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The Upshaws’ Jermelle Simon and social content creator Obio Jones announce engagement

Cue the wedding bells! The Upshaws star Jermelle Simon and social media influencer Obio Jones are engaged. The adorable love birds announced the exciting news in a new interview with PEOPLE. Before taking the next step in their relationship, Jones and Simon had tossed around the idea of marriage but refrained from making any concrete decisions about it. However, that all changed in April after the happy couple, including Simon’s three children, moved in together. “On the day we got the keys, everyone was looking at their rooms and roaming…

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“I’m in it for life”: How being gay shaped my relationship with Chelsea

First up in our editorial collaboration with Versus, Jake ‘Snake’ Denton reflects on the lasting impact of homophobic chants, football heteronormativity and his “love affair” with the sport. WORDS BY SNAKE DENTON IN COLLABORATION WITH VERSUS HEADER DESIGN BY JACK ROWE TW – Mentions of suicide and depression. “Dad, what’s a rent boy?” It was a question that my father probably didn’t know how to answer. Not that he had strong opinions about young male prostitutes, one way or another. There were just some things you’d rather not explain to…

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Is there a problem with the phrase “openly gay”? Two writers debate the controversial term

Language is, understandably, pertinent to the queer experience — words affect how we present ourselves and perceive others. Here, two writers go head-to-head to debate the term.  WORDS BY NICK LEVINE AND JORDAN PAGE HEADER DESIGN BY YOSEF PHELAN In another week of LGBTQIA+ on-goings, the internet has, yet again, struck up a fresh new debate. Following the appointment of Gabriel Attal, France’s youngest-ever PM, a conversation has opened up online about the phrase “openly gay”.  We’re never short of online discourse but this conversation seems to have something to…

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Gay and bisexual men over 70 have active sex lives with multiple partners, study finds

Gay and bisexual men over the age of 70 tend to continue having an active sex life with multiple partners, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) sought to understand how many sexual partners people typically have as they get older in order to improve mathematical models of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). They found that 79 per cent of heterosexual women aged 70 and over had no partners in the last three weeks, while 17 per cent of gay men in the same age…

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Catholic school teachers ‘threatened with sack’ for striking over LGBTQ+ author’s scrapped visit

Governors at the John Fisher School reportedly discussed sacking staff who strike against a gay author having his visit cancelled. Simon James Green, the writer behind hugely popular books such as Sleepover Takeover and Heartbreak Boys, was due to visit the school in Purley, Croydon on 7 March. However, his talk was cancelled at the last minute when the local diocese intervened to stop it going ahead. The move was met with fierce backlash from some of the school’s leadership team and governing body, who wanted Green’s visit to be…

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Norway apologises for law banning gay sex 50 years after decriminalisation

The Norwegian government has apologised to homosexual men for a law that once made the act of gay sex illegal in the country. It is believed that 119 individuals were sent to prison between 1902 and 1950 under the legislation, which was abolished on 21 April 1972. The day before the 50th anniversary of this, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre issued an official apology on behalf of the government for the legislation ever being in place. “Through legislation, but also through a network of sanctions, we as a nation and…

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Exclusive: Nyle DiMarco “wrestled” with decision to include “unpleasant stories” in new memoir

The post Exclusive: Nyle DiMarco “wrestled” with decision to include “unpleasant stories” in new memoir appeared first on GAY TIMES. Go to Source Author: Conor Clark

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