Choosing Your London Dating Gay Friend

Choosing Your London Dating Gay Friend by Francis K. Githinji
If you have made your resolve to go for a London dating gay relationship, choosing the best gay dating friend you can find is the best thing you can do. It is not easy to achieve and you need to be very careful and strategic. You have to ask yourself a couple of fundamental queries before you have started upon the exercise.
However, the key is finding the right person you can share a relationship, vibe or simply gel with. You have to use some of your precious time to muse over what really portrays the real you in a relationship. You need to then start tuning your search for that London gay partner you are looking for. It is basically a list of some qualities you might want in a gay mate.
If you have narrowed your search for a London dating gay partner, the hardest part is finding the right person. There is no place you can easily find your gay partner like through the Internet, which is arguably the best source. You must find the best gay dating places you have to avail yourself, to meet the gay friend in reality.
Public meeting serves you with multiple purposes, as safety is very important while you are meeting a total strange person you have never met before. Find the perfect place you can have your friend relaxed and talking to you, a warm place and tranquil, so that you can both be relaxed and ready to know each other perfectly. London dating for gays is among the trendiest in the whole wide world.
London offers you a good number of dating places such as hotels, restaurants, bars and gay venues. There are immense nightclubs that can dazzle you as you continue with your choice and search for a London gay dating individual. London offers you an array of spots you can enjoy a perfect date, whether day or night. London is a perfect place for those gays or gays searching for gay relationships, because it's open to gay rights and offers you lots of fun in your search for the ultimate mate.
There is no hidden or iota of doubt that London dating for gays has a wholesome and incredible atmosphere, plus a beautiful set of munching and drinking venues for basically all gay couples. In London, gay dating is very ripe and you will enjoy the many pubs you can hang out with and without any fear. Gay pride is also organized in the city of London and it is a perfect time for London gay dating as well as meeting some novel gay partners and friends.
London gay dating can answer your gay dating questions and offer you the best of gay dating that you have never had. It gives you a perfect way of experiencing the best of London dating spree which is elegant, with some of the best gay dating spots in the world, where you feel free, relaxed, appreciated and most importantly, enjoy good company.

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Pattaya Thailand Tourism Showing No Sign of Slowing Down

Pattaya Thailand Tourism Showing No Sign of Slowing Down by Kal Banev
A heavy-breathing and testosterone-fuelled testament to holiday hedonism, Pattaya has lured tourists for almost four decades, and it's showing no sign of slowing down. And as past visitors move on to more genteel Thai resorts, first-time travelers from Russia and Eastern Europe now air their new passports with a fling in Asia's first and foremost Sin City. The cast may be evolving, but the scenery and soundtrack remain the same. The gorgeous half-moon of Pattaya Bay swoops around the headland to (slightly) more refined Hat Jomtien, and delicate sea-breezes whip up a heady cocktail of suntan lotion, fast food, and motorcycle and jet-ski fumes. Wide-eyed package tourists jostle with Indian tailors, ruddy-faced middle-aged Western men, and beachfront fruit and seafood vendors. Thumping beats, cruising 'baht buses' and the commercial hubbub provide an irresistible symphony. And after dark the tourists' eyes open even wider with a stroll past Pattaya's infamous go-go bars amid the sex tourism hub of Walking St. Pattaya's a stay up late kind of town, but wake up earlier than most and there are activities galore to redress your daytime/nighttime balance. Hit the dive shops to explore the city's offshore reefs and wrecks, or get some fresh air on world-class golf courses. And if you're here with the family, the kids (and mum and dad), will find plenty to do to make it a real holiday. The town's wicked essence remains defiantly intact, but around the fringes it's softening and becoming more inclusive. If you welcome it with a dash of confidence and a pinch of adventure, Pattaya's sun-kissed pursuit of happiness might prove irresistible. History US GIs kick-started Pattaya's dramatic transformation from quiet fishing village into throbbing tourist Mecca when they ventured down the coast in search of fun and frolics from their base in Nakhon Ratchasima. That was 1959. During the Vietnam War, the flow becomes a flood as troops on leave arrived to soak up Pattaya's cocktail of sun, sand and sex. Package - and sex - tourists followed, and Southeastern Thailand's golden goose grew fat on the seemingly bottomless pot of dollars pouring into the local economy. More recently Pattaya is striving to re-position itself as a 'family-friendly' destination, and while the grit, glitz and seedy glamour remain, the 'town that sex built' is now offering more attractions that won't have the kids asking awkward questions. Orientation Curving around Ao Pattaya (Pattaya Bay), Hat Pattaya (Pattaya Beach) is the city's showcase stretch of sand. Th Hat Pattaya (known colloquially as Beach Rd) runs along the waterfront and is lined with hotels, shopping centres and, towards the north, go-go bars. At the southern end of Th Hat Pattaya, 'Walking St' is a semi-pedestrianised jumble of restaurants and nightclubs. The alleyways running between Th Hat Pattaya and Th Pattaya 2 each have their own character: Soi 13 is filled with pleasant, midrange hotels while Soi 3 is the heart of the gay area, dubbed 'Boyztown'. Development is ongoing, and at the time of writing the third street back from the beach, Th Pattaya 3, was awash with the construction of new hotels, bars and restaurants. If you're after a tad more tranquility then head to Hat Jomtien, a 6km stretch of attractive beach and cleaner water, 5km south of Hat Pattaya. Hat Naklua, a smaller beach 1km north of Pattaya, is also quiet.

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Michael Jackson's Killer? OD, AAD or AIDS?

Michael Jackson's Killer? OD, AAD or AIDS? by David Comfort

Michael Jackson's Killer: OD, AAD, or AIDS?
Family friend, Stacy Brown, told Jackson biographer, Ian Halperin, that in 2001 Janet, Tito, and Randy staged a drug intervention on their famous brother. He sent them away saying, "I'll be dead in a year anyway." Was Michael aware of having a terminal disease even then? At that time, the star was indeed in desperate physical condition and taking many prescription drugs - not only pain killers, tranquilizers, and sedatives, but powerful antibiotic and anti-inflammatory cocktails. He had cancelled appearances due to "back problems," "exhaustion," and bouts with the "flu." In his last years, Elvis - the father-in-law whom he never met -- had done the same. Both the King of Rock and the King of Pop had been diagnosed with Lupus, noted for such symptoms and many far more debilitating ones. Jackson also suffered from AAD -- Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, a rare lung ailment, with emphysema-like symptoms. He was injected with pulmonary protein from human blood, a treatment usually successful, but not with him. In addition to the flu-like symptoms, he was now often bed and wheelchair bound, suffering from vision loss, weight loss, hyperventilation, nausea, insomnia, mental disorientation. Some of these are symptoms of Lupus, some of AAD. But all are the symptoms of advanced AIDS. Queen's Freddy Mercury suffered from the same ailments at the end of his life. The day before he died in 1991, Mercury confirmed long-standing rumors that he had AIDS and was homosexual. This is not to say that Michael Jackson did in fact have AIDS. Only that his symptoms closely corresponded with those of the disease, and that a medical forensic expert would be negligent to not consider the possibility. HIV, as is well known, is most commonly contracted sexually or through transfusion of infected blood. Given his prolific surgical history, Jackson likely received a transfusion at some time. But that he was infected in this manner seems less likely than the alternative. "He was also playing a truly dangerous game," continues biographer, Ian Halperin (Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson). "It is clear to me that Michael was homosexual and that his taste was for young men, albeit not as young as Jordan Chandler or Gavin Arvizo [the boys Jackson was accused of molesting].... In the course of my investigations, I spoke to two of his gay lovers, one a Hollywood waiter, the other an aspiring actor." Halperin goes on to say that the waiter remained friends with Jackson until the end, and that the actor provided photographs and a witness. The biographer adds: "When Jackson lived in Las Vegas, one of his closest aides told me how he would sneak off to a 'grungy, rat-infested' motel - often dressed as a woman to disguise his identity -'to meet a male construction worker he had fallen in love with.'" Though, with Elton John and others, Michael was an AIDS activist, he of course never outted himself or revealed the truth of his own condition had he indeed been HIV positive. This is regrettable since such an admission, though damaging to his reputation in homophobic circles, would have provided an immeasuraable boost to awareness and treatment of the tragic condition.
Whatever Michael Jackson's disease was, it seems indisputable that it caused him excruciating pain, both physical and psychological. Thus in his final years he was ingesting Demerol, Dilaudid Vistaril, Xanax, Zoloft, Prosac, Proilosec, and Ritalin on a daily basis and at a monthly cost of $48,000. In his last days, he begged his nurse for an IV of Diprivan used in general anesthesia for major surgery. Such a superhuman habit was rivaled by only Elvis himself. Like his father-in-law, too, Michael carried his narcotics in a huge suitcase filled with pre-loaded syringes and IV bags. In spite of his consumption, he, like Elvis, suffered from insomnia and, when he managed to briefly fall asleep, he had nightmares of being murdered. Jackson completed several hospital detoxes but afterwards soon fell off the wagon again. So, too, had Elvis, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and Kurt Cobain. Family and friends tried to get Hendrix and Morrison to detox, but failed. Of all the stars, Jackson and Elvis were the only prescription junkies. Both had coast-to-coast providers and had the prescriptions made out in the names of employees. Elvis's main supplier was Dr. George Nichopoulos, aka "Needle Nick." Nick prescribed 10,000 sedatives, amphetamines, and narcotics to his patient in the last eight months of his life. Several years before, when the doctor threatened to cut off his supply, the King shot him. After Elvis's fatal OD, Dr. Nichopoulos was tried for second-degree murder and acquitted, but lost his medical license. Unsatisfied, Elvis's father, Vernon, tried to have him assassinated in a football stadium. Michael's own last personal physician was Dr. Conrad Murray. Like Dr. Nick, he tried to administer CPR to his patient. Murray's explanation for waiting a half hour to call an ambulance was that he couldn't find a corded phone and didn't know the address of the house he had been living in with his patient for two weeks. Similar delays in calling the authorities occurred at the death scenes of other stars; in all these cases, narcotics were removed from the premises. The LAPD reportedly removed prescription drugs from the trunk of Dr. Murray's car. His Houston-based lawyer states that Dr. Murray never injected Michael Jackson with Demerol as has been alleged, nor had he ever prescribed him narcotics. The coroner discovered pill residue in the star's stomach and countless injection sites all over the body. Four were fresh injections to the heart. According to ABC news, in 2002 Murray's Houston medical clinic was closed for being what authorities called a 'pill mill." In any case, the fundamental question remains: What was the real cause of Michael Jackson's death? Pending further autopsy and toxicology results, the original stated cause goes unchallenged: Cardiac arrest. But what caused this? An overdose of Demerol or Diprivan, as alleged by many? But, even if so, why were such narcotics and anesthetics being administered? The question brings us full circle back to the original mystery. The kind of mystery beneath which lies not just one cause, but many and not all of them physical. And, in the end, as with the other legendary stars, though we may one day discover how the King of Pop died, it is unlikely that we will ever understand why.

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Mediation in Gay Marriages and Domestic Partnerships

Mediation in Gay Marriages and Domestic Partnerships by Peacetalks
From adoption to ending a relationship, LGBT couples experience many of the same complex legal and emotional relationship issues as heterosexual couples. And there are also problems that are distinctly unique to LGBT and lesbian couples. Some of these issues stem from societal stigmas, while others are borne out of unique obstacles created by the law.Same sex or LGBT marriage is currently not recognized by the US Federal Government under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). DOMA was passed in 1996 and signed by President Bill Clinton. What it states is that:*No state needs to treat a union between two people of the same sex as a marriage, even if the relationship is considered a marriage in another state.*The federal government doesn't recognize same sex couples as married, even if they are recognized as married by one of the states.LGBT marriage is currently allowed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine and Vermont. However, because of DOMA, these marriages do not have full legal recognition and protection. Though a LGBT relationship is in many ways exactly like a marriage in terms of love, commitment and responsibility, many of the benefits that come with marriage from federal law are not available to same-sex couples. The every day needs of these couples are not always addressed.Perhaps the most important thing to realize about being in a committed, LGBT relationship is that even if you and your partner have lived together for several years, you are not considered domestic partners by law unless you register as domestic partners. If you are not sure of how to register as a domestic partner at your state or are unsure of what is involved, a mediator can resolve and facilitate the legal aspect of your partnership in a sane and sensible way. About Peace Talks Mediation Services, Inc., in Los Angeles, CA, is a pioneer in the area of LGBT domestic partnership mediation. In fact, mediators all over the country are on the vanguard of this emerging area of the law because of the flexibility of mediation and the fact that gay marriage'slegal framework is ever-changing. As one example, 18,000 LGBT couples married in California during the five month window in 2008 which allowed same-sex marriage. It has still yet to be determined how California will treat these couples as a legal entity.A California domestic partnership is almost exactly like a marriage. Rights like health insurance and hospital visitation are granted when partners register with the state. The partners can even legally change their last names. If you and your partner decide not to register as domestic partners, you can use a cohabitation agreement to designate respective interests on property, income and financial support if the relationship is terminated. For some of the most frequently asked questions about LGTBQ couples, click here www.peace-talks.com/samesexfaw.php.The important thing to realize is that regardless of your feelings or political thoughts about LGBT marriage and whether you as a LGBT person want to marry, there is law surrounding domestic partnerships. Also, like anything else, some aspect of domestic partnerships may be considered drawbacks:Some Drawbacks to Domestic Partnerships;*If you make more money than your partner and break up, you may have to share your assets.*If one partner has immigration issues, those issues remain because being a domestic partner doesn't guarantee citizenship.*Registrations are public so if privacy is important to you, that's important to know.For some good information on the difference between LGBT marriage and a domestic partnerships and the components of each, click here www.peace-talks.com/samesexcomp.php.Do my partner and I have to meet any requirements to qualify for domestic partnership? You must both be members of the Same Sex Couples Mediation and live together (but both your names do not have to be on the home title). Neither of you can be married to someone else or be in another domestic partnership that hasn't been terminated. You cannot be blood relatives. You must both be at least 18 and capable of consenting to the domestic partnership.We highly advise that if you are in a committed relationship with someone of the same sex, no matter what you call it, that you meet with a mediator or attorney who specializes in LGBTQ unions and make sure you understand the benefits, responsibilities and drawbacks of LGBT marriage and domestic partnership. Make sure the mediator you choose is familiar with the laws in your state about domestic partnership.To find out more about how a mediator can help you negotiate your same sex union issues to make sure you get every benefit of the legal aspects of your commitment to each other, click here www.peace-talks.com/samesex.php.

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The word "gay" arrived in English during the 12th century from Old French gai, most likely deriving ultimately from a Germanic source.[1] For most of its life in English, the word's primary meaning was "joyful", "carefree", "bright and showy", and the word was very commonly used with this meaning in speech and literature. For example, the optimistic 1890s are still often referred to as the Gay Nineties. The title of the 1938 French ballet Gaîté Parisienne ("Parisian Gaiety") also illustrates this connotation. It was apparently not until the 20th century that the word began to be used to mean specifically "homosexual", although it had earlier acquired sexual connotations.[1]
The derived abstract noun gaiety remains largely free of sexual connotations, although it has in the past been used in the names of places of entertainment; for example W.B. Yeats heard Oscar Wilde lecture at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin.[6]

Sexualization
The word had started to acquire associations of immorality by 1637[1] and was used in the late 17th century with the meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations."[7] This was by extension from the primary meaning of "carefree": implying "uninhibited by moral constraints." A gay woman was a prostitute, a gay man a womanizer and a gay house a brothel.[1]
The use of gay to mean "homosexual" was in origin merely an extension of the word's sexualised connotation of "carefree and uninhibited", which implied a willingness to disregard conventional or respectable sexual mores. Such usage is documented as early as the 1920s, and there is evidence for it before the 20th century,[1] although it was initially more commonly used to imply heterosexually unconstrained lifestyles, as in the once-common phrase "gay Lothario",[8] or in the title of the book and film The Gay Falcon (1941), which concerns a womanizing detective whose first name is "Gay." Well into the mid 20th century a middle-aged bachelor could be described as "gay", indicating that he was unattached and therefore free, without any implication of homosexuality. This usage could apply to women too. The British comic strip Jane was first published in the 1930s and described the adventures of Jane Gay. Far from implying homosexuality, it referred to her free-wheeling lifestyle with plenty of boyfriends (while also punning on Lady Jane Grey).
A passage from Gertrude Stein's Miss Furr & Miss Skeene (1922) is possibly the first traceable published use of the word to refer to a homosexual relationship. According to Linda Wagner-Martin (Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and her Family (1995)) the portrait, "featured the sly repetition of the word gay, used with sexual intent for one of the first times in linguistic history," and Edmund Wilson (1951, quoted by James Mellow in Charmed Circle (1974)) agreed[9]. For example:
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They were ...gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, ... they were quite regularly gay.
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—Gertrude Stein, 1922
The 1929 musical Bitter Sweet by Noel Coward contains another use of the word in a context that strongly implies homosexuality. In the song "Green Carnation", four overdressed, 1890s dandies sing:
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Pretty boys, witty boys,You may sneerAt our disintegration.Haughty boys, naughty boys,Dear, dear, dear!Swooning with affectation...And as we are the reasonFor the "Nineties" being gay,We all wear a green carnation.
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—Noel Coward, 1929 , Bitter Sweet
The song title alludes to Oscar Wilde, who famously wore a green carnation, and whose homosexuality was well known. However, the phrase "gay nineties" was already well-established as an epithet for the decade (a film entitled The Gay Nineties; or, The Unfaithful Husband was released in the same year). The song also drew on familiar satires on Wilde and Aestheticism dating back to Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience (1881). Because of its continuation of these public usages and conventions – in a mainstream musical – the precise connotations of the word in this context remain ambiguous.

Through the mid 20th century, the term "gay" commonly referred to "carefree", as illustrated in the Astaire and Rogers film The Gay Divorcee.
Other usages at this date involve some of the same ambiguity as Coward's lyrics. Bringing Up Baby (1938) was the first film to use the word gay in apparent reference to homosexuality. In a scene where Cary Grant's clothes have been sent to the cleaners, he must wear a lady's feathery robe. When another character inquires about his clothes, he responds "Because I just went gay...all of a sudden!"[10] However, since this was a mainstream film at a time when the use of the word to refer to homosexuality would still be unfamiliar to most film-goers, the line can also be interpreted to mean "I just decided to do something frivolous." There is much debate about what Grant meant with the ad-lib (the line was not in the script). The word continued to be used with the dominant meaning of "carefree", as evidenced by the title of The Gay Divorcee (1934), a musical film about a heterosexual couple. It was originally to be called "The Gay Divorce" after the play on which it was based, but the Hays Office determined that while a divorcee may be gay, it would be unseemly to allow a divorce to appear so.

Shift to "homosexual"
By the mid-20th century, "gay" was well-established as an antonym for "straight" (which had connotations of respectability), and to refer to the lifestyles of unmarried and/or unattached people. Other connotations of frivolousness and showiness in dress ("gay attire") led to association with camp and effeminacy. This association no doubt helped the gradual narrowing in scope of the term towards its current dominant meaning, which was at first confined to subcultures. Gay was the preferred term since other terms, such as "queer", were felt to be derogatory. "Homosexual" is perceived as excessively clinical[11][12][13], since the sexual orientation now commonly referred to as "homosexuality" was at that time a mental illness diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
In mid-20th century Britain, where male homosexuality was illegal until the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to openly identify someone as homosexual was considered very offensive and an accusation of serious criminal activity. Additionally, none of the words describing any aspect of homosexuality were considered suitable for polite society. Consequently, a number of ironic euphemisms were used to hint at suspected homosexuality. Examples include "sporty" girls and "artistic" boys[14], all with the stress deliberately on the otherwise completely innocent adjective.
By 1963, a new sense of the word "gay" was known well enough to be used by Albert Ellis in his book The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Man-Hunting. However, later examples of the original meaning of the word being used in popular culture include the theme song to the 1960–1966 animated TV series The Flintstones, whereby viewers are assured that they'll "have a gay old time." Similarly, the 1966 Herman's Hermits song "No Milk Today", which became a Top 10 hit in the UK and a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and included the lyric "No milk today, it wasn't always so / The company was gay, we'd turn night into day."[15] In June 1967, the headline of the review of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the British daily newspaper The Times stated "The Beatles revive hopes of progress in pop music with their gay new LP".[16] Also worth noting is that, as late as 1970, the first episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show has the demonstrably straight Mary Richards' downstairs neighbour, Phyllis, breezily declaiming that Mary is, at age 30, still "young and gay."
There is little doubt that the homosexual sense is a development of the word's traditional meaning, as described above. It has nevertheless been claimed that "gay" stands for "Good As You", but there is no evidence for this: it is a folk etymology backronym.[17]