Patrick Perrine

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My second book, Sex vs Love, is now available on Amazon!

Get your first edition of Sex vs Love: The Ultimate Showdown, which is now available on Amazon.  Sex vs Love is about deconstructing and compartmentalizing sex, love and relationships. It helps us understand that while better together, sex and love are independent entities; each of which can be enjoyed separately and in a variety of ways.  

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Gay Advice for successful long-term relationships

Type and Typo

Another advantage to employing mypartner.com--as though the roster of such wasn't already spilling into the margins--isn't apparent immediately. In fact, it may not be apparent till after you've established the relationship you were after, and it has to do with an often slandered aspect of the online world. Namely, the blind spot. The inability to see, a few pictures aside, what the guy you're interested in is all about physically.

Read More: Type and Typo, Gay Relationship Advice

Gay Dating Professional Advice Column on myPartner.com

Breathing Space
Things are terrific with you and your partner, all things considered. You get along just great and share compatibility in all sorts of things. Add it to which, your sex life is the stuff that dreams – well, sex dreams – are made of. It appears that nothing could go wrong. What could go wrong, after all?

Read More: Gay Dating Advice Column

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Maine's deep and bitter disappointment by voters overturning marriage equality yesterday

If you haven't heard, today we feel the hurt felt just a year ago in California.

In a letter from Joe Solmonese, President of the HRC:

"A deep and bitter disappointment from Maine yesterday: Maine voters have passed a devastating Proposition 8-style measure overturning the state’s marriage equality law.

Our hearts are with everyone in Maine who fought so hard to win recognition for their families. The legislature passed marriage equality earlier this year, but a divisive anti-LGBT campaign to scare voters seems to have worked.

It is infuriating to see that the same fear-mongering ads that were used to pass Prop. 8 a year ago have triumphed again at the expense of so many. This is a terrible loss.

Although we lost our battle in Maine, we will not allow the lies and hate – the foundation on which our opponents built their campaign – to break our spirits. We are on the right side of history and we will continue this fight with even more vigor.

Our friends at No on 1/Protect Maine Equality waged a strong and smart campaign. Thousands of volunteers exposed hundreds of thousands of Mainers to the real lives of same-sex couples and their families – many for the first time.

I am angry. But more importantly, I am determined that with the anger I feel today from this outcome in Maine, we'll rise ever stronger to demand equal treatment under the law and equal respect for our relationships in Maine, California, New Jersey, and every state in the Union.

And in other state elections yesterday...

• In Washington state, voters appear to have cast their ballots to approve Referendum 71, a measure that would expand domestic partnerships to have every state-level right and benefit afforded to married couples. I feel confident that when all of the votes are counted, it will be clear that the voters of Washington chose to provide equal rights and benefits to same-sex couples and their families.

• In New Jersey, Governor Jon Corzine – endorsed by HRC – has lost his re-election bid. He has been a strong ally for LGBT people in New Jersey, and he had pledged repeatedly to sign a marriage equality bill that could still be passed by legislators later this year.

• In Virginia, HRC endorsed Creigh Deeds for governor and placed 20 staffers at work in key delegate races. Deeds unfortunately lost his bid for governor, but there will be new pro-equality voices in the House of Delegates next year.

• In Kalamazoo, Michigan, right-wing groups wanted to make sure it stayed legal to fire or refuse housing to someone just because they’re LGBT. 65% of Kalamazoo voters disagreed and voted to approve Ordinance 1856, expanding the city's existing anti-discrimination law to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

Check HRC's Backstory blog for updates on these and other races throughout the day.

I know that the results of today’s elections are frustrating.

But having seen the passion and dedication of volunteers in this election, I know that tomorrow is a new day – and that our movement has the strength and power it needs to keep moving forward."

Let's continue to fight together and help make the gay rights and marriage equality a reality!

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A note from SF AIDS Foundation!

This morning President Obama signed into law two bills that will improve health for people living with HIV and help erase stigma that often surrounds HIV infection. This is the culmination of years of advocacy on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS.

The president removed the ban on HIV-positive individuals entering our country, putting an end to years of discrimination and blatant disregard of science. The president also signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act, reauthorizing the cornerstone federal program promoting health for uninsured and underinsured people living with HIV and AIDS.

Bay Area residents can take special pleasure in this news. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Barbara Lee were actively involved in moving this legislation forward. You can be very proud that you’ve supported years of advocacy in Washington, D.C.

I was personally delighted that the president invited my colleague Ernest Hopkins, the Foundation’s Director of Federal Affairs, to participate in the signing ceremony. In the attached photo, Ernest, wearing a matching tie, stands directly behind the president and is joined by Speaker Pelosi, Representative Lee and Jeanne White Ginder, Ryan White’s mother, among other Foundation allies.

Ensuring access to health care through Ryan White and eliminating the scourge of bigotry from our immigration policies are signs of promise that the Foundation has an ally in the White House poised to support the Foundation’s commitment to reduce new HIV infections and improve health for people living with HIV. 

For your critical role in this work, I offer my deepest thanks.