“The issue is the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) packaged set of bills. These bills were passed in April 2018 in US Congress, where websites are now liable for their content posted by 3rd parties – and can be sued if someone uses their website to solicit sex.”
“This issue is not isolated to Tumblr, and even if you leave this website and switch to another, the rules will be similar or will soon be so. If you’ve been here for a long time – sure, open up some other accounts. However, I wouldn’t be so eager to jump ship – you’ll end up in the same waters.”
(The above reposted so many times on Tumblr I’m not sure who initially posted it.)
‘websites are now liable for their content posted by 3rd parties’ I am not a lawyer but this sounds like bars being held liable for accidents caused by drunks leaving their bar. Are gun stores being held responsible for what is done with weapons bought there? Can people sue breweries?
Will bars be forced to stop selling booze? This seems to be what the FOSTA law is forcing websites, such as Tumblr, to do. So instead of signing petitions to protest Tumblr having to follow a law passed by a government elected by the US people, they should be deal with the idiotic government that created & passed these bills. I have no idea how much ‘online sex trafficking’ goes on or how these laws can prevent it. I doubt if turning anything & everything vaguely suggestive into ‘sensitive’ is a solution. 
Snow Stunned
his eyes were the color sky
on the verge of snow
snow that is eagerly awaited
so that I have a white Christmas
not a lot of snow mind you
a dusting of it
enough to turn the world
around me into a festive card
of trees and houses
houses with warm lights in windows
as snow falls
a blizzard of affection
that blankets us together
under thick waves of heat
naked in front of a fireplace
hearth logs crackling
and our stockings hung
a vision of sugar plums
between his legs
the wind howling around the house
we tumble around each other
toasted
tossed in a snow globe
of swiftly climbing lusts
emotions
spinning transient
melting
breathless and mumbling
unwrapped and crumpled
naught nice naughty nice
January 10, Thursday: 8 p.m. Hot Damn! Its’ a Queer Slam – Buddies in Bad Times Theatre: feature Regie Cabico
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returning every Tuesday 2019
June – Capturing Fire 2019 – Washington D.C. 
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August 2-13: getting back to my roots in Cape Breton 
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