So the other night I went and hung out with a gay guy I met on the interwebs. We just hung out and smoked weed. Yesterday we went and hung out with a friend of mine and smoked. This friend is someone I've been friends with for like 15 years, is basically like a brother to me, and he only recently found out I'm bi through another friend. I never talked to him about that kinda stuff.

Yesterday was kinda like coming out or something. It was actually pretty great. All was normal. Like, it's no big deal at all and completely silly to stress over.

Was that really the only thing that was smoked?

So here in otttawa its Gay Pride week, and the parade is tommorow. It has been a l ot of fun the glbtq++ community in ottawa is pretty great. There has been lots of fun events, and have been meeting so many new friends. Gay pride is great I suggest anyone to get involved with their local pride services, if they have any. Its unreal how many queer folk are in ottawa, and great to see everyone out and proud enjoying there life. Ottawa is a fairly accepting city and the people here are nice fortanutley.

Anyways, hope everyone is doing good, gl Livra with everything hope you find whatever you are looking for.

Pride <3

ICWUDT

yay! grats!

Sup twss? So Sunday was gay pride here in Ottawa and it was incredible. I walked with my bf and a bunch of freinds an it was the most powerful experience in my life. Growing up thinking and being told that gay is wrong and feeling insecure about it all for most of my life to walkin in the parade and seeing the beauty of the community was magical . Thousands of people queer and straight out there cheering and celebrating pride was so beautiful, words can't describe the beauty and sense of community of that day. Only being out for about a year to experiencing something like that was so life changing. I am just do ****ing happy to be who I am.

Oh and me and my bf made out intensely in front of ****** catholic protestors and I yelled at them and stuff it was fun.


To anyone who hasn't experienced a pride celebration you really need to get out there and see the power and beauty of the community comming together . And if you live where you dObt have access to one then travel , it will be well worth it .

Dead thread is dead

What, this thread??

Nah, this is totally standard for this thread. It goes between dry spells, where it seems dead, to active spells where there are multiple posts in a single day. It will be more active again before lone, have no fear.

Not sure if you're talking about this thread or my sex life...

Ahem, anyway... Who has been watching the Main Event coverage on the WSOP? Between the segment on JCarver's decision to come out, and a profile on Vanessa (and showing shots of her gf on the rail), it's been pretty good for teh gays, imo.

Good to hear, bigoldnit. But I've totally been ignoring the coverage to this point though. I've had TV NLHE burnout for quite awhile now. Hell, I don't think I have a single post in an NL forum on 2+2, fwiw.

And toocute, glad you enjoyed your time at the pride parade. I would have wrote something earlier, but I didn't know what else to write. And I don't want to be totally LC/NC even though I am pretty close to it here.

My more verbose posts are typically in more mathy sections...lol

http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.ed...-July-2012.pdf

survey on GLBTQ homeless youth in the usa.

cliffs:

40% of homeless youth in the usa are GLBTQ

nearly half were outright kicked out of their homes

40% ran away from home due to how they were treated

30%+ said they were emotionally/physically abused at home

Overall, respondents indicated that nearly seven in ten (68%) of their LGBT homeless clients have experienced
family rejection and more than half of clients (54%) had experienced abuse in their family.

Well there's a new one for my dissertation.

I was just thinking about that issue the other night; in my case I think that I would have been so much better off running away from home than sticking it out until college.

Then again I know some girls who did what I wanted to do as teenagers and they wound up hooking in the Tenderloin and being HIV +

There have to be better options.

Shauna

*kshk* RJ do you hases any cute bracelets and stuff? over *kshk*

*kshk* I was over at my recently out to friend's house yesterday watching foosball and towards the end of the night I was drunk and was eyeing/playing with one of his wife's cute bracelets and he was looking at me kinda weird but it was fun os imo over *kshk*

LOL.

I'm probably one of the least girly girls you'll ever meet, so no, I don't have any cute bracelets. My apologies. The only jewelry I wear on a daily basis are my piercings (ears, navel), and I wear pretty simplistic styles.

Well that's ok and doesn't make you any less attractive imo.

I kinda want to get some piercings but idk. Been thinking about ear lobes and eyebrow.

Ear lobes are pretty standard. Eyebrow is fine as long as it's one of the little ones instead of a massive bolt.

Obviously if you are in a conservative job field anything that can be concealed by clothing is good.

A lot of people seem to like tongue piercings but I've heard they can really give you problems after a few years, like something with your teeth or whatever.

Navel has never given me problems since I got it done the second time. The first time I did have to remove it, though, I developed a cyst that wouldn't heal. On the plus side, the second piercing just went back through scar tissue so it healed very quickly and I've never had a problem with it since.

I had my tongue pierced for a couple months once. Only piercing I've ever had. My x gf convinced me to get it and I absolutely hated it. It also ****ed up my gums and caused them to start receding.

**** oral piercings imo

Well then there you go.

I find nipple piercings on guys sort of hot. Also slept with a guy one time who had a PA.

Eyebrow (nice little stud or hoop) is cool without being ridiculous IMO.

How do you deal when poker players make LGBTQ-phobic comments at the table? I mean normally I'm pretty balanced, but I've had players casually tossing around insults like f*ggot and stuff. Sometimes it gets to me and affects my play negatively. So how do you all deal with that sort of thing?

How I personally would react would probably depend on how I felt at that moment and how I felt towards that person.

I could see myself saying nothing and just focusing on stacking them, but I could also see myself mocking them.

Skin that's made to stretch and encounter lots of friction should react better to a piercing than skin elsewhere, so I'd recommend it...

Unfortunately(?), the same way I deal with it everywhere else in life -- basically ignore it, maybe pull back from the conversation if I was involved in it, and get a little sad/upset later. Yes, it will make me dislike the person saying it, but I already make sure I don't play differently against people I dislike vs people I like at the table (or at least I try). But I'm non-confrontational in general.

Originally, he went to get his scrotum pierced. Apparently he had that done a couple of years before, but it sort of grew out or something, so he went back to get it re-pierced while he was on some mission (he was a personal protection guy, so he wore a suit and carried a concealed weapon and guarded high ranking officers and NATO dignitaries and **** like that). So the guy at the piercing place told him that if it grew out before, it would probably do some again. Apparently my friend left the shop disappointed, then decided, well, if I can't get my sac pierced, I'll get my dick done instead.

So he came back from his mission and stopped by my room and said, "Hey, I got my dick pierced, want to see?"

After about a two second beat, I said the only thing I could say - "Yes, yes I do." Because, honestly, how could I pass that up?

Sure enough, there was a ring through the tip of his dick. It looked like the ring through the tip of his dick.

I don't really remember it adding anything to sex, but we just hooked up occasionally when we were both horny so I don't really remember that much about him anyway.

nice, that's nice