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By Ramon Johnson, About.com Guide to Gay Life since 2002

What Issues Are Important To You This Election?

Thursday January 31, 2008
It's time to focus on the issues at hand as the presidential candidates race for their respective party nominations. LGBT people are a diverse group of individuals, with a ... Read More

Tax Tips for Gays, Lesbians and Same-Sex Couples

Tuesday January 29, 2008
1040, Schedule C, W-4, W-2. Keeping track of the alphabet soup called our tax forms is difficult enough, filing as a gay or lesbian couple can be even more complex ... Read More

Sober Gay Travel

Tuesday January 29, 2008
Ramone: So I am online researching travel options for “single gay men” and this diamond in the rough of an article just happens to pop up. I am currently going into my ... Read More

Can Gay Wiccans Find Love?

Monday January 28, 2008
He's gay and Wiccan. Is it his Pagan Witchcraft that's driving men away? Dear Mona, I'm a 19-year-old gay guy. I have four ex-boyfriends and in over a year I haven't ... Read More

Gay Couples Are Just As Committed As Straight Couples

Friday January 25, 2008
A new study in the journal Developmental Psychology (lead by Glenn I. Roisman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne) academically explains what us gay laymen have been screaming to ... Read More

Broadway Bends Over Backward For A Third Time

Thursday January 24, 2008
Broadway buffs: Let's get twisted. Gay favorite stage stars like Neil Patrick Harris (TV's "How I Met Your Mother," Assassins, Cabaret), Anthony Rapp (Rent, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown), ... Read More

A Relationship of Three

Tuesday January 22, 2008
Trinogamous and threesome relationships sound like a spicy idea, but is adding a third person the best remedy for a dulling connection? Hi Mona, I'm 24 and my bf is 25. We've ... Read More

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gay Bayard Rustin

Monday January 21, 2008
In 1937, at the age of 25, an openly gay man named Bayard Rustin started training at the American Friends Service Committee. By 1963 he was perhaps one of the ... Read More

Hot For Teacher

Saturday January 19, 2008
He's a junior in college and in love with his professor. Should he take caution with his crush or go for the grade? Dear Mona Lisa, I'm a Junior in college ... Read More

Life in a Massachusetts Gay Marriage

Friday January 18, 2008
Have you ever wondered what life is truly like in a gay marriage? Do gay married couples share the same joys and pains, good and bad times that straight ... Read More

Do Reports on Staph Unfairly Stigmatize Gay Men?

Thursday January 17, 2008
Anyone can contract a staph infection. The antibiotic-thwarting bacteria can enter the skin through casual contact with other people or inhuman objects such as gym equipment, towels, and practically ... Read More

Gays More Likely To Contract New "Super" Staph Infection

Tuesday January 15, 2008
Sorry for another Debbie Downer post, especially on the heals of news about the ban on vital organ donations from gay men, but I must report on new (and quite ... Read More

Gay Men Banned From Donating Vital Organs

Sunday January 13, 2008
First there was blood, semen and marrow; now men who have had sex with other men in the last five years are prohibited from donating their vital organs. Last ... Read More

The Power of the 'F' Word

Friday January 11, 2008
Back in 2003 I wrote about how us gays had ameliorated the word 'queer'. Basically, by adopting the term for our own use we lessen the impact of a ... Read More

Ready to Come Out and In Love With Larger Gay Men

Thursday January 10, 2008
Mona Love, I had a small problem telling my mates that I was gay, but the one person that I am terrified of telling is my father. When my oldest brother ... Read More

Help With Premature Ejaculation

Tuesday January 8, 2008
Mona, My boyfriend and I have been going out for a couple of months and we're in a healthy relationship. Everything's going great except for sex. He orgasms a bit too ... Read More

Is He Straight Now or Still Bi?

Monday January 7, 2008
Dear Mona, I have this friend I used to mess around with a lot. He all of sudden stopped and said he was straight; yet at times he still shows interest. ... Read More

The 'Gay Secret' Can Consume You

Friday January 4, 2008
I vividly recall the anguish of keeping my gay secret inside. Being closeted was all consuming. I kept silent as my friends talked of their boyfriends and girlfriends ... Read More

Would You Still Date Him If He Cheated?

Wednesday January 2, 2008
It's just you and him. He's your love; your boo; the confidant you've been waiting so long to call your own. And then the most shocking happens: ... Read More

Trouble Coming Out

Tuesday January 1, 2008
What do you do when you're ready to come out, but your mom gives you mixed messages? Here's the story: Ramone, I have just turned 17 and am having real trouble ... Read More

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