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  • Gay Porn Star Zac Stevens Dies, 25

    Adult star Zac Stevens has died at the age of 25.

    Adult star Zac Steven has died in San Diego. According to NewNowNext the star, who has worked for adult studios such as Helix.com and Men.com was just 25. An explanation for his death has not yet been released by the US medical examiners.

    Owner of Helix studios Keith Miller led the online tributes to the star saying,
    “RIP @zac_stevensxxx Gone far too soon.”

    Other stars have taken to their Twitter feeds to express their condolences.

    In October legendary porn star Blue Blake was found dead in his London home by friends. In 2008 he releeased an autobiography of his life as a porn star.

  • Church That Bans Same-Sex Marriage “Bewildered” By Ban On Cinema Advert

    A new advert which was due to be aired in cinemas across the UK has been banned because it may cause offense.

    The advert which was due to be played before showings of the new Star Wars film has been banned on the grounds that it could offend those of other faiths and no faiths.

    The 60-second advert featured the Lord’s Prayer being recited by many different types of people. The Church of England warned the ban would have a “chilling” effect on free speech.

    The advert, which is aimed at encouraging people to “just pray” was passed and given a U certificate by the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) and cleared by the CAA (Cinema Advertising Authority) but it was banned by the Digital Cinema Media (DCM) agency, the company which administrates the advertising for the UK’s big brand cinemas including Odeon, Cineworld and Vue.

    Speaking to the BBC the director of communications for the Church of England, the Reverend Arun Arora said,

    “We find that really astonishing, disappointing and rather bewildering.

    “The prospect of many families attending the release of the new Star Wars film had seemed a good opportunity to launch the advert and a new website justpray.uk to promote prayer ahead of Christmas.

    “The Lord’s Prayer is prayed by billions of people across the globe every day, and in this country has been part of everyday life for centuries.”

     

    The advert is for a campaign called #JustPray and carries the names of The Church of England and All Churches Trust Limited.

    The Church of England were strong opponents of the same-sex marriage law when it was being debated and passed as law in 2013 and issued a response informing the Government that it could not “support” the law calling it “divisive” and “unwise” and threatened that any change in the law could and adversly affect the Church’s placement in the legal system. It said,

    “The Church of England‘s unique place in the current marriage law of England means that the proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on our ability to serve the people of the nation as we have always done.”

     

    The response from the then coalition Government was to place a legal “lock” on the Church, meaning it would never have to allow same-sex couples to be wed within any of its Churches, effectively banning LGBT people from using the Church in the same way heterosexual people have access to the Church.

  • INTERVIEW | Not Vlog Standard… The Out And Proud YouTubers

    There’s a new class. Class of YouTube.

    YouTubers are some of the hardest working creatives out there.

    With a combined (some of them have multiple channels) audience of around 1.2 million, or the same audience figures as a regular programme on a smaller UK broadcaster, we meet six out and proud YouTubers, who aren’t leaving their careers in the hands of some out of touch station programmer or network exec. YouTube blogging, or vlogging, if not the future is definitely about the now.

    It seems the world and their video cameras are up on YouTube making videos. The promise of book deals, crossing over to mainstream media and millions upon millions of fans, or subs as I’m told they’re sometimes referred to, seems tantalisingly easy to achieve. After all where’s the talent in turning on a camera and talking for 10 minutes about anything and everything?

    In this new age who is now the sieve. In days past network execs, focus groups and critics used to be the sieve, weeding out the crap ideas, the weak scripts and the wooden presenters. There was a system, and much like the music industry of past, those charged with commissioning had control over what, when and how you watched it.

    Now YouTubers have put the schedule in your hands. You are the sieve. You are now the casting couch. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of vloggers are vying for your attention. However, in this new world, just like the old fame formula, only a few will make it, but for how long is anyone’s guess.

    In amongst the cat and the Charlie-bit-my-thumb videos there are some gems, some really interesting commentators. Activists, psychologists in the making, social commentators and those who would find a perfect home on QVC, but just how influential are YouTubers and in a world of constant, unrelenting distraction, does it pay to lay it all out online? When every second of your life is bared for all to see, every detail pored over by thousands of viewers, what more is there to say?

    Six YouTubers, Miles (combined channel subscribers: 600,000), Will and RJ (combined: 350,000) Nicola (combined channels: 532,000), Ken (41,640) and Jake (73,400) cram into our studio for this month’s cover, cameras are out as they enter the building. It becomes clear that we’ve become material for their vlogs. No doubt within the coming days videos will surface of how we roll and that’s okay. We’re down with being hip.

    After our “Save By The Bell” inspired shoot, we get to it. I’m dying to know the why, the how and the how much?

    So why did you start?

    WILL: I knew when I started it was where the weird kids went to express themselves. I saw a friend of mine making videos. I saw that vlogging was a thing and that YouTube wasn’t just a place for cat videos. That made my mind explode. I decided to give it a try myself.

    MILES: I started because I was bored and had nothing else to do. So I started making videos for fun. I was just having fun with it.

    RJ: I started because I started dating him (pointing at Will)

    In the world of vlogging is there such a thing as over sharing?

    ALL: Yes…

    Who’s guilty of over sharing?

    WILL: I think we’ve all been guilty of over sharing at some point.

    JAKE: I try to keep my personal life as separate as possible. As much as I do all of my online stuff and my YouTube videos I have a personal life that I keep out. I don’t generally post too many photos of me and my friends or what I do for work. But I do talk about issues in my life, the things I’m thinking about. I try to keep that line, because I don’t want to become that person.

    WILL: Depends on the channel really, because what Jake does with his channel is different from what RJ and I do on our channels, because we film everyday, it’s like a video diary. Even then there are things that inherently just should be private. There’s no formula and everyone has different values on what they share and what they don’t share.

    KEN: There are sometimes when you wish you could edit it out

    NICOLA: (Smiling) Oh like there was this one time that I was vlogging…

    KEN: Oh yeah, he thought it would be a good idea to surprise me in the bathroom. I was naked.

    NICOLA: But I thought you couldn’t see it… (Because it was dark)

    KEN: I was like ‘do not upload that…’

    NICOLA: People screenshot it and started brightening it.

    KEN: Brightening the exposure. So my penis is somewhere on the Internet.

    WILL: I did not know that…

    JAKE: I will be Googling that later.

    So what separates vloggers sharing their lives, to Kim Kardashian over sharing?

    RJ: I think one of the reasons why people are starting to gravitate to YouTube, especially the younger generation is because they’re so over saturated with that overly produced crap and they can kinda sense a little bit of the artifice involved. This feels a little more organic and you know for a fact that everything you see is real. For the most part.

    NICOLA: We get to choose what we share.

    WILL: Which makes me so comforted knowing that I’m in control of what’s being shared.

    JAKE: When you get to a certain size (number of subscribers) you become quite accountable. Things you say things you do… you’re impressionable.

    Is the goal then to crossover from YouTube celebrity to Kim Kardashian? To be in the mainstream?

    MILES: Not necessarily. We all have our different goals. Being on YouTube can also be a bridge for that to happen. For me personally it would be to get into entertainment or to act or whatever. For Ken it could be for cooking,…

    KEN: I’m indifferent really. I’m not saying I’m against it. If it happens it happens I guess, but it’s not my goal.

    WILL: The beauty of YouTube is that we’re all here, we’re all best friends and all have such different goals with our channels. There’s different content out there. I don’t think any of us know what’s in store. We just kinda roll and go with the flow.

    KEN: We don’t even know what’s happening five minutes from now.

    RJ: It’s always difficult when you get the questions what’s the point? What’s the goal of YouTube? If and when it actually does go somewhere, you’re like “Okay, I guess I’m going to ride this horse for as long as I can.”

    NICOLA: When you reach a certain goal you’re always making new goals. I don’t really think there’s an end point. There’s always something new to strive for.

    RJ: It’s like fashion. Fashion is never finished.

    So if ABC or HBO got on the phone tomorrow and said: We’re gonna do Gay Friends we want you six to be in it would you be happy to do that, because suddenly you’d go from something you have control of to something that is heavily scripted and edited.

    JAKE: We all understand how the entertainment industry works. We’ve all dabbled a bit… YouTube kinda does that. We all have a big group chat; we’d literally ask each other “what do we think?” It’s a community, we’re friends and any opportunities that pop up we usually run it past each other.

    RJ: It’s funny you should mention Friends, because when we’re at a YouTube gathering and I meet parents and the parents are “like why are my kids losing their minds over this?” I’m like, “picture Friends but imagine that Phoebe, Ross, Joey – all of them are all real people and everything you see happening is real and better yet, you can actually directly interact with them on twitter or in the comments on videos. How much more excited would you get to watch each episode?”

    KEN: The characters that you fall in love with or identify with are actually real not fictional.

    So are you the new entertainment industry?

    NICOLA: We’re separate.

    RJ: Whenever there’s a new media platform everybody

    always talks about how it’s going to replace old stuff and it never ends up happening. Movies didn’t replace radio, TV didn’t replace movies, the Internet didn’t replace print, it just evolved. Things learn to play together.

    KEN: We have our own playing field, because we don’t fit in yours.

    So how do you take your channel to the next level? To reach the dizzying heights of hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers?

    KEN: There’s no formula.

    JAKE: It’s like a combination of luck and being charismatic.

    MILES: Timing.

    NICOLA: It also helps if a bunch of your friends also do it.

    RJ: Having a distinct voice. Knowing what makes your perspective unique also helps.

    JAKE: Being passionate. If you’re going to make a video you do it 500 per cent you don’t even give it 100. You go for it and if you want to talk about something you talk about it like it’s the most important thing in the world.

    RJ: If you don’t have fun making videos how do you expect someone to have fun watching you?

    How important are production values?

    JAKE: Ultimately I don’t know sh**.

    MILES: People place importance on it now because everybody has a super HD DLSR camera and it’s not necessary.

    RJ: You can pretty much use whatever works for you… YouTube has democratised the process. You don’t need a big expensive set, cameras or lights just as long as you have a really entertaining voice. I will say this though; once you upgrade you can never go back down. If you just start off with your iSight and you can make it work that’s fine. But the minute you upgrade you can’t go back down and go back, because people will notice and start to complain.

    MILES: I did that once. Fu** ‘em.

    KEN: Even the length of blogs… We used to vlog and they’d be 3 to 5 minutes and we uploaded a 15 minute vlog and they (the audience) were like “Yeah we like this…” When we went back down they were up in arms.

    So YouTube want people to stay longer and longer on the site, you’re part of the cogs that make the whole thing work. Do you get much say in the pre-rolls or the ads at the bottom?

    ALL: Nope.

    Ever seen an ad, where you’re like ‘I don’t want that against my content?’

    WILL: All the time. We get Mormon Singles. Christian Mingle…

    JAKE: I’m like; oh you’re missing the target market here just a little…

    RJ: Romney advertised on my channel, and I was like oh sweetie… No.

    What about private sponsorships?

    NICOLA: It’s really important to like what you’re promoting.

    WILL: People will catch it if you’re disingenuous.

    JAKE: It’s still us, it’s still authentic, the second it changes, not only do we notice but everyone watching does.

    KEN: It feels contrived.

    RJ: No detail goes unnoticed on the Internet.

    MILES: If I don’t like something, I’ll put it up and review it and tell everyone how bad it is.

    RJ: This is why you need to know your brand. Once you know what works for you.

    Can you talk about how it felt when your channel changed from your hobby to your business? The moment the first sponsor called up or when you went from 5 subscribers to thousands.

    MILES: For me it was when my Like Mah Status video blew up. It was all over the place any my current MCN (multi channel network) Style Haul called me and they invited me to partner with them and I, being only 17 or 18 at the time, was like: ‘Okay… Money’, and I signed my life away for two years.

    I was able to fly myself out to VidCon, and get hair extensions for the first time…

    WILL: and a goddess was born…

    VidCon is the largest multi genre online video conference which has been held annually in California since 2010, this year’s conference will take up five floors of the Anaheim Convention Centre.

    PICTURED: L-R JAKE, RJ, KEN, WILL, MILES, NICOLA

    RJ: As far as our channel was concerned when we went to NextUp.

    WILL: We applied for this programme, very last minute, out of thousands and thousands of channels that applied only 30 were selected. We only had like 25,000 subscribers at that point…

    RJ: But you’re taking workshops from YouTube in how to engage your audience, best practices and they are there telling you, “Listen…”

    BOTH: “You Can Do This!”

    RJ: “If you take this seriously you’re on to something”. We were living in Florida at the time and they were like “move to LA…”

    JAKE: For me I was like “How does YouTube know who I am?” they take the time to actually select out the people they think that can really do something with it. They give us advice.

    RJ: It’s a game changer for sure.

    Is there ever a worry that you’re going to piss YouTube off?

    KEN: Hummm… that happened. I was in YouTube’s Next Chef. I suddenly had traffic coming in my channel and they were saying there were some illegal clicks. I have no clue what that means. So they shut down my channel.

    Is it easy to get reinstated?

    KEN: No. It’s impossible.

    RJ: Did you get click bombed?

    KEN: Yeah.

    So do you have to start again?

    KEN: Yeah, I had to start all over again.

    RJ: I had to start another channel too. There was a hiccup at YouTube and you’re back to square one.

    KEN: You cannot use your name or email ever again to make a channel. You can, but you cannot ever be partnered again.

    JAKE: You’re blacklisted.

    Is it important to be partnered?

    ALL: Yes!

    KEN: That’s basically how you get paid.

    Do you read your comments?

    ALL: Yes.

    RJ: You have to go through your comments. YouTube isn’t just posting videos on the platform; it’s also about building a community with your audience. So you do have to interact with them.

    KEN: There’s also a difference between someone giving you a nice criticism and there’s people who are just awful.

    WILL: As far as our channel goes, I have to have RJ go through our channel and go through all the crap before I can actually go through and respond. As a daily blog so many people tend to pass judgement on the way you live your life. I never realised how upsetting my day-to-day routine has been for a lot of people. The littlest things, the way I set my silver wear on the table… the way that I decide to go to bed… really upsets people.

    RJ: What we eat, how we eat it…

    WILL: How I decorate. I wanted to put blinds and curtains up… my comment section was just filth.

    RJ: YouTube gives you tools. There’s the remove comment button, ban user button…

    JAKE: And you can filter certain words.

    RJ: You can put “faggot” in your filter and as soon as that word is used the comment is removed. There are tools at your disposal. There was one video that just seemed to get a ton of hate and it was really vitriolic. That was when I decided to start blocking people. I noticed, I really only had to block five people. They were the ones that were leaving comment after comment after comment. I just had this epiphany that there are people who are just spending hours upon hours just going through trying to be negative. It’s more of a reflection on them than us.

    KEN: It’s more of a compliment for you.

    RJ: There are people who are like if you block one account they’ll create a whole new account… gurl… come on.

    Will vloggers destroy YouTube in the same way bands arguably helped destroy MySpace?

    MILES: Oh…

    KEN: I don’t know but… Everyone has their own voice on YouTube; everyone has their own audience.

    RJ: I don’t think YouTube is going to become MySpace unless a Facebook type thing comes along and makes it obsolete.

    JAKE: They’re really ahead of the game. If something’s not working they’ll change it. They’re really intuitive and dynamic and on top of it.

    MILES: They’re connected to Google. They’re powerful.

    JAKE: I don’t think it’s something we need to worry about it’s more about us being adaptive to anything they change, we need to fall into, which they’ve done many times in the last year without telling us.

    RJ: Things can change without warning and you have to be able to go with the flow. YouTube pretty much changed the game when it comes to online video. Right now there’s no other platform out there that has the audience.

    In a recent interview with Out Magazine (JAN 2015) Tyler Oakley (6,800,000 subscribers) said there was no hierarchy. That no one is above anyone else in the YouTube community… Is there a YouTube hierarchy?

    JAKE: In a perfect world…

    KEN: I plead the fifth.

    MILES: It’s there for sure.

    RJ: All that can change. Nothing is permanent on YouTube. Just because someone’s the sh** now, doesn’t mean that’s going to be that way forever. The mighty have fallen, multiple times.

    JAKE: I think it’s important for people who rise right to the top to give the people who are smaller advice and pick them up, hold their hand, still talk to them and don’t get too big for your boots. At the end of the day… they started at zero.

    RJ: Everyone starts at Zero.

    JAKE: Tyler Oakley, all of us can agree, nobody works harder. He deserves every bit of success he has, but because he endlessly works.

    RJ: I think all of us are here, partially because somebody who was bigger than us helped us…

    WILL: and gave us a leg up.

    CHANNELS:

    WILL AND RJ

    MILES

    JAKE

    KEN

    NICOLA

    This interview was taken from Issue 12. Subscribe now and don’t miss another issue

  • Travel Bag Review: Track Jack Board Backpack

    The Track Jack Board Backpack from Crumpler is the first and last bag you will ever need to take when you travel.

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  • 8 Reasons To Test For HIV

    As National HIV Testing week draws close, the reasons to test for HIV have never been clearer.

    Sponsored by

    biosure

     

     

     

     

    HIV is 3 letters, not a sentence. Especially for those who are able to treat the virus, and early detection means better results and a longer, healthier life. Here are eight reasons to test for HIV.

    1) Be In The Know. According to Public Health England there are 103,700 people in the UK living with HIV. Over 18,000 of them don’t know they have it – and could be spreading the virus even further. There are an estimated 6,500 gay or bisexual men who don’t know that they are living with HIV.

    2) Early Bird. Early detection means better results from the treatment for HIV, resulting in a longer, healthier life.

    3) You’re Not Alone. If you’re afraid that you might not cope with a HIV diagnosis, there are loads and loads of support groups, charities and healthcare professionals to help you. All you have to do is ask for help. You won’t have to face HIV alone.

    4) Stigma Exists. One of the most difficult things many people living with HIV find is the stigma that still exists around the status. Medicine has come a long way; society has yet to follow on as quickly. Getting tested often means that you could be more mindful about your health.

    5) Knowledge Is Power. Sleeping with someone who knows that they are HIV positive could be safer than having sex with someone who doesn’t know their status and may take more risks.

    6) Restart The Clock. Without being glib, many people who have learnt that they are HIV positive have talked about feeling the opportunity to restart the clock. Changes to lifestyle and diet become a priority and general interest in your health can only be a good thing.

    7) Engaged With Your Sex. Getting tested means you’re taking responsibility for your general health and your sexual health – good for you and great for the people you sleep with.

    8) No Longer Need To Go The Clinic. You can now get a self-test kit that can be performed wherever and whenever is convenient for you. Best of all with the BioSure kit you only need half a drop of blood and not a vial full that some other kits require. Testing yourself just takes seconds with easy to read results in only 15 minutes, without you having to send them off to a lab. No waiting in the sexual health clinic. No waiting a week for results to be texted to you.

    Promoted Content by BioSure (what does this mean?)

  • Bette Midler: Caitlyn May Be A Woman But She’s Still A Republican

    Bette Midler has hit out at Caitlyn Jenner as “uninformed” because Caitlyn is still planning on voting GOP in 2016.

    The legendary and fiercely liberal singer has hit out a Caitlyn Jenner because the former Olympian turned reality star is still planning to vote GOP (Grand Old Party) AKA the Republicans in the next US election.

    The current candidates who are standing to be the next Republican President include Donald Trump. Despite the GOP’s lack of anti-discrimination protections for trans people Jenner still plans on voting for the party.
    Speaking to the LA Times Jenner said that Democrat presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton had not convinced her and that her plan was to vote GOP, but did not mention which of the candidate she was backing.

    Bette tweeted her disgust at the trans star’s politics to her 782K followers saying,

    “People, #CaitlynJenner says she is STILL voting GOP in2016. Regardless of gender identity, I guess she identifies most as “uninformed.””

     

  • Gay Drama Teacher Slams Mother Who Didn’t Want Her Kids To Be Taught By Him

    A drama teacher from Kidderminster has told a mother than her deposit for his classes will be forwarded to a LGBT support charity after she demanded it back after learning about his sexuality.

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  • Bette Midler Is Not Over Bieber’s Penis… Yet

    Diva Bette Midler hit out Justin Bieber once again over his penis pictures.

    Take to Twitter the Wind Beneath My Wings singer slammed the cost of Justin Bieber’s meet and greet tickets at “$2000”.

    She reminded us all that we were able to see little Bieber for free, when a pap caught him in the nude on holiday in Bora Bora last month.
    However Justin dissed the iconic singer, by saying he had no idea who she was.

    Bette Midler, 69, also had Bieber’s father in the firing line last month, questioning his parenting skills, after he said he was proud of his son’s size.

     

  • 9 Things About Lady Colin Campbell

    Lady Colin Campbell has been getting a lot of airtime on this year’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here but just who is Lady C?

    1) Mistakenly Lady C was raised as a boy by her family. A “cosmetic malformation” of the genitals (fused labia and a deformed clitoris) wrongly led the doctors to misgender her. She has written at length about her struggles of being raised male when she was physically female.

    2) She was given the name George William Ziadie but changed her name to Georgia. When she turned 21 she had surgery with money given to her by her grandmother. Speaking about the surgery she said, “No one, ever faced the knife more eagerly than I. You would have thought I was going on a wonderful cruise – which, in a way, I suppose I was.” She was given a new birth certificate and officially became Georgia Arianna.

    3) Georgia successfully sued a number of publications who claimed that she was born a boy.

    4) If you’re wondering why she’s called Lady Colin Campbell it’s because she’s kept her ex-husband’s name, Lord Colin Campbell. The pair married after just 5 days in 1974. She left him after 9 months citing abuse and the couple divorced after 14 months. She still uses her married name.

    5) She was born in 1949 in St Andrew, Jamaica to the prominent Ziadlie family. She has described them as going from being “revered to reviled to treasured as exotica”

    6) Perhaps one of her most notable achievements is her biography on Princess Diana, which was released in 1992.

    7) She wants to lose a stone whilst she’s in the jungle. She revealed, “Rice and beans are fine asI will be perfectly happy to lose weight!”

    8) She has no ambition to win, she said, “my life is not going to change whether I win or whether I am booted out first.

    9) Lady Colin Campbell is currently single and she’s definitely not looking for love in the jungle.

    10) Katie Hopkins is a fan. In a recent tweet Hopkins said that when she grew up she’d like to be just like Lady C. Now there’s a fan to be proud of.

  • COMMENT: Charlie Sheen, HIV and The Press

    I recently wrote an article for THEGAYUK about reports in the Sun newspaper regarding a Hollywood actor that was alleged to have HIV.

    I was quite firm in my opinion of the Sun and their showbiz journalist Dan Wootton, as I believed that the sensationalism was taking us back to the 1980s.

    The reports by the Sun and other outlets left little to the imagination when trying to work out who it could be. Pretty soon Charlie Sheen’s name began appearing all over my Twitter feed as people gossiped about the speculation that he could have HIV. It’s something that genuinely angered me and I am still incredibly uncomfortable with how this whole story has played out.
    On Tuesday 17th October 2015, Charlie Sheen appeared on American television to confirm that he has HIV. It’s a move that I view as being incredibly brave. I can only applaud Sheen for his honesty and the way he is handling the furore. It is my hope that he can now find peace and indeed be free from the prison he’s been living in, as he says.
    Of course it is massively concerning that he has had to announce something so personal in such a public way. Every person on this planet should have a right to confidentiality, particularly when it concerns their medical records. That extends to famous people and celebrities too. Just because somebody is in the public eye, it does not mean that every part of them and their lives belong to the public
    I cannot admit to being much of a Charlie Sheen fan previously, but I now have a new found admiration for him. The way in which he has been treated, and continues to be treated, is simply atrocious. Nobody deserves to have their medical conditions made public and the way in which some of the press have been reporting on this is nothing short of appalling.
    Along with the Sun’s sensationalised headline of “Hollywood HIV Panic”, the Mirror also published an article by Fleet Street Fox, which had “The Hollywood actor with HIV deserves everything he gets – and worse” as a headline. It is the kind of judgemental gutter press reporting that belongs in the dark ages of the 1980s, not in 2015 when we’re apparently more educated and open minded.

    There are two things to come out of all of this. On one hand it is encouraging that there is now somebody so well-known who has HIV. It has got conversations going around what HIV is and what undetectable means. That can only be a good thing which leads to increased education and awareness of HIV.
    However on the other hand there is the sheer scale and sensationalism of the story. I genuinely thought we had progressed beyond the kind of reports that were seen twenty or thirty years ago. The fact that Charlie Sheen having HIV is such a huge worldwide news story shows that we have a very long way to go in terms of destigmatising HIV. It shouldn’t be a headline news story. It shouldn’t be the topic of tabloid gossip. It shouldn’t be the case that a human being has had to go on television to disclose medical information to the world.
    Whilst there are encouraging aspects to take from Charlie Sheen’s story, it also shows just how much more progress, education and awareness there needs to be.

    Opinions expressed in this article may not reflect those of THEGAYUK, its management or editorial teams. If you’d like to comment or write a comment, opinion or blog piece, please click here.

  • These #AfterSexSelfies Will Make You Reconsider The Importance Of Selfies

    Is this the end of humanity as we know it or a brilliant way to pry into another people’s bedrooms…

    Does sex happen so rarely that you need to document that it happened?

    2014 was the year of the selfie, 2015 was the year of the selfie stick will 2016 be the year of the after sex selfie?
    The results are a mixed bag, but this could be potentially the best thing ever. It does raise two questions; firstly we’re wondering why none of these people are eating a cheese sandwich (which is what we always do after gland to gland combat ) and secondly over share much?
    Here are the top 8 AfterSexSelfie types…

    The thumbs up…

    A job well done..

    The I’m Not Impressed

    Do it again and do it better.

    The Cuddle Smuggle

    Slightly exhausted but glowing in the goodness.

    The Smiler

    What have you done today to make you feel proud?

    The Hair Is Still Perfect

    Come on guys… you’re not supposed to look better than before you did the deed!

    The Smug

    Yes, I’ve had sex. You haven’t. Waa Waa

    The selfie aftersexselfie

    Probably the most common selfie picture…

    Keep Your Fluids Up

    It’s important y’all to keep hydrated…

    *inclusion in this list doesn’t indicate sexuality or any sexual activity

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