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There are few things as exciting as getting to take a top-of-the-line, world-class international trip to one of the most incredible tourist destinations in the world. GayTravel.com’s gay travel guru Bryan Kosarek experienced the thrills of travel recently on his incredible trip to Thailand. Throughout his journey to Bangkok, Chiangmai, and Phuket, he soaked up all Thailand has to offer while scoping out the gay scenes in around these areas for gay travelers everywhere.

In this column, I am sharing, with his permission, correspondence from a transman in Brazil. His name has been changed.

Dr. Eva,

I have a serious question for you. I really would like to know your opinion and above all your feeling about it as woman.

After years of being alone, I hope to meet a girl that can be my girlfriend. I have my point of view of what happened to me, born with the brain of a male with some issues down below and wrong chromosomes. I do not feel shame of my past, I feel proud to have passed through all the challenges. However, I do not know if I want to tell the whole story and submit myself to another’s judgment.

Dr. Eva, is the penis so important for women? I think no woman will accept me without a penis. I hear women where I work say about men, “I don’t care about the face, I look at where it matters,” meaning how big it looks in the pants. It is so hard to take the risk to let a woman know, but I cannot afford the surgery to have those parts constructed.

Emiliano

In this sacred season of reconciliation, we remember in our prayers all the Catholic faithful around the world who are both celebrating, and those just contemplating, the recent election of Pope Francis. He is the newest in the line of successors to St. Peter elected to head the Roman Catholic Church.

There is a stereotype that LGBT persons don’t desire long-term, meaningful relationships that we would rather experience an endless series of hookups and friends-with-benefits with nothing more. This couldn’t be further from the truth. However, finding someone who is compatible and who is willing to work together through the bad times as well as the good isn’t easy.

If you have been sitting on the real estate sidelines reading your online blogs or news websites, certainly you have seen stories about it. And if you have been out there trying to find a house to buy, you have experienced it first-hand.

With Baltimore OUTloud celebrating its 10th Anniversary, I thought I’d share some dandy tips and tricks that I like to use when throwing a party.