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Baltimore OUTloud’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin case (April 6, 2012) was strongly oriented toward symbolic responses of various identity-political players – HRC, NGLTF, NOW. All those groups’ sentiments about the boy’s tragic killing were reasonable and well-intentioned, but they also felt boilerplate and pro forma. There’s a bigger reality, I think, missing from the discussion.

It seems like with each passing year, we as LGBT folks are more tolerated under society’s microscope. But the looming questions such as, “what made gays the way they are or what happened to us to change our minds in the first place” are still persisting, and an alarming amount of people continue to believe that we can be converted or changed back because of them. 

HIV/AIDS is a disease that has ravaged the gay community. It’s scary that at one time in my life I didn’t know anyone who was HIV infected. Slowly but surely I’m learning that some people who have come into my life are battling with this disease. Safe sex is something we all should practice, not that we all don’t fall short of glory. I, myself have engaged in raw sex, and I must say it feels damn good. To feel that penis slide in you like a hot knife through butter is very tempting and makes you want to throw caution to the wind and have raw sex every time. However, by now we all know the consequences of our actions or others. I had my own little consequence to deal with.

Hello everyone, first let me start by thanking my friends on Facebook and in my personal life for the happy birthday wishes. I had a birthday on April 7 and I thank you for making my twenty-six years of life special. On my birthday, I went to SAIM (Sufficient As I aM) which is hosted in the GLCCB every Saturday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. While there, I met a young man. He was very intelligent and very coy but he lacked social understanding of the environment. Meaning, the majority of people know about the basics (or what we think is basic) in celebrity pop culture and gay and straight gossip but this young man didn’t know any of this. He was very cultured on independent films and world history but if you asked him to name the participants on Rupaul’s Drag Race, he would ask you who is Rupaul and what is a “Drag Race.”