PHOTOS: These Sexy Men Are (Literally!) Trapped Together Inside A Box

Ron Amato is a New York-based photographer. Much of his work centers around issues of male beauty, aging, same-sex attraction, and body image in the gay community. His latest project, “The Box,” explores themes of self-discovery and community building.

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“Most of my artwork explores issues of sexuality. The enigma of attraction has been an ongoing question,” Amato says. “With ‘The Box’ I was able to explore those themes more deeply, helping me develop a better understanding of myself as a gay man and the larger gay universe.”

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The photographs will eventually be turned into a 96-page, 10-inch square coffee table book. Amato hopes to release the book in early 2017 with the help of a crowdfunding campaign.

Scroll down for a sampling of “The Box” and learn more at the project’s Kickstarter page…

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Trump Calls for Cancellation of SNL After Show Hilariously Mocks Second Debate Performance: WATCH

When Donald Trump hosted Saturday Night Live last year he clucked that “part of the reason I’m here is that I know how to take a joke.”

Well, he lied again.

Trump called for the show’s cancellation after being ruthlessly mocked in the show’s cold open again last night, despite the fact that the hilarious regurgitation of events was little embellished.

Trump also claimed that the show is part of the vast media conspiracy to destroy his campaign in a tweet on Sunday morning: “Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!”

Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me.Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Alec Baldwin portrayal stinks. Media rigging election!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016

Said Baldwin in the sketch:

“Tonight I’m going to do three things: I’m going to huff, I’m going to puff and I’m going to blow this whole thing.”

The sketch also touched on Trump’s racism, his “stalking of Hillary Clinton on the debate stage, his sexual abuse of women and his attempt to turn the tables by bringing in Bill Clinton’s accusers.

“Get real, I’m made of steel, this is nothing,” said McKinnon’s Clinton.

Replied Baldwin’s Trump: “Martha, she is trying to silence these women but they need to be respected, they need their voices heard.”

“What about all the women accusing you of sexual assault?”, asked Cecily Strong’s Martha Raddatz.

“They need to shut the hell up.”

Watch the “second and worst ever” presidential debate:

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Trump Calls for Cancellation of SNL After Show Hilariously Mocks Second Debate Performance: WATCH

Commentary: For Our Communities, HIV Is Too Important to Ignore

Today is National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day, and to mark the occasion, Mary Beth Maxwell, HRC’s senior vice president for research, training and programs, and Brent A. Wilkes, the national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, penned a piece for The Advocate to draw attention to the impact of HIV & AIDS on Latinx communities.

HIV transmission rates are on the rise among Latinx LGBTQ people, they wrote.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Latinxs accounted for 24 percent of all new HIV diagnoses in 2014 despite comprising only 17 percent of the entire U.S. population. While that number is unacceptably high by any measure, it pales in comparison to the alarming rates of HIV transmission we’re seeing among Latinxs in the LGBTQ community.

Of course, the statistics don’t tell the whole story.

All too often, our organizations encounter people like Alexa Rodriguez, a brave transgender woman who contracted HIV from a partner years after she immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. Or people like Steven Vargas, a LULAC Houston member and long-term survivor who has been living with HIV since 1995. Steven lost both of his parents to AIDS-related complications.
 
Their stories speak to some of the social, legal, and cultural barriers Latinx LGBTQ people face in getting tested or treated for HIV, including language and immigration status. Many undocumented Latinxs, for example, avoid seeking HIV-related services altogether for fear of violence, harassment, and deportation – fears that are only compounded when woven together with homophobia and transphobia.

HRC and LULAC both affirmed the organizations’ commitment to “pushing for a world where all people can lead healthy, meaningful lives regardless of their HIV status.”

Read the full article here.

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72カ国の国旗でできた美しいドレスは、"LGBTの命"を伝えるメッセージでした
72カ国の国旗から1つのドレスが作られた。

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Maas: 30 Millionen Euro Entschädigung für verurteilte Homosexuelle
Heiko Maas sieht für die Entschädigung von Opfern des berüchtigten “Schwulen-Paragrafen” 30 Millionen Euro vorDie Bundesregierung will Opfer des Pa…

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Tasheka Lavann: Canada Would Gladly Take Omar McLeod From Homophobic Jamaica
I don’t know about you, but if I just created history for my country on a world stage and my fellow citizens reacted by calling me derogatory names that could potentially put my life in danger, I would seriously think about moving to another country. Sadly, Jamaican athlete Omar McLeod was not so lucky.

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りぃな: 個性を尊重し合えば、マイノリティ（少数者）はポジティブな要素にできる！
1番感じたのは、「LGBTに限らず誰もが何かマイノリティ(少数者)だと感じる要素を持っているのではないか。」ということだ。

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김조광수: 어느 멋진 날
우리의 결혼으로 세상이 당장 바뀌지는 않는다. 하지만 우리 결혼은 대한민국 국민들의 생각을 조금은 바꾸었다. 이성애자들에겐 ‘한국에서도 동성 결혼을 하는구나’라는 생각을 하게 했고 동성애자들에겐 ‘우리도 결혼할 수 있구나’라는 생각을 하게 했다. 대한민국에서 동성 결혼은 이제 남의 나라 이야기 혹은 할 수 없는 것이 아닌 바로 우리들의 이야기가 되었다. 게다가 우리의 결혼으로 대한민국이 조금 더 로맨틱해졌을 거라고 생각한다.

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"Il mio coming out è per chi vive nell'ombra: se esiterete, io avrò perso"
Himanshu Singh è un artista e un informatico indiano che si è stancato di non essere trasparente con chiunque, di dover mantenere una sorta di “se…

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Alain Montambault: Le vestiaire identitaire
Rares sont les natifs de la métropole. C’est vrai je veux dire, nous sommes plusieurs à habiter cette île, mais qui peut vraiment prétendre en être un véritable produit, certificat de naissance à l’appui?

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