Powered by Max Banner Ads Available Light Theatre continues its 2011-12 season with the regional premiere of Sleeper, an epic political thriller by David Ian Lee of New York City, February 16-25, 2012 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center’s Van Fleet Theater. Never looking away from the wreckage, this smartly chilling drama takes you straight to the front line of the fraught battleground... 

Caught In A Gay Romance by Marcus Morris I want to do something different for Valentine’s Day this year. Last year I went to dinner. In 2010, I spent Valentine’s Day on a gay beach in Cape Town. That night, instead of some hot and steamy sex acts, I moaned in agony from the worst sunburn of my life. Since I thought it would be cute to wear a Speedo, I was rewarded with my inner thighs feeling like... 

Hot and Bloody by Mario Pinardi If I really wanted someone to suck me, it wouldn’t be for blood. Gay boys and straight girls are way too obsessed with vampires and the made-up Hollywood stories that they are embalmed in. If you were to trick with a “true” vampire they would chomp your dick off or eat your clitoris. Duh. I understand the need for escapism (this is usually European porn for me)... 

Savage Love By Dan Savage Have boyfriend. Several months. Love sex. First time we sixty-nine, I notice he has a little turtlehead sticking out. You get me? Second time, he has bits of toilet paper stuck in that area. CAN I ADDRESS THIS? And how do I do it without giving him a permanently flaccid penis? I love this man to pieces and know this is a humiliating topic. Please help! Mired In The Mud... 

AIDS in Black (Gay) America – ARC Ohio Starts Greater Columbus Mpowerment Center to Fight HIV Among Young Gay Men of Color by D.A. Steward Research by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that there are more new HIV infections among young black men who have sex with men (MSM) than any other racial or ethnic group of MSM. And that the number of new infections among young... 

A Conversation with Makeda Porter, MSW, Prevention Services Manager, Sexual Health Program, Columbus Public Health by Michael Daniels Makeda Porter has one of the most important jobs in the City, though you may have never heard of her before. Why? Because she works behind the scenes, in the trenches, keeping us safe and healthy. Here’s my interview with her on the why, the what, and the how. Michael... 

By Romeo San Vicente HOUDINI IS HAPPENING WITH HUGH Hugh Jackman can’t stay away from Broadway. The part-time Real Steel/Wolverine tough guy is, apparently, incapable of curing his song-and-dance lust. So now that The Boy From Oz is a distant memory and he’s finished up with Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, he needs a new reason to belt out the big numbers for matinee audiences. Enter Houdini, in... 

by Jayra Harris In a perfect world, I will meet someone I find terribly attractive. He’ll be smart, funny, successful, interesting and interested. The good morning text will arrive every day by 8, he will call every night before bed, make time for me even though he’s busy, all the while being a perfect gentleman. Never having felt this before, my heart tells me he’s “the one.” I dream of... 

How Gay Populations Influence Housing Prices by Eric Jaffe from The Atlantic Cities Exactly how gay populations affect the urban housing market is something of an open question. On one hand, surveys have found that gays and lesbians believe they’ve been targets of housing discrimination at times. If a neighborhood doesn’t want gay people to live there, one might expect its average home... 

The Other Doctor by Mette Bach I am sitting in my doctor’s office, reading Time Magazine, nodding along to their cover story on global protests. The person of the year is not a single person but a type of person: the protester. I like this article very much. So much that I don’t notice how quickly time passes. The doctor surprises me when she opens the door and rushes in. It’s a busy day at the...