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

Go to your battle stations.

hi jer! welcome!

Yes, but it was mostly a joke about how this thread's participants have frequently spent much time talking about Gay Thing This or Gay Thing That and how they're not into either or both.

― old people are made of poop (Eric H.), Friday, June 15, 2012 2:37 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is probably the no 1 theme of these threads

That's pretty much how the gay threads started.

Welcome jer, I like gay sex and I hate most disco and most house music (even though I'm a gay Chicagoan).

They started because someone (who no longer posts in these threads) lamented having no IRL gay friends in town. Which isn't exactly the same thing, unless he was saying the reason he had no gay friends in town is because he wasn't gay enough.

It's been a long time since we did the roll call of the gay things we like/hate. Can't even remember which thread it was in.

Hi elmo and Je55e. Thanks for the welcome.

If we're doing the gay things we like/hate, I love disco. Rhino's complete The Disco Years is my current workout playlist.

I have, like, no gay friends in town.

Gay things I don't like:
excessive gay political activism

Ha!

These threads have been around for 5 years now.

is there any, besides marriage or the military? being an O-bot, I guess. xp

btw I will start the summer thread tomorrow with whatever title comes to mind if no one else does. Eric started the winter thread in, like, October (so he could stay in and make lists).

i have been focused on traditional anglo-american ballads lately, my boyfriend and i have put together a 2 disc collaborative mix of them, so... that's exciting

I really have no clue as to what I meant by that politics thing.

prob just wanting to burn a rainbow flag?

"Excessive" political activism has never been my thing in any regard, tho.

the queerest one on the mix is 'willie o' winsbury' which is great: the king return from long captivity to discover his daughter is pregnant. she tells him it was poor willie what knocked her up, so he sends his men to capture and hang him. BUT when the king sees willie, he's like "DAMN, janet, i see why you fucked this dude, i would have hit that. ok you can marry him." xps

Does that spring from inertia or realism? xp

elmo, I don't think I know that I know any trad Anglo-American ballads. What got you into them?

I'd love a copy!

Straight up disinterest compounded by the notion that I've already spent enough of my life being angry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z93ppIqKKU

ANGER IS AN ENERGY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPj-8_wOZcA

when I came out thirteen years ago I heralded the non-event by quoting "Rise" in a newspaper column.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE DOES

morbs, there were a lot of mixes during my courtship of dustin, i introduced him to shirley collins early on. combined with our mutual interest in folk music and a lot of record collecting and research, it's something that we both enjoy & enjoy sharing with each other? also murder ballads are pretty cool

does "Long Black Veil" fit into one of these? or is that more contemporary?

alfred, i'll be sure to post a download link when i'm done with the track sequencing and cover art

ok, I had no idea that originated as a Lefty Frizzell record in 1959!

most of the tracks are child ballads or their descendants, d. picked out british / irish / scottish recordings and i did american ones so there is a good helping of bluegrass / country / rockabilly type stuff there too.

"My life has value!"

It does. More so when I'm not concerned about the welfare of others, obv.

you need some Sunday school, chile

Wow, we used to start new threads after so few posts.

Though I just looked and we're only at 567 here.

Are we living in a post-gaythread world?

They started because someone (who no longer posts in these threads) lamented having no IRL gay friends in town. Which isn't exactly the same thing, unless he was saying the reason he had no gay friends in town is because he wasn't gay enough.

He quit this thread b/c he said it had started as a place for gay folks who weren't into the usual cultural trappings of gayness, but it had turned into the opposite (plus apparently some personality conflicts w/ individuals). He said some of this via IM, but he did tell us off when he left.

Funny you should mention Sunday school because I think it's my creeping atheism that's feeding my desire to not waste any available time being unhappy or reading books.

He quit this thread b/c he said it had started as a place for gay folks who weren't into the usual cultural trappings of gayness

I don't think he ever explicitly stated that. And the best thing about these threads has always been the clashing personalities. THAT is what's missing these days and what's kept post totals low.

Oh, and the list of ex-gay thread regular participants is about twice as long as the current "roster." That too.

funny, I never noticed much friction of anyone with Caz

Really? He was the original prickly pear, though others def eclipsed him on that front.

Atheism keeps you from reading books?

just the Book, i thought.

I am no prickly pear, see?

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I'm sort of doing a piss take here.

as an atheist I can quote more Bible passages than any fundiefuck.

"thou shalt not let...mooches into thy...hut."

*moochers

Fuck.

My 7th Day Adventist upbringing gave me a really good understanding of the Bible, which led me to atheism. A lot of people think the SDAs are nuts, but they act nuts b/c they follow biblical law and principles without all the bullshit and pagan influences that the Catholics and governments introduced. E.g., they go to church on the 7th day.

Also, people think they are nuts b/c they are nuts in a way that is different from the majority of Christians.

is a 'piss take' like a 'spit take' but instead of sputtering your coffee you pee willy-nilly?

Like from surprise?

Sooner or later we' got to work atre going to have to sell it.

How do you like having them?

Am I absent too often to be a regular anymore? I suppose so. I feel mostly like I don't have much to contribute to the discussion these days. Not doing anything particularly exciting and gay. Just living my mediocre domestic existence and trying to get my brain under control. :)

I promise at some point this summer there will be exciting and/or controversial stories to tell. Or not.

Am I absent too often to be a regular anymore?

We all are.

baloney, I hated when I clicked every 3 hours and there were posts hidden already. (usually about bad music)

RIP Bimble