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Lil’ Kim To Headline Atlanta Black Gay Pride

Singer Lil’ Kim is scheduled to headline Atlanta Black Gay Pride next month, one of scores of official and unofficial events unfolding over a six-day period that will attract tens of thousands of people to the city. Lil’ Kim is scheduled to perform Sept. 5 as part of Pure Heat, a series of Black Pride events from Traxx Atlanta. The Decatur venue is also bringing Keri Hilson, Cassie, Chrisette Michelle and Nicky Minaj to Atlanta for performances, according to its website. Brooklyn-born Lil’ Kim regained the public spotlight this year with an appearance on “Dancing with the Stars.” But her career spans four albums, including her 1996 solo debut “Hard Core,” which included hits “No Time” and “Crush on You.” Entertainment aside, Atlanta Black Gay Pride organizer In The Life Atlanta has scheduled dozens of events, including a Black Pride Marketplace, Youth Tract, Health Expo, workshops, variety show and pool party. The official events open Sept. 2 with a Candlelight Vigil and close Sept. 7 with the pool party Weekend Wind Down Splash. Other noted events include a VIP reception (Sept. 3), Opening Ceremony (Sept. 4), 3rd Annual Fire & Desire Mini Ball Deluxe (Sept. 4), Health Expo (Sept. 5), Literary Cafe (Sept. 5), Black Down Memory Lane Variety Show (Sept. 5) and fashion show (Sept. 6). Most official events take place in the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead. In the Life Atlanta grew out of a Labor Day picnic in 1996 for a small group of black gay and lesbian friends. The event is now one of the largest Black Pride celebrations in the U.S. The theme of the 2009 event is “Bridging Gaps Uniting Communities.”

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Fever for the Flava: Orlando

One thing's for sure about these young thugs: they are all newcomers you've never seen before and they are all the horniest dawgz Pitbull has ever shot! the sex is exhausting: Fucking and sucking day and night is the only activity they all show up for. From sun up to sun down, the jizz keeps spurting and the bottoms keep spreading their asses wide for some major thugporn banging. Don't miss a spooge-filled minute. Check out the clip are Scene 5, starring Cocoa Thug and Nick Rider

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Do not know they have HIV!

A first-of-its-kind study looking at HIV infection rates found that half of gay men in Chicago who have HIV did not know they were infected, and two-thirds of infected black men were unaware. In addition, infection rates for black men were more than twice the rates for whites and Hispanics. The results of the Chicago Department of Public Health survey are sobering, officials say, but not unexpected. "It's a terrible thing, but it is not surprising," says Jim Pickett, director of advocacy for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. The statistics prove what some organizations, including the city, have been seeing for several years: That gay black men are among the fastest growing groups to test HIV-positive. The Chicago study found that more than 17 percent of gay men in Chicago have HIV; 39 percent did not get tested in the last year because they were worried about the result. Almost 600 gay men from across the city were tested for HIV/AIDS and interviewed about their lifestyles, including questions about drug use and number of partners. Ninety-one of the subjects tested positive for the virus. Thirty percent of gay black men in Chicago tested positive, the study showed, while Hispanics and white men had rates of 12 percent and 11.3 percent, respectively. A quarter of blacks aged 18-24 tested positive. More than 37 percent of blacks aged 25-34 - the highest of any age group - tested positive. The numbers are similar to national figures.

"What we think we're seeing here is the shifting sands of two epidemics," says Nik Prachand, an epidemiologist with the city of Chicago's STI/HIV/AIDS division. "What we're seeing right now is a new surge in (HIV cases) with black (gay men)."

Prachand says anecdotal data has backed up the information the city collected between August and December last year. He said it is important to understand that the prevalence of HIV in black men can be tied to the elevated rates in the black community.

"It's not that black (gay men) are exhibiting higher risk behaviors in either sex or drug use," he says, pointing to data showing them to engage in less risky behavior than whites or Hispanics. "It's sort of a network effect. When your overall community prevalence is higher, you're going to see elevated rates within subgroups."

Pickett says the study points to a need for an overhaul of how gay men approach health.

"When you focus on one specific thing, it doesn't reflect all the issues," including mental and physical health, depression and substance abuse, he says. More than 40 percent of those surveyed admitted illicit drug use, and whites were more likely to do drugs than any segment.

"We need to incorporate HIV into a broader or more holistic framework (covering) gay men's health needs from top to toe," Pickett says.

That's the city's take, too, says Prachand.

"I think it's important that our prevention points towards healing the whole community. It's an issue of being more holistic about HIV," he says.

But, with HIV's high profile in the community, Pickett and others say more testing is needed. Currently, the CDC recommends that gay men be tested once a year. Ariq Cabbler, co-chair of the Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus, says two tests a year should be the norm; Pickett recommends three. Cabbler is worried that a new breed of promiscuous young men are not listening to the traditional HIV/AIDS messaging. The study's statistics show that men who tested negative in earlier tests are now testing positive, an indication, Cabbler says, that they are engaging in risky activity during a 90-day period of time when HIV essentially incubates in the body.

"We need to know who makes up these social networks," which include men who meet other men over the Internet or through phone networks, he says. "You're kind of playing Russian roulette."

As part of its response to the report, the health department is proposing expanded testing and condom distribution, more community-level interventions, and outreach programs, including through the Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus. Pickett said the city has done a good job in making gay men's health a priority.

"I am happy to say that Chicago is a leader in this country in working with the community and working with gay men. I can only imagine what the numbers could be if CDPH hadn't been doing good work."

He said the AIDS Foundation and other groups are stepping up awareness efforts this month. June is Gay Pride Month.

"The moral of the story is we want to catch people early in their infection," Pickett says. "We don't want people to test positive; we want them to test negative. And we want to provide them with the right kind of counseling and the right tools to maintain that negative."

The city is formally releasing the study's results June 9 at a 1 p.m. meeting at the DePaul Center. Health officials will lead a community discussion to see how the city's response can be improved. Story From Alex Parker ChiTownDailyNews

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Wesley --- Gorgeous Boy of the Day

18 year old Wesley is a 6'2" College swimmer from South Georgia. He really wanted to do a shoot for Southern Strokes so he contacted us and said that he was going to be about an hour away from the Lake House and he asked if he could come by and show us his stuff. Wesley is really smart and he is completely comfortable with his sexuality. He is definitely turned on by a hot guy as he is by his girlfriend. Wesley has the most amazing eyes with long eyelashes, perfect skin and a smile that will make you melt. When I asked Wesley if he had a big cock, he said I know that when I was 13, it measured 8 inches but I haven't measured it since. Wesley's uncut cock revealed the most foreskin I have ever seen. I knew that his cock had to be huge so I made him measure it for the cameras. I wasn't surprised when his cock measure 10 inches and over7 inches around. Probably the best thing about Wesley is the face that like every other 18 year old, he is always horny. The entire time during the solo, he just wanted to talk about when he was going to get to do a scene with one of the other models. Bryson was at the Lake House hanging out most of the day so he and Wesley really hit it off. Wesley definitely showed us that he knows how to use his big cock. I can only imagine how is girlfriend must feel when he stuffs her deep with his monster. Be sure to check out the hot video here and more pics of Wesley and a bunch of other hot southern guys!

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an award-winning writer, activist and self-proclaimed “Womanist”—a term she coined in her book “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens” (1974) to describe black feminists. The voices she brings to life in her novels, short stories and poems helped educate and inspire readers. Walker was raised in Eatonton, Georgia, during segregation. She was the youngest of eight children born to poor sharecroppers. Walker received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965. She moved back to the South to pursue civil rights work and met Mel Leventhal. Walker and Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer, were the first interracial couple to be legally married in Mississippi. Walker had her only child during the marriage. The couple divorced in 1976. Walker began teaching at Wellesley College in 1972. Her course, dedicated to the study of African-American women writers, was the first of its kind. Her most famous novel, “The Color Purple” (1983), won a National Book Award and made Walker the first African-American woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1985, the novel was made into a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg and Danny Glover. The film earned 11 Oscar nominations. In 2005, “The Color Purple” was adapted as a Broadway musical, with Winfrey as the lead financial backer. Walker’s awards include a Guggenheim Foundation Grant, an American Book Award, a Lillian Smith Award and an O’Henry Award. She was inducted into the Georgia Writer’s Hall of Fame and the California Hall of Fame. In 1997, Walker was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association. Author and Feminist b. February 9, 1944 “The truest and most enduring impulse I have is simply to write.” [MEDIA not found]