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Don't post in this thread to say "gay gamers are like everyone else, why do they have a special thread?" It is something that has been posted numerous times, and this isn't the place for that discussion. For regular posters, don't quote the trolls. | ||
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Crimson
United States311 Posts
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CubEdIn
Romania5359 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:27 Crimson wrote: One thing I have always wondered... how do you know? What was the defining moment that made you realize you were gay? I have a gay friend who goes to the high school I just graduated from, and he told me that there was no exact moment. He just knew he felt different, and it wasn't until around sophomore year that he realized he was gay. My friend once told me "you're gonna live your whole life thinking you're straight, then at the age of 40-something, you're gonna go for your first prostate-exam and realize you've always been gay". It's a joke but I'll never forget that :D. | ||
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Kerotan
England2111 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:25 KwarK wrote: I suspect there are a lot more than five gays on tl, given it has hundreds of thousands of accounts. It's just unlike girls on the internet gays can just get on with it without feeling the need to post "hey guys, I'm a girl!!!". Yeah, this is true, 5 is only a number that I've obtained through the people who declare it in threads discussing homosexuality, or post pictures of their boyfriends in the bf/gf picture thread. | ||
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Shiragaku
Hong Kong4308 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:25 Mora wrote: Bisexual men are a little different. I've met ones who are bothered by their attraction to men for a lot longer than gay guys are. Gays are forced to deal with it one way or another. Bisexual men can often have 'normal lives', getting married, having children, etc, without ever understanding or coming to terms with their bisexuality. Though that is less and less the case these days. Well in my experience, I do not think it is weird for me to like guys or bothered by it, I am just scared that I will face discrimination by teachers and several other students and it will only serve as a obstacle to me in the future. Occasionally when I am bothered by my attraction to other guys, I often wonder if I am mentally ill or not. As for gays, there has been a gay gene discovered but I am not too sure about bi guys. | ||
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Zanzabar Haberdasher
United States510 Posts
This thread is fucked up. You're no different than me, or anyone else. You're not 'special' or 'different' for liking dicks instead of vaginas. Why do gay people get a thread? That's the 'oh, look at me' mentality that goes against any idea of equality. It's 2010, man. Give it a break. Pretty weak. User was warned for this post User was warned for this post | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
Oh btw I have this vague memory that you used to be called teroru here, am I right? | ||
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Kitkatzy
United States213 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:31 Shiragaku wrote: Occasionally when I am bothered by my attraction to other guys, I often wonder if I am mentally ill or not. As for gays, there has been a gay gene discovered but I am not too sure about bi guys. I don't think you are mentally ill  . You just have the ability to see and admire the beauty and character of humans, regardless of sex. | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:15 Kennigit wrote: Why do some gay guys talk with a lisp and have feminine mannerisms? Is this put on or natural? What a great question. Super fucking hard to answer. There's 2 parts. At first, when you're young, you have no control over these mannerisms. I don't know where we get them from, but many of us have them from a very very young age. I myself was very feminine when i was pre-12 years old. My nickname in elementary school was "girly-boy". (which, while mean, didn't offend me all that much because at the time i considered women to be superior to men. GOD i was gay. lol) Once i got about 10 years old i realized what 'gay' was and realized that i was acting pretty fucking gay, and started to develop a complex about it. I went from being a loud/out-going awesome kid to a depressing one pretty quickly. By the age of 13 i was riddled with many depression and anxiety disorders. I dropped out of highschool at the age of 14 cause of all those issues. I would sometimes hear what would come out of my mouth, and i would close my eyes and wish i ceased to exist because of how embarrassed i was. The stupid part is by the time i dropped out of highschool, i had learned to drop most of the mannerisms (but not all). I wasn't that flamboyant. Other kids aren't so lucky. They have no control no matter how much they try to hide it. They're doomed to relentless teasing and prejudice, much worse than any other kinds i've seen in school. One of the flamers at my school was attacked by some guys in the locker room who thought he was checking them out. They didn't beat hm up to bad but they all pissed on him in the showers. pretty sad. So yeah, those gays learn to get really tough. In fact, i was thinking about this the other day, and those kinds of gays are probably some of the toughest people i've ever met. They've never been able to hide behind their masculinity like i have, they've had to live every day of their life out in the open. After so much torture, you only have 2 ways you can cope. You can either kill yourself (too many of them still take this route), or you can fiercely and unapologetically be your fantastic flaming faggot self. This is the second part. Once gays realize that they can't control it, they will often embrace it and that's when they 'play it up' (though that's such an aweful way to put it). This is the threshold between being gay and being fabulous. Since getting to know many fabulous people, i'm no longer bothered by it in the slightest. Infact, these kinds of people are hilarious, good, amazingly strong individuals. I'm not attracted to them in the slightest, but they definitely don't annoy me like they certainly used to. | ||
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
Yesterday I was playing transformice (fuck yeah) and I called out a map for being gay (new custom maps feature brings out the worst in mice). I followed up stating that I don't mean to offend homosexuals. I am not conscious enough to keep me from using gay as an insult, just yet, but I'm getting there  The gaming world is full of such things, and I also post this in light of the recent discussion of using the word 'rape' in description of matches and other gamer slang. So being a gaming gay guy, you must see this quite a lot. | ||
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:32 Zanzabar Haberdasher wrote: wat. This thread is fucked up. You're no different than me, or anyone else. You're not 'special' or 'different' for liking dicks instead of vaginas. Why do gay people get a thread? That's the 'oh, look at me' mentality that goes against any idea of equality. It's 2010, man. Give it a break. Pretty weak. Why don't you go create a heterosexual dating thread on this board then? I don't think you will find many girls on here though. If I were gay I would absolutely want a gamer boyfriend. I have tried making out with other guys when drunk but it really didn't do anything for me and the thought of even touching another mans dick disgusts me. I somehow wish I was bisexual though. I would have been open to so many more experiences then. | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:17 JamieDukes wrote: Who is more attractive TLO or Nazgul? Give reasons why. IMO one is very loveable while the other kinda rugged  Nazgul is one of the coolest people i've ever met. The TL.net meetup was such a blast. I consider him attractive but he's also not my type. I like big/beefy/hairy men. Think Canadian lumberjacks. Or Forrest Griffin. He's basically perfect. | ||
Carnac
Germany / USA16648 Posts
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Badjas
Netherlands2038 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:38 Mora wrote: [...] After so much torture, you only have 2 ways you can cope. You can either kill yourself (too many of them still take this route), or you can fiercely and unapologetically be your fantastic flaming faggot self. This is the second part. Once gays realize that they can't control it, they will often embrace it and that's when they 'play it up' (though that's such an aweful way to put it). This is the threshold between being gay and being fabulous. Since getting to know many fabulous people, i'm no longer bothered by it in the slightest. Infact, these kinds of people are hilarious, good, amazingly strong individuals. I'm not attracted to them in the slightest, but they definitely don't annoy me like they certainly used to. This is a fantastic insight. At the same time, the fabulous have it made, being happy about themselves, but at the same time that fabulous attitude, which is basically their symbol of being free of the burden of not feeling good about yourself, is an exaggeration in the other direction, which after a while might feel forced as well hmm? Although I guess the fabulous people who aren't comfortable with their lifestyle, but who don't dare to drop out of a social circle, is quite the small minority. Maybe I'm talking trash here, big disclaimer! | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:17 Shiragaku wrote: What is your opinion on the really flamboyant gays? Do you and many other gays find that attractive or annoying? Sorta answered this in my other post... but more info: I've met many men who like the hairless/skinny/flamboyant boys. I've met even more who like masculine/hyper-masculine guys. but there's definitely a good mix in what gays are attracted to. I like hyper masculine guys myself, but i'm usually okay with 'queeny' speech. As long as they have characteristic masculine qualities and have body hair, i usually buy-in. I prefer the whole manly package though. | ||
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Lewin
Australia16 Posts
I had a gay friend in high school, who has been living with his older boyfriend for a few years now. I copped a lot of shit for hanging out with him back at school (he was easily my best friend), and he got even more. He was especially abused by people who were afraid they were gay, who he wasn't attracted to. I'm wondering how much abuse you have to deal with post high school, due to the more varied groups of people to spend time with, and the relative freedom of adulthood. | ||
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ondik
Czech Republic2908 Posts
2) there are men who you can tell at first sight (body language, etc.) are gays, but there are also men who you'd never guess that. According to your post I guess you're the latter - I'm sure you've found yourself in position where a girl was hitting on you. How do you usually react to this? And how do girls react when they find out? Any funny story? 3) you mentioned it's hard to meet other gays. So how do you meet them? Opposing to 2), have you ever been hitting on a guy you thought is gay but he was straight? | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
O.o Just the thread I've been looking for. I'll try to keep it terse. Do you think sexuality can have a huge impact on your personal interests such as changing them because of the way you see your sexuality, or would those interests be in a category of unchangeable, and merely bend to how you see yourself? For example, I've recently been going over what I'm actually interested in, in life. For around 12-13 years I've had a great interest in RTS games(I'm 19 now) and for the past 5 years I was addicted to WoW(I've stopped playing now). I've been thinking that I might've used video games as an escape from some unconscious, suppressed personality. The WoW thing came on during high school, which is when I felt most...segregated and unlike everyone else. Though I don't just play any games, so I might have a genuine interest there. The real issue is the field I chose for university, psychology. In short, after going through years of studying my mind and studying others', I'm not sure if it's genuine or just because I needed something to block the normalization of myself and turn into a cold, calculating, reptilian machine. Do you believe in the non-polar sexuality theory? I kinda made that term up I guess but essentially do you believe that sexuality is not just one way or the other: straight/gay but a person can be like...70% straight and 20% gay lol, and that it's fluid in a way? btw I thought Morrow was so cute when I first saw him at IEM :p Morrow>Idra! | ||
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tomatriedes
New Zealand5356 Posts
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FecalFrown
215 Posts
Check this out: "Some men are able to achieve orgasm solely through stimulation of the prostate gland, such as prostate massage or receptive anal intercourse." Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate (I know its Wikipedia, give me a break, I'm not a human anatomy buff) Is this true for you? Is it true at all? | ||
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Mora
Canada5235 Posts
On August 27 2010 21:21 Kerotan wrote: Hey Mora, I've missed your presence on the forum, I generally really enjoy your posts. As one of perhaps 5 gay people on TL, I have sympathy with the motives for the creation of this thread. In reality though I'm certainly a starcraft player that is gay, not a gay starcraft player, since while having such a gimmick would be brilliant marketing material if I ever turned pro, but being categorised as "the gay one" gets a little tiring after a while. i can totally appreciate your position on this. I used to be a fantastical attention whore (i say 'used to be' very loosely here. lol) and so knew it would be much more entertaining to everyone involved if i was a gay starcraft player and not the other way around. This has only caused me concern when meeting Starcraft people in real life. They expect a big flaming faggot, and i'm certainly not what people expect. I was going to call myself normal, but i'm definitely not that either. When i ask my friends/family what labels i most fit, i often get 'you're just Taylor'. Some of my other qualities that i would define myself with: * Fiercely atheist * Obsessed with the art of communication * Fascinated by everything * Smiley * Motivated * Definitely gay. Like as gay as it gets (in the sense of being attracted to men). I think about penis/men all the time. never stops. | ||
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