ManCandy Monday: Matthew Camp

One of New York City’s loved go-go boy, Matthew pretty much epitomizes the whole man-boy-hot look. The full-sleeve of tattoo-age is just icing on that cupcake.

WATCH: NatGeo explains the biology of homosexuality

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Iraq’s Unwanted People: A documentary about being LGBT in Iraq

Bradley Secker, a U.K based photojournalist, spent two months living in Damascus, Syria in autumn 2010. He spent his time locating LGBT individuals that had fled Iraq in fear of being persecuted because of their sexuality. Gaining the trust of these individuals meant Bradley could see inside the closed diaspora of Iraqi LGBT refugees first hand. His primary aim was to create a photo essay with written, first hand testimonies.

On return to the U.K, Bradley started work on ‘Iraq’s unwanted people’, a short documentary highlighting the problems faced by Iraqi LGBT individuals. The film shows two personal accounts of men living in fear as refugees in Syria. Through photos, interviews and moving image, the film hopes to pose the question as to how, and why, such acts of violence and brutality can be overlooked in a new ‘free’ Iraq.

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[via:equalitopia:Peter Galazka on Google+]

I wrote this piece called “Don’t Ask, Just Tell” in MetroWeekly last September about sexual racism amongst gay men and recently, it’s gotten some traction, including some virulent responses. It would be fine if there were some who would bother to write erudite counter-arguments, but alas, name calling seems to be what passes as civility in the age of “It Gets Better.” 

Have a read, start a debate, be illuminated…or not.

His Airman, My Marine :)

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A Kenya-based gay publication is shedding new light on the nation’s clandestine gay and bisexual male population, members of which are being lured into Arab Gulf-based trafficking rings where they end up as sex slaves for the wealthy.

As reported by Identity, many gay and bisexual men from university campuses — particularly from Kenyatta University — have been transported to labor as sex workers for men in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. According to the magazine, many victims have been fooled into the trap by false promises of high-paying jobs, sadly not a difficult task for the traffickers given Kenya’s soaring unemployment rate.

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ManCandy Monday: Luke Macfarlane

Since I’ve been fixated living a vicarious emotional life through ABC’s departed television show Brothers & Sisters on Netflix over the past two weeks, I’ve come to love me some Luke Macfarlane and his role as Scotty Wandell. The Canadian-born Macfarlane deserves the kind of love we give NPH if for no other reason for daring to be out in Hollywood.

WATCH: ‘It’s time.’

Get Up Australia’s RIDICULOUSLY Cute Same-Sex Marriage PSA

“I’ll tell what, if there’s a gay fighter in the UFC, I wish he would come out,” White said. “I could care less if there’s a gay fighter in the UFC. There probably is and there’s probably more than one. It’s 2012. Give me a break.”

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LGBTQ* Political Cartoons

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