Lavender Lounge
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 3:36pm By Mark KliemThe first case of AIDS appeared in 1981 and it took a while to discover that the disease was sexually transmitted. The first campaigns promoting condom use and "safer sex" did not appear until 1983 or 1984. The earliest cases of HIV transmission...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:02am By Mark KliemI love visiting thrift stores and garage sales, and when you live in a predominantly gay neighborhood, you'll eventually find someone's gay porn collection for sale on the sidewalk. I am also a big supporter of recycling, because men are fickle,...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 10:35am By Mark KliemIt gets harder and harder to shock me anymore, especially with things involving extreme sexuality, fetish wear, cross dressing, and artistic expression of an alternative nature. I've been to every Folsom Street Fair since it started, and I...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 9:24am By Mark KliemOn July 15, 2009, the producer of International Mr. Leather (IML), Chuck Renslow, sent out a memo to past vendors of the annual Leather Market stating, “… after considerable discussion, the Executive Committee of International Mr...
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 1:53pm By Mark KliemEach year, Frameline creates an opening trailer for their annual San Francisco LGBT Film Festival that is shown at the beginning of each screening. This year's trailer began with a close-up of a Super 8 projector being threaded and stacks of old...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 3:36pm By Mark KliemThe following essay was originally published on Lavender Lounge's blog. --CarnalNation Why are people so interested in contests and competitions? In the past few weeks, mainstream media was obsessed with the finals of American Idol and the...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 1:31pm By Mark KliemThe following essay was originally published on Lavender Lounge's blog. All links should be considered NSFW --CarnalNation In Part Two of my series "The History of Video On Demand Gay Porn Websites From 2000 to 2009," I'm putting the...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009 - 5:58pm By Mark KliemThe following essay was originally published on Lavender Lounge's blog. All links should be considered NSFW --CarnalNation As part of the group blogging effort with a gaggle of journalists, gossip columnists, movie reviewers, bloggers, and gadabouts...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 1:04pm By Mark KliemMuscleBearCub.com (not safe for work) is a website I created as my entry into “Web 2.0”, otherwise known as a Social Networking site. In laymen’s terms, that means “hook-up site.” MuscleBearCub.com (not safe for work...
