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Rock Yoga Puppet Opera To De-Stress Your Life

Rainbow Families and their allies of all ages can certainly benefit from and enjoy a creative way to let go of stress. Just hop on board and the Monkey Mind Pirates of Z Puppets Rosenschoz [...]

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Leather Life: A Letter to EricJames Borges

Dear EricJames, I didn’t know you, but I wish I would have been able to. I wish I could have given you hope by telling you what we have in common, how things worked out for [...]

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Through These Eyes: How to Meet a Stranger

Parents provide some helpful hints for navigating life; through their guidance, we learn how not to die. Like, you know, when they teach us to look both ways before crossing a street. Or to abstain [...]

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Sugar & Spice: Icy Ambition

Snowy streets. Icy sidewalks. After midnight. Freezing cold and no one in sight. The street lamps alone send chills through passersby. They seem so cold–narrow and metal, bone-chilling to the eye. Bundled up though we [...]

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Through These Eyes: Saint Vanity

Our eyes open to a teenage angel sitting at the edge of his keeper’s bed, hunched elbow-to-knee, watching the city beneath him. His wings are vast, mighty, ethereal; they belie his small, emaciated body. He [...]

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A Televangelists’s Legacy: An Interview with Randy Roberts Potts, Part 2

Randy Roberts Potts is the grandson of Oral Roberts, a televangelist from Tulsa who was famous for many reasons, not the least of which were his conservative values and faith healing.  Randy grew up carrying [...]

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Through These Eyes: The Hookup

Pants first. No. Shoes first. Then belt. Then pants. Clothes off. My heart is too loud. Too fast. Shirt next. Kissing. Lots of kissing. Passionate. Intense. Lip biting, face grabbing. Things move too fast around [...]

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Sugar & Spice: Sloppy Joe Night

The senses tonight pique nostalgic: sounds of sizzling in a frying pan, the fragrance of browning beef and crisping tater tots. It’s sloppy joe night at my house, and friends are on their way. The [...]

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Big Gay News

Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in commemoration of the occasion, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, headquartered at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, debunks the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research. Myth No. [...]

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A Televangelists’s Legacy: An Interview with Randy Roberts Potts, Part 1

Randy Roberts Potts is the grandson of Oral Roberts, a televangelist from Tulsa who was famous for many reasons, not the least of which were his conservative values and faith healing.  Randy grew up carrying [...]

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