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I know that I’ve been off the radar for a while and I will be coming and going off the radar a lot. I’m dealing with work, school, internship, and my relationships with my partner, family and friends. So please excuse me, reader, if my articles aren’t as consistent as they were in the late spring to summer.

When it comes to Baltimore, Maryland and dating especially for LGB&T youth, the dating pool is extremely small. Today, this commentator is going to go on a long rant about dating and sex in Baltimore, Maryland. First off, it just seems that everyone in Baltimore’s LGB&T community knows each other through someone else. I remember Brian from the show Queer as Folk said, “There is no degree of separation in Pittsburgh.” Well, the very same thing could be said for Baltimore. I remember my boyfriend was looking at some pictures of one of my friends and he asked me about the man that was next to him in the picture. I told him that it was his boyfriend and then he told me that he had sex with him back in the day. Also, if you mention one name in a small circle of your friends the chances that most of your friends know this person is very huge. Maybe it’s because of the lack of separation in the community is probably why the reason that HIV and other STI’s are on the rise in the community. It could also be due to the lack of information or the ability to care about who you sleep with as well that may contribute to it.