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COLDR: S16E01: Rate-A-Queen

In this episode of COL Drag Race ‘T-Time’, Gary and Damon are back back back again! It’s a new year and a new season of drag has begun. As half of our season’s queens enter the werkroom, listen in as the guys dish on the doll’s charisma, uniqueness, nerve and TALENT as they compete in a Spring Break Talent Show. With more twists, turns, dips and flips coming their way, which queen rises to the challenge?

WEEKLY TOPIC

Put the Pedal to the Metal:

  • Serve(s):  
    • [Damon] – Q’s Entrance Look
    • [Gary] – Michelle’s Feedback
  • Swerve(s): 
    • [Damon] – Morphine Delusions
    • [Gary] – Muse Legacy
  • Nerve(s): 
    • [Damon] – Bring Back My Immunity
    • [Gary] – Sapphira’s Talent Performance

Snaps & Eyerolls:

  • Snaps for… 
    • [Damon] – Q’s Dedication
    • [Gary] – Dawn’s Package
  • Eyerolls for… 
    • [Damon] – Rate-A-Queen?
    • [Gary] – Ru’s Late ADR [Automated Dialogue Replacement] and the Amount of Self-Editing
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COL705: WGO: July 2023

In this episode of Cubs Out Loud, it’s our What’s Going On for the month of July. As Summer heats up, the cubs get hot & bothered with concerts and home and work drama. It’s been quite the month for the guys, so get caught up with them.

What’s Going On?

  • Jeff: Collateral Damage
  • Damon: House(s) Drama / Announcement
  • Gary: P!NK and downtime

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Recent Shows

  • COL700: WGO: June ‘23
  • COL701: LTAS: Mpox 2023 Updates
  • COL702: LoR: Sex After 50
  • COL703: LTAF: State Fairs ’23 – Part 1
  • COL704: LTAF: State Fairs ’23 – Part 2

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COL655: Health Alert: Beyond STIs

In this episode of Cubs Out Loud, it’s a sort-of Hostful News Update. For this update, Gary brings the guys up to date on recent alerts that may have a major impact on the LGBTQ+ community. While not traditional STIs, two recent disease outbreaks are affecting men who have sex with men. Listen in as the guys share some knowledge to keep you all informed, safe and protected.

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Health Alert: Beyond STIs

Sexually active people can become infected with more than just the commonly known diseases of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C. In 2022, two other diseases are having reported outbreaks of cases among the category known as ‘Men who have Sex with Men’, aka MSM. Today we’ll bring awareness to these two new disease outbreaks.

Meningococcal Disease Outbreak in FL

    • CDC page
    • What MSM Need to Know PDF
    • Serogroups
      • What are they? A group of bacteria containing a common antigen
      • How many exist?
        • At least 13 serogroups for Meningococci have been described: A, B, C, D, E, H, I, K, L, W-135, X, Y, and Z
        • Serogroups B and C have caused most cases of meningococcal meningitis in the United States since the end of World War II; before that, group A was more prevalent. 
        • More than 99% of meningococcal infections are caused by serogroups A, B, C, 29E, or W-135.
  • In response to the serogroup C outbreak in Florida, CDC is encouraging gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (with or without HIV) to:
    • Get a MenACWY vaccine if they live in Florida
    • Talk with their healthcare provider about getting a MenACWY vaccine if they are traveling to Florida
  • CDC routinely recommends MenB vaccine for people 10 years or older who are at increased risk for meningococcal disease during an outbreak involving serogroup B. CDC also recommends a booster shot for those at increased risk due to an outbreak who received the vaccine more than 1 year ago.

Monkeypox Disease Global Outbreak

  • History/Naming: 
    • First discovered in 1958, two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research
    • Source of the disease remains unknown; African rodents and non-human primates may harbor the virus and infect people
    • First human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970
    • Prior to 2022, nearly all monkeypox cases in people outside of Africa were linked to international travel or through imported animals
  • The 2022 Outbreak
    • World Health Organization info: Most reported cases so far have been identified through sexual health or other health services in primary or secondary health-care facilities and have involved mainly, but not exclusively, men who have sex with men.
    • Actual number of cases is likely to be underestimated, in part due to the lack of early clinical recognition of an infection previously known in only a handful of countries, and limited enhanced surveillance mechanisms in many countries for a disease previously ‘unknown’ to most health systems.
    • CDC Global Case Map – updated frequently
      • As of July 8 ‘22, reported 8,238 cases
        • UK: 1,552
        • Germany: 1,490
        • Spain: 1,256
        • US: 790
    • CDC US Case Map – updated frequently
      • As of July 8 ‘22
        • New York: 153
        • California: 136
        • Illinois: 91
        • Florida: 72
        • District of Columbia: 64
  • CDC Monkeypox FAQs
  • Spread:
    • Respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact, or during intimate physical contact. 
    • Pregnant people can spread the virus to their fetus through the placenta.
    • Touching items (such as clothing or linens) that previously touched the infectious rash or body fluids.
    • Not considered a sexually transmitted infection. Monkeypox can be spread during intimate physical contact between people. This contact can happen when you have sex, including:
  • Oral and insertive sex, plus touching the genitals or anus of a person with monkeypox
  • Hugging, massage, kissing or talking closely with a person infected with monkeypox
  • Touching fabrics, shared surfaces, and objects, such as bedding, towels and sex toys, that were used by a person with monkeypox
  • Anyone can get monkeypox if they have close contact with someone who has the virus.
  • Sex is not required for infection, but is a delivery mechanism.
  • Signs / Symptoms:
    • Typically presents clinically with fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes and may lead to a range of medical complications
    • Underlying immune deficiencies may lead to worse outcomes.
    • Usually a self-limited disease with the symptoms lasting from 2 to 4 weeks
    • Incubation period (interval from infection to onset of symptoms) of monkeypox is usually from 6 to 13 days but can range from 5 to 21 days
    • Invasion period (lasts between 0–5 days) characterized by:
      • Fever, intense headache, swelling of the lymph nodes
      • Back pain, muscle aches, and an intense lack of energy 
    • Skin eruption period usually begins within 1–3 days of the appearance of fever. 
      • Rash tends to be more concentrated on the face and extremities rather than on the trunk. 
      • Affects the face (in 95% of cases), and palms of the hands and soles of the feet (in 75% of cases). 
      • Also affected: oral mucous membranes (in 70% of cases), genitalia (30%), and front of the eye and lines the inside of the eyelids (20%), as well as the cornea. 
      • Rash evolves sequentially from lesions with a flat base to papules (slightly raised firm lesions), vesicles (lesions filled with clear fluid), pustules (lesions filled with yellowish fluid), and crusts which dry up and fall off. 
      • Number of lesions varies from a few to several thousand. 
      • In severe cases, lesions can coalesce until large sections of skin slough off.
  • Treatment / Vaccination:
    • There are no treatments specifically for monkeypox virus infections.
    • Although vaccination against smallpox was protective in the past, today persons younger than 40 to 50 years of age (depending on the country) may be more susceptible to monkeypox due to cessation of smallpox vaccination campaigns globally after eradication of the disease.
    • CDC does not recommend widespread vaccination against monkeypox at this time.
    • U.S. government has two stockpiled vaccines—JYNNEOS and ACAM2000—that can prevent monkeypox in people who have been exposed to the virus.
    • Watch for changes on this as vaccine availability changes. There is a presumption that at-risk populations, such as MSM, are encouraged to get prophylactic vaccination.

Takeaways:

  • Knowledge and awareness are the prevention tools of fear. While these diseases can be life changing and could lead to death if not treated, we have the tools to limit infections and community spread.
  • If you are unsure about any symptoms you are experiencing, talk with a healthcare professional, preferably one that is familiar with these diseases. This could be staff at a Federally Qualified Health Center [FQHC], your personal physician, or a reputable LGBTQIA health practitioner.
  • Meningococcal Disease
    • Talk with your healthcare provider about getting a MenACWY vaccine, especially if travel to Florida may be in your plans.
    • Provide them with information/links and be your own health care advocate.
  • Monkeypox Disease
  • Prevention is key in public health to limit the spread of infections.
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COL638: EARN IT Act 2022

In this episode of Cubs Out Loud, remember SESTA-FOSTA from 2018? Well, learn more about their newest family member EARN IT in this informative talkback. Listen in as the cubs share their opinions on the next “problem solving” legislation to combat the exploitation of those special victims. Is it really helpful or is it more harmful?

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Remember FOSTA-SESTA? Meet their newborn cousin, EARN IT Act 2022

THE 2020 PREVIOUS VERSION: 

The Amended EARN IT Act Is a Tool for Censorship.

The Supreme Court has long recognized that the Constitution forbids laws having the collateral effect of disproportionately censoring legal speech.3  By allowing states to lower the standards for liability even further than SESTA/FOSTA, the amended EARN IT Act would create just such an impermissible collateral effect and presents even graver risks to online expression than SESTA/FOSTA, especially for the LGBTQ and sex worker communities.

As we said in our previous letter, the aftermath of the passage of SESTA/FOSTA,4 which eliminated Section 230’s liability shield for content related to sex trafficking, makes the overbroad implications for online speech clear.5  Even if the speech covered by the law could be restricted without raising constitutional concern, the content moderation practices the companies will deploy to avoid liability risk will sweep far more broadly than the illegal content.6  SESTA/FOSTA was intended to protect people engaged in sex work from being trafficked against their will. It has, instead, sent them back out into the streets and made them less safe.7  Moreover, the platforms’ content moderation practices have disproportionately silenced the LGBTQ community, making it more difficult for them to come together and create community online.8 Under the amended EARN IT Act, Section 230’s shield for all state criminal and civil aws “regarding the advertising, promotion, presentation, distribution, or solicitation” of CSAM, as that term is defined by federal law, would be eliminated, permitting states to assign liability for negligence or recklessness. In other words, states would be able to go even further than SESTA/FOSTA in lowering the standards for liability for platforms.

THE 2022 CURRENT VERSION: 

Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 or the EARN IT Act of 2022

This bill revises the federal framework governing the prevention of online sexual exploitation of children.

The bill establishes the National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation Prevention. The commission must develop best practices for interactive computer services providers (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) to prevent, reduce, and respond to the online sexual exploitation of children.

Additionally, the bill limits the liability protections of interactive computer service providers with respect to claims alleging violations of child sexual exploitation laws.

The bill replaces various statutory references to child pornography and material that contains child pornography with child sexual abuse material.

Finally, the bill makes changes to the reporting requirements for electronic communication service providers and remote computing service providers (providers) who report apparent instances of crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Among the changes, the bill requires providers to report facts and circumstances sufficient to identify and locate each minor and each involved individual. The bill also increases the amount of time that providers must preserve the contents of a report.

The EARN IT Act Threatens Free Expression

Looking to the past as prelude to the future, the only time that Congress has limited Section 230 protections was in the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (SESTA/FOSTA). That law purported to protect victims of sex trafficking by eliminating providers’ section 230 liability shield for “facilitating” sex trafficking by users. According to a 2021 study by the US Government Accountability Office, however, the law has been rarely used to combat sex trafficking. 9 Instead, it has forced sex workers, whether voluntarily engaging in sex work or forced into sex trafficking against their will, offline and into harm’s way.10 It has also chilled their online expression generally, including the sharing of health and safety information, and speech wholly unrelated to sex work.11 Moreover, these burdens fell most heavily on smaller platforms that either served as allies and created spaces for the LGBTQ and sex worker communities or simply could not withstand the legal risks and compliance costs of SESTA/FOSTA.12 Congress risks repeating this mistake by rushing to pass this misguided legislation, which also limits Section 230 protections.

9 Government Accountability Office. (2021). Sex Trafficking: Online Platforms and Federal prosecutions. (GAO Publication No. 21-385),   (reporting that the Department of Justice had brought just one case under FOSTA, which at the time of the Report remained in court with no restitution sought, and that only one individual had pursued civil damages, in a case that was dismissed).

10 See Online Platforms and Sex Worker Discrimination, Hacking//Hustling (last visited Feb. 3, 2022), (continuously updated document listing companies, institutions, and products “that in some way discriminate or ban sex work or adult products OR have been shut down completely following increased anti-sex work legislation”); LaLa B Holston-Zannell, PayPal and Venmo are Shutting Out Sex Workers, Putting Lives and Livelihoods at Risk, ACLU (06/23/2021),

11 See, e.g., Amanda Waltz, Sex workers in Pittsburgh discuss local impact of damaging anti-trafficking law FOSTA-SESTA, Pittsburgh City Paper (08/07/2021), (quoting a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh describing how SESTA/FOSTA has led platforms to suppress the political speech of sex workers, including online organizing efforts); Jessica Stoya, What We Can Really Learn From the OnlyFans Debacle, Slate (08/25/2021),  (describing how SESTA/FOSTA led platforms to “decimate” online sex worker spaces—“from bad-date lists that providers use to warn one another about dangerous clients to Instagram hashtags where we’d organized to fight the very law causing these problems”).

 

12 See Danielle Blunt and Ariel Wolf, Erased The Impact of FOSTA-SESTA, Hacking//Hustling (2020),; Makena Kelly, Democrats want data on how sex workers were hurt by online crackdown, The Verge (12/17/2019)

The EARN IT Act Jeopardizes the Security of Our Communications

The EARN IT Act Risks Undermining Child Abuse Prosecutions

The EARN IT Act would have devastating consequences for everyone’s ability to share and access information online, and to do so in a secure manner. We urge you to oppose this bill. Congress should instead consider more tailored approaches to deal with the real harms of CSAM online.

 

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COL488: What’s Going On – November 2018

In this episode of Cubs Out Loud, it’s our monthly catch-up show! Listen in as the cubs talk about how their November went and also check in our recent likes and follows across social media. From surprise birthday dinners to turkey day shenanigans, the guys give you some of the good and not-so-good of what has been happening with them recently.

What’s Going On?

  • Jeff: Anniversary, a Date, Allied Races, and Loss
  • Damon: Retreat, Turkey and Spades
  • Gary: Surprise Birthday Dinner, Movies, Job Interview, Thanksgiving with Family

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Facebook Likes:

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  • Re: COL487: LTAS: Our DL Experiences – oscar orozco orejel: Oh my gods, ok what keeps happening with me is thst when I used to live in a richer neighborhood for school and have daddies come over to my place, they would start talking about thier wives or girlfriends immediately after I made them cum. Like, I became thier therapist. Every dam time!!!

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  • Curvesandcrevices: Hey COL Hosts! I wanted to let you know how much I am appreciating the new format, now that I have listened to a few episodes. I thought I would really miss the What’s Going On and Tumblr segments each week, but it’s been really great the way you’ve changed it. I  think the focus on the guests or topic on the shows is perfect, and the catchup show being monthly and without a topic gives it much more room to be its own thing. Change is hard, but done right, is so worthwhile. Always appreciate your efforts; keep it up! /Chris

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  • We took a week off
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  • COL487: LTAS: Our DL Experiences

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