20230703 Newsletter. Thai Rivera tells straights to stop pretending to be LGBT, Gay Art, Two new weight loss drugs pass Phase II testing.
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Two more weight loss drugs pass phase II. One will be cheaper and easier to take. The other more effective.
These two drugs will be the 3rd and 4th weight loss drugs that have been recently developed.
One of them, orforglipron, is easier to produce and to take. It is expected to be much cheaper and you will be able to take it as a pill. The current weight loss drugs are by injection and cost about $1,000 a month.
The other one, retatrutide has a record high effectiveness, however it requires weekly injections.
As these drugs reach the market and start a cash flow to the pharmaceutical companies there will be funds to drive further research. It will also attract the attention of other companies. I think we can expect that there will more of these drugs coming to market and either in cheaper forms, easier to take, or more effective, hopefully all three.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02092-9
We can expect a 5th and 6th and then a 7th and then an 8th and then it won’t be considered news and it will be in the technical journals for pharmacological developments.
Collapse of the Body Positivity movement and the Fat Liberation Movement.
Especially as weight loss drugs become cheaper and you can take them as a pill, I think we will find people taking these drugs and losing weight.
They may say all the slogans of the Body Positivity Movement and the Fat Liberation Movement, but for themselves they will take the medicines and lose weight.
There are side effects such as nausea, and I am sure the leaders of the Body Positivity movement the Fat Liberation movement will have individuals bawling about how bad they are. Few people will be fooled.
Further, researchers are likely even now looking at what might be done regarding nausea. Will some possible medicines induce less nausea or could another medicine be taken along with the weight loss medicine will be the focus of research.
Though a lot of the LGBTQXYZ leadership laughed at anti-vaxxer ideas, they were more than willing to push the idea that being overweight was harmless. This was injurious to Gay health.
I think that when the Fat Liberation movement collapses, it will be good to keep a record of who pushed this ideology.
Twitter breakdown. /Connect on multiple platforms.
Starting Friday 6/30/2023 Twitter was working on my android phone, but not working in Chrome browser, but was working on my Microsoft browser. Not sure what is happening. The problem appears to be fixed, but it was a wake up call to me that we can’t depend on any one platform.
Please, if you are not a Substack subscriber consider subscribing. Twitter may not always be around.
I have started to use again the Facebook account Gay Partisan and the Reddit platform. These social media platforms are unstable and if one goes, we are disconnected. I am not saying you have to be on every platform, but don’t depend on any one platform.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/473985827246638
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaycentric/
Hookup App Motto run by moral scolds flops.
From the article, we learn that you can only look at ten profiles a day because they think Gays spend too much time on the apps. They select the profiles to send to you. No headless torsos pictures are allowed.
This article is dated Nov. 2022. It was launched in New York City which has 18+ million people in 2023.
The articles about Motto focused on attacking the Gay community a lot.
So how many downloads has this app since it has been announced Nov. 1, 2022.
I checked the Google App story, 10,000+ is the number that is given as of June 19, 2023.
They are thinking about cost benefit. You, get vaccinated.
Reading in depth this article, and they aren’t explicit about it, this is about cost/benefit. Also, I think they are responding to declining interest in getting vaccinated.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02188-2
Also, this discussion isn’t thinking strategically about the future, but what is needed in the present and cost/effort/benefit.
Also, these national bodies can be very slow in realizing that you need to get vaccinated. For example, when Gays were dying of meningitis, I had to pay for my vaccination since the CDC didn’t advise that Gays needed it. About 6 or 12 months later, I don’t remember exactly, but it was a while, the CDC said Gays needed it. I don’t know how many more Gays died as a result. By the way, this is where the current LGBTQXYZ leadership fails, Gay health needs.
So it might be that some group of people dies and the CDC belatedly recognizes that a group needs vaccination.
Covid is still evolving and the more immunized and the broader your immunization is, the better your chances for resisting Covid in the future. Each vaccination results in different anti-bodies and cellular immunity types being primed.
Again, the people most likely not to get vaccinated are anti-Gay Christians. We live, they die or are disabled with long Covid. Getting vaccinated is a Gay superpower.
A Gay photographer in Mexico City.
This person does a very interesting series on life in Mexico as a Gay person. So it is about Gay life there, but also eating and cultural life there from the view point of a person living there.
Don’t post an artist’s work and not mention his name.
I see art posted without attribution by artists that would be easy to track down so the post could have attribution.
You can search even with just part of a picture. I am not saying that it always works, but you should at least made some effort.
Artists showcased last week
I don’t have artists to showcase for next week. This last week these were the two showcases.
Collected Artists Showcases.
Thai Rivera takes apart trans extremism and silliness.
I really need to follow him more closely and report on some of his videos.
Some of you will judge him because of the tattoos and piercings. Don’t.
In this video he points out that the supposed transman isn’t really a man with all her bawling and crying.
This is about straight people faking being LGBT because they don’t have an identity.
Burning homophobic leaflets as performance art.
They were handed out at 2023 Dallas Pride and I thought I would burn them and comment on the tactics we should use in response to homophobic Christian attacks.
r/gaytransguys
This person wants to be a “Gay man,” but is apprehensive about horny Gay men.
Gay life isn’t like straight guys wanting to court women. Also, they find that the people wanting to have sex with them are straight guys.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/14cg4rp/dating_is_really_hard/
Finds out that Gay men like to have sex. Wants to be courted like a girl.
Local Dallas Reporting
You can do a local newsletter and have influence in your community. See burning leaflets mentioned earlier in this post.
More on the Isis attack on Pride
I couldn’t fit everything in last weeks newsletter.
Reuters
You have to go down to the sixth paragraph to find out that it has something to do with ISIS.
Vice
Vice was the only news service that had ISIS in the title.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjvv9m/vienna-pride-isis-attack
I think the fact that a group with a terroristic history is targeting Gay events is a critical piece of information and shouldn’t be buried.
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