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(LifeWire) -- While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a tour that would take her past the forest's edge. So, when a college-aged busboy at a resort she was visiting began flirting with her, she asked him if he thought a tourist could survive alone in the jungle. "He laughed and told me I was nuts," says Gerson, 27, who works part-time in online marketing for a chocolate company in San Francisco. Then he told her that he'd grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Al…

SAO PAULO, Brazil--Drive through the Morumbi neighborhood and you'll see luxury homes and one of the city's best hospitals. But head just two blocks further and you will find yourself in Paraisopolis, one of the city's many slums. No wonder that tech executives see the Brazilian market in equally divergent terms. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest PC market and is part of the influential BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) that always gets talked about. Yet for all its strengths, it does not have the cash influx of either India or China, nor does it have those countries' strong education systems, cheap labor forces or access to capital. "We always joke that the BRIC i…

I am beside myself sitting here watching the Diving and Track reruns. Now these guys know how to dress for competition!!! What eye candy. The Americans are cute as can be... the Canadians, hot too. Did I mention the Chinese and Japanese divers? A big crop of twinks this year. Between them and the muscled track sprinters with the spandex outfits straining to contain their contents, I'm set for the next month. Let the games continue. Sorry I didn't post any photos by my eyes are glued to the bodies on the screen. Any contributions greatfully accepted. Oh... and sign me up for a long weekend the Bryan Clay the Decathalon US Gold Medal winner. I love a guy that doe…

Let's look at some of the things Joe's said about The Chosen One: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." "a one-term, a guy who has served for four years in the Senate. ... I don't recall hearing a word from Barack about a plan or a tactic."

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As a business person, I certainly can see why hospitals would want to move non-paying patients to less expensive facilities. However, how on earth can the Obamas, and their leadership team claim that they support an agenda in which healthcare is a right when Michelle Obama herself and three of Barack Obama's top campaign aides are leading a program to deny emergency room services to indigent black patients in their hometown of Chicago? It seems like hypocrisy at its highest level to me. This article was in yesterday's Chicago Sun Times. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U. of C. shunning poor patients? HOSPITAL DISPUTE…

I'm curious - when you guys are with an escort can you ever "tell" that they aren't "really gay" but just doing it for the money? If you can tell, does it bother you? Or is it more of a turn on? I'm just getting back into the idea of going to escorts (just out of a long term relationship, not ready to date, but would like more than a "back room" experience.) The last time I was single I used escorts in NYC and either by chance or whatever several times got the sense that the dudes were not primarily interested in men. The first time it sorta skeeved me out, but the second or third time it turned me on - the idea that I was "satisfying" a primarily straight dude was al…

I just thought you guys might be interested in Project Marriage Equality's evaluation of Joe Biden and gay rights: http://blog.protectmarriageequality.com/20...g-but-marriage/ Lesbian and Gay Rights - Everything But Marriage: Biden voted for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996, but has been quoted as saying “I don’t know why we should be frightened of [same-sex marriage].†Although he sees same-sex marriage as a likely inevitability, he has not taken the step of actually supporting it. Instead, he supports a civil unions policy that would grant the same legal rights. He also supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal hate crim…

http://www.generationq.net/opinion/chritiq...kgaynews.org.uk Within a matter of months, Sydney could have as many as half a dozen homophobia free zones, meaning that a person’s right to enter late night venues in these areas could be refused if they display signs of homophobia.

Having spent a great amount of time in Thailand, I can tell you that the people here have no idea how rich this man is. They all think he is poor and just is here to help the people. He is beloved by all in the country. They see him as almost Godly. You cannot speak ill of him in the country without arrest. Just an FYI NEW YORK (AFP) - With a fortune estimated at 35 billion dollars, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's richest royal sovereign, and oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi is far back at No. 2, Forbes magazine reported Thursday. King Bhumibol, 80 and, at 62 years on the throne the world's longest-serving head of state, pus…

Does this mean we'll have Tom Cruise running against Jim McGreeevey in 2012? Washington) A poll released Friday shows that issues - not sexuality - are more important to American voters. A Zogby Poll found that more than six in 10 U.S. voters say they could support an openly gay candidate for president of the United States. The poll, conducted for the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute, asked 1,089 likely voters if they would support an openly gay president, U.S. senator, vice president or cabinet-level secretary if they believed the individual was the most qualified person for the job. http://www.365gay.com/news/poll-majority-o...tial-candidate/

A lazy drive home from a weekend auto show turned into a stomach-churning experience at the Canada-US border for an Ottawa couple. It was a sunny Monday afternoon, Jun 16. Rick Frenette and his partner Shawn were returning from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, snaking through the Eastern US to the border at the Thousand Islands, near Kingston. Both avid car buffs, they were towing their latest project, a vintage Bricklin, home. But a problem with the car's paperwork led Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) officers to pull the pair in for an extra inspection. "We didn't think there would be anything other than the normal questions, but there was," Rick says. "They went throug…

Gary Glitter was in prison in Vietnam for 3 years for child molestation. He was released and flew to Thailand on a flight that was to connect him to UK. He refused to board the flight. Thailand refused him entry. He flew to Hong Kong. Hong Kong refused him entry. He flew back to Thailand and was again refused entry. He is now back in UK. The saga lasted many days and was major news in Asia. Here are a few stories about this. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...t-standoff.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...cqui-Smith.html

Sen. Barack Obama's choice for running mate will be announced to supporters in a text message Saturday morning, senior Obama campaign officials told CNN Friday night. Obama called some people on his short list for the vice presidential slot Thursday night to tell them he had not selected them as a running mate, a highly placed Democratic Party source said. Sources close to Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine said he has been informed he was not selected. One source told CNN that Obama personally made the call to Kaine. Another source said Kaine has flown to Denver, Colorado, for the Democratic National Convention. It is not known who else may have gotten calls. However, late Frid…

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/645744?r...kgaynews.org.uk SCHOOLS have become breeding grounds for homosexuality, according to Dr. Kihumuro Apuuli. Anne Mugisa reports that the Aids Commission chief urged the education ministry to stamp out the vice. He, however, noted that parents and guardians had an even bigger responsibility to inculcate African values in their children. “The practice is common among young people between 15 and 24 years.â€

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too…

A while back somebody posted kind words about boys2rentnow.com. I looked it up and agreed. That site has now fallen on dark days. Its Manhattan listings are now down to below 100, heavily larded with ads of escorts whose listed cities are nowhere near Manhattan. It was good while it lasted. Now there's Rentmen.com. Listings for Manhattan amount to 223 as of today. They include some trannies, which I don't remember ever seeing on Rentboy, also some guys I don't recognize from other sites. My main complaints are that most of the best of what they have is already on Rentboy, and that their "I get into" feature gives insufficient information. One quirk: finding an …

I have been trying to teach the boyfriend photography and he is doing a nice job with it. It is the first time I have seen him taken an interest in something (other than shopping). This is a pic of one of his friends. He is over 18 years old and there are no nude photos as the law in Thailand forbids that. However, as you can see, there are many sexy boys here. I hope you enjoy!

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In the new rebuild, we are considering an area on the escorts profile for Comments about this escort. This is not in place of a review but a place for friends and admirers to add comments. Do you think this is a good idea?

http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/...kgaynews.org.uk Published in July's Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the study claims that people could guess fairly accurately ("better than chance") whether men were gay or straight by looking at photos of their faces. For the study, 15 undergraduate students, both male and female, were shown photos of faces of 90 men, evenly divided between gay and straight. The photos were taken from Internet personal ads and from Facebook. The study's lead author, graduate student Nicholas Rule, says men were used in this study for convenience, because they have a greater presence on the Internet than women. The researchers fo…

One of the most intelligent guys in the game suggests that Hillary be put on the ticket for many reasons. I agree! http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/01/revi...e-hillary-idea/

It turns out that John McCain finally got out of the Vietnamese prison one of the things he first said about the people who tortured them is that they were gay. http://www.queerty.com/mccain-in-1973-viet...kgaynews.org.uk Why the fuck would he bring that up? Isn't it enough to say "they tortured me?" Why would you care whether the dude torturing you sucks cock or eats pussy?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNew...0080820?sp=true

As I'm sure most of you know the Red Cross won't let any even marginally sexually active gay men donate blood. Even if all you've done is give blow jobs and your ass is pure as snow. I've always thought it was bullshit, because a girl who has had unprotected sex with five random guys a week for years can give blood, but if you suck one cock you can't. WTF? Now an anti-discrimination tribunal in Australia is hearing a case that may change that, because a dude is claiming that the ban is denying him his civil rights. http://www.365gay.com/news/australian-red-...-gay-donor-ban/