20230814 Gay artists, HIV vaccines, Weight loss drugs reduce heart attack risk, Stabbing in NYC. Time to slap back against homophobia.
Short editorial about snotty Gays putting down Gay artists.
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Let’s take a broad-minded view of the efforts of Gay artists.
Sometimes Gay people can be so self-righteous. I really want to provide a place where Gays can find Gay artists in one place. I do believe Gay art builds Gay identity.
Also, I want to cover a broad a range of Gay artists using as broad a range of techniques as possible. I wonder if not including Gay cartoons on my part is a mistake, and because I am older and manga and cartoon culture isn’t part of my past.
Recently a small Facebook group decided to go on a tear condemning a Gay artist. The artist’s technique isn’t one that I am particularly interested in, but I am not the center of the Gay art universe. Other people like this artist. Also, it could be I am missing the point. The whole nature of the production and consumption of art is changing. Maybe this is a new avenue opening up for expression.
Sometimes I see the efforts of Gay artists, and I think that is a waste. Then a week or two later I will see it in a new perspective and I will perceive the art differently, or I see a social role for the art. That is, I am still not all that impressed by the Gay art, but I see that it represents something vital in the Gay community in terms of engagement.
I have gotten tired of A.I. art, then I realized that it was a way of non-artists to express their dreams, hopes, desires, fantasies, and with their A.I. art I am looking into the Gay imagination. I am not going to showcase it, but I am not going to be dismissing it. It is a new phenomenon serving new purposes. I am going to have to think about it.
Not just in the area of Gay art, a lot of Gays should consider cutting some other Gays some slack. I may write an essay, or I may not have time.
P.S. I live in Dallas, Texas which surely must be the world capitol of snotty Gays thinking they are better than everyone else.
Defending Gays from homophobic attacks.
I have had it with Gays getting physically attacked and I am simply going to do what is necessary for it to stop.
I am going to look at what will work and I don’t give a damn whether it upsets people.
So you will be seeing that I am working to mobilize different religious groups and Gay atheists at the same time. I am working on mobilizing Gay atheists and Gay pagans at the same time. My personal religious beliefs or lack of them isn’t important. The security of the Gay community is.
So if it seems I am being inconsistent, I am not, I am consistently working on Gay security.
Let’s be more direct.
Usually when someone claims that such-and-such culture is anti-Gay, the scholars start researching the history and there is a Gay past and the homophobia is a cultural import with Christian missionaries or they point to Greek mythology, etc.
The LGBTQXYZ establishment is fearful of offending people and we are supposed to win over homophobes with persuasion. The following is is my view.
When someone claims that their religious book says Gays are bad, the members of their religion offer their counter-theological argument and our right to breath and exist becomes entangled in a theological dispute. We live in a secular democracy not a theocracy and what their religious book might say is irrelevant. I am not interested in re-interpreting someone’s religious book.
These two memes need to be our position. If your culture or religion is anti-Gay it is stupid.
Put them on the defense and not allow us to be put on the defense.
Turn the attack on us around into an attack on their claimed culture or religion and their homophobia.
They need to understand that if their culture or religion is anti-Gay it is a stigma on them.
We need to stop begging and start fighting.
We shouldn’t let different subsets of the Gay community restrain the ability of the whole Gay community to defend themselves.
This weeks artists.
NON-mRNA HIV vaccine phase I success.
They call this a “novel mosaic HIV vaccine.” It is NOT a mRNA vaccine.
The goal of the HIV-CORE 006 is to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a novel mosaic HIV vaccine candidate, HIVconsvX, that has been designed to target a broad range of HIV-1 variants, making it potentially applicable for HIV strains in any geographical region.
This is a Phase I trial, and so it is to determine safety and how much you can give a patient. They do look at indicators of whether it seems to be working also. From the article:
'The vaccines used in this trial have demonstrated a favourable safety profile and induction of immune responses in most of the participants.
This is a good thing. We want different technologies to be developed to make sure that at least one of them works. Also, if more than one works, there are choices. If one type of vaccine doesn’t work on a certain type of patient, then the other might.
Remember, vaccine developments go through Phase I, II, and III so this vaccine is just on its first step.
Good resource on HIV vaccine development.
There are a lot of bogus sites on the Internet that look official or credible, but I am not in those technical fields so I don’t know them.
I found this NAID blog with the National Institute of Health which referred to them as being HIH supported.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/ias-2023-hiv-vaccines-bnabs-nihs-office-aids-research
There are a lot of developments with “broadly Neutralizing Anti-bodies” (bNAbs) which might be useful for a vaccine and also a cure.
Since homophoboic Christians are the group most likely to be antivaxxer, getting vaccinated is our superpower over them.
An overall view of vaccine development.
The whole field of vaccines is changing so rapidly and there are multiple technologies. This article gives a good review of what is happening.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-023-00119-4
You are probably going to have to use Google to learn some of the terms. I had to.
What you learn is that for different diseases different technologies are being looked at. Malaria vaccines are under development which is important if you are in a part of the world where that is a risk.
Though you hear a lot about mRNA vaccines for HIV, the majority of technologies to make an HIV vaccine are other technologies.
Many vaccine programs are not using either mRNA or nucleic acid (DNA and RNA) vaccines as are using these other technologies. There are 84 total programs to develop an HIV vaccine.
With 84 programs, four major technologies being used, it gives you hope that a vaccine will finally be developed.
O’Shae’s Brother is saying that they were “Screaming we Muslim and we don’t like gays!!!!!”
Arrested teen seems to be CHRISTIAN however.
When we have Christian immigrants, sometimes they bring with them a murderous Christianity.
Update: It does seem that the perpetrator was Christian.
https://gaycitynews.com/gay-man-stabbed-death-brooklyn-gas-station/
https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/dancer-oshae-sibley-stabbed-to-death-for-vogueing-pal/
No mention of “Muslim” in any way shape or form in the New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/nyregion/oshae-sibley-stabbing-charges.html
However, it turns out that he might be Christian. Or his family and lawyer are scrambling to come up with a defense.
https://gothamist.com/news/oshae-sibleys-funeral-set-for-tuesday-accused-killer-held-without-bail
Meanwhile, the accused killer, Dmitriy Popov, 17, was ordered held without bail on charges of second degree murder as a hate crime after appearing in the youth part of Brooklyn criminal court.
Greek Orthodox are really hostile to Gays.
Make sure you don’t die of Fat Liberation ideology.
Title of article is “Wegovy shown to reduce risk of heart attack, stroke in major cardiovascular trial.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/health/wegovy-heart-trial/index.html
Remember that Wegovy doesn’t reduce weight that much, and newer drugs are coming. So it is very likely that the newer drugs and the drugs yet to be developed and reduced will reduce risk of heart attack further.
It is however, your choice to have the weight you want. I want to make sure that people’s decisions are informed. Also, please don’t lecture over weight people.
Science editorial, “Turning the tide on obesity?” Don’t be blaming overweight people.
Don’t have a blaming attitude towards those who are overweight. The evidence suggests that the type of food sold in the supermarkets is somewhat to blame.
Historically misattributed to a lack of willpower and the target of quackery, obesity was gradually reconceptualized by medicine as a disease, igniting the search for effective treatments. Until now, medicine has had little to offer and in fact has done harm. From dinitrophenol (cataracts and fatal hyperthermia) to fenfluramine-phentermine (valvular heart disease) to orlistat (fecal leakage), promising weight-loss medications were withdrawn or avoided because of adverse effects. Bariatric surgery became routine but is neither benign nor universally effective. Weight cycling taxed bodies and minds, with emergent eating disorders attributed to repeated episodes of caloric restriction and appetite rebound. Physicians implored patients to lose weight but offered few effective tools.
Though I do think that some people need to stop eating junk food.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adj9953
I emailed the reporter calling him out for this article on mpox (monkeypox) in China and Taiwan.
He entirely avoids any mention of mpox and men who have sex with men (MSM) and so there is no discussion of the homophobia in China versus the lack of homophobia in Taiwan and the fact that China has been poor in responding to mpox and Taiwan has been very active and effective in responding.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/02/1077113/china-mpox-outbreak-data-reporting/
r/gaytransguys
Complains that the “gay community is so dick-centered”
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/15m98n6/how_to_deal_with_feeling_unloveable/
The group seems to exist to convince themselves that their delusional goals are attainable.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/15n69u3/i_am_lovable_and_desireable_and_so_are_you/
This person has a really interesting Gay art channel.
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Thanks for sharing this. Fighting for the cause is so very important!!