SUMMER NIGHT CITY: An ILX Gay Thread

I've decided that when I get married, my song is going to be "True Colors" so that I can watch people try to keep a straight face.

either that, or I want it to be played at my funeral in a candlelight vigil. As my one last sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek hurrah.

aww, my dad used to go there every morning on the way to work

bit of a hike from bklyn also, yeah?

yeah, 4 hrs a day

Morbs, you got a job?

no.

:(

not all bad, as I'm sure I'll be Smithslike miserable when I get one.

Forgive me, but when I first read your post I thought it said you got a job at Dunkin Donuts.

no, that was a stop during a 5-hour wild-goose chase in New Jersey.

new jersey, it's been a while

:( i love the little houses. the girls and their hair.

getting coffee and stuff. ugh i miss it.

I'd rather you were Edith Massey-like happy with a job, Morbs.

i believe i am going to see LIMP WRIST tonight, for free, at the SF Eagle. if you do not know Limp Wrist...http://www.myspace.com/limpwrist

i used to be friends with martine and andrew back in the day (like the 90s jesus). should be an interesting crowd-- leather daddies, punk kiddies, some indie fuxxors....

also, i got a job interview!

ha! I went through a little limp wrist phase a few months back

i really miss Kill the Man Who Questions. they were so good. and Manual 7. and Los Crudos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNeI2oLBXw

this touches on a few important 00s narratives:
decline of jay but also harking back to heyday
hypercompressed suburb rock (numetal-emo)
bootlegging (iPodclectecism)
its both uniting and divisive and i'm pretty sure nobody above 24 can stand it.

I don't know how serious I'm being.

um, wrong thread

my first crush in college was on a guy w/ a limp wrist pin on his bag. he later became a kind of obnoxious socialite and i lost interest but he was pretty babe-like

Haha, this is starting to get really good.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/doj-defends-doma-says-good-for-budget-invokes-incest.html

Sorry to spam on this topic, but it's all that interests me in the world of gay right now.

HANGOVER GANG OVER. Limp Wrist show was good, then went to the disco, was stinking drunk the entire time. hardly remember a thing except kissing Bus Station John very sloppily.

you are just a nonstop erotic cabaret, baby.

yeah, i get so tired reading your threads sometimes table, where you get the energy from srsly.

who the hell knows. might be my Polish blood.

Eric, they might be largely "single-issue" types but they're righteously pissed off.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/official-white-house-response-to-doj-doma-uproar.html

Maybe I should found that actual progressive political party while I'm unemployed.

I know they're pissed off. I'm starting to wonder if I'm not.

sure, you're registering as a Green tomorrow!

Nah, I'd probably rather date a lesbian than a granola gay.

(Just kidding. I just thought it would be fun to say.)

There are angry misanthropes who vote Green, too. Sometimes. Some of us just think not voting's looking increasingly viable.

Sure. Either way you can say "I didn't vote for Obama."

or just not say anything. Which is what almost everyone is doing on non-election days.

In an attempt to avoid having to write about movies tonight, I went back and re-read nearly the entire detrius thread 2008 edition. Fun how even bad years make for good det-threds.

Hai gayz. I'm with my best friend again. We're having the time of our lives and have been for the last 8 hours. We're going to the cemetery soon.

One thing I wanted to share with you at this time is this song by Husker Du (singer Bob Mould is gay as everyone knows). This is an early one of theirs that some people say is about a girl being raped, I don't know if it is, but I don't care if it is, I think his aims are righteous even if it is and I just love the way the song goes, the riff, all of it. Thanking U.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwdm-Hxp4k

Okay one more time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwdm-Hxp4k

omg so i just realized i have like a problem with proclaiming my love for new jersey, as in it happens at least once a month. :|

sooo nice out today! happy weekend

Hi Surm! (BTW I think Jordan was wrong...you didn't need to change your screen name at all if you didn't want to, and in any case Surm isn't as good or descriptive as Surmounter)

If that link above still doesn't work, just double click it, thanks. Me & my friend are off to the cemetery now. I'm so happy when I'm with him. I want to be with him all the time. It's not even a sexual thing anymore, I'm just so happy when I'm with him.

I read that Chastity Bono (child of Sonny & Cher I guess) has recently announced she is changing her sex to male. (Or he is). She came out as lesbian 20 years ago it said. I personally can't relate to FTM transsexuals who come out of the lesbian community very well (I always liked men), but hey, godspeed.

By the same token, I can't relate as well to Male-To-Females who come out of the gay community. It's a totally different thing when you come out of the straight community.

That said, I'm bisexual and I always will be. Sorry.

Speaking of New Jersey! I just told my best friend a story about an hour ago about when I was about 18 and had just graduated from high school and spent a summer on the New Jersey shore.

Peace ya'll. We're going to the graveyard again! But this time the mausoleums!!! Woohoo! I've been waiting for this. Love you all. Thanks for listening.

went to a match game parody at the LGBT center last night. the contestants were lisa whelchel (drag queen), miss piggy (ridden with swine flu), charles nelson reilly, cher (NOT a drag queen), ricardo montalban, and margot kidder (drag queen, played by someone who was on buffy!). chas bono's sex change was the source of many jokes, natch

hey gays--

really feeling the new thread already, thanx to joe "donna rouge" for the great title and to everyone else for making it happen.

i went to pride last weekend, the fest was "OK" but everything else sucked. it sucked last year too. i couldn't get any drinks, the entertainment was some youtube drag queen with stupid opinions 4 u, lots of attitude on display. i think it's like new years--always gonna be a let down--plus bleaaaarggh gay ghetto vibe. saw the juan maclean on thursday which was not at a gay club or anything but felt gayer than anything during pride .. because the band was amazing, people were having a fucking blast dancing, no bitchez bitching about other bitchez, etc.

oh hai x-post

i think i may miss out on a number of providence pride festivities this year because my younger bro's graduation party is that day, though i'm pretty sure that is no huge loss for me

the club scene on pride night is usually some blown-out drunken shit show, which is not to say it can't be fun, but i don't think i'll be getting blackout drunk and cavorting in an above-ground pool like i did 2 years ago

any by the way, why do banks and cellphone companies get to set up booths at pride festivals anyway? that sort of transparent community/corporate PR bullshit pisses me off

yeah, there were like 3 bud light booths there

$10 and all i got were these hippie pants

the club i went to on saturday night was sooo packed. they have a weird outdoor space that's two levels with a two-lane walkway connecting every high-traffic spot in the place, i got stuck in that heart of darkness for about 15 minutes just getting shoved around.

PSA: don't hold hands with your friends to "stay together" in a sitch like that. -100 points

gays' primary value to the rest of America: voracious, undiscriminating consumers

(as in it makes the possibility of moving out an easy option if the sexy funtime goes sour)

yeah this is more than sexy funtime and tbh you're usually wrong from what i can see any way

advice noted otoh

fuck you too, asshole.

attacking me for no reason after i gave my honest opinion is definitely dud. if you knew how many people i've known who've moved in with someone, had the relationship go sour, and then suddenly been homeless, you'd understand. obviously, you're not one for that, so why did you ask in the first place?

knowing each other for 2 months before moving in is like, lightning fast lesbian cohabitation pace. BUT that doesn't mean it can't work. I'd think the success will depend on how much time you spend together / how well you know each other already, and how adaptable you both are willing to be in the new situation. Knowing practically zero about your relationship, I can't really say what sort of change you're in for. sometimes circumstances can dictate the pace of development for the relationship, and that's natural -- if your living situation with your folks really isn't working for you, you may benefit from the move just by improving your digs -- otoh, needing to move out may or may not be a good motivation here. i really can't say for your situation.

i was living with my brother -- who was slovenly & negliment as a roommate -- before moving in with my guy, so i can empathize.

knowing each other for 2 months before moving in is like, lightning fast lesbian cohabitation pace.

roffle

that woulda been the second date

haven't slept at my house in two nights. feeling extremely refreshed, iykwim.

I saw a Lady GaGa video for the first time ever, at gay happy hour tonight. Awfully bland, even for a popgirl.

How do you guys feel about "DEATH IS THE NEW BLACK: ILX Gay Autumn Thread"?

bring it

hi!

which gaga video>

I think it's called "Eh Eh"

(Pink's latest one beats it, but then she's the only queen of the last decade I like)

DEATH IS THE NEW BLACK: ILX Gay Thread for Autumn 2009