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NEVER FORGET!

I Don't Normally Post News Stories...

But this one is an exception... Iraqi militias gluing anuses of gay men and inducing diarrhea to cause death. Relying on an International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission translation of a recent Al Arabiya story , the blog Towleroad reports that Iraqi militias have been engaging in some particularly brutal tactics toward gay men in Iraq: "A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using 'Iranian gum.' ...Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, ' Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus .' According to her, the new substance 'is known as the American hum, which is an Iranian-manufactured glue that if applied to the skin, sticks to it and can only be removed by surgery. After they glue the anuses of homosexuals, they give them a drink that causes diarr...

So You're Gay

What I want to talk about today is something that I have not particularly talked about here for quite a while -- "coming out" and the things that go along with it. I can give a personal story or something along those lines, but I'm sure it would be quite similar to most others. Rather, I'll give my observations on the act of coming out itself as I'm sure you will find that more useful and generic. No person is able to be happy if they are not themselves. If you are living a lie, pretending to be straight if you're not, you will never be happy. Period. Your subconscious mind and your consciousness are not working in tandem. Equilibrium will never be achieved. Period. You can rationalize it and put it off for as long as you want, but you will not be happy until you address the problem. At first you realize that your different than most people. But you don't understand why. Eventually you rationalize that you simply idolize certain people that you...

Pop the Cork

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