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May 3, 2024 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism) is an umbrella term for a variety of taboo kink interests that most people have heard of but many of us know little about.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
In the fall of 2017, 825 Warner Street became the birthplace for what would grow to become one of the most recognizable artist collectives in Atlanta, The Bakery, now based in South Downtown. The original location was just a raw space that people transformed into a magical place.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
Black Luv N Rage creates revolutionary space for Black queer artists In his book “My Bondage and My Freedom,” Frederick Douglass said, “To an ignorant observer, spirituals appeared to be simple hymns, retelling biblical stories and themes.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
There are ten commandments for the Chapel Beauty Show: Thou shalt pay the dolls, thou shalt respect the dolls, thou shalt pamper, thou shalt protect, thou shalt uplift, thou shalt feed, thou shalt love, thou shalt comfort, thou shalt praise, and thou shalt worship the dolls! At your first show you might think the captivating trio of hosts Miss He, Ivy, and Minty are the dolls in question. However, the Chapel Beauty Show is bigger than them.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
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A. Boys! Boys! Boys! Volume 3This collection, edited by Ghislain Pascal, features photography by over 60 queer artists. It makes a great gift for your artist friends or a coffee table staple. $56, Charis Books and More; 184 S Candler St; charisbooksandmore.com. B. Boys Come FirstIn this novel by Aaron Foley, three Black gay millennial friends are navigating the ebbs and flows of life while also trying to escape the dating pool in Detroit.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
In recent years, the LGBTQ community has steadily gained visibility in the mainstream. Along with this increase in visibility has come support and acceptance. However, there is more work that remains to be done. Institutions that define the status quo are very often the last to accept new ideas. It seems that this may be the case for the most prestigious institutions for higher education.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
nature.com | Daniel Reeves |Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen |Mars Stone |Frederick M. Hecht |Jeffrey Martin |Steven Deeks | +2 more
AbstractPersistence of HIV in people living with HIV (PWH) on suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been linked to physiological mechanisms of CD4+ T cells. Here, in the same 37 male PWH on ART we measure longitudinal kinetics of HIV DNA and cell turnover rates in five CD4 cell subsets: naïve (TN), stem-cell- (TSCM), central- (TCM), transitional- (TTM), and effector-memory (TEM). HIV decreases in TTM and TEM but not in less-differentiated subsets.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
“Are we going to wait until our artists, our queer women of color artists, die before we actually start to recognize their work?” was the question that award-winning director Madeleine Lim posed to fellow artist and activist, Jewelle Gomez, shortly after a screening of her 2013 film, “The Worlds of Bernice Bing.” Bing was a lesbian abstract expressionist painter based in San Francisco who, like many other queer women of color, failed to reach the heights of recognition that would match her...
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
Lyte ImaginAri has a gift for capturing the moment. She finds herself most fulfilled in shooting Atlanta’s queer nightlife scenes. Her shots, full of emotion and authenticity, have gained traction around the community as of late. “When [shots] come out looking the way they do and you see it as amazing, that’s just how amazing I felt in the moment,” she said of her photography. Lyte moved to Atlanta from small town North Carolina only three years ago, in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
thegavoice.com | Mars Stone
As a lifelong fanatic of hip-hop and rap music, I’ve struggled to deconstruct the role hip-hop music and culture has played in my suppression as a queer listener. While the majority of hip-hop and rap music doesn’t contain blatant, anti-gay subject matter, it would be misguided to pretend homophobia hasn’t infiltrated the genre. Rap is my first love, and hip-hop is more than just music to me.
