The Dark Side GLBT Support Thread

[dhcdavid]

Right now, I'm just physically attracted to men, and I enjoy the fact that men ACTUALLY TRY when I'm in bed with them instead of just sitting there expecting me to make them happy.

This made me lmfao, dude. You are one funny wise-ahead-of-your-years guy.

No but seriously? There's a lot of wisdom in this thread and reading through this thread I was struck my how many times I found myself agreeing with or identifying with what someone had written.

I've had four long term relationships with girls and the rest of the time I've either spent single and celibate or seeing a gay friend of mine....and right now i'm single and recently made a new guy friend who I think is very cute indeed but who I had to reassure of my heterosexuality the first time I met him (but he was a lot easier to convince to score some dope for me, right out of the blue.... I don't get people?!!) so after years of striving to be "out and proud" or at least just honest with myself about who I really am it seems I've hurled myself right back into that closet and locked the door.

I revisit and pledge my allegiance to my earlier comment about not understanding folk.

 

[Allein]

Bumperoo, as I'm interested in peoples response on this one.

 

[DrunkardsDream]

bump.

 

[painenduser]

While I am not part of the GLBT community, I do believe in equal rights for all regardless of their personal preferences. That being said, I am a card carrying member of the ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union. I know there are people that are against the ACLU and I am not posting this to get into a political debate about my political preferences vs anyone elses, however, I received this in my inbox tonight as we (The ACLU) have been lobbying the White House to allow for the rights of the GLBT community in this country and we got very good news which you may have seen on your local news coverage tonight. I think this is a great stride in this fight so I wanted to post this in here as it does relate to this thread and all members of the GLBT community. Please feel free to discuss this as you wish, but no flaming me or anyone else in reply to this post or your post will be reported to the mods, and hopefully removed and perhaps get an infraction (though I am not a mod, I will make sure that the mods are aware of any unwanted / unneeded replies.

So first before I post this I would like to say congratulations as this is a great step in the right direction for standing up for the right of all citizens that make this great country what it is and showing that we will not have our right stepped on by our own government. Here is the link as well, I pasted some of the story, for more indepth read of this story, please click the link. I hope it's OK for me to post a link to another site here, but I thought it was warranted.

http://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/aclu-lens-president-obama-endorses-freedom-marry-same-sex-couples

President Obama today became the first sitting U.S. president to endorse the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. In an interview taped earlier this afternoon, he told ABC News’ Robin Roberts:

“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”

For the full story please see the link above.

I hope no one has objected to me posted here, but I felt the story was important enough for me go ahead and post. If there are any problems with it being posted here Mods please do with it as you choose.

My congrats to all of our GLBT members here in TDS at Blue and all GLBT's ever where! As well a congrats the the ACLU members who helped by taking the fight directly to the White house and came to gether to help with this on your behalf!



Sincerely
-Pain

 

[Sepher]

We're having a similar debate in the UK at the moment Pain. Despite some fairly vocal resistance from religious organisations I think same-sex marriage is inevitable, and the sooner everyone gets with that and over that the better it will be for all concerned. We introduced civil partnerships as a way of redressing the inequality that arises when hetero couples have a whole range of state-sanctioned benefits and protections available to them that are denied same-sex couples, but all that's happened IMO is that the inequality has been brought into still sharper relief. Civil partnerships may offer most, if not all the advantages of marriage, but it is still not marriage. A liberal democracy pledged to equality of opportunity for all its citizens cannot long allow that inequality to continue to exist. It has to bring in gay marriage in the name of that equality of opportunity and protection it espouses. Bring it on I say. It's the 21st Century FFS!

 

[herbavore]

My dad's youngest brother was gay, growing up in the Bible belt in the 1940's. Theirs was a family of three boys with a very traditionally masculine, domineering and strict father. My grandfather picked on his more feminine youngest son his whole life, causing my uncle to deny his sexuality until he was out of the army in his mid twenties. He moved to the big city of Chicago and met the love of his life. While my Dad and the next oldest brother married and had children, my uncle D. lived closeted and pretending. While our families gathered every summer to spend time at the family cabin on a lake, Uncle D.'s partner was never invited; indeed he was never even mentioned. Yet even as a child, I knew that he was my uncle's partner. Later, as an adult, I looked at my parents' failed marriage, my other Uncle's less than ideal partnership with his wife and compared it to the relationship of my Uncle D. and his partner. Hands down, the best marriage was that of the two people that not only were not allowed to get married but were never even recognized by their own family as a couple.My uncle died a decade ago and his partner died two years ago. It was a long, loyal, loving partnership and it came without legality, without papers or ceremony. How I wish that my uncles could have lived to see their love accepted as equal to anyone else.