Question of the Week: Is Religion Preventing You From Being More Open?
What would my dad think? What would my mother say? Man I can’t let my frat brothers know about this? I think it’s just wrong and I don’t what to be this way.When I have asked men about why they are not more open…
Being Homophobic and Making Homophobic remarks are not the same thing
You are driving home alone and a man in the next lane not paying attention while talking on his cell phone cuts you off. The car he is driving has no bumper stickers or anything displayed in the back window or hanging from his rear…
Advice Column: Confined to an Island of Loneliness
Dear Cypher Avenue, I‘m a 22-year-old, gay, Afro-Caribbean man living in the US Virgin Islands and I’m at my wits’ end in trying to find friendship and companionship. No visible community exists here and I doubt an underground community exists either. I lack confidants…
Coming Out Stories: Former NCAA Basketball Player Will Sheridan (Video)
Continuing our series of articles showcasing Coming Out Stories, we give you former athlete Will Sheridan. Around this time last year, Sheridan appeared on ESPN where he detailed the process of not only coming out to his unsuspecting parents, but also coming out to his…
The Dick-Bag Award Winners Are…
The Dick-Bag Award Winners… The Dick-Bag Awards are awarded to those who openly and freely display ignorance, stupidity, foolishness or who are just straight up dumb asses when it comes to issues of homosexuality and bi-sexuality. The Dick-Bag Awards are just a few of the awards that nominees…
PHOTO BREAK: Tameka Raymond’s Wristbands
The “Smh @ This Bitch” Award of Day goes to Usher Raymond’s 40-year-old ex-wife Tameka. Recently she tweeted that Gay men who look Straight should wear wristbands “because it isn’t really fair” to women like her. Then she mentions the clothing these men wear…
PHOTO BREAK: Food For Thought
The “old heads” have their numerous negative views of the youth in regards to masculinity, behavior, style of dress, music, slang, etc…but the one thing we can’t deny is the fact that there are more young people accepting of gays than older people. Case in…
WATCH: Clips from Black Gay Film “Rivers Wash Over Me” [VIDEO]
In my last post I listed the Masculine Gay Man’s Bill of Rights. It was a satirical list that I wrote a year ago in response to a series of feminine guys calling me insecure for not being attracted to them and the “Gay Lifestyle.”But…
XXL Magazine: Hip-Hop Homophobia
In the July/August 2011 issue of XXL Magazine, writer Bethlehem Shoals asked the question: Is Hip-Hop Homophobic? What he really meant was is Hip-Hop was homophobic ANYMORE…That culture of overly magnified masculinity has always been homophobic in the past. However, in rapidly hanging…
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