Friday, January 21, 2011

[Peckers_Pics] Model Wars, PICS; Jan 22, 2011 - Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated G



Model Wars, PICS; Jan 22, 2011
Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated  G

 
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NYC Health Department Defends HIV PSA
 
By The Advocate Editors; Jan 21, 2011; The Advocate
 
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene continues to defend a controversial HIV/AIDS PSA that critics say stigmatizes gay men.

According to the Housing Works blog, Monica Sweeney, the assistant commissioner of the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at the department, credited the video with inciting necessary conversation about the disease, regardless of opinions. She spoke to more than 100 people gathered Thursday at a Ryan White Planning Council meeting in Manhattan.

"We need to think of all the possible ways . . . to get people's attention, because HIV definitely isn't on the front page anymore, at least not until this ad came out," she said.

While some HIV/AIDS activists have expressed support for the PSA, a coalition of groups including Housing Works and Gay Men's Health Crisis has denounced the ad, which uses graphic imagery to scare young men into using condoms. The PSA premiered in December and runs through January.

Members of the planning council, which wrote to Sweeney asking for the ad's termination, also wanted to know why there were not consulted about the PSA, which the assistant commissioner said was in the making for more than three years.

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This group is called "Peckers Pics."  The English -  slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues.  In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!"  Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?"  Warning: This may stoke you!
 
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Elton John: Gay Marriage Advocate Says 'F**k' You To Opponents
01/21/11; Huffington Post
 
Elton John has changed his tune on gay marriage.

The legendary musician and gay icon performed at a $3 million fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights in support of marriage rights, and issued some harsh words for opponents of equality.

"It seems so ridiculous I could be with my partner for 17 years and we have a son, and my partner and I can't get married," he told the crowd (via AP), before issuing a "f*ck you,' to those responsible for keeping him from marriage.

It was a different sentiment than what he said two years ago, when Proposition 8 was passed in California.

"We have a civil partnership," he said, talking about he and longtime partner, David Furnish. "What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage," he said to USA Today at a gala for his Elton John AIDS Foundation in 2008. "I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off."

To him, marriage and civil partnerships were all the same.

"You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."

Perhaps having son Zachary, via surrogate, with Furnish in December, has opened his eyes a bit.

"As a gay man. I think I have it all," John said on Wednesday. "I have a wonderful career, a wonderful life. I have my health, I have a partner of 17 years and I have a son. And you know what, I don't have everything, because I don't have the respect of people like the church, and people like politicians who tell me that I am not worthy or that I am 'less than' because I am gay."

John was married to a woman, friend and engineer Renate Blauel in 1984 -- the marriage lasted three years before he fully recognized his sexuality.

Interestingly, John recently performed at the wedding of Rush Limbaugh, a noted gay marriage opponent. He made a handsome fee for the effort: $1 million.

Talking about the performance, John said:

"When [Limbaugh] asked me to play at his wedding, my agent said, 'Well, of course you won't be doing it,'" John told the Telegraph of London. "But I said, 'Well, let me think about that first.' ... Limbaugh's not anti-civil partnerships, so maybe I can have a dialogue about that. I've put my foot in the water and so has he. I got on with him very well, got on very well with his wife."
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