The CDC recommends men get the vaccine. If you get pushback either show them the CDC guidelines or see another doctor. Bi and gay men who have anal sex can get anal pap smears to screen for HPV. Straight guys should be talking to their gfs (and their gf should be open) about pap results. If your previous partner has…

Also? Unless you’re being very specific, you can’t be sure you both are defining STI/STD the same. For example: I know a metric fuckton of hetero women who do not think they need to disclose HPV. They figure no big since most males don’t develop cancer or genital warts, but don’t give a shit that an asymptomatic guy…

Except that if your company is in the majority of states, you can still fire them for being gay whether they marry or not. Look, all I said was that the decision is excellent but that without more work, there is still a penalty for many gays for opting to exercise the newly affirmed right.

Yeah, that’s what I said in my OP. “Hurray!!! But...” Big win. Lots of work to do.

We’ll be in the same boat when gays can’t be fired or evicted from housing or denied services for being gay. Then we can agree that bourgeois heteronormative life sucks for everyone.

There are plenty of gays who are glad of the decision but nervous as hell for the consequences: will we stop recognizing domestic partnerships and essentially force gays to marry to get ANY relationship benefits? Is there now a sanctioned critique of “not really in love or commited” for gay couples who don’t want…

God, I hope they’re careful. This is after all a country that criminalized homosexuality, passed a law requiring citizens to report suspected gay activity, sees everything as “promoting” and “recruiting” gayness. All with the help and money of US evangelical christian pastors and political consultants. Folks in the DJ…

Yes! Cosign. As an atheist I long for a post-theistic world, but we forget the crucial and central role black christianity played in abolition, emancipation, civil rights. It was, as the President said, their home, harbor, bunker...

Yes. Thank you for saying this. The whole reduction of a fng subcontinent into Rural Always Late Dirty Typhoid Misogyny and No Healthcare Donkey Dick Land is really offensive and plays to the worst of American xenophobia. Fuck this Ugly American.

Yes! That is exactly it. And why it’s so infuriating to hear folks speak of “erasing Southern culture,” when what they’re doing is erasing the huge percentage of the population that shares, and was in on, if not responsible for, that culture.

Pretty sure “jiggery pokery” is what’s left behind after the ass sucking.

There’s going to be some over-correction by business on this issue at first, and it’ll calm down. The response of the game company is key, they’re acknowledging there are more historically accurate flags to use, and they’re changing their marketing accordingly. Apple should’ve just asked all apps to review their…

That’s awesome!

Plus the thing she said about how “he’s been a dick to protect me from oppression just like how he’s all oppressed too!” is soooooo 50 Shades “Christian is a tortured soul who truly really loves me.”

An ex sure seemed to think so. Lord knows I always ended up paying for it one way or another...

Agree. And I once was gaslighted for a couple months after I found some equivocal evidence of cheating and didn’t trust my gut. But this woman’s case is a whole other level of refusing to see what is patently obvious. I just hope her conclusion from all this is to take a long break from relationships and work on some…

I’m not sure we should assume she had a healthy approach to relationships right up til the point where this dirtbag ruined her. No one asks to be lied to and gaslighted but sociopaths look for and recognize where there are cracks that can be manipulated and capitalized upon. Sadly, I think that without therapy, in six…

“I think it really really needs to be the last time we talk for a long time.” Jesus Christ. Because there might be a time when it ever makes sense to speak. She loves him. Fuck “love.” The fact that you love him complicates but does not change the fact that you must leave him.

Yup. I’m an old. Lots of folks outside of the core gay rights or feminism movements first learned about it in context of HIV/AIDS activism in early 80s.

We can hear the Right working up to wail: “See? That Stonewall gets to be a landmark but they’re gonna purge Stonewall Jackson!!11!"