New Blood Donation Rules in the UK

Okay so the good news is, the lifetime ban on gay or bisexual men has been lifted.  However if you have had sex with another man in the last 12 months then you cant donate blood.

Although I do have to agree this is a majour improvement on the previous life ban it is still flawed, it isn't likely that you will find many perfectly healthy gay men who have not had sex in the last 12 months so effectivly we are still banned.

Please let me know your thoughts on this subject by commenting or emailing me at gyd@live.co.uk

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Judas Kiss

I recently watched a film called Judas Kiss for my other blog www.gifr.blogspot.com which I use to give my say on gay interest films.  I'm not going to give the full review but if you want to see it you can visit the blog.  This film is basically about a guy who goes to judge a competition for film school, he gets very confused when he comes across a student with the same name he used to go by when he was at that school who is also entering the same film he entered 15 years ago when he was at that school.  It turns out this boy is a younger him and this is his oppertunity to change events of his past and create a better future for himself.

This film made me think, if you could change your past what would you change and why?  I probably wouldn't have dropped out of college because now i'm wanting to go back and do the course I dropped out of.  Let me know what you think by emailing GYD@live.co.uk

If you want to see the film you can buy it from my store, just click the appropriate link on the left hand side of the page, depending on what country you come from US (Region 1 dvd's), UK (Region 2 dvd's)

Brandon McInerney Admits to Murder

Brandon McInerney has pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of his classmate Larry King and faces 21 years in prison.

When McInerney was 14 he shot King in the back of the head during a lesson.  McInerney had previously admitted killing King but denied that it was murder.  He had said that King who was 15, who self-identified as gay and wore feminine clothing had teased and provoked him.

A mistrial was declared when the jurors failed to reach a decision.  In a retrial he admitted to second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm. 

McInerney will now serve 11 years for manslaughter and a further 10 years for for the use of a firearm and will not serve any time for murder as part of a plea deal.

Greg King, Larry King's father said he understood the plea deal.  He said "I don't think that 21 year sentence is justice for my son, but I understand the reality of that was facing the DA, of trying to convict a defendant who was 14 when he committed the murder.

McInerney will face the full 21 year sentence and won't be let out early for good behaviour as part of the plea deal..

Evil Ex Post on queerattitude

I have just put a new post on queerattitude.com forum about my ex that I mentioned the other day.  The post is:

Okay so my ex boyfriend has been a bit of an arse to me.  He keeps randomly texting me out of the blue saying things deliberately to piss me off.  When we broke up he showed up at my work with another guy for a meal.  I lost it and overdosed and ended up in A&E and I am now on antidepressants because of the whole situation.  I am fine now probably because of the antidepressants but he keeps texting stupid things to me. 

For example yesterday I got a text saying he regretted ever going out with me, I replied "oh well, dont care" to which he responded "Ha aint that why you tried killing yourself" I got nasty and said a few things that I knew would annoy him, he then proceded to take the piss out of me because i'm on antidepressants before finishing his conversation with "Can't be arsed with c***s like you, shame ya didn't kill yourself" then sending another text straight after saying "no one cares ha"

I'm a little confused, what the hell am I supposed to do about this, I mean when he starts it I enjoy giving just as much abuse back to him but overall I would rather he just pissed off and left me alone.

What would you do in this situation?

Let me know what you would do either by commenting on this post here, emailing me at GYD@live.co.uk or by going to the post at queerattitude and leaving a comment there.  I would really like to know.

Thank you

Lady Gaga tops poll

Lady Gaga has topped the poll's in Stonewalls survey asking what celebrity has done the most to tackle homophobic bullying.  Lady Gaga is a favourite with the LGBT community.  Her most recent album was designed to push boundaries and the single that the album was named after "Born This Way" was named and the new gay anthem by Sir Elton John when it first came out. 

This comes after Lady Gaga announced that she is to launch the "Born This Way" foundation which she is launching with her mother to focus on issues such as anti bullying.

Let me know your views on this or let me know if there are any other issues you would like me to mention on here by emailing GYD@live.co.uk

Anti Bullying Week 2011

We are currently in the middle of anti-bullying week, it is running from the 14th to the 18th of November.  This years theme is "Stop and Think - Words can Hurt"

Apparently children in schools suffer from homophobic bullying regardless of sexual orientation and eight in ten secondary school teachers and two in five primary school teachers report hearing other insulting homophobic remarks such as ‘poof’, ‘dyke’, ‘queer’ and ‘faggot’.

Stonewall needs as many people as possible to get involved and try to raise funds to tackle this problem.  To find out how you can get involved or to find out more about this visit www.stonewall.org.uk

Can't live with them, Cant live without them

So as I mentioned before, I recently split up with my boyfriend.  For some reason however we stayed friends and it just didn't work, we were constantly arguing and I ended up being put onto anti depressants because of him.  He stopped speaking to me which was good, I was much happier and then out of the blue he started texting me again trying to piss me off and it worked but what he didnt expect was for me to start giving just as much abuse back, he didn't like this and picked on the one thing he knew would upset me.  He decided to remind me that people do want him and nobody wants me.  This upset me even more as I had asked a close friend earlier on that day if he would like to go out with me and he rejected me.

So you see, I don't know what to do i'm 22 living in a small town in north east Scotland where there isn't alot of people anyway and I am lonely and really want a boyfriend, I want someone to hug and love but I cant be arsed with guys if they are going to be like this.

This is me looking to you guys for advice now, please let me know what you think either by commenting or emailing me at GYD@live.co.uk