you. I have a big heart and I want to be loved and accepted. I may be on TV from time to time, but at the end of the day I’m just an average guy who wants want we all want. To be accepted and loved by our friends and family and to be encouraged by our peers,”

    He spoke out saying that he was standing “tall” and “proud” saying the decision to talk about HIV wasn’t to make people happy, but himself happier. He went on to say,

    ” Labels are things that come and go but your dignity and who you are is what defines you. I know who I am, I know what I stand for and while in the past I may not have always had clarity, I do now. Love me or hate me, that’s up to you.

    “But, for anyone who has ever doubted themselves because of those scary three letters and one symbol, let me tell you this, you are somebody who matters. Your feelings, your thoughts, your emotions count. And don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. I’m Karl Schmid, and I’m an HIV-positive man!”

    The post attracted thousands of positive likes and comments.

  • Grindr has blocked you from seeing who blocked you

    Grindr has officially blocked you from seeing who blocked you.

    Goodbye to C*ckBlocked

    Information held about you is now being blocked from your view after Grindr patched a bug which allowed users to see who had blocked them.

    Now when a user visits the https://blocked.ongrindr.com/ website they are met with a user message which reads, “Goodbye C*ckBlocked. The first and only way to see who blocked you on Grindr. The API that provided for the data was patched by Grindr on March 23rd, 2018”

    However, if you’re in the UK, you still have certain rights to see information a company holds about you, which could mean any data that is held on your profile, which is not actually viewable by you through the app’s interface. Thanks to the Data Protection Act, if you really wanted to see what information the company holds about you, you can put in a request.

    New Ownership

    Grindr was wholly bought by a  Chinese gaming company earlier this year, meaning it is not under the LGBT ownership anymore.

    In 2016 Grindr’s founder Joel Simkhai announced that he had sold 60 percent of the dating app to the Chinese gaming firm Kunlun Tech Co. The remaining 40 percent has now been snapped up by the same firm in a deal thought to be worth $152 million.

    The initial purchase of just over 60 percent was thought to be worth $93 million.

  • What does LGBTQ2 stand for?

    The LGBTQ2 is an acronym mostly widely used in Canada and other parts of North America.

    What does LGBTQ2 stand for?
    It’s becoming increasingly popular but what does LGBTQ2 stand for?

    Outside Canada LGBTQ2 is not in wide use, its origins are a means of identifying some Native (North) Americans. However due, in part, to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau its use has become popularised.

    The 2 in LGBTQ2 stands for ‘two-spirit’. It is an umbrella term for being a “two spirit” described as a Native (North) American who identifies as non-binary, non-cisgendered or genderqueer. It could also refer to someone who identifies as non-heterosexual. It is used to describe certain spiritual people. It is not interchangeable with LGBT Native American.

    Wikipedia explains, “it is a sacred, spiritual and ceremonial role that is recognised and confirmed by the Elders of the Two Spirit’s ceremonial community. While some have found the term a useful tool for intertribal organising, not all Native cultures conceptualise gender or sexuality this way, and most tribes use names in their own languages.”

    The L stands for Lesbian

    The G stands for Gay

    The B stands for Bisexual

    The T stands for Trans

    The Q stands for Queer (use with caution) or Questioning

    The 2 stands for two-spirit

    It was adopted in 1990 to replace an outdated and now considered offensive term.

    The term is not widely used outside North America.

    Can you expand this definition? Use the comment box below, and we’ll add to this article.

     

     

  • Gay couple killed together, when Miami bridge collapsed

    A couple who had been together for 21 years were killed when the Miami bridge collapsed on their car.

    (C) FACEBOOK

    Osvaldo “Ozzy” González, 57, and Alberto Arias, 54 were killed instantly when their car passed under a collapsing bridge in Miami.

    The couple, described as “soulmates”, who had been together for 21 years, had spent the morning helping Alberto’s mother move into their home. They went out to do some tasks, when their white Chevy truck passed under the Florida International University footbridge as it came crashing down on March 15th.

    The 862-tonne, 174ft (53m) bridge collapsed at 1:47 PM. It killed six victims who were passing under the bridge at the time of its failure. The footbridge was newly built and construction took just six hours.

    According to the Miami Herald, Alberto’s mother became worried after she heard about the disaster on local media and started to call her son’s mobile phone, but it was already too late.

    The couple owned a business together and were originally both from Cuba.

    Ozzy’s sister, Marisol González, said he was, “The best brother, friend, very cheerful, with a desire to live life to the fullest.”

    The couple will be buried together.

    Luis Arias, Alberto’s nephew said, “They were together for 21 years — they were partners,”

    “They were together in their ups they were together in their downs, they were together in their travels and enjoying life and they will be together when they are laid to rest.”

    Both families of the men are filing a lawsuit against the companies involved in the bridge collapse.

  • Can “Anal Examinations” prove someone is gay?

    There’s been a change in the law in the African country of Kenya, which forbids a cruel and inaccurate medical procedure to determine if someone is gay or not.

    There are over 70 countries in the world where homosexuality or sex between two men is illegal. Some of those countries have been known to force people suspected of being gay to have anal examinations.

    What is an anal exam?

    An anal examination would involve a doctor or other authority figure stripping someone, forcing them into a position to expose their anus and looking at the outside of their anus to determine whether that person had had anal sex.

    There is a belief that the anus looks different if anal sex has taken place.

    Some people who have experienced this cruel and humiliating practice have also spoken out about how fingers or other instruments were inserted into their anuses to determine the virginity of their rectums.

    These tests are rarely done in private and may have several people present whilst the exam takes place.

    Outdated

    In practice, this sort of test is outdated and rarely, if ever, accurate. According to the Human Rights Watch, the test was discredited in the 19th century and note that many people who are forced to have these examines live with lasting psychological trauma.

    The biggest lie in the history of medicine.

    Doctor Sami Kawas, a forensic doctor says, “It is completely unreliable. Anal exam cannot tell you if you’re a homosexual or not whether you’re passive or you’re active this is the biggest lie ever created in the history of medicine”.

    WATCH: This video includes testimony from people who were forced to take an anal examination.

    Sticking anything inside someone’s anus, into their anal canal without their explicit consent would surely constitute a form of sexual assault.

    Despite this anal examination outcomes are used in the prosecution of men suspected of having same-sex sex. HRW count Egypt and Tunisia as examples of countries that use this evidence to prosecute. A report is prepared and used in court as a form of evidence.

     

  • How to find out who blocked you on Grindr

    If you’re wondering who has blocked you on Grindr, there’s now a simple way of checking out.

    You’ll need to do these steps in an Internet browser. There is no way to do this inside the app.

    1. Firstly you need your login Email and your password, there will be a chance to change your password if you’ve forgotten it.
    2. Log on to https://blocked.ongrindr.com/.
    3. Enter the email address you signed up to Grindr with and then enter your password.
    4. If you need to change your password there’s an option to update.
    5. Once logged in you’ll be able to see who has blocked you.

    This is what the Blocked On Grindr front page looks like

    If you’re concerned about data,  Trever Faden who created the website gives these reassurances,

    “Luckily, someone finding out that you blocked them on Grindr isn’t a huge security vulnerability, as much as it is an awkward conversation waiting to happen. That said, when you block someone on Grindr, you do assume that information will stay somewhat private.

    “Sometimes that is unfortunately just an assumption, as we’ve seen with data breaches in the past at companies like Ashley Madison.

    “All of this data is safe, until it’s not, which, in my opinion, just means that if you really want to keep a secret–don’t send it through the internet.”

  • You can now find out who blocked you on Grindr

    This is not going to be pretty.

    There’s now away to find out who blocked you on grindr

    You can find out who blocked you (the bastards) on one of the world’s biggest gay dating apps. The program is called C*ckBlocked, created by a user, Trever Faden. You can find it here.

    It’s free to access online and all you have to do is put in your Grindr username and password.

    When someone blocks you that data is stored by both users – the blockee and the blocker (bastard).

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    Speaking to Queerty, Trever offered this security and data advice:

    “Luckily, someone finding out that you blocked them on Grindr isn’t a huge security vulnerability, as much as it is an awkward conversation waiting to happen. That said, when you block someone on Grindr, you do assume that information will stay somewhat private.

    “Sometimes that is unfortunately just an assumption, as we’ve seen with data breaches in the past at companies like Ashley Madison.

    “All of this data is safe, until it’s not, which, in my opinion, just means that if you really want to keep a secret–don’t send it through the internet.”

    So if you’re finding that you’ve been blocked by a bunch of people maybe these are the mistake you’re mistaking.

  • Facebook suspends whistleblower Christopher Wylie’s accounts

    Is Christopher Wylie gay?
    Big Data and Christopher Wylie

    He’s probably one of the most famous people on the Internet at the moment. Christopher Wylie, the gay whistleblower at the centre of the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data scandal has shared that his Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram accounts have been disabled “for violating” their terms.

    According to sources, Facebook has apparently demanded to inspect Wylie’s phone a requested to which he replied, “What do they want? To look through my dick pics?”

    His whistleblowing, on the alleged data harvested from 50 million Facebook accounts, through a personality quiz app has caused billions of dollars to be wiped off the value of Facebook and thousands of people to deleted their Facebook accounts.

    The hashtag #DeleteFacebook trended in the UK for most of the day on Twitter.

    Both firms deny any wrongdoing.

  • Outside of London, Birmingham is the randiest place in the UK

    New stats gathered by THEGAYUK, show that outside of London, Birmingham is the randiest place in the UK.

    Birmingham’s gay scene is thriving

    It seems as though gay and bisexual men in Birmingham can’t get enough of online hookups and chat sites. So much so, it is only second to London for online searches for gay hookups, gay chat and dating sites. Of course, Birmingham has one of the largest gay scenes in the UK, alongside Brighton, Manchester and of course, London.

    Analytics show that the Birmingham chat page is one of the most popular entry points to THEGAYUK.com for English cities, whilst Glasgow tops the list for Scottish cities. Cardiff is the number one for Wales, but 13th overall for the UK and Belfast is number one for Northern Ireland, but number 24 overall for the UK.

    The top ten list looks like this:

    1. London
    2. Birmingham
    3. Manchester
    4. Leeds
    5. Glasgow
    6. Bristol
    7. Liverpool
    8. Sheffield
    9. Nottingham
    10. Edinburgh

    Previously Essex had topped the list, but now doesn’t even register in the top 100 of visitor locations. Instead, Grimsby brings up the bottom of the league table at number 100 randiest place in Britain.

    Overall visitors from England make up 77% percent of all searches, Scottish visitors make up six percent of searches, the Welsh make up three percent and guys from Northern Ireland make up 1 percent.