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Bren Shucart
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Brenden Shucart is a writer, and activist living in Los Angeles, California. He sits on the board of Project Inform, one of the nation's oldest organizations dedicated to combating the spread of HIV. He also co-founded the Bright Young Gentleman’s Adventuring Society, a group that seeks to raise money for gay and HIV related non-profits.

If you'd like to know more about Brenden check out his blog "The Gentleman Adventurer's Guide" or follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

You can learn more about Project Inform and the work they do Here.

Blog Entries by Bren Shucart

Wiener Ban

(22) Comments | Posted October 11, 2012 | 7:29 PM

It's one of life's unfortunate ironies that nudists are rarely the sorts of folk you'd like to see naked, and the cadre of skin-clad sunbathers who congregate at Jane Warner Plaza in the heart of San Francisco's Castro Village are no different. Generally flabby, paunchy, falling demographically somewhere between Jurassic...

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Chick-fil-A Fallout: A Sign of Changing Times

(112) Comments | Posted August 2, 2012 | 5:19 PM

On Monday, R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans, weighed in on the recent controversies swirling around Chick-fil-A after its president, Dan Cathy, admitted that his company gives financial support to anti-gay causes, and decreed that the whole debate was an "empty calorie diversion from...

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Advice for a Young Man Newly Diagnosed with HIV

(4) Comments | Posted December 1, 2011 | 11:01 PM

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 | 6:50 PM

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 | 5:05 PM

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'

(3) Comments | Posted June 26, 2011 | 10:50 AM

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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