Gay StarCraft Players - Page 325

On January 01 2013 13:48 TotalBalanceSC2 wrote:
I'm gay.

well that is last years resolution completed with 11 minutes left in the year.

On January 10 2013 01:33 fugs wrote:
Don't you just love it when your work changes insurances on you and the insurance they chose doesn't cover gender reassignment surgery but the one you had before did? Shame there's nothing to jump off of in my town >,>

On December 29 2012 15:24 Roe wrote:
There really are a lot of new people. Last time I checked in the IRC maybe half were names I didn't know

On January 10 2013 03:15 Butterednuts wrote:


Is there a GTL specific IRC?

On January 10 2013 06:53 Koupe26 wrote:
This thread is ridiculous. Coming from a person that strongly supports gay rights, why must there be a special thread for gay sc2 players? Would it make any sense if someone made a thread called "Straight SC2 Players"? , of course not. One of the biggest reasons there are still people not in support of gay rights is because many gay people feel like they deserve some sort of recognition for being gay, as if I'm supposed to say "congratulations" when someone tells me they're gay. I'm really trying not to make any enemies here, but just think about the true reasons why this thread needs to exist.

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On January 11 2013 09:33 SickeL wrote:
Hi, asexual player here; kind of disappointed that we don't get more representation; but I like your cause! Hwaiting!

On January 11 2013 10:00 Thereisnosaurus wrote:
So I figure this might be a good place for this, not SC2 related but anyway. I don't really have any gay friends (openly gay anyway) or experience with the community, so I don't really have any people I can talk to about this in person. Anyhow, it's always struck me as odd that being gay is generally thought to be attracted to men and masculinity, yet gays are frequently (often proudly) represented in cultural media (festivals, shows, literature) as abnormally effeminate, at least in their behaviour and activities.

Now, I think this says more about the ambiguity of cultural gender construction than actual sexuality (eg, 'feminine' has nothing inherently to do with women), but the oddity remains. So I was wondering whether this is acknowledged in the gay community that much, whether there's a recognized distinction between men who are physically attracted to the male body, but like a more 'feminine' partner (again, just using this to express a lot of the traits typically associated with heteronormative women,), men who aren't particularly physically attracted to other men but are intensely attracted to 'masculinity' which overrides physical attraction for sexual partner preference, and men who are attracted to masculinity and the male body both. To me these seem like entirely different sexual orientations and it feels like all three can be used to define 'gay' with examples from culture and history.

Ultimately my concern is that even within the gay community tensions and misunderstandings may occur because of these differing ideas of what homosexuality actually means to each person internally. I've heard of terms like MWHSM that might be an attempt to differentiate, but I've never found any solid source of information on the subtleties.

On January 11 2013 10:00 Thereisnosaurus wrote:
So I figure this might be a good place for this, not SC2 related but anyway. I don't really have any gay friends (openly gay anyway) or experience with the community, so I don't really have any people I can talk to about this in person. Anyhow, it's always struck me as odd that being gay is generally thought to be attracted to men and masculinity, yet gays are frequently (often proudly) represented in cultural media (festivals, shows, literature) as abnormally effeminate, at least in their behaviour and activities.

Now, I think this says more about the ambiguity of cultural gender construction than actual sexuality (eg, 'feminine' has nothing inherently to do with women), but the oddity remains. So I was wondering whether this is acknowledged in the gay community that much, whether there's a recognized distinction between men who are physically attracted to the male body, but like a more 'feminine' partner (again, just using this to express a lot of the traits typically associated with heteronormative women,), men who aren't particularly physically attracted to other men but are intensely attracted to 'masculinity' which overrides physical attraction for sexual partner preference, and men who are attracted to masculinity and the male body both. To me these seem like entirely different sexual orientations and it feels like all three can be used to define 'gay' with examples from culture and history.

Ultimately my concern is that even within the gay community tensions and misunderstandings may occur because of these differing ideas of what homosexuality actually means to each person internally. I've heard of terms like MWHSM that might be an attempt to differentiate, but I've never found any solid source of information on the subtleties.

On January 11 2013 10:00 Thereisnosaurus wrote:
Now, I think this says more about the ambiguity of cultural gender construction than actual sexuality (eg, 'feminine' has nothing inherently to do with women), but the oddity remains. So I was wondering whether this is acknowledged in the gay community that much, whether there's a recognized distinction between men who are physically attracted to the male body, but like a more 'feminine' partner (again, just using this to express a lot of the traits typically associated with heteronormative women,), men who aren't particularly physically attracted to other men but are intensely attracted to 'masculinity' which overrides physical attraction for sexual partner preference, and men who are attracted to masculinity and the male body both. To me these seem like entirely different sexual orientations and it feels like all three can be used to define 'gay' with examples from culture and history.