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A NY Times photo shows Garrison Gibbons, an openly gay theater major at the University of Mississippi. The Times says that he was one of the biggest targets of the bigots at the performance before the football players. The line below Mathew Shepard's photo gains more meaning in the context of new bigotry among young men.

The Desert Sun, a Gannett newspaper, serves the greater Palm Springs area, and today they have an innocent enough headline: Health Gaps Found Among LGBT. Haha! Sure. Most of the gays have health insurance and rate their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent." This is followed by that world famous word: but. And in this case, the but is that we're nuts! Yes, the second paragraph of this supposedly gay-friendly article says: More than half of the LGBT participants had been diagnosed with one or more [emphasis added] mental health disorders, and about 40 percent had experienced some emotional, mental or behavioral problems that worried them in the past year, rates much higher than the general population...Forty-one percent had received a depression diagnosis, compared with 8 percent of the the general valley population. 36 percent with anxiety compared with 6 percent, and ten percent with panic disorder compared with 3 percent of the general public. Gays interviewed blamed the disorders on the stress of being discriminated against. The Palm Springs area has a very large gay population, so if that kind of stress due to discrimination exists here, well what chance does a gay person have in say, Kansas? It's a three page article, so I'll let you read it in its entirety, just don't panic or get depressed! http://www.mydesert.com/article/20131004/LIFESTYLES03/310040023/Health-gaps-found-among-valley-s-LGBT

Boys will be boys! We know that sometimes people new to the theater do not react appropriately, but at the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, audience members heckled performers during a performance of The Laramie Project, a theater presentation about the death of a young gay man, Mathew Shepard, by bigoted young men. The bigoted young men at Ole Miss seem to have been largely from the football team, but not entirely. It was not easy identifying exactly who the hecklers were. But they did not show theater etiquette, and one wonders if this is endemic to the region. Yet we (occasionally) have posting here a resident of the state who shows great dignity and comportment, so go figure! According to a report in today's nytimes.com: There are conflicting reports about whether a derogatory word for a homosexual man was used, but several people who attended agree that catcalls, giggling, inappropriate coughing and burping began during the first act and escalated in the second act. The harassment included making fun of the weight of one of the actors and commenting on the body of the stage manager who told the audience after intermission to silence their cellphones. FoxSports.com seemed to have no problem concluding that the problem was the football players, and called for a strong message to be sent to those who heckled that this cannot be tolerated and the offenders should be suspended: http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/ole-miss-football-players-homophobia-heckling-school-play-laramie-project-matthew-judy-shepard-100313 The student newspaper seems to have as full an account of the incident as anyone: https://thedmonline.com/um-students-football-players-disrupt-play/

Your kindness and concern for your friend is admirable, lurkerspeaks, and I join you in wishing him well.

"ONE" can reflect? There you go with the numbers again. We can all reflect, so the number is higher than one, is it not?

I'd be much more excited if it were a good picture quality, or especially if he was kissing me. I have long been a fan. Remember in his early days how he had that sexy "bee-stung" lower lip? It wasn't real, of course since he doesn't have it now. Injections helped back then. But it sure did look sexy when it was wrapped around my dick...oops, I promised him I wouldn't tell!

We must be really desperate if that kiss excited any of us. The quality of the video sucked more than Ryan does. But to see a straight actor kiss a male seems like a very small thing these days. Certainly not enough to get worked up about. And how many years old is it?

Lookin, your next post will be number 1917.

According to Wikipedia, Richie enjoys singing and playing the trombone. Translation: He screams when getting fucked, and his boner is huge. But not all the guys who wear the NOH8 tape are gay. Many straights have been pictured wearing it in solidarity with the gay community. Mscleovr wants us to think he has inside knowledge, but if he did, he wouldn't be shy about telling us how he came upon it. Was it a midnight clear?

What happened? I don't know about this,. Should I care enough to look into it? And if I did, how would my life improve? UPDATE: Of course, on reflection I realize how cold my words were here. But, I don't really care, so why pretend that I do? There are nutcases in the world, they act out, they make the news. It'll all be forgotten tomorrow.

Jane Higgs, who actually failed science in high school, ended up marrying one. He got so excited when the Higgs boson was confirmed that he actually caressed his wife's bosom in celebration. She liked it!

Although I often find myself in disagreement with parisrio2000, you have to give him credit as he seems to have a knack for getting a thread a long shelf life!

And Lucky gives it a 28, which isn't! And my tomatoes are edible, too!

If the entire penis is not visible, how is it a "full-frontal" pic? Just askin!

Lookin, the boys that Oz has workin in the back room reported a noticeable fall-off in posting for your screen name. Should you think that they are wrong, well, we can audit your account to be sure. The cost of the audit is only $49.95, and can be billed to your credit card in 4 easy payments of $15, which would include interest and special handling fees. However, if you have been audited already this year, there is a special fee of $75 to make sure that duplication of efforts is not detrimental to your standing in the community. The nice thing is that you can apply for a fee waiver. Just show up any day between 9 and 5 at the Bangkok office and ask for the waiver. Be sure that Oz is in the office that day, as only he can grant the waiver.

How do we get the guys listed below who have registered but don't post to share some of their thoughts with us? The following members have visited today: Ace, akawilliamlee, bertj, , bobtpa, broadcast, Bubblebutt75, buttnovice, Cany10011, eddie33, flguy, fourjogran, gabv, ganymede255, gem147, Gotti, groenthusiast, guptas, gw, , jaysondaniel, josephga, jsvan44, justme1369, Krisik, lahulpe, leyndurmal, lookin, , middlemedio, mike2013, msclelovr, MsGuy, Ojibear,, patina, Pete097, profile, quietman, , Ronp608, smoothpubes, SteveMtl, trooperbill2000, useless, xxxl, young11, (I deleted the more regular posters.)

Referring to the female pilots as gals is likely to get you castrated. Or maybe just sent to sensitivity training.

I am not attracted to the guy on the left or the right. But I like this guy. And I'll keep my eye out for someone else to put there. Right now though, it's late, and I need some rest.

Firecat, glad to see that you are back in Pattaya and contributing to the local economy. Rest up so that you can tie yourself out with the boys! Planetime, if you can do Thailand in march, more power to you. I was there once in early March and thought that I was surely going to melt right onto the sidewalk. Too hot for me! But April is apparently worse. I like to go in December or January when it is a teensy bit cooler at night.

Evacuation of the bowels is a normal things. The moms themselves do it. So why do they hate what's going on between the buns?

Yes, I am a fan. I even went to see him play a homophobic nephew who is sent to live with his gay uncle in a very off-off Broadway play many years ago. (A cute little sidenote- the landlord's son was at the play. He was somewhere between 16 and 18, but when he saw me see him at a gay play, he left at intermission! Dad would not have approved) Anyway, the new flick is being touted at another website, but the tragedy of that is they never name the film! It's called Don Jon. Levitt apparently wrote and directed it. He has a new hunky torso, which he shows off a lot in the movie, but that's it. No other skin for him.He plays a good-lookin guy who likes to get the good-lookin girls, and he fucks them, but gets more satisfaction from jerking off to porn. We see him toss numerous tissues into the wastebasket. BUT, the movie SUCKS, big-time. Who wants to see a bunch of overbuilt women get fucked? Not me! Yes, I know that a couple of you do, so go see it. The true gay guy can skip it!.

So when this guy closed his business, the government says it was "just short of a crime." Really now. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/us/snowdens-e-mail-provider-discusses-pressure-from-fbi-to-disclose-data.html?hp

I seriously doubt that the rest of the world gives a flying fuck or even knows anything about this. Take a survey on Copacabana Beach (only because that would be my choice!) and see how many even know about it.

Well, then, consider this: “When we first began looking at the data, we were surprised to find that 1 in 10 men on Grindr in NYC had never received an HIV test and we quickly realized we needed to look further into the issue.” Further analysis showed that the proportion of older men getting tested for HIV was notably higher than that of the younger men, with 1 in 5 young MSM between the ages of 18-24 having never received an HIV test. Comparing these men to the overall population of NYC MSM indicated that a higher proportion of men on Grindr had never been tested for the disease (10% of Grindr users versus 2.6% of all NYC MSM). More: http://chestnyc.tumblr.com/post/61435732364/chest-research-spotlight-a-look-into-grindr-and-hiv

Well said, Charlie. It's true that Oz has worked hard to create a great site. Now we have the city guides as well to attract people. Let's hope that some of them hang around for the message board. If they do, it will be because the lot of us have created something of interest for them. Oz can only do so much.