I’m 16 and gay. I recently got into an argument with my parents over whether HIV is spread by saliva or if you can be infected during oral sex. I thought that you were safe kissing and that it’s OK to have oral sex, but that you need to use condoms for anal sex. My […]
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Hockey Nation
Hanging on lampposts,the banners depict players in action, like oversized hockey cards. The standards for the 16 teams lead a rush along downtown streets tothe Halifax Metro Centre on Brunswick, where they swarm the building, crashing it like a net. Look up, there’s Cole Harbour’s own Sidney Crosby, Sid the Kid, representing Team Canada in […]
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Don’t gag him if you can’t watch him
I’m a 52-year-old male, divorced for the pas eight years. I recently broke off a five-year relationship with a woman two years my senior. About six weeks ago, a new female worker started in our office. We’re really hitting it off and, frankly, I’ve fallen for her—hard! However, she is 36, and never married. I […]
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Dan Savage tells DRAGON to wait for fuckbots.
I am a young, straight male—but I have this obsession with male-on-male dino-dragon porn. I dont get it. Im supposed to be straight. Am I psychotic or what? —Dinos Really Are Gonna Overtake Now Youre not psychotic, DRAGON, just pathetic. I dont mean pathetic in the laughable or contemptible sense of the word, DRAGON, I […]
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Dan Savage lets his mom show her stuff
Hey, everybody: If you missed last weeks column, Im taking a week off because, well, go read last weeks column if you care to know. Heres an old column—from May 24, 1995— to tide you over until my return next week. It not only features my mother, but also my boyfriends very first mention in the […]
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A few local hiking trails
A summary of an article called Walk The Line, first published in The Coast Hot Summer Guide, June 2007, researched and written by Tim Bousquet BLT Trail Buses 21, 23. Off Highway 3 or St. Margaret’s Bay Road, turn into the Lakeside Industrial Park to the trail parking lot next to the Coca-Cola building. The […]
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At a loss
I thought I could bang out a column today—a regular column, a column about my readers’ problems and their freaky fetishes and all those asshole politicians out there. You know, the usual. The day my son was born, I managed to slip out of the maternity ward and write a column; I wrote one the […]
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Dan Savage says don’t give up on vanilla yet.
I am a 28-year-old straight girl two years into my first marriage: new job, new home and new city 1,200 miles from my closest friends. It was really lonely at first, not knowing anyone nearby. Plus, hubby is far less social than I am, and has not gone out of his way to help us […]
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Dan Savage says read between the bullshit lines, readers.
When I was in my teens to mid-20s, I fought a burgeoning weight problem. My heaviest was 235 pounds on a five-foot-ten frame. Now I watch what I eat and I work out. I have a six-pack. And here’s my problem: I get too much attention from women. When I was out of shape, women […]
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ABA League fatigue
“God Pity Halifax if you get involved with .” That quip, from a reporter with the Indianapolis Star, sums up the Halifax Rainmen’s relationship with the ABA—one that was ended last week at the end of their first season. From the beginning, Andre Levingston, owner of the Rainmen, had to deal with the stigma of […]
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Dan Savage doesn’t know what to do about boobs.
I watched a video of your recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher and you appeared to be wearing a Queens University engineering jacket. I was a Queens med school student and am now an emergency doctor at the same university and have seen those jackets around for the past decade—where did you get […]
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The Mooseheads’ homegrown hope
Will this be the year the Halifax Mooseheads win it all? There are those who will tell you it’s about damn time. Halifax has had a franchise in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League—one of Canada’s three elite professional-hockey-player factories—since 1994. The team has produced close to two dozen players who’ve played in the NHL, […]
