18. Queer Kids

Since 2006, New York City based portrait photographer Michael Sharkey has been photographing gay teens and young adults as part of his on-going series Queer Kids. Born out of his own struggles coming out in the 80s, Sharkey says the focus of the project, where he interviews and portrays each subject, is to give this generation a voice, one he didn’t have at their age.

“I desperately wanted to be made valid in the eyes of my peers. I’ll never forget being punched by a high-school classmate,” Sharkey told TIME. “It was precisely this kind of willful, painful defiance that I wanted to capture in these portraits.” But the photographer was surprised by what he found.  ”What you may also see is delight” says Sharkey. “That is the domain of a new generation. The sheer joy of being able to stand up and be seen without shame.”

Sharkey continues to seek subjects interested in participating in the project. To learn more about it or get in touch, check out the Young & Queer in America project.

Read more at Lightbox



Queer Kids 2010 from M. Sharkey on Vimeo.

17. Anatomy of Change

Entropy is Change from cartoonstock

"Change is inevitable and those who ride its tides defy irrelevance."
                                                                              --- from the Runaway Manual

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16. Pinoy, Gay and Illegal

From Washingtonian

A triple whammy, if one were to ask.


His story tells us of how much it takes---courage, hard work, persistence, support of family and friends, luck and God only knows what else.
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant


Jose Antonio Vargas is a former reporter for The Washington Post and shared a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. He founded Define American, which seeks to change the conversation on immigration reform

15. Coupled Up

Green Eyed Hunk from Who's that!

When Love Takes Over: A Celebration of SGL Couples of Color is based on the popular Coupled Up series from loldarian.com and exclusively profiles eighteen African-American gay couples who are in committed long-term relationships. The couples detail how they met, their journey towards self-acceptance, liberation and ultimately how they fell in love and maintain their relationships. All the while defying the myth that two black men are incapable of loving each other for a lifetime.

More from Living Out Loud

14.

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.
I stroke the beam of my lamp
slowly along the flank
of something more permanent
than fish or weed
---Diving into the Wreck, Adrienne Rich

from neuarmy

13. Guess...

Guess....who catches and who throws the big punch.

from Eye Bonbons!

The pitcher carries the bat and the catcher has the gloves. Of course!

12. Finger Magic

For the launch of the Galaxy SII in France, Samsung brought JayFunk, the internet Finger Tutting phenomenon, from Los Angeles to Paris to deliver an incredible and surprising choreography.

11. Judgment Day (or Night)

Oh Your God

I survived! Or did I?

Dear God, does this mean I was left here for the big Armageddon?

I know James, last night, was tribulation enough. I'm still hurting. God, I need coffee to soothe the sting.

He was a sewing machine. Last night gave me a new definition for "eye of the needle."

I don't think I can wear tighties for a week! Lol.

From badingnakolboy

10. Tracy Morgan's Raging "Hard On"

"30 Rock star and former SNL alum Tracy Morgan’s....

June 3rd stand-up routine drove offtrack, and eventually off a cliff when the comedian went on a homophobic tirade while onstage in Nashville, Tennessee. Morgan reportedly attacked President Obama for supporting the LGBT community, called homosexuality a choice, and even threatened to stab his own son to death if he ever came home from school and told his father he was gay.

When the audience began to turn on Morgan, he reportedly remarked that “if gays can take a dick up their ass, they can take a joke.”

Read on at....Unicorn Booty

9. If you only knew….

flickeflu

 I love this video. After watching it, it had me thinking and, by necessity, writing lines again.

8. Beer Bottle & A Lighter

Neat trick. Here’s something useful to do with a beer bottle and a cheap lighter. From wikihow.

7. “Adult” Day Care

This one came from the from Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks. I think “Lighthouse” can be put to “good use” for a Spa. An “adult” spa.

“Grand Daddy, how do you like your siatsu today? With tongs, spikes or boiling wax?”

“Can I have Swedish, instead?”

“NO. But you can try our new Hilot. It’s an indigenous massage, using long strokes and hot chilly oils”

5. Business Strip

Note: Going on a business trip. Meanwhile, here’s something to keep your minds occupied. Hands off the elastics! Keep it safe and loaded.

Part 1: Screen Eyeball

4. Lines + Scribbles No. 1

Drunk with internet.

Here’s a haiku and fave sketch.

Another mash-up.

PS: The lines above are mine, the ones below are not. The mash-up? A crime committed by my evil hands. I had nothing to do with it. Chop them off me. Lines from Haiku Alley and sketches from Ink Flesh Ink Flesh.

“the groping of flies

sweet feel of bulging penis

desire satisfied”

3. Smile

(To the boy who craved for chocolate, but got an afternoon delight ;-)

I see him watching the pudding on my plate.

I approach.

I ask if he wanted to share.

He smiles and nods a little shyness into the air. 


He gestures to the seat.

I sit, at ease.

I hook a swirl of icing with my index. 


Then dip my tongue on the morsel. 


I offer the same wet morsel.

He smiles a different smile.

2. Mash-Up No. 2: Forbidden & Divine (Addiction in Three Voices)

I have a confession.

Maybe it’s about time I purge myself of this guilt. Ok, so colonics is another option. But I digress.

1. Fiction & Flesh

I already know him in my mind. But the fiction now tastes insipid.

Here is flesh. Taut.