Filling the void of the Craigslist personals: LGBTQ Spring 2018

So the new Broadway revival of The Boys in the Band with the all-gay (who cares?) all-star cast has, according to the NYT's unenthused review, cut most of the play's old-movie references! To appeal to millennials, no doubt. "Rosalind WHO?"

So long as they aren’t replaced by projected memes.

It was nice that mike td checked in. Come back mike!

My relationship is now officially "open". A conversation with a friend made me realize that "open" was less about sex-need and more about an expression of each participants autonomy, independence, and trust of the other.

That's an interesting take. I've been in an open relationship for the past 33 years, so obviously it works for us, but I think that trust is of equal weight in either model. If you're monogamous, you trust them never to stray. If you're open, you trust them always to return.

On Canada’s notorious “fruit machine,” subject of a documentary that will be making the rounds (here, at least) throughout the year:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-fruit-machine-why-every-canadian-should-learn-about-this-country-s-gay-purge-1.4678718

I'm not gonna say I've ~fallen in love~ ~per se~ but I will say that I met a dude in Boston 2 weeks ago, we hooked up and had amazing sex and then hung out again the next day and have been texting all day every day since, and I'm going back to Boston this weekend to visit him

He's a chubby 40something punk dude with an encyclopedic knowledge of obscure cinema and house music, i.e. he is essentially my fantasy-projection of the perfect man complete w hairy shoulders and a Gengoroh Tagame tattoo

He is also SO stoked abt me and I am mutually SO stoked about him, I feel like we both feel like we are out of each others' league??? Ah, it feels good!

cool, darlin'

He told me I was the love of his life last night and I realized that I didn’t feel the same way, at least, not like previous “loves of my life”, but that I loved myself more than I had ever, in any previous relationship

What I mean is: he is marvellous

A SPANISH public servant who skipped work for a decade without anyone noticing spent his free time running a male brothel and drawing erotic comics.
Carles Recio, who was paid a 50,000 euro ($80,000) salary as an archives director in Valencia’s provincial government, would show up to the office every morning at 7:30am to clock in using the fingerprint scanner before heading home, only returning to the office at 3:30pm to clock out.
He kept up the routine for 10 years before colleagues began to raise suspicions. After Spanish newspaper El Mundo broke the story 18 months ago, Mr Recio was finally sacked, despite his insistence that he had done nothing wrong.

Mr Recio was making a name for himself as a erotic comic book artist and creator of the popular character Fallarela, a busty superhero who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies

It also emerged Mr Recio had been running a male brothel out of his home since 2005. At one point he threatened to reveal the identities of his clients, warning there may have been cameras inside and the “graphic information” could compromise many politicians.
As part of his high-profile campaign to clear his name, Mr Recio even attempted to use a council venue for an art exhibition entitled, “Love for Valencia: the works of a man who never worked”, with four floors of works including paintings, sculptures and even a bronze bust of himself.
The City of Valencia cancelled the show, which described Mr Recio as “the most slandered writer in modern-day Valencia”, just before it was due to open after the council discovered he had booked the venue using a fake name.

^my new career path

btw:

I care, do U? LGBTQ summer 2018

ah, yes! busy threads now, hard to keep up!