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“Pretty Baby” Guest Writer: Bishop Hartsel Clifton Shirley Throughout the Great Migration (1916-1970), roughly seven million Blacks from the southern United States traveled to the North, Midwest, and West to escape racism, seek work in manufacturing cities, and obtain better educational opportunities. Bronzeville, an area of Chicago near Hyde Park, attracted a Black gay population—which snowballed. The [...]
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“Lookin’ Thru the Looking Glass” Guest Writer: R. L. Norman As I sat there, I just stared into space, oblivious to my situation for a brief moment. I felt like I was in a dream; as a matter of fact, a dream that was a nightmare that I wanted to wake up from. I [...]
It’s All About the Big Boyz!
On this Friday the 19th, the new episode of the WYATT! podcast is all about the Big Boyz! My special guest is Mr. Tony “Teddybear” Harper-Zuniga, a prominent leader of the Big Boy Community. For years, Mr. Harper-Zuniga has been at the forefront of education and awareness about big boy culture. We will discuss what the [...]
Ferraris and Football
By Wyatt O’Brian Evans PROLOGUE. Yo! As y’all know, I’m Wyatt O’Brian Evans, author of the hawt, sexually-charged and action-filled series of novels entitled, “Nothing Can Tear Us Apart.” The latest installment is “FRENZY!” Check out: wyattevans.com/nothing-can-tear-us-apart-frenzy-book/ Now, due to popular demand, I’m re-presenting a fast-paced, tension-filled and sexxxy short for yo’ reading “pleah-zure!” Entitled “Ferraris and Football,” it’s [...]
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“Didn’t You Know” Guest Writer: W.D. Foster-Graham My brothas and sistahs, it has been a pleasure to see The Right To Be: A Christopher Family Novel (my first full male-male romance novel) come to fruition. Then again, when you’re doing something you love doing, it’s not work. Following your passion surely has its rewards; since my [...]
MOE: Navigatin’ the ‘Rona Life
(This article has some adult sexual content. To note: none of the images are of Jase, the interviewee.) “As I said before, and I’ll say it again: love can be so, so…well, over-rated.” As you’re aware, I pen a continuing series about a Man of the Evening (MOE). It’s a raw and revealing [...]
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“On the Field” Guest Writer: Bishop Hartsel Clifton Shirley HUT ONE! HUT TWO! HUT THREE! HIKE! Whispers. Secrets. Conceal and hide! So goes life if you’re gay in football. And enthusiasts of one of America’s favorite pastimes rejecting homophobia appears to be as complicated and difficult as it is for bigots to reject racism. Roy Franklin [...]
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“BLACKS DO READ: KUUMBA, KUJICHAGULIA, AND UJAMAA” Guest Writer: W.D. Foster-Graham When I embarked on my journey as a novelist, my first novel, Mark My Words, was 17 years in the making: five years to write it and another 12 to get it published. I was naïve, believing that traditional publishing was the only game in [...]