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Vikings Coach Mike Priefer Back At Practice Following Suspension for Homophobic Comments

After a two-game suspension and sensitivity training for his antigay comments, special teams coach Mike Priefer has returned to his post.

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Annie Hollenbeck

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Living With HIV: New Horizons
In 1988, six months prior to the Olympic Games, at a time when I thought my HIV diagnosis was a death sentence, my thoughts were to lock myself away in my house and wait to die. The choice to train for the Olympics was a decision I didn’t come to lightly. Thank God I listened, took my AZT, and continued to train. My decision paid off: I won two Olympic gold medals, reclaiming my championships from the previous Olympic Games, with no boycotted countries. But at 28 I honestly didn’t expect to see my 30th birthday.

Now, at 54, I am still here! I didn’t allow my HIV take over as an obsession; it’s a mere part of me that I’ve lived with. I did sell my life-insurance policies and ran through my savings, though, and in my 40s I realized, “Heck, I need to get a job!” I had to reinvent myself, so I went back to a sport I loved: diving. I coached developmental-team 8- to 14-year-olds but soon received an offer to become an “athlete mentor” for USA Diving, all of which is chronicled in my documentary Back on Board. It is a poignant film that, on many levels, is informative and inspiring.

A friend from the 50-something “group” and I discussed the challenges facing this population of long-term HIV/AIDS survivors. I’d sold my home, as it was weighing me down with the mortgage and modest income I was now dealing with. I find that this generation of people living with HIV is a big issue, what with housing and living expenses on top of insurance and medical maintenance.

I subscribe to both Eastern and Western treatment for living with my companion, HIV. I take my cocktail of medications in the morning and evening, along with supplements and Chinese herbs, with a once-a-week treatment of acupuncture for immune support as well as pain management for old sports injuries, not to mention staying active with cardio and yoga practices. My exercise program is just as important to me as the medication regimen.

I’m coming up on celebrating my first anniversary of being married to my soul mate, and we are looking at our finances to get a grasp on our future. We are a “serodiscordant” couple, I being HIV-positive and he HIV-negative. We are looking forward to growing old together and simplifying our lives, but at the moment we are struggling with the financial quandary of that 50-something, which will probably be an issue until we get to 65 or 67, when we can take advantage of our IRAs and petitions.

I am finding that this is an issue facing many in my age group. But I’m not giving in to the fears of change but investing my energy into once again reinventing myself.

I am also finding in “recovery,” as in AA, a spiritual path of reinvention, finding answers in the stillness of my meditations, putting my faith in inspiration rather than in hope and wishful thinking. The key is action. I might not be moving at the pace I had hoped for, but if I can ask myself each and every day, “Am I moving forward toward my goals?” and am able to say yes, then I am moving at the pace I need to be moving. This is a new skill set I am learning, so I am learning! I remind myself that it took years to perfect a single dive, and that is essentially what I am doing now, honing new skills, and the learning curve might mean having to repeat an action to learn.

I guess my most valued lesson is forgiveness, mostly for myself, and living life on life’s terms. I am grateful that I have a husband who understands and is on that same journey with me in his own way. Forgiveness and gratitude!

Namaste,
Greg Louganis

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FROM A KURD TO KURDS WE MUST STAND FIRM ON LGBT RIGHTS
Amazing DUST DEVIL it will SHOCK you!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkxl1qCG1Xw.

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Hot Sheet: September 19, 2014

Our top 10 entertainment and events highlights this week include gays in the military, Faking It, Space Station 76, and How to Get Away With Murder.

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BREYER P-ORRIDGE And Pierre Molinier Turn Shapeshifting Into An Art (NSFW)
Warning: This post contains nudity and graphic imagery, and may not be appropriate for work.

If you are not familiar with the epic tale of the artist known as BREYER P-ORRIDGE, you’re in for a treat.

BREYER P-ORRIDGE Pharoah, 2005

The avant-avant-garde artist was born Neil Megson in Manchester, United Kingdom in the year 1950. As a child, the budding artist became enamored with the work of French surrealist Pierre Molinier (1900-1976), known for his erotic photographs of himself as a malleable body, a collage of parts. Molinier captured himself as a transvestite donning masks, dildos, dolls, prosthetic limbs, corsets and other prop parts. The images explored the underbelly unconcerned with authenticity or morality — instead seduced by the infinite, gnarled complexities on the surface.

P-ORRIDGE was introduced to Molinier’s work through a book on surrealism s/he was gifted as a schoolboy. Molinier’s work revealed the body as more than just a vehicle through which to restructure and revolutionize, but the site of the revolution itself. S/he was also drawn to his self-proclaimed lack of morality, having “claimed to have pleasured himself on his sister’s corpse and eventually shot himself in what’s been described as his final work.” P-ORRIDGE took note of this artistic manifestation of shapeshifting, using the fractured nature of the self to push the body past its physical limits into the realm of art.

Pierre Molinier Untitled, ca. 1968 Vintage gelatin silver print (photomontage) 9 3/8 x 7 inches (23.8 x 17.8 cm) Unique Photo credit: Joelle Jensen

Throughout he/r life, P-ORRIDGE reinvented he/rself over and over and over again. In the late 1960s, s/he was known as Genesis P-Orridge, a member of the British art collective Coum Transmissions. “I used to do things like stick severed chicken’s heads over my penis, and then try to masturbate them, whilst pouring maggots all over it,” s/he recalled. (It actually gets far more intense). S/he then went onto play with the Industrial music innovators Throbbing Gristle — which folded pornography and imagery from concentration camps into its performances — and later psychedelic innovators Psychic TV.

In the 1990s P-ORRIDGE took he/r fascination with collaged identity to the next level after falling madly in love with Lady Jaye Breyer. The two embarked on an artistic and romantic collaboration, a Pandrogeny. “As a couple, we want to become more and more one,” P-ORRIDGE said in 2004. “Everything becomes raw material, malleable and neutral,” P-ORRIDGE explains in a statement. “There is no specific gender anymore. No male or female, merely surfaces and a canvas of skin stretched across multiple skeletal frames.” The two took the malleability of identity to the extreme, merging identities and genders to become Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE.

“I guess I’m dedicated to breaking every inherited mould I can in my private life,” P-ORRIDGE continued, “and I am blessed to work with a partner who is prepared to be involved in that process too. We both went and got breast implants on the same day, on our 10th anniversary, and we woke up in hospital holding hands. By chance, we have the same size shoes, but now we can also share lingerie as well!”

BREYER P-ORRIDGE Post-op Pinhead, 2004

Lady Jaye died suddenly in 2007, yet she lives on in P-ORRIDGE, their ongoing collaboration, and in their first person “we.” Pronouns — like the preferred s/he — are radical for the artist.

“Around 10 we’ll sit on the bed and drink some ice water and turn on mindless television, because that’s the time of day when we really miss Jaye,” P-ORRIDGE recalled in a New York Times piece recounting the events of her daily life. “That’s when it’s really quiet and you feel the emptiness and sometimes we just forget and think [Lady Jaye’s] going to come through the door. Not to watch TV, there’s nothing on. Just to keep the space agitated so the loneliness is not so bad.”

For P-ORRIDGE, so much of this urge toward transgression and transformation stemmed from Molinier’s work. “For in his explorations of the most basic of all subjects… the human body… he applied patterns and interplays so meticulously that they felt as familiar at times as my own,” s/he told Invisible Exports.

Pierre Molinier Méditation vampirique, circa 1967

“The irreversible compulsion of Molinier’s montages, where men become women, become clones of themselves, become animalistic, become erotic, become gross, become romantic, generates a maelstrom of fluid possibilities. We are in the eye of his tornado, red slippers flash past, a witch, a dildo, a mask always a mask. Pierre Molinier insists we face the impenetrable fact of our obliteration. Yet simultaneously he describes a frolicking masqued ball, a carnival of interchangeable characters. All of who can be him and equally therefore all can be ourselves as well.”

Invisible Exports’ “BREYER P-ORRIDGE & Pierre Molinier” is a collage of body parts without beginning or end. Dildos, bruises, surgeries and fishnet tights make their marks on the human flesh, shaping it into new and ever intoxicating patterns. Together, the work shows the power of appearances to morph what’s underneath, which, as it turns out, may be irrelevant. The cut-and-pasted bodies depict freedom and passion in their rawest, most dangerous forms.

The exhibition runs until October 12, 2014 at Invisible Exports in New York.

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Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Candidate Tom Wolf Weighs in on Philadelphia Gay Bashing

Kyler Geoffroy

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