As gay men, there are monsters in our closets that are frightening and the comical. For most of us the monster of coming out is one that terrifies and terrified us the most. Capturing the essence of that journey, in comic book form, Author Mark Julien joins us to share about his desires to use …
640: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 10 – Make our confidence louder than you insecurities – Rick Clemons
Whether you’re coming out of the closet, going for a job change, or choosing to start a relationship, insecurities have a way of screwing with your confidence. Truth is you confidence is actually louder than your insecurities. In this episode you’ll… Uncover the truth about your confidence and how to leverage it in any situation …
293 – Erotic Pleasure – It’s Every Gay Man’s Right To Experience – Ayce Kyptyn
Erotic. Pleasure. Being authentically yourself as a sexual being. Some would have us shamed into oblivion for thinking that we deserve to be, being of pleasure. Not today. Joining me is today, erotic and pleasure expert – Ayce Kyptyn. Bringing his full trans masculine gay self to the conversation, Ayce shares his journey to his …
639: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Part 9 – Live the life of your choosing and Freak Others Out – Rick Clemons
It’s time. Time for you to truly live your life (un)closeted. Yet, too often we are afraid of living our life in a way that FREAKS OTHERS OUT! To bad! You have the right to live your life on your terms, and if it freaks others out, that is on them. In this episode you’ll… …
292: Craig Cullinane – Using The Body Electric to Heal From Religious Programming
Sex and religion. For many, especially gay men, and even more so for gay men who are religious leaders, the thought of erotic pleasure is a “No, no!” Really? Why is that and who made it that way? Exploring the concept that we are all erotic and spiritual beings who desire pleasure, turns the tables …
638: Living Your Life (UN)Closeted Series Part 8 – Let your F*cking Intuition Guide You – Rick Clemons
Our intuition is our friend. But not if you don’t tap it. If you ignore it, it will ignore you. Today we explore how to let your f*cking intuition guide you in those big decisions of life – coming out, careers, relationships, health, friendships, finances, etc. In this episode you’ll… Tap into how to discover …
291: Max Austin – We can’t be wrong and other gay truths
Throughout history, all we have heard as gay men is that being gay is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. Yet, we often ask ourselves, “How can we be wrong?” Debut author Max Austin, shares his insights about his life in the ’90s amongst the HIV/AIDS crisis and the shame, vile bullying he experienced as a nurse, which …
637: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 7 – What Happens When You Unfollow The Rules – Rick Clemons
Rules, rules, rules. They are meant to be broken, and meant to be followed. But they are also meant to be rewritten. When you come out of the closet you lovingly rewrite the rules for you. In fact most the time when we shake up our lives we are rewriting the rules so that life …
290 – Never Let The Making of Our Gay History Be Forgotten – Erick Marcus
Daily life is a culmination, in the moment, of all the history that has preceded our lives. For gay men, there is such a rich history of gay men and others in our LGBTQ history that have brought us to these moments. And, as gay men we need to be the flag bearers of continuing …
636: Living Your Life (Un)Closeted Series: Part 6 – How to have the courage to love and befriend yourself – Rick Clemons
You’ve heard it before and you will hear it again – “If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – RuPaul and Amen! But it’s hard, hard, hard to love yourself unless you give yourself permission to love all your self – every little bit form your head to …