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The shocking circumstances surrounding the murder of Out and Proud native American actor Jonathan Joss makes one wonder if native Americans are still considered "fair game" for shooting by the cowboys of the Americas? The events surrounding this shocking crime just makes one's heart and head boil with anger. A proud Out gay actor and husband had been repeatedly threatened and taunted by their neighbors and made to flee his parental house. The house has been built by his father for his mother and Joss wanted to continue the legacy of love for his partner. He did not realize the high price he would have to pay for it, last Sunday when he was there to collect mail along with his husband, Tristan Kern de Gonzales. Tristan told the media that he and his husband had repeatedly been harassed with anti gay slurs and hostility, and made to feel unwelcome in the neighborhood. Their house has been burnt down, along with his three dogs⁴, in an arson attack that is still being investigated¹, and they had to make numerous calls to the police over harassment by their neighbors but the police refused to do much about it. Last Sunday when they where there according to Tristan's statement on FB: "to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired "² Tristan also told the Independent ""While I'm holding him, he has the gun pointed over me, and he's laughing, saying, 'Oh, you love him? Joto,'" Kern de Gonzales alleged. "'Joto' is Spanish for f****t. I never knew the word until I came to Texas, and then I heard it a lot."³ The San Antonio police after absolving the killer, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, of any hate-crime motivations has retracted their statement saying their initial pronouncement was "premature".⁵ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ¹ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/jonathan-joss-homophobia-shooting-1.7554172 ² [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15mj3bAgm6/ ³ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jonathan-joss-shooting-suspect-sigfredo-ceja-alvarez-bail-b2763843.html ⁴ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jonathan-joss-shooting-police-report-suspect-b2763045.html ⁵ [think before following links] [think before following links] [think before following links] https://globalnews.ca/news/11216725/jonathan-joss-killing-hate-crime-police-statement/

By chastity did u mean a chastity cage i.e. one worn over one's penis and under lock etc., or the self practiced state of continence i.e. no orgasm including no masturbation?

May I politely ask, Isn't such a policy racist? After all the Germans have contributed more to Kink culture and barebacking than other nationality. I bet, gay men who like to have fun sex have Berlin on the Top of their list of places to visit . Historically speaking: it was Berlin, Germany that gave birth to the modern Gay movement and not StoneWall, USA — as is often assumed and reported in the U.S gay media. While Stonewall was a milestone in the US Gay rights movement it did not give birth to the U.S. gay rights movement. The formation of the Mattachine Society almost 2 decades before the StoneWall riots¹ as first national gay rights movement, and which caused a stink with the US Government who within a month came out with a Senate report titled "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government", can be legitimately considered to be the spark of the modern Gay Rights movement in the U.S.; while the US Supreme Court verdict in favor of gay rights in the One, Inc. v. Olesen case which let the gay magazine "One: The Homosexual Magazine." escape obscenity charges can be rightly located as the birth of the gay rights movement in the US. To put history into perspective, English speaking homosexuals from the United States mustered the courage to give up on their WASP values and have gay sex and be more open about their homosexuality mostly after visiting Berlin in the 1930s and 40s and getting exposed to the thriving gay culture in the Weimar Republic, beautifully described in many books particularly Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy. Authors like Gore Vidal, Edmund White etc. who made the 'unspeakable vice' acceptable in Anglo-Saxon literature, and started writing openly gay novels had found refugee in Berlin during the Inter War period and where able to, indeed, be gay because of the generosity of the Germans. Isn't it fair that we acknowledge the historic role of Germany in the gay rights movement and allow people who do not speak English the right to write in German, if they wish. I do see some Europeans on the site who would benefit from such a policy and am positive someone would step forward and volunteer to moderate in German, soon. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ¹ [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/

Socks and if outdoors in a park, sneakers.

Apologies for the late reply, nanana. To begin, I find her to be a very strange women medical person. Her philosophical belief that doctors are "advisors" like some kind of beauty advisors is a very inaccurate view of medicine. Most of the time it is the doctors who have to make decisions - diagnosis, treatment etc - based on the body of knowledge we called modern medicine. Yes, there are situations where a patient's choice is involved but those are rather limited and even in such cases, doctors do have to inform the patient of the entire scenario and the consequences of their choices so that they can make informed decision. Most of us don't really have the choice of not vaccination simply because if we don't vaccinate against known vaccinable diseases we run the risk of spreading them to others my suspicion that she already did get CoVID is based on observing the general behaviours of people who are hostile to vaccines like JFK and even certain Fox News Stars during the CoVID pandemic. While they where spreading anti vaccine sentiment and views, most of them privately did get vaccinated. JFK when questioned if he would get his children vaccinated replied probably. If he really thought vaccines where so harmful, would he really get his children vaccinated? I find it hard to believe that someone like her who has studied, according to the article, preventative medicine as doctor with expertise in nanotechnology would not understand the importance of vaccines in preventing pandemics and diseases. I find her argument more on the lines of, I am going to stop drinking water coz water these days is said to contain microplastics.

As a brown guy, I can definitely relate to your experience. In my location, I can't tell how many times in the bathhouses or gay bars/festivals, people have acted like I shouldn't be there! Apparently I had crossed the "No Asians" line. I don't know why some people in the gay community wish to shame or humiliate other gay men when they are looking for sex or in gay spaces for that matter. However, sadly gays like their fellow human beings can be very cruel and sometimes just plain Nazisque - a lot of it is about ownership: White gay men thinking they own gay clubs/gay bathhouses in the Western world and that Asians are intruding and don't belong , HIV-Neg and highly ignorant gay guys thinking they own gay spaces and positive guys need to be 'put in place' etc. . Gays can be malicious and nasty; Bullying isn't apparently limited to straight folks. I learn't it the hard way. Sorry to hear of your experiences and I can see why you would be mad. I was for years! I am not even sure if you will read this as it looks like you have exited the site or taken a break from it. However if you do, please know know you are not alone and decent people like you and me and the folks on our site are also part of 'the gay community', and deserve to be here or in a motel having hot sex, if we so desire.

She never stated if she has ever tested positive for CoVID or not. My suspicion is that she would have been infected with COVID at some point and given her training as a preventative medicine doctor figured she already had enough immunity that the average CoVID shot would give her and so skipped the general shots. Experts can make themselves look like us average folks but it is important to read between the lines.

I am from Ontario, but people are not too happy with the political direction in Alberta

Yes, but... when referring to native Americans or indigenous population of these countries, people are more likely to call them Americans rather than Argentinean, Brazilian, Colombian etc. as these terms are reserved for the whites that formed the original Spanish colonies rather than the native Americans. Native Americans in these colonies where never seen as equal by the Whites and where usually enslaved in one form or the other. Most native Americans on the continent of America do not identify with the colony-states that now claim affiliation to this continent and simply identify with their native Americanness. I will give you this much that while we Canadians do no like being confused with the U.S. and being called "American", we are as American as any other country on this continent.

He is the second American pope as Pope Francis his predecessor was also from a country on the American continent- Argentina, and not from Europe. He is the first pope from the United States, though. and those laws govern the quality of life of LGBTQ people. Laws and social diktats do matter as gay people are affected by it. He and the Catholic Church have trouble accepting ALL parts of a person. They want you as a gay person to show up at the doors of the church but not with the gay or trans part of your self. However, It is not a welcome if you don't accept someone for who they are. Where the Catholic Church goes wrong is it doesn't seem to understand that it is promoting hatred against gay and trans people when it doesn't accept their homosexuality or transsexuality.

I am not quite able to make my mind about Bill Gates. I don't think he is the evilest of them all ( mirror mirror on the Wall) but I do think he is very much part of the evil club. His so called philanthropy is self serving. He refuses to pay taxes in the U.S. as his whole company, Microsoft, is registered in Ireland; and he generates more low paying jobs in India than the United States. His investment company, Cascade is the largest owner of farmland in the United states¹, effectively depriving regular farmers of their land and livelihood. Why does a guy who is supposed to be managing software and computers, and the AI challenge from China want to own the largest agricultural land in the U.S. is beyond me. I know that his vaccine drives in Africa have been controversial and one of his attempts in India resulted in the death of children², something that is very very strange considering vaccination drives have historically been successful in India. Bill Gates strikes me as a greed-driven control freak who is always trying to convince the world how nice and thoughtful he is. I still am trying to read more about the pharmaceutical and "Virus" industry, so still don't have all the details to form an informed opinion on Bill Gates and the extend of his involvement in the pharma industry. I am pretty sure though he is pretty much on the top of the food virus chain. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ¹ [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/mcdonald-s-french-fries-carrots-onions-all-foods-come-bill-n1270033 ² [think before following links] [think before following links] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/controversial-vaccine-studies-why-is-bill-melinda-gates-foundation-under-fire-from-critics-in-india/articleshow/41280050.cms

Happy Birthday, BZ. Great informative site for gay men that is increasingly running foul of western governments that are increasingly turning authoritarian. Is a good reminder to me that freedom is something we always have to work fight for. Special wishes to the owner @rawTOP for starting the site, and all the ops and moderators who keep this site going.

I love your brilliant question, @nanana and thank you 💜for the courage to post it. Tough facts like the one you posted - EU having more measles cases right wing Texas, and and even Ontario my beloved province not far behind, - makes us questions our beliefs: Is the US really more right wing/conservative than the EU or Texas more than Ontario. I prefer to formulate the question in a way that doesn't pit one against the other - who is worse, but rather helps people realize the areas we think are tolerant ( EU, Canada, Ontario) have their own unique struggles with the same intolerance that is rising in and now plagues the United States. Great insight @fuckholedc and @SomewhereonNeptune. More research and info is needed on this great topic.

Very interesting. I did not know that sexual histories where permissible in civil cases of sexual harassment and consent in the U.S. It seems strange that the law would allow for such histories in cases of harassment rather that the more serious charge of rape but the Law is what it is and it is good to be aware of it!

By right, I was referring to rights from a moral and ethical perspective rather than legal or social rights. I am not a practicing lawyer but find it hard to believe that any court in our day and age, except in Islamic jurisdictions, would ask or allow for questioning that requires a defendant to reveal his sexual behaviours including the number of partners etc he has had. I believe such questions are not acceptable even in rape cases. He wouldn't be asking those questions if he was comfortable taking PrEP.