making our way back: reclaiming queer space in the SPRING of 2021//LGBTQIA+ Vaccine ed.

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i'm not on them anymore but i heard it's a thing on the apps now, stating whether or not you've been vaxed. not happy about that development tbh.

Philosophically yes, sexually no.

No Johnson & Johnson, no johnson and johnson

You got to have a J-A-B / If you wanna be with me

Get into that Pfizer, before you get into my thighs-zer.

If you like Piña Moderna / and jabs in the vein

No head, no backstage vaxxes.

ooh stick you
your mama, too
and your DADDY

Test

I had a date thing the other night that didn’t go so well. We had hooked up years ago and then found each other again online, so I was excited to see him. Well I invited him over, and it turns out there was a bit of a drunk goggles situation. It got kind of awkward and he stayed a reallllllly long time. He’s super nice it just wasn’t the right chemistry. I have to get better at my prescreen

Fully vaccinated (i.e. second jab + two weeks) tomorrow.

💜

i got the J&J shot yesterday and i'm still reeling from it. awful throbbing headache going on about 18 hours now, and last night i had full-body chills and aches all over

I am not particularly looking forward to my second shot but the first one was largely uneventful. Just a low-level all-day headache and fatigue.

sorry donna hope you feel better soon. i felt a little "off" after the first shot but nothing major.. just kind of weak and emotional tbh. also not looking forward to the second one.

To be clear, y'all may feel nothing after the second. I didn't other than cottonmouth.

Happy D Day, Alfred

Donna I had my J&J on Saturday and subsequently had the second-worst "flu" I've ever experienced, it was brutal

I felt 50% better after 24 hours and 100% better after 48, fwiw :)

hey, fuck these companies
https://popular.info/p/these-rainbow-flag-waving-corporations

Duke Energy has donated $75,200 to the sponsors of S514 over the last three years. That makes Duke Energy the top corporate donor to the politicians pushing this anti-trans measure.

Duke Energy has donated $16,800 to Senator Ralph Hise (R), who authored S514, including $10,800 last year. Hise also vocally supported North Carolina's notorious "bathroom bill," which prohibited trans people from using the bathroom that matched their gender identity, in 2016. Hise voted against the successful repeal of HB2 the following year.

Popular Information asked Duke Energy if the company supported S514 and would continue to provide financial support to its sponsors. A company spokesperson sent this statement:

We remain firmly committed to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and in the communities we serve. We support policymakers on both sides of the aisle to ensure our customers and communities have a voice on key energy topics. We do not always agree with their positions on each and every issue. Our primary focus is on how North Carolina can continue its clean energy transition in a reliable, affordable way to benefit all customers.

Johnson rejected Duke Energy's ambiguous response as self-serving and counterproductive. "Being silent for the sake of your business interests is detrimental to North Carolina," she said. Johnson said that Duke Energy and other corporate donors have an obligation to "stand in opposition" to a bill that is "wrong, harmful, and damaging."

yeah fgti i feel much better today - just vaguely sniffly, no more headache

fgti, are you still in Ontario? The vaccine rollout has been awful here--one guess why--so good for you if you managed to secure the shot, even if I'm wondering how (no need to answer that, of course).

Here in Ontario, my wife and brother have been booked for a first shot on 1 May, but it was a lot of trouble sorting out where to look for it.

(just chiming in to agree that the aftermath of Johnson and Johnson vaccine sucked big-time)

@ crypto, no, I'm working in USA rn. I do live in one of the hot zones that was supposed to get vaccinations presently, but I heard that they've bungled that, even

I'm sorry I kept posting in the old thread! Lol why did no one tell me, you guys are mean.

I slept for most of the day after my second shot, and then I walked downstairs and Theo was cooking shirtless and I became aroused...that was when I knew I felt better! Ha.

Also Stevie, the one time I went to the salon you mention, they gave me a horrible cut :-( I go to that place at 16th and Pine, whatever it's called. My hair also looks awful right now, though it's the longest it's been since 2007.

Omg o no that you were posting to the other thread!
We should have a WDYLL soon no?

Post-pandemic? Perish the thought.

Hahaha ok point taken

I’m trying to set up a “date” soon and let’s just say I hope it’s like riding a bike

Picked up my first dude eating outdoors last week. A waiter. He asked about the Octavia Butler I was reading. A Yale guy! We're having coffee next week.

ka boom, back in business

Oooh I wonder how the Yalees r in bed

I hope to jab him next week.

just another manic monday

good morning only to Stanley Tucci in an ‘80s jeans commercial pic.twitter.com/xaMjLGlTvp

— carly jordan (@carlyforshort) April 23, 2021

Lol i just watches that!

*watched

map how was your week?

A date -- a real one -- this Wednesday.

Oh! Dinner? Who is it?

my boyfriend and i stayed in palm springs for a few days over the weekend. we had a really good time overall. we stayed at one of the older, smaller clothing optional places. i found it really easy to relax there. the room was a little older, apparently the last on the property that hasn't had a remodel. 8 rooms total.

the majority of the other guests were 60+. we chatted with just about everyone. had a more extensive chat with a couple from seattle. nice enough but it was sort of weird to have a conversation where the other couple has more hang-ups / is generally more conservative than you are. i used to be the uptight one, lol. i always forget that, outside of utah, gays perk up when they find out that you were mormon, it's a turn-on, i think it must be the magic patriarchal cult vibe. i'm so over it, though, i refuse to talk about it in that way so i just clam up or change the subject.

other things: it's fun to get attention! this is not bragging but i lift a lot, i'm muscular, and the boys notice. i wore these short mesh gym shorts everywhere. someone stopped their car to compliment them. we went to world gym on sunday morning - super old gym with the non-round plates that you can't deadlift with (but i made it work anyway). tvs were playing bodybuilder footage which was hilarious. i felt a little bit like i was a sausage thrown into a dog park haha.

a few impressions about palm springs: the desert there is very beautiful. we saw a stunning exhibit (agnes pelton) at the art museum that had just opened up. the main drag is too bougie for my tastes. all the restaurants are mediocre. i've been to palm springs 3-4 times now over the last 15 years or so and it seems to be a rule. they all get 4.5 stars or whatever but they're all bad. it's really weird tbh.

i feel lucky to be able to have gone since i've had a few years of bad breaks before this last one. it's kind of breathtaking how much wealth there is there. coming back to utah felt particularly grim. the slc airport did an expansion during covid and it's a total nightmare. we had to take a shuttle from the plane and then walk 20 minutes to get out.

oh, we went out on friday night, to the toolshed. it was a mistake tbh. everyone at tables all spaced out in the rear parking lot, cliques staring at each other. no one wanted to talk and the ones that did were bores. we both drank too much and flirted with the barback then stumbled home.

and the dj was awful

i have friends who went to that agnes pelton exhibit over the weekend, it looks amazing. i love that museum!

if i've eaten in PS i have literally no memory of it so you're probably right about the food. the gay bars can be fun/trashy. although i went to their equivalent of the eagle once (forget the name) (xp ha it was the toolshed) and def saw some leather gays rocking 'blue lives matter' paraphernalia, which ugh. we went to one of the clothing optional resorts there once but the day we went it was a ghost town.

i really wanna get more into lifting but i'm afraid to attempt it by myself. my workouts have been pretty blah lately, except for the ones i do at home by zoom with a teacher. have truthfully been pretty unhappy with my body over the past year and would like to put more work into it. turns out nine straight months of drinking every single day has deleterious effects on your physical and mental health? who knew? (since the new year i've cut my drinking down to weekends only)

On my first weekend out as a fully vaccinated gay, I went to my favorite bar, sat outside, and watch the crowd for a while. Then I texted my buddy and his fiancee, dining a few blocks away with a friend of theirs. This friend was a rangy thirtysomething with shaved head and we hit it off immediately. He mentioned he's been down, though: he and his wife just divorced. "Oh, that sucks, sorry," I said. He shrugs and says, "Guess she didn't think I meant it when I said I was bi."

At that point I was like haiiiiii. I texted my buddy seated across from me: would Bi Guy mind at all if I...? "Not at all. Think he wants it" came the response. By the end of the night, we'd exchanged social media info and, after I was home, made plans to meet for drinks tomorrow night.

That was Friday. On Saturday I went out, this time solo, and got my first blowjob in 14 months. We need to figure out a post-COVID argot, gays. I had to ask, with all the phony cheer I could muster, if he was jabbed. He smiled archly and pulled out a folded crinkled vac card from his wallet.

Having hands on you feels nice.

yay!

Fitness wise, I gained some weight over the winter because I simply wasn't bicycling as much and was drinking much more, but now that it's warmer out, I'm shedding it. Strangely, though, some of my shirts have become too tight around the shoulders, which I think is because of the pull-up regimen I was sticking too for a while?

In any case, I've been bicycling and going to the climbing gym again, and feel great about it.

living within easy biking distance of a gym with an outdoor area has been my major saving grace over the past year

haha you do it i suck at titles

Lucky for you, I got all these daddy issues: Queer Summer, 2021 (LGBTQQIAAP+++)

fill er up!