Missouri man charged with spreading HIV Virus, 300 feared infected

A 36-year-old Missouri man has been charged with a felony of recklessly endangering other people’s lives after his roommate and on-again, off-again lover discovered he was HIV-positive. David Mangum, who lives in the small community of Dexter, was charged in Stoddard County Circuit Court in southeastern Missouri. Magnum is jailed on a $250,000 cash-only bond….

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Gay romance and adventure hook up in new audiobook

Audiobooks are still a fairly rare commodity when it comes to gay literature.  Unlike reading your fantasy gay novel on the beach or lying in bed on a lazy Sunday afternoon, audiobooks can bring those characters you fantasize about to life in new and exciting ways.  And that’s just so with Jordan L. Hawk’s“Widdershins (Whyborne & Griffin).”…

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Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office still prosecuting gay men for crimes under invalid law

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court invalidating same-sex sodomy laws in 2003, at least a dozen cases have been brought against gay men in Baton Rouge, La. since 2011 reports the local Advocate. The stings, which have largely targeted middle-age men in and around Manchac Park, were not only found to be illegal by the local…

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Peace, protest, song and dance: SDGMC present ‘Feelin’ Groovy’ this weekend

It’s as if the 1960s has crash landed smack in the middle of America 2013.  Marches for racial equality.  Fights for civil rights.  Soldiers deployed to small, far-away lands. Believe it or not, today’s social challenges are actually born of decades of progress.  They are rooted in seeds planted more than 50 years ago by…

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Russian LGBT film festival – ‘Side by Side’ – charged as ‘foreign agent’

Despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, Russia’s LGBT film festival Side by Side (Bok o Bok) was found guilty of and fined $10,000 for failing to register as a ‘foreign agent.’ The fledgling organization, which was established in 2007, met the new guidelines according to prosecutor V.V Stepanchenko despite the fact that the law, established…

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