(Not Just) Knee Deep: The Spring 2012 Gay Thread

Eh. I'm not scared of the small towns or the lack of English. It's more like - making a good impression on your bf's parents is already terrifying, let alone in your second language, let alone when you're doing so in a province where language IS politics.

talking of politics are you much involved in the protests alex? bill 78 outraged me

Alex, are your headaches happening only while having sex?? Or during other physical activities?

I'm happily sporting a sunburn on most of my body. Looking forward to having even color this summer for the first time in years. Torso is a little too scorched, after some peeling it'll be toasty brown.

Less than some, more than others. Ideologically supportive, was constrained during the semester because my (Anglophone, upper middle class, international) university's faculties did not for the most part vote to strike. McGill tends to divide itself from the res of the student movement in the province, though, even compared to the other Anglo university, so the fact that four or five student unions got on board the strike was a big deal. There were always a decent minority of people in the law faculty who were supportive but after Bill 78 tons of friends who were otherwise dismissive of the movement have gotten on board. Unconstitutional laws apparently piss off law students. Go figure.

Anyway, I've been going to more of the daytime marches and then casserole-ing in the evening. Night marches freak me out a bit because the cops are more aggressive then but I'll probably go to a few of them with some friends over the next few weeks.

I have to squeeze every drop of Floridian from my corpuscles before I get used to homes without central A/C.

congrats to you both btw

not a burn if you're happy

Ooo jurlfriend, it's a burn all right.... I don't get many sunburns, so it's novel and it feels almost invigorating. Might be riding a Vitamin D high tho.

Burns are not happy unless you are also into whips and sounding.

A few years ago it got up to about 105 here and everyone was completely dead from the heat because NO ONE in Seattle has A/C. It usually only goes above 90 a few days a year, if that. Some summers it doesn't even break past the high 80s.

it gets relatively hot here in the summer, but it also gets crazy cold in the winter and the buildings are old and apartments are cheap and students be poor.

br3nt and i spent the weekend in joshua tree, hiking and looking at crazy outdoor sculpture and drinking at pappy and harriet's and a visit to the INTEGRATRON and mad hotel room cuddlez (specifically the hotel where gram parsons OD'd!). we just passed the three-month mark ourselves, and (work pending) we'll be going to SF for a week mid-june. i'm still super-crazy about him.

and now off to a bbq!

Hey, my friend wrote a piece for the HuffPo about stalking your high-school crush pre-Web!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-allen/the-value-of-facebook-in-gay-lives_b_1556110.html

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f308/sotoalf/527004_10100584798022058_884525304_n.jpg

Farewell party, not drunk yet.

by coincidence i went to a farewell party tonight and am myself currently drunk

His watch is too big, but I'll let it slide.

I offered him a choice: a new watch or dinner.

There was a third option, wasn't there?

Haven't been checking the thread lately but thanks for the b-day wishes, y'all! xoxoxoxo

donna, after the horror debacle, no more polls for me. :)

soto, are you moving?

Terrible movie: Shame (still better than Drive, though)

meh, Drive was a little funnier (intentionally, even)

Shame was garbage.

I'm guessing that wasn't Alfred's farewell.

donna, after the horror debacle, no more polls for me. :)

Yeah, it must have been rough to see so many of your ballot given representation on (horror of horrors) an ILX poll.

lol, oops, I just assumed that was Morbs posting.

Still hoping to find a convincing defense of Shame from a gay critic. It should've worked on me, but nope.

I'm guessing that wasn't Alfred's farewell.

"Shame was garbage" was what Mank originally had in place of "Fasten your seat belts - it's going to be a bumpy night."

I went to a belated-birthday gathering at the Monster -- West Village mainstay that I hadn't been inside since the (early) '90s -- and some patron around 80 went to the piano to sing "Over the Rainbow." Gayest happy hour ever.

Why, was there an orgy going on simultaneously?

no, I mean post-sexual gayism.

(ie if I'm singing "Hand in Glove" in a bar in 30 years, shoot me)

LOL, oh you meant gay as in BAD!

yeah in the formerly slanderous way

Prideiest happy hour ever.

Yesterday I brought/introduced my "friend" to a bunch of family at my bro's grad party, which is the first time I've ever done the pretend-not-boyfriend thing!

Your brother wouldn't care, right? Which reminds me, how's your mom situation these days?

Oh, and what was the band whose name inspired a gay thread in the last year?? I cannot remember their name for the life of me. I keep wanting to say The Clash or The Cult, but it's not them. And I don't remember any of their songs. Halp.

The Fall?

I went to Dyke Day in the park yesterday and it ruled. Made some new pals, got fairly burnt. Later we went to the soon-to-be closing bartender made us two xxxxxtra strong sidecars that I am still reeling from.

soon-to-be-closing piano bar where the bartender*

ARGH! Yes, The Fall! Thank you. That was driving me nuts.

Oh he knows and he's totally cool w it, and I'm suuuure the rest of my family suspects now. Things w mom are going p great these days!

So I go to the annual Folsom East fair near the NY Eagle, when I can manage it, even tho I'm not (hugely) fetishistic. Wondering if this will be the last (borderline nsfw?):

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/06/folsom-east-eagle.html

I won't post any pics of the pie-eating contest right now.

Please pose pics of the pie-eating contest right now.

i'm hoppin' on a plane to SF after work but will likely be avoiding pride-related activities (if any of them are even going on)

we are going to a gay shabbat dinner, tho

Morbs, your screen name thingy is to die for.

There's only one thing worse than a screen name being talked about.

thx KJB, it's my special Prideful June screen name.

Coincidentally ...

that's what yours is?

It was a cheap/easy punchline, admittedly. (But it did come from a gay YouTube vid I just saw a couple days ago, for real.)