Bren Shucart
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Brenden Shucart is a writer, activist, and adventurer living in San Francisco, California. He sits on the board of Project Inform, a nation HIV non-profit and he co-founded the Bright Young Gentleman’s Adventuring Society, a group that seeks to raise money for gay and HIV related non-profits. He is currently writing a book of short stories about drug use and sexual misadventures whose working title changes weekly. You can read Brenden’s blog at http://brightyounggentlemen.blogspot.com/

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Advice for a Young Man Newly Diagnosed with HIV

4 Comments | Posted December 2, 2011 | 00:01:00 (EST)

When I tested positive in the spring of 2005, it felt like the end of the world. HIV was this boogieman that I had been taught to hate and fear since before I really understood how sex worked, and suddenly this monster was inside me. I was sure that I...

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Let the Gay Agenda Be Liberty: An Open Letter to Bruce LaBruce

5 Comments | Posted November 28, 2011 | 19:50:00 (EST)

Mr. LaBruce,

I want to thank you for taking time out of what is almost certainly a very busy schedule to respond to my criticism of your earlier piece in Vice. I also feel that I owe you two apologies. The first for taking...

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No, Bruce LaBruce, Gay Culture Isn't Dead

4 Comments | Posted November 9, 2011 | 18:05:00 (EST)

Recently, in Vice Magazine, beloved writer, photographer, and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce wondered aloud that "gay culture is dead" (no, not "wondered if"... go read the title). And by the time I had finished reading, I was fuming.

It's not his hunger for attention that I object...

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'My Mortality is a Source of Strength'

Posted June 26, 2011 | 11:50:00 (EST)

I found out I was HIV positive in the spring of 2005, just a few weeks before my 24th birthday. There wasn't really anything out of the ordinary, just time for the seasonal STI screening I felt every sexually active gay man should engage in. I remember being impatient to...

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