Real love -- I'm, like, searchin' for that Queer Love -- LGBTQIA+ Love // A Thread for the Real Ones

Negronis on me!

alfred it would be lovely to meet you some time but i would need to order a mocktail or a shirley temple lol

do you still smoke weed? If so, we're good.

all the thumbs up

... or a milkshake?

A martini, please. Very dry.

i ate so much last night the thought of a milkshake hurts. sparkling water or kombucha. or water from the gd tap haha.

i drank cocchi and soda all saturday afternoon at the annual dyke pride picnic

... or a milkshake?

― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.)

...duck?

sorry I got bent out of shape last night, Alfred. I know now that I misread your intentions. I really like you and everyone else in this thread

Cheers!

to you too!

There are very few moments in life as good as this. Let's remember it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1TFx3HIL8

hey y'all - I just caught up on all the action from the past week, and the conversations here are giving me life. it feels so necessary to be exchanging perspectives with a group like this, coming from all kinds of different backgrounds. it's a real highlight of the week for me and fills my heart <3

no need to belabor the conversation - but just to say that I've been hanging with a straight guy friend recently (my first straight guy friend in years!), and it's been really great. I didn't realize it would be! it recently occurred to me that I don't have to feel ashamed of wanting to identify as both a man - and very much with womanhood, as well. of course, not having to feel ashamed is very different from actually *not* feeling ashamed, if that makes sense, but I was glad for the realization. as all have said, way complicated.

I also want to share some big news, which is that I just beat cancer. I was diagnosed at the end of last year and was in treatment most of this year - I guess "beat" is pretty relative (always a chance of having to deal with this again), but it was the best possible scenario and for now I'm in remission. :D it felt important to tell you all.

also - "Hi guys. I doubt anyone remember me from 10 years ago. Just wanted to pop in. *Goes back to lurking.*

― lilsoulbrother, Wednesday, May 11, 2022 11:51 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink"

I remember! and I'm really glad you've popped in :))

omg swen wonderful news, i'm so happy for you

hooray swen!! ❤️

gah thanks. what a trip. the hair is almost back but body needs some time - which i don't have much of because I'm going to fire island at the top of August! I'll have to "rebrand."

wish you the best Swen, hope you have a fun summer!

Swen you champ, you are gonna rule Fire Island <3

dear Swen, I am glad yr doing okay. <3 love and light always

<3 me too. grateful for you T. also I can drink and ingest edibles again, which is feeling very real. hope all are enjoying the weekend so far.

wow! congrats

very happy for you :)

That is awesome and great news!

🙏🙏🙏 what's up 4 Saturday bubbies?

That is awesome news Swen!

Today my plan is to relax, enjoy gnocchi for lunch (the sauce is simmering), practice cello for a few hours, swim, play video games, and not do anything even remotely resembling "work".

Tomorrow I plan to work all day and then sing karaoke with friends in the evening.

I was feeling like I wanted to enter into a large-scale collaborative artistic project with somebody in particular. This person is not a close friend, but we've known each other for twenty years, seem to have a deep connection, and have worked on small projects here and there. I called him and made my pitch and he said, "the best part of this suggestion is how excited I'd be to work with you again" and I had the biggest dopamine rush. I am excited! excited to be excited about work again.

that is a great feeling fgti!

i have no real plans this morning or afternoon. tonight i’m going to watch ‘aliens’ in a cemetery.

I'm in a pool.

omg donna

heroic weekend plan

fgti I'm finally in a creative period too after A HOT MINUTE
real nice feeling

i'm subbing in for the saturday dj at da gay club

got all the rihanna and ariana i was missing

yesss which RiRi

diamonds, we found love, where have you been, s&m

fav thread💙

you are all a complete and total delight.

donna that's ... uhm, quite an intrguing idea.

I'm so jealous 💙

I'm about to start a show called wild things on Amazon, seems pretty cool

Yo i keep thinking it's Sunday

Tomorrow's like a bonus

my red state decided to make juneteenth a holiday, so i get monday off!

i'm subbing in for the saturday dj at da gay club

got all the rihanna and ariana i was missing

― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map)

words that confuse me unneccessarily:

1. "subbing"

lol

I get Monday off too but I need to call a board member in the morning and ask for his 25k which should be fun

Awesome news, cousin Swen!

xoxoxoxoxo

hi tbh

I have an assignation on Friday with a longtime acquaintance -- we graduated college together and have several common friends without he and I ever becoming friends ourselves -- who after 20 years realized I'm hot.

you are hot!

what does he look like

He's actually a public figure -- or was. He was the boyfriend of a dude who starred in "The Real World" in the mid '90s. He's now a reporter for a major daily.