Big tech’s battle against gay/bi male bodies and sexuality continues, as the world’s largest video platform, YouTube, deletes meatMagazine’s entire channel.
Meat’s channel, the platform said, had violated their rules on nudity, except it is impossible to see whether the guys who appear in the video are naked or not – as they all appear waist up, without their tops on.
This isn’t the first time the publication has been targetted by big tech companies, like the Facebook owned Instagram, having had its Instagram pages shut down and pictures removed.
The video that allegedly broke YouTube’s nudity rules was a promo video for the latest issue of meat‘s 2021 calendar, which featured 12 men, who only appeared topless in the video.
Taking to Twitter the magazine wrote, “It appears that we have once again fallen foul of the Social Media Nazis. @youtube have suspended the meat account for posting this video. WTAF???!!!!!”
It appears that we have once again fallen foul of the Social Media Nazis. @youtube have suspended the meat account for posting this video. WTAF???!!!!! https://t.co/W5xn0HDoDb
In a statement to THEGAYUK.com Adrian, the magazine’s owner and photographer said, “I appealed stating that there wasn’t nudity in the video and that the calendar is queer/body positive rather than sexual and they responded to say that I’d contravened their policy on nudity and my account wouldn’t be reinstated.”
Laws in Trinidad and Tobago were changed in 2018 to allow consenting men to have sex.
Sodomy laws in Trinidad and Tobago were amended to allow adult men to have sex with each other.
Justice Devindra Rampersad gave a final ruling on legal challenges by LGBT+ activist Jason Jones, to amend the wording of certain sections of the Sexual Offences Act.
Two sections underwent wording change.
Wording has been amended in section 13, with the words “without consent”. The section now reads,
“13. (1) A person who commits the offence of buggery is liable on conviction to imprisonment for twenty-five years. (2) In this section “buggery” means sexual intercourse “without consent” per anum by a male person with a male person or by a male person with a female person.”
In section 16 the words “a male person and a female person” are deleted and replaced with “persons”
“(1) A person who commits an act of serious indecency on or towards another is liable on conviction to imprisonment for five years.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an act of serious indecency committed in private between—
(a) a husband and his wife; (b) “persons” each of whom is sixteen years of age or more, both of
whom consent to the commission of the act; or (c) persons to whom section 20(1) and (2) and (3) of the Children Act apply. (3) An act of “serious indecency” is an act, other than
sexual intercourse (whether natural or unnatural), by a person involving the use of the genital organ for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.
The changes came after judge Devindra Rampersad ruled those two sections of the Sexual Offences Act unconstitutional in April of 2018.
Despite the 2018 move to be more accepting of LGBT+ people, other laws to protect gay people from discrimination do not yet exist. LGBT+ do not enjoy the same rights and privileges as heterosexual individuals and opposite-sex couples.
LGBT+ people are not permitted to adopt, there is no recognition of same-sex relationships. Gays are not allowed to serve openly in the military and there are zero law protecting LGBT+ folk from discriminations based on sexuality or gender ID.
Yes, there is a Celebrate Bisexuality Day and it falls on the same day every year. Celebrate Bisexuality Day is an important part of the LGBT+ calendar and it takes place towards the end of September, and it’s usually bang slap in the middle of Bisexuality Awareness Week or BiWeek.
However, this year, Celebrate Bisexuality Day occurs a week after Bisexuality Awareness Week on the 23rd of September. This year that is a Wednesday.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first celebrated in 1999 and aims to bring awareness to bisexual or “bi plus” people in the LGBT+ community. The date was in part chosen because Freddie Mercury’s birthday is in September.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day is, according to Wikipedia the brainchild of three bisexual rights activists: Wendy Curry of Maine, Michael Page of Florida, and Gigi Raven Wilbur.
What are the colours of the Bisexual Pride flag?
The bisexual flag was designed by a team headed by Michael Page in 1998. It is comprised of three coloured horizontal stripes, from top to bottom: Pink, Purple, Blue.
TODAY IN GAY HISTORY: Will And Grace makes TV History, by becoming the longest-running mainstream sitcom in which storylines revolved around gay principal characters.
Airing on the 21st September 1998, Will And Grace made TV History. Over the course of 194 episodes over 8 seasons, American audiences began to love and accept openly gay storylines and characters.
It gave birth to characters such as Karen Walker and Jack McFarland.
Although the show opened to a certain amount of criticism the show became a staple on the NBC network and enjoyed a peak of 17.3 million viewers in the US. The first episode aired on the 18th May 2006.
The show’s popularity and reach were credited to opening the door to a wave of gay-themed programming such as Queer As Folk.
Former US Vice President Joe Biden said that the series had had a profound impact on how LGBT rights and how Americans viewed gay people. He said, “I think Will & Grace did more to educate the American public than almost anything anybody has ever done. People fear that which is different. Now they’re beginning to understand”, in an interview during Meet The Press.
The Queen’s cousin, Lord Ivar Mountbatten, then 53 years old, (pictured on the right) revealed that he was gay and in a relationship with his now-husband James Coyle (not in picture) in an interview.
He is the first member of the extended Royal Family to have come out as openly gay. He is the great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria.
Lord Mountbatten, had been previously married to Penelope Anne Vere Thompson and together they had three children, although they separated in 2010. Lord Mountbatten went on to marry Mr Coyle in 2018, becoming the first Royal to have a gay wedding.
Speaking about his family’s reaction to his news and to his then-boyfriend, he said, “Now everyone in our family knows and could not be more supportive. Neither of us wanted to have relationships which were transitory; the stereotypical view of gay relationships is that they are too fleeting, too frequent”.
While lots of us will settle with a “Vers” label there are many gay or bi guys who will only bottom or only top.
These self-identified bottoms, on a Reddit forum, reveal why they are strictly bottoms.
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Delaying the O
“I like bottoming for several reasons: first, the feeling, but secondly it lets me maintain control and delay my orgasm, because otherwise, I’d be pretty quick. I also really enjoy turning a guy on and pleasing him, so all combined makes me a great bottom and a not so great top. Have the urge every once in a while, but it usually passes pretty quickly.” VIA
(C) REALITY DUDES
Love the domination
“I love the feeling as he slides inside and the feeling of being dominated by a guy and his dick. I also like the idea that the top is totally getting off knowing I want it him to do me.” VIA
Bored topping
“I love ass and I’ve had many guys want me to top them but I like a dick in my ass more than mine in an ass. I’ve tried both and I get bored topping because it doesn’t feel that good to me and every bottom expects me to cum from that which I just can’t.” VIA
Big butt that brings the boys to the yard
“I mainly btm because of my big… asset… It’s a big part of the physical attraction a top has to me… and some of the guys that have btm for me grab my ass and tell me they wish they had a big bubble butt like I do… also, since tops enjoy rimming me so much, I can’t really complain, it’s enjoyable and pleasurable and an ego boost when a top become subservient to pleasing my ass… which is kinda the opposite of actuality because it’s really two cheeks and a hole, but it’s as if they are trying to pleasure my butt instead of get their dicks off.” VIA
(C) BIGSTOCK
A different kind of orgasm
“The sad thing is that some people look down on bottoms like they’re only in it to please their men and secretly it’s just always painful. So ridiculous. My ass has EASILY brought me as much pleasure as my dick, and it had a lot of lost years to make up for! yeah completely different kind of orgasm, and much better in my opinion.” VIA
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Some of these answers have been edited for clarity and grammar. It was first published in September 2018.
Once again, the team at GMB decided to tackle Trangender issues following on from JK Rowling’s new book, Troubled Blood about a crossing dressing killer.
Over the weekend, the author’s new book stoked a huge backlash on social media, with #RIPJKRowling become a worldwide trend, after transgender activists took issue with the book’s concept.
Piers and Suzanna were hosting a debate on Good Morning Britain on Wednesday morning, about the public’s reaction to JK’s new book and who should have the right to write about books where the main character was transgender.
GMB booked Benjamin Butterworth (again) to speak about issues surrounding identity politics (because clearly there’s no one else to talk to about transgender issues…) and was answering a question on whether Piers would be able to write a book about a transgender killer, which Benjamin thought might be a problematic concept.
When pushed by Piers to see if it would be okay for him to write about a “person like me” doing all the killing, Benjamin answered, that there were a lot of “cis, rich white men…”
This is when Piers pushed back on the language used by Benjamin saying, “I’m not cis. Don’t call me cis. I’m a white guy. Just call me a white guy.
“Cis is language you use that I don’t even understand.”
We’re not entirely sure why Piers Morgan gets so upset up about gender politics, especially as he does (or has, we can never keep up) identify as a penguin.
We do love a lockdown love in and that’s apparently what happened to Skin, when her partner proposed to her during the lockdown, what’s more, she let it slip by accident on a podcast, saying, “I think you’re the first person I’ve told. Oops!”.
She made the slip up on the Danielle Perry podcast show, Elevenses. Speaking about relationships the singer shared,
“I think that your partner has to really be your best friend too because that’s the person you spend so much time with. Especially in lockdown. Lockdown has been a real test of a relationship.
“A lot of people are like ‘Wow, we really didn’t get on and that was the end of that relationship, because I realised after two months of being in lockdown that we’re not the same people.’ And some other people, like me, got engaged and stuff like that”.
The openly gay author and playwright Edward Albee died at the age of 88 in 2016.
Albee was probably best known for his works of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The American Dream. He died in his New York home. He was a three times Pulitzer Prize winner.
The news of his death was announced by his assistant. He died from a short illness, however, no cause of death has been revealed.
Born in 1928 Albee became a well-known playwright after his play The Zoo Story was staged in Berlin. However, it wasn’t until Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , a play that he wrote in 1962, that Albee had really struck gold.
His last play was written in 2007 and was called, Me Myself and I.
He was an openly gay writer who revealed that he knew he was gay from the age of 12, but did not want to be known as a “gay writer”.
He survived his longtime partner, Jonathan Thomas, who was a sculptor, and who died on May 2, 2005, from bladder cancer.
Hazell Dean, singer of the hits, “Turn It Into Love” and “Whatever I do (Wherever I Go)” has terminated her 10-year association with Energise Records after images were published on the company’s website.
The images has since been deleted.
Ms Dean notified the police that she believed the images were malicious. After an investigation by Sussex Police, “the police found the images to be malicious and that they constituted a hate crime” according to a statement from the singer.
Speaking about the incident, Ms Hazell said that she felt, “shock, anger and disgust” at the way she was targeted.
She wrote,
“Nobody should have to experience, or witness hate crime, as this can significantly impact mental health. It can lead to social anxiety, self-harm and in some instances, suicide.
“I urge anyone who is a victim of, or who is a witness to hate crime, no matter how small, to report it via their local police service or STOP HATE UK.”
The record company also represents, gay icons, Sinitta and Eurovision legends Sonia and Nicki French.
A statement left on the record company’s Facebook page in mid-August, apologised to Ms Dean after “some very upsetting” pictures were listed for sale by the company.
The company stressed that the person who responsible for the postings had resigned and was no longer responsible for the maintenance of the company’s website.
Hazell Dean has been a stalwart and vocal supporter of LGBT+ rights and can often be found performing at Prides across the country.
THEGAYUK.com reached out to Energise Records for comment.
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Some guys are into breath control when it comes to the bedroom. While someone in the dom position, the guy who is controlling the breath of someone else, might feel up to the task, it might leave others feeling a little bit uneasy, because of the inherent risks attached to stopping someone from breathing freely.
Breath control is a major fantasy for some guys and is part of the kink world. It can come in a wide variety of guises from a full-on throat throttle to putting a gag in someone’s mouth. However getting the right pressure, the timing, permissions and the context are really important. After all, you really don’t want to be left with an unresponsive guy in your bed and a trip to A&E.
Obviously it’s always good practice to have a safe or control word for the sub to use, but if your play covers the mouth, it can be difficult to hear, so it’s important to establish a visible signal as well. This should always be discussed upfront, before play starts, as our columnist Scott points out in his article about The Rules of Rough Sex.
However, what if the person being restrained actually had the overriding say over how much they can handle, while still playing with breath control.
So simple anyone can try
It’s really easy to achieve and all you need is a breathing tube and a bathtub.
Before we go on, we have to thank Himeros.TV for the idea, because in one of their latest videos, “Baptisma”, featuring JP Dubois, they tackle the very issue of consensual breath control.
Essentially, you fill the tub with water and the sub (the controlled) slides beneath the water’s surface. A breathing tube is then placed in his mouth so he can breathe underwater.
The dom sits outside the tub and holds the tube and when he wants to control the breath he puts his thumb over the tube’s entrance, effectively blocking the airway. The dom then can play with lengths of time that the airway is blocked – for added sensory deprivation the sub can close his eyes, so he’s never aware of when the next blockage is going to happen.
All the while the two of you can masturbate or just enjoy the experience. In terms of COVID-secure or safer sex practice, this is one of the more safer ways to enjoy BDSM or kink.
The sub always retains control
What’s great about this position is that if at anytime sub needs to breathe or feels overwhelmed he can simple lift his head out of the water.
However, it would be wise to do this bathtime play with someone you trust and not some completely random stranger that you’ve never met before. To read our tips on meeting and chatting safely with strangers click here.
