As you may have noticed recently, I have removed Google advertising from my site. This was not of my own accord -- Google disabled ads to my site, calling it "pornography" and thus a violation of their terms of agreement. There was no possibility for appeal. Once the decision was made, it was final, I was told after asking for an explanation.

This of course destroys my only revenue stream for this blog. Google ads didn't bring in huge sums of money, but they did bring in just enough to cover my hosting bill. I now face having to pay my that bill out of my own pocket, which as a graduate student is a tall order.

I'm writing this entry today to seek your assistance. Since I began blogging in 2005, I've managed to keep this site afloat through funds of my own and ad revenue on the side. But since then the site has grown tremendously to over 10,000 monthly readers, and alongside that my hosting bill has quadrupled in just the past two years. Google ad revenue grew alongside that bill, but now that I cannot rely on that funding source I must look to you for help.

I want to continue this crazy idea of a project -- but I just can't afford the hosting bills on my own. I think this blog is a resource for folks out there who are interested in sex, gay men's health and HIV/AIDS. That's why I keep working on it. There are surprisingly few resources out there like it. Here you can find "The View From the Bottom," interviews with scholars in the field, and a heaping pile of gay analysis of the issues of the day. Trevorade doesn't just serve up "curated news" in the style of most blogs out there -- we generate original content that you can't find anywhere else.

And that is why I'm presently looking to you, our readers, to help us continue that mission of providing frank, incisive gay analysis on issues that matter to you. Donations of any size are welcome and wanted, from $5 to $50. I know that there are folks out there who want to see this blog continue for years to come, and it is to those readers that I am now asking for help. Everyone who donates has my gratitude, and if you include your shipping address when you do I'll be sending along a real, live thank you note. In the mail! (I know, so 20th century.) Thanks for reading. And thanks for helping.

xoxoxo

Trevor

I know some folks were experiencing issues with Twitter Comments. Any luck now? E-mail me if it works / doesn't!

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Manhunt's blog, "Manhunt Daily," was kind enough to post the latest "View From the Bottom" and one of the tips that came out of that episode: Listerine Strips are wonderful accessories to a good rimjob. There's a new marketing strategy, guys! LOL.

And just quickly, to pretend for a moment to be serious, there was an interesting comment in the comments on that entry that I wanted to highlight. Criticizing any attempt to "cover up" the "real" taste of ass, Gary says:

So come on guys pony up...you all say you want to be with and fuck men...then fuck men, not trimmed, shaved, waxed, perfumed, pepperminted versions of a man...

I get the desire to attach value to bodies that aren't conforming to certain standards of mordern hygiene. I think that's A-okay! The problem for me comes in the second half of that statement, in which he DEvalues guys who are shaven, perfurmed, etc. This is precisely the kind of tendency I notice in bear culture and other gay men's subcultures that fantasize about some kind of "naturalized" masculinity. Rather than simply saying, "Hey we have a different version of hot," they have to tack on "And your version of hot is feminine, pathetic, and fake." Basically on their way to creating new forms of hotness they reinscribe stigma against femme guys (and other men who value being clean-shaven, etc). Do what you want, guys -- but c'mon, your version of hot is not somehow better than my version of hot.

We need a pluralism of hotness!

A few days ago, I published a piece that managed to re-posted on numerous blogs (here, here, here, to name a few) that critiqued the use of "serosorting" as a rationale for refusing to have sex with Poz men when condoms are used. A flurry of interesting and highly productive conversations came out of this piece that center around a number of problematics: Rationality vs. Emotionality (as noted in Daniel's response piece); Responsibility vs. Recklessness; and Individual Rights vs. Collective Ethics, to name a few.

But alongside these productive conversations came what I see as a highly vitriolic and slanderous response that emerged in the responses on Qweerty -- a kind of mainstream gay blog that gets quite a bit of traffic. I see a big part of the issue here as resulting from the title the folks at Qweerty assigned the repost:

As you can see, they've suggested here that I called people who refused to sleep with Poz men "assholes." I didn't, and I don't think that -- just to be totally clear. I don't know much about Qweerty, but in the past I've certainly seen comments there that suggest a pretty conservative readership when it comes to sex. But I had no way of anticipating the anger and vitriol that has spilled out in the comments against me and my arguments. I certainly understand that these issues are highly emotional, but most readers did not engage the arguments -- they opted instead to call me names. Ouch.

But I'm a big boy. I can take a bit of name-calling. You work long enough in HIV prevention, and you realize that someone's going to smear your name if you say anything that differs from the party-line prevention soundbites. So in the interest of making something productive happen out of this violence, I wanted to take a moment to see if there were underlying logics in the nearly 100 comments that were enabling the anger -- logics that anyone interested in unpacking the politics of prevention should be interested in. Here we go.

1) "I take it this was written by someone Pos." & "hell no. he sounds like som sort of con man": A number of readers suspected that I must be HIV-positive for writing this. I think this is INCREDIBLY telling about the kind of divisive and polarizing kinds of conversations that are all too common in our communities. I'm not HIV-positive, but why does this matter so much? The subtle underhanded suggestion here is that I must be HIV-positive because I seem to be trying to coerce negative men into having sex with me.

2) "Trevor, you have no idea about the breadth of the stigma associated with HIV+ status; and only the few of us very long-term poz, and their friends and boyfriends, who witnessed and were subject to it do.": Let me try to translate: I've got the misery, keep your hands off. This is clear boundary-drawing, attempting to say that I have no right to discuss this issue because of my negative status. All too common when discussing issues of stigmatized minorities.

3) "What a nut. He seemed to also want to outright say -- but didn't -- that it was the duty of negative guys show their commitment to positive guys by fucking them.": Like the comments in #1, these readers presumed that I believed there was some kind of charitable commitment necessary for neg guys to be coerced into fucking poz guys. Again this is really not the point. The point is that there are prevention discourses circulating that making refusing sex with poz men seem entirely logical, and I'm challenging the logical bases by which that refusal becomes obvious or rational. Fuck whoever you want, but don't pretend like it's obviously just about self-preservation

4) "Hoppe is using the same tired rationalizations the community used in the eighties. I'm glan [sic] folks are seeing through this bulls-t. We have to stop aids in our community now. We've known the transmission method for years. And the available strategies have been obvious for years: positives only with positives, negatives only with negatives, honesty and caring for everyone, peer group pressure on thoughtless barebackers, condoms always for negatives except in a monogamous relationship when trust is rock solid. If anyone's feelings are hurt by this, tough s-it.": I think this comment speaks for itself. Here the claim is made that the only strategies for prevention transmission are 100% serosorting, shaming people who don't use condoms, and only allowing for unprotected sex within relationships. And I say: Tell that to the 68% of new infections that are estimated to be the result of condomless sex with people's primary partners. And obviously the pathologization of "thoughtless barebackers" is the kind of shaming that does nobody an ounce of good.

5) "I'm fed up with having to dance around the constantly shifting, ever increasing sexual minefield that horny, unconcerned poz men represent.": In this readers's mind -- and in many others -- the responsibility for transmission rests squarely on the backs of poz men. As if neg guys share none of that responsibility. As if the men leaving the backroom are akin to murderers. This is worse that stigmatization, it's criminal slandering -- and its the kind of hateful logic that Public Health scholars and institutions have too often served to promote and help disseminate in their efforts. I'm not saying poz guys are totally without any responsibility here, but c'mon.

and finally, my absolute favorite:

6) "Is it wrong to refuse to take a ride on a train you know has no brakes? Jesus, how can anyone write such a self serving, irresponsible idiotic article?": Wowzer! There's a lot going on here. First, it obviously equates having sex with Poz guys to getting on a train headed for certain death. I don't think I need to explain why that's the most disingenuous comparison I've heard in months.

Phew. I think I need to take a few days off from blogging. This was quite an intense ride. In the end, I'm reminded of something my mentor Eric Rofes wrote before he died (see pp. 6-7 of THRIVING, PDF found here):

I recently published on a gay news website an editorial viewpoint that attempted to open up new ways of thinking about HIV prevention, crystal use, and gay men who occasionally have sex without condoms. I was attempting to offer new vision. I understood the risk of attempting to offer new thinking and introduce complex concepts in a brief article on a popular website, but I did my best to inject some fresh thinking about risk-taking and the hazards of social marketing into a discussion which has become predictable and, at times, trite. At the same time, despite my awareness of the challenge I was taking on, I had not expected the rage reflected in some of the letters of response from readers. A sampling follows:

Patrick Syring from Arlington, Virgina, wrote:

"Your advocacy for barebacking and party drugs is abhorrent and disgusting. Gaymen like you tarnish the rest of us who play safe and cherish life more than you do. I hope you die painlessly but quickly."

Anthony Altieri wrote:

"Your article is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen in print. You are obviously a fucking idiot...You cannot blame people's self-destructive behaviors on prevention campaigns. Have you ever heard of a little thing called "personal responsibility"? Probably not. There are plenty of reasons people make unwise decisions: addictive behavior, loneliness, desperation, isolation, lack of purpose in their lives, lack of education, but I am confident you will NEVER find a case of 'I have uprotected sex and use drugs because I saw a poster telling me to use a condom.' The aids [sic] epidemic has been ongoing since the early '80s. DEAL WITH IT. USE A CONDOM YOU FREAKING MORON. Please do us all a favor, unplug your computer and refrain from subjecting the world to any more of your bullshit. Go sit quietly in your bedroom with the lights off, avoiding the realities of life. You seem to be pretty good at that anyway."

Why do conversations among gay men about HIV, barebacking, crystal use, and bathhouses get so ugly and divisive? Why are they argued in such a vehement manner? Are they simply another example of internecine warfare driven by personality conflicts, ego battles, and bad manners? How can we make sense out of distinct visions that seem to underlie these debates: one which argues that the crisis moment of AIDS has passed for gay men and one which berates gay men for taking a single step beyond the bomb shelter we've inhabited since the early 1980s? Why is gay men's sex so frequently the target of such contentious debate and demonization? How did we reach a point where there are such deep divisions among gay men about sexual health and safety? And in what ways do vehement responses to new vision effectively serve to keep out of our movement fresh, innovative thinkers offering fresh analyses?

Amen.

See what happens when you don't pay attention? I noticed a few days ago that entry #1000 was fast approaching. Well, today I posted it without realizing it. So instead I'll celebrate this here blog's one thousand and third entry! Wow! What started off as an idle experiment over four years ago has really begun to take shape this year into something I'm so incredibly proud of -- so thank you for coming along for that journey.

We're up to about 2000 solid weekly readers, and fast approaching 10,000 monthly. I'm always astounded at those numbers. It's really, truly flattering. Tell your friends! And keep posting those amazing comments!

A big HUG and THANKS to everyone who keeps coming back for more Trevorade :) And of course -- a really big thanks to all my fellow writers here who keep posting such delicious / insanely smart stuff!

Tonight I'm installing a newer version of Movable Type's software that powers this blog (from 4.261 to 4.31). The improvements are mostly back-end. If you experience any problems posting comments, this is likely the reason. I will update this post when the upgrade is successfully (or not) completed!

UPDATE: The upgrade went without a hitch -- or so it seems! Fabulous!

Welcome to a slightly revised version of TrevorHoppe.com, in its latest incarnation as "Trevorade: Freshly squeezed gay analysis!" I had a been dying to make some edits to the previous template, which was a bit sloppy and garish. This takes the best of that edit and throws out the worst, I think! I hope you enjoy.

This is the first step towards a new project that has just begun to sprout in my mind. I won't say more about it now, but stay tuned in the coming months!

I'm sure you've thought it before. So what's your best idea? I've struggled over the years to attempt something clever. And now that I've added so many beautiful contributors, it's less and less apt to just simply call it "Trevor's Blog" -- which is boring anyways. So what should this here blog be called? Seeking ideas now!

xoxo

T

I want to start video blogging about gay male health, sexuality, and cultures. I'm thinking it should be in Q&A format, in which Trevor and I respond to questions y'all email in or leave as a comment on the blog.

So, if you have any burning questions, such as:
"How do you know if you have anal warts?"
or
"Is it acceptable to use a garden hose as a douche?"
etc., then please, drop us a line.

The video blog will also need a name. Suggestions would be much appreciated. Once we've decided on the title, I'll create a vblog email address.

xo
Scott

Aww isn't it so cute! You can really see the resemblance! This blog has been my lovechild for four years now, and I'm so proud to see it continue to flourish today with the addition this year of new voices and a brand spanking new design. I even was lucky enough to be attacked by Christina Aguilera fans who brought my site down for almost two weeks. I was so flattered. Thank you for thinking this blog matters enough to hack!

As has been my custom on this auspicious occasion, I'd like to highlight my favorite entries from over the years. Check them out and take a whirlwind tour of my life and thoughts!

Thanks for reading and supporting this project. It just keeps getting better and more wonderful to have more people logging on and showing an interest in hearing my thoughts. It's the ultimate flattery. For realz.

xoxo

T

From 2005:

Rehnquist Hospitalized, Bush to Take Over World (July 14)

I am a Political Scientist. What the hell does that mean? (July 28)

My FIRST Day as a Graduate Student (August 26)

Online Racial Power Disparities (August 28)

Why I Left the NC Fellows Program (September 8)

The Surreal Life, San Fran Style (October 16)

Creating Change Conference '05 (November 14)

From 2006:

Misogyny and Gay Men (January 22)

"Against Health" Conference (October 13)

Frustrated with San Francisco (October 29)

The Death of Fiscally Conservative Repubs, and the Rise of Libertarian Dems (October 30)

Feminist/Queer/Man: Dialoguing on Gender

From 2007:

LGBTI Health Summit - Philadelphia (March 17)

Beyond Identity Politics? (May 19)

Toronto = Fabulous (October 7)

Longtime Companion, Early AIDS Movies, and Mentorship (October 25)

What I'm Thankful For, 2007 (November 20)

Questions of Trans-Inclusion and Identity (December 3)

A Lovely Time in Mexico! (December 17)

From 2008:

Creating Change '08: Mourning / Celebration (February 10)

Making it Work: Mobilizing Gay and Lesbian Identities in the 21st Century (February 12)

Where's the Pleasure in Gay Sex? (February 16)

On the Staph Debate and the Swiss AIDS Study (February 17)

Barebacking and XTube: A Window Into Our Sex Lives (February 22)

Gay Men's Health Leadership Academy: Day 1 / Day 2 / Day 3 (March 22-24)

Gay.com Conversations on Race: Part One / Part Two (April 1-2)

HIV Prevention Politics in Detroit (April 17)

The Gayest Podcast in Michigan - Episode 2a: Troy Wood (June 23)

Juanita More's 2008 PRIDE Party Extravaganza (June 30)

The Gayest Podcast in Michigan - Episode 2b: Troy Wood, Ctd. (July 4)

"DON'T ASK ME TO PAY FOR THEIR MEDICINE!" (July 23)

Gaycation '08 Photo Album (July 28)

Hooking Up (July 31)

Racial Diversity on Manhunt, Adam4Adam: San Francisco Edition (August 6)

Racial Diversity on Manhunt, Adam4Adam: Atlanta Edition (August 8)

Racial Diversity on Manhunt, Adam4Adam: NYC Edition (August 10)

The LAST Trannyshack EVER (August 13)

Me on "Getting it on with Bonnie" (August 21)

Dating Economics (September 13)

Three Fags in a Boat (October 12)

What is Sexual Health? (October 19)

Outrage! NC DJ Arrested for Having Unprotected Sex (October 23)

Resist "Lazy Structuralism": HIV Prevention as Case Study (October 27)

"BlacksOnBoys": The Construction of Black Masculinity (Vs. White Femininity) in Gay Porn (November 30)

Working Out, or, "What happens to twinks when they hit 25?" (December 8)

Positional Identity on Manhunt, Adam4Adam: SF Edition (December 18)

From 2009:

Positional Identity on Manhunt, Adam4Adam: NYC Edition (February 3)

Me and Loretta Devine!!!! (February 10)

Eric Leven's Recent Barebacking Video: "Why are we..." (March 3)

How Do I Trust Again?: Love, Betrayal, and Moving On (March 17)

Why are Hate Crimes Worse Than Other Crimes? (April 1)

What's New in Gay Sex?: "Natural" (April 11)

Recuperating "Heteronormativity": It's Not *Just* About Heterosexuals! (April 20)

Christina Aguilera Fans Crashed My Blog (May 10)

To Everyone Who Is Demanding Lambert Come Out... (May 28)

Hookups are not meaningless (And other thoughts on sex) (May 29)

Gay bloggers like Perez Hilton are just loving to complain that Adam Lambert has refrained from discussing his sexual identity openly in the media. Powerless to out him themselves (as clearly its a shared public secret), they whine about how he's not being a good role model for the community or for young queer people. I have just a few words for those whiners:

1) You don't know what position he's in: It's no secret that potentially queer artists are often hassled into signing contracts or being forced to vow to keep their sexuality identity on the mum in order to secure a recording contract. When you are faced with the opportunity to do what you have perhaps always wanted to do -- to sit down in a professional recording studio and record your own music (well, at least your own voice for newly minted "Idol" alums) -- you cannot understand how alluring that opportunity is. You also can't understand what its like to have authoritative figures all around you asking or demanding that you do not officially claim a gay identity publicly. He may well be in a situation where his contract or his opportunity to record an album depends on that silence. He may also simply feel on his own that it is best to keep mum in order to preserve a future career in the recording industry -- and we have every reason to believe that this is not misguided thinking.

2) Fuck off, self-righteous bitches: As if! Don't you remember that publicly declaring being queer is, like, not always the easiest thing to do? In this case, it seems like Lambert has a very public history of acting queer, but we really at the end of the day don't know what's up with his personal life. So get over yourselves. It's his prerogative and his life at the end of the day, and it's not like all these whiners have proven themselves to be gay martyrs for the cause their entire lives. We all make difficult decisions at one point or another which may entail compromising our political commitments because we believe that compromise will further our opportunities in life. That might mean trying to butch it up for a job interview, or conveniently leaving out our queer activism in our application to a prestigious scholarship.

3) It's not his responsibility to be a role model: I know that we all want every famous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or otherwise queer person to step up and be a "role model" for young people. But if you think young queers everywhere can't respect or look up to Adam Lambert simply because he has not declared his sexuality, you fundamentally misunderstand the nature of how this shit works. Sure, coming out publicly could be a powerful political message that could impact people who respect and/or idolize him -- but at the end of the day: 1) Not "officially" coming out is not a hindrance to him being a role model, for realz; 2) And even so, it's not Lambert's responsibility to come out. Being queer doesn't come with some responsibility that you must adopt a pristine, pure politics 24/7. There is no such politics to adopt. We can certainly want him to come out of the closet, but being gay is not sufficient a reason to obligate him to do so.

Just a few words. It's been on my mind.

Scott De Orio here. Trevor has conscripted me into writing for his blog. I graduated in May from U of M in German and Women's Studies and am starting a PhD in fall at UPenn in the same fields. Some of my interests include daddies, science fiction movies, and L'il Kim.

xxoo
Scott

I'm really trying to push user registration on my new platform, as you may have noticed. I've been adding all sorts of links to encourage visitors to sign-in and register. You can register using any number of social networking accounts, but you can also create your own account just for TrevorHoppe.com (just click "Register" after "Not a Member?").

Once you've registered, you can edit your own user profile with all sorts of information. See, for example, my user profile. You can upload whatever photo (square photos are best) you like, which will pop up next every comment you enter. Movable Type will automatically import your user photo from other social networking sites, so that works as well!

I hope this will help foster a more intimate community of users and commenters here. Let me know if you run into any issues! Thanks, y'all!

xoxo

T

I've worked very hard to get online a plugin for Movable Type to make User Profiles a reality for TrevorHoppe.com users / readers. When you sign-in to comment, you'll see a link that says "Welcome, Your Name. (Edit Profile)." If you click Edit Profile, you can upload a 50x50 thumbnail picture of yourself that will soon be posted when you post a comment. You can also enter a variety of information for your profile under "Extended Profile" that will show up under your user profile -- which is linked to through your name when you comment.

It's embarrassing how much work it took to get his plug-in online, but I'm thrilled to have it up and running FINALLY. :)

Happy Fridays, people.

Thanks to a new plug-in, you can now sign-in via your Twitter account to post comments. Hurrah!

No, really. It's totally true. It's a long story, but let's begin with the beginning. A few weeks ago, I posted an entry about Lady Gaga's rise to fame, and in the entry I cited Christina Aguilera's use of Gaga's style at an awards show as evidence of Gaga's influence. That entry BLEW UP, getting thousands of hits a day over the past month. It was nuts!

I thought it was all blogging history when I left last Sunday for Puerto Rico to meet my family for a cruise around the Caribbean. Fun in the sun! Alas, I was wrong. I checked my e-mail Tuesday to find that several readers had e-mailed me saying my blog was down, and that they were recieving some kind of error message when they tried to accesss www.trevorhoppe.com. I immediately sent a note to my host, but I had limited e-mail access and I was out of the country, so the timing was terrible. I couldn't do anything while I was down South, so I enjoyed the cruise and decided to deal with things when I got back home.

I flew back Sunday to find an e-mail from my host saying that they had taken the site off-line because it was grossly draining my shared server's resources. I figured it was because of a spike in traffic, and quickly searched for a new host that could handle more bandwith. I signed up for Media Temple's GRID service, which is basically a fancier version (WARNING: Geek talk ahead) of a shared server that can handle spikes in traffic because it's built on a network of powerful servers, rather than on a single system. Sexy! I signed up, and began the transfer.

I ran into a wall when I was trying to restore my blog's Movable Type MySQL database (which houses everything -- comments, entries, templates, etc) from my old server. This led me to - out of curiousity - filter throug the SQL file, where I began reading my Error Log that Movable Type records. I recognized something strange immediately: Before the crash, hundreds of search queries came through in minutes for "Christina Aguilera". I realized that I had been the victim of a DOS (denial of service) attack in the form of search queries.

So it appears some zealous Christina Aguilera fan crashed my site. But they were quite smart about it -- the 100s of requests all came from different IP addresses. It's possible that this is a coincidence, but that's highly unlikely.

In any case, I've moved to a new host that should be better equipped to deal with this kind of influx of traffic. But websites are always vulnerable to this kind of attack. Hopefully, Christina fans will be relieved to hear that I am a HUGE fan of her's and never meant to disparage her name. It's just outrageously funny. I'm quite flattered that they felt my site was worthy of their efforts.

In the end, it's appropriately the gayest attack possible. God bless web geeks. But let's get back to what matters! My sincerest apologies for being offline for such a ridiculous length of time. Had it all happeneded when I was in town, things would have been different. Alas, it was an unfortunate timing of events.

xoxo

Trevor

Just want to say thanks for the warm welcome and a chance to add my thoughts to the discussion that is happening here.

Like Trevor said my areas of expertise are LGBT youth and transgender communities, but I also have a lot to say about gay men's health, class, gender and HIV/AIDS.

Thanks for this opportunity Trevor, can't wait to see who the other contributors will be!

Jackson

So as promised, I'm happy to introduce the first in a series of new contributors to TrevorHoppe.com! First off is my dear friend Jackson Bowman, who hails from San Francisco and does fabulous work there as an activist working with LGBT youth and transgender communities. He's working as a researcher for UCSF at the moment, and he wanted me to add that he "bakes a mean cake." And indeed he does, as he was for many years a professional chef. Which would pay off more for everyone if he actually cooked more often for his friends. *cough*. Just saying.

In any case, Jackson will be throwing his two cents in here from time to time. Show him some love!

So it's final exam week and I'm in my proverbial cave. Of course my laptop picked this week to completely tank on me. Had to go out and buy a new one today. Sigh. What a headache. Three papers down. Two more to go. Then a final exam. Plus 150 papers to grade. Jesus.

But I digress. What I'm really writing to flirt about is the fact that very soon I'll be announcing several regular contributors to this here blog! I'm so excited! They're all really smart, sexy, and fabulous writers, activists, and thinkers. I think it will add some serious depth to the conversations we're having here. Get ready folks!

xoxo

Trevor

Phew. I've been hard at work overhauling this here blog to a new design and to a new engine: Movable Type 4.25. It's an exciting upgrade, not just because the site looks slicker, but because the features that come bundled in with MT4.25 are impressive. I'm now requiring everyone to sign in to comment here, but you have options. You can sign in through a number of pathways -- including making your own profile here at TrevorHoppe.com; Logging in via Facebook (yea!); OpenID; Yahoo; AIM; Vox; Livejournal; and maybe one or two other services. Cool!

There are more features I'll be exploiting over the next few weeks. For now, Archives are disabled as I can't get their archive scripts to function how I want them to. "Contact Me" is also not functional, as I'm working on getting a contact form generated.

But other than these issues, the site is pretty much a go! Search works fine. Comments are functional. The site looks sexy. Good stuff! Please do let me know if you run into any issues, and I'll see what I can do remedy any problems that arise on this new platform. I hope you like the changes!

xoxo

Trevor