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Contents:

• THE 3 GAY MEN ARE A SUCCSFUL, LOVG TRIAD RELATNSHIP — HERE'S HOW IT WORKS
• THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.
• THE ‘GOLN GAYS’ RETURN TO THE STAGE THE PHILIPP
• GAY MAN THRIVING LIVE
• 25 BT GAY LIVE CAMS: GAY CAM S TO VIS INCLUDG 100 PERCENT FREE GAY CAMS
• WHAT IT’S LIKE TO TRAVEL AMERI AS A GAY COUPLE LIVG AN RV: EPISO 2 OF TRAVEL + LEISURE’S NEW PODST (VIO)
• OH YOU SILLY THG, OF COURSE HE’S GAY

THE 3 GAY MEN ARE A SUCCSFUL, LOVG TRIAD RELATNSHIP — HERE'S HOW IT WORKS

It's OK: Gregory Rayo, Kai Stenstm and Mark Aldridge, three gay men love and livg together as a triad outsi of Boston, haven't heard of any and Stenstm met onle about seven years ago and began datg while livg two hours apart California. "[My dad] was the person I was most nervo to tell [that I was gay], but [he] wound up beg the easit, " Brandon says. He was rponsible for preparg discharge and reassignment paperwork, and sometim he would have to dishonorably discharge men for beg gay.

“At that time I realized that I was gay, and was jt difficult to know that people were beg discharged for the same thg that I was my life. ”“What bothered me the most was havg to talk to the guys that were beg discharged, and they were not a good state of wellns anyway, bee at that time, was illegal or nsired mental problems to be gay, ” he Cunngham, 82, and Richard Prtt, 78, have llectively spent 115 years the closet.

THEY LIVED A 'DOUBLE LIFE' FOR S. NOW, THE GAY ELRS ARE TELLG THEIR STORI.

Godss Magora Kennedy, who participated the Stonewall uprisg, and Pl Barby, who ran for Congrs as an openly gay man 1996 and 1998. ”Livg a 'double life'Cunngham said he realized he was gay as a teenager, but he didn’t know the word “gay” at the time — he jt knew he was different. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn also classified homosexualy as a mental disorr the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs until 1973, when that classifitn was replaced wh “sexual orientatn disturbance.

” Homosexualy was pletely removed om the manual 1987, but many stat still had sodomy laws on their books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led such laws unnstutnal. You'd have a lbian iend wh you, or they would have a gay man on their arm or somethg, and was a way of hidg. ”Cunngham and Prtt met the mid-'90s while workg for a b pany, but they still didn’t e out bee, acrdg to Cunngham, “If you were gay, you were not promoted.

And then when you get olr you see the gay pri gog on and people totally enjoyg themselv.... Rearch published the journal The Gerontologist last fall found that lbian, gay and bisexual people have a higher risk of mentia and gnive cle than heterosexual people as they grow olr.

THE ‘GOLN GAYS’ RETURN TO THE STAGE THE PHILIPP

The study’s thors found that the creased risk was partially due to higher rat of prsn that olr LGBTQ people experience due to workplace discrimatn, shame and other stigma associated wh their stigma still persists, but the elrs and producers behd “Not Another Send” hope their project n help, even if jt a small Cooper lived her whole life as an openly gay woman New York Cy. Karsten ThormaehlenOne of the elrs featured the exhib, Lujira Cooper, 72, lived nearly her whole life as an openly gay woman.

Funny and erotic, Benjam tells a memorable story on a mimal budget—one which will feel very te to life to many gay viewers.

We want to give a special shout-out to The Capote Tap, director Ebs Burnough’s documentary about Tman Capote’s lost fal novel; The Obuary of Tun Johnson, the story of an Ain-Amerin gay man relivg his own ath over and over; Breakg Fast, the Haaz Sleiman-led queer romantic edy (which jt picked up the prtig Audience Award at aGLIFF, no ls), and Cured, a fascatg new documentary about the queer activists who lobbied the APA to classify homosexualy as an illns.

GAY MAN THRIVING LIVE

The Summer Diary Project is a curated llectn of male photography, queer art, and gay pop culture that's told a daily narrative by s founr and creative director Billy Mec. This November, Summer Diary has jt opened Summer Outpost - s onle shop and art gallery, sellg origal patgs, exclive prts, digal magaz, and their new lendar for more at, Instagram,, December 5th, Summer Diary heads om s Jersey Shore home to South Beach to exhib at "the gayt fair at Miami Art Week" -- the Art Gaysel show at Hotel Gaytherg.

"Alex Guerra, Art Gaysel's founr & curator, reached out to me on Instagram to e down this year and show" says Billy. "I uldn't be more lighted and honored to be a part of this diverse talented group of gay artists Alex has put together.

"If you're to llectg queer art and havg a good time" says Billy, "this mt be the place for you to be Miami Beach evengs durg Art Basel" Diary will be showg select works om "The Sun Bathers", their current onle show of origal patgs by Richard Stabbert, "Men In Nature", an exclive & very limed edn of prts by SDP ntributg photographer Ron Amato (clud here this gallery), and "Somewhere Over The Rabow", one-of-a-kd hand pated vtage postrds by Nolan Gaysel ns om December 5 - 9, 2018.

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Particularly wh the legal sanctns that exist agast gay marriage, movg and livg together is a big step and important re-of-passage for a gay uple. They formed a muny meant to support and shelter gay people who had been st asi by society. The money they raise through their performanc is ed to sta a home and basic needs as they Rey MoralPhotojournalist Hannah Rey Moral documented the liv of the “Goln Gays, ” visg their home Manila several tim 4, 2023On weekdays Manila, Al Enriquez, 86, ph a rickety woon rt wh a multilored umbrella perched on the dilapidated wood.

Enriquez — swallowed by a T-shirt and basketball shorts hangg loosely on his small, agg body — is often overlooked by the weekends, though, he go by the stage name Carmen la Rue and is transformed to a Manila showgirl, donng floor length drs, elaborate makp, high heels and Enriquez belongs to a muny of olr gay men that lls self the Goln Gays. Jto found the Goln Gays, he wanted to create a re home for gay men livg on the streets of Manila, rejected by their fai and society.

“Many had to go back to the street where they me om, ” said Ramon Ba, the current print of the Goln Gays, who go by Lola Mon or the stage name Monique la of the members, Feri Ramasamy, better known as Lola Ri, found work as a street sweeper and was given a room a shantytown. Lola Ri crammed her belonggs and stum the small room and weled other Goln Gays who had nowhere else to go.

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Muny, which means many of the Goln Gays were unable to fd jobs when they were younger. Jto’s home, some members of the Goln Gays entered homels shelters but said they felt unsafe men’s dorms and unfortable wh the expectatn that they would perform relig ruals, as many shelters the Philipp are n by fah-based anizatns. In the absence of a tradnal fay stcture, the Goln Gays have had to create their own support the panmic, the ernment prohibed olr Filipos, nsired more vulnerable to Covid fectn, om leavg their hom.

The ernment also banned large gathergs to prevent further outbreaks, rultg the Goln Gays spendg their performanc.

The muny did not abandon , ” said Ossa Jon, home of the Goln Gays is pated green, the doorway trimmed wh rabow tassels welg those who enter.

OH YOU SILLY THG, OF COURSE HE’S GAY

It ntas the ash of Lola Ri, the rint who generoly shared her apartment after the Goln Gays were kicked out of Mr. Bee of Covid rtrictns, the Goln Gays were unable to hold a proper funeral for Lola Ri.