**Rainbow Flops: The GLBTQ Discussion Thread**

[tringlomane]

Originally Posted by ITT666

All RMC's posts are gone!

Did she get perma baned or something??

Good catch.

I would hope the answer is: -RMC- requested all posts be deleted.

Especially since they let posts of "banned" members that are acceptable to stay on the forum.

[ITT666]

Especially since they let posts of "banned" members that are acceptable to stay on the forum.

Fair point.

But...

I would hope the answer is: -RMC- requested all posts be deleted.

Why on earth would she do this?

[SGT RJ]

Banned members are often "allowed" back, but usually only if they fly under the radar, at least for a good amount of time, to establish that they intend to post and play by the rules and have turned over a new leaf.

Owning up to being a previously banned account, especially within days/weeks of starting the new account, is generally a bad idea. The original banning mod has the right to (and sometimes does) reban them if they find them.

I don't know if that's what happened, but I do know that she was OTBCed (one touch ban and cleared), given the message that appears where all her posts were. She might also have done something in another forum, that I don't know.

[ganstaman]

Concerning breanne/RMC, is anyone really surprised? How many accounts is that now?

Originally Posted by LirvA

So my one friend told my other friend I'm bi. He said it was no big deal. idk quite how to feel about that. I kinda wish he wouldn't cause maybe I should have told him, but on the other hand I kinda almost feel like it's a new day imo.

I'm not sure how you should feel about that either. You have to figure there's going to be some talk about it here and there when you're not around, and he did at least go to you to let you know what was going on. But like you said, that was something you were supposed to do, not someone else.

Personally, I would love if all my friends found out I was gay without me having to tell them. That way, I wouldn't have to tell them. But that's not going to happen and in some ways it's wrong for it to go down like that.

[tringlomane]

Originally Posted by ganstaman

Concerning breanne/RMC, is anyone really surprised? How many accounts is that now?

Too many. I actually forgot RMC was breanne, whoops. Definitely unfortunate because she didn't **** all over this forum like she tended to do in the other forums.

[DarkMagus]

Originally Posted by ganstaman

Personally, I would love if all my friends found out I was gay without me having to tell them. That way, I wouldn't have to tell them.

+1 lol. i mean some of my friends know but not all, and not my parents :/ they won't really care but it still feels awkward to tell them

[LirvA]

boomp

[ganstaman]

Originally Posted by ganstaman

One of the nurses I will sometimes work with at nights is a guy we'll call Joe. He's a big guy (as in 'gym everyday' not 'burger king everyday'), probably late 30s? And he's vocally homophobic.

Well Lirva's bump may not have been successful, but I have another incident to add onto the situation described in my post partially quoted here.

I look younger than I really am (latest guess of my age I heard was 19 though I'm really 27), so 'Joe' asked the other day if it ever annoyed me that so many don't think I'm a doctor. I said something, then eventually I said that there was a time when someone would make a Doogie Howser joke once a week. blah blah blah...

And then, he says, "Yeah, that's gotta suck for you, right? He's a gay actor now."

I just ignored him and moved on with the conversation, but I was (somehow) surprised that he thought I'd really be bothered to be compared to a character based on the character being a very young doctor and me appearing to be a younger-than-I should-be doctor just because the character that played him is gay. Implying that all things Doogie are gay, I guess. And he's not a "gay actor now," he's an actor who happens to be gay, and was even back in 1989.

[tringlomane]

Joe's obviously an idiot over many things. Does he think Wayne Brady is gay too since he is Barney Stinson's gay brother? lol

[LirvA]

So I'm trying to be comfortable looking like a *** in public imo. The other day I was at my friend's house and I was wearing some tripp pants with zip off legs that turn into shorts, and it was hot as **** so I zipped em off. We ended up going to the store for a blunt stick and some drinks and here I am with my girly blue ankle socks and shaved legs out in public at the local country folk convenient store in rural Oklahoma looking like a total ***. I was embarrassed and basically hiding behind my friend.

sucks

[wazz]

It's a slow process. You can't expect to be completely comfortable with a huge change in image that's inevitably going to attract attention; next time it won't be quite so embarassing, and eventually you'll be happy with the attention rather than nervous. I think it shows a lot of bravery to be doing so in rural Oklahoma.

[LirvA]

It was kinda fun in a way, but not a whole lot. Kinda like ... I'm such an offense to these country folk, everything that is evil and wrong with America and such ... but mostly I was just uncomfortable.

[Rcwillie1]

My brother asked me, "do you feel safe going out like that?" I was wearing bright pink shorts and a baby blue tank. It made me giggle, and I guess I really hadn't thought about it. I used to be self-conscious, but over time, I just feel a lot more confident and proud.
(I live in the Midwest in a pretty standard town)

It really does get better and easier, as trite as that might sound.

[LirvA]

thx guys

[Protential]

Originally Posted by LirvA

So I'm trying to be comfortable looking like a *** in public imo. The other day I was at my friend's house and I was wearing some tripp pants with zip off legs that turn into shorts, and it was hot as **** so I zipped em off. We ended up going to the store for a blunt stick and some drinks and here I am with my girly blue ankle socks and shaved legs out in public at the local country folk convenient store in rural Oklahoma looking like a total ***. I was embarrassed and basically hiding behind my friend.

sucks

You should just wear in public what you feel like wearing. If you arn't comfortable wearing more flamboyant clothes, by no means should you do so.

My rule of thumb is: If what i'm wearing is appropriate for the occasion, i'll dress as flamboyantly as i feel like for the day, and don't care about what other people think (case in point being some of my wsop outfits).

FWIW: I wouldn't feel comfy in OK in really flamboyant clothes either...