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For those point whores like me, I take advantage of every opportunity I can to accumulate more points. If you are traveling or have a future trip planned or just want to get some extra points, use the below to get 5,000 points on your next stay at any Intercontinental Hotel (Holiday Inn, Crown Plaza, etc.). I did this and it worked for me. Priority Club members: go to http ://www.priorityclub dot com/register (NOTE: I intentionally didn't put a hot link here so that the link can't be traced, obviously just remove the spaces and replace the dot above with a .) Enter code 2162, this should get you 5K bonus points on your next stay (stay must be completed within 90 day of registering)

For those point whores like me, I take advantage of every opportunity I can to accumulate more points. If you are traveling to Gay Thailand or have a future trip planned or just want to get some extra points, use the below to get 5,000 points on your next stay at any Intercontinental Hotel (Holiday Inn, Crown Plaza, etc.). I did this and it worked for me. Priority Club members: go to http ://www.priorityclub dot com/register (NOTE: I intentionally didn't put a hot link here so that the link can't be traced, obviously just remove the spaces and replace the dot above with a .) Enter code 2162, this should get you 5K bonus points on your next stay (stay must be completed within 90 day of registering)

I was having a conversation with a gentleman I have known for a while. He is not a good friend but merely someone I chat with from time to time. We were talking about how long he had been retired and I asked him how old he was. He got visibly upset and said that is not a proper question to ask anyone. I get asked that question often as people think I am 60 but am not quite that old yet. I know that asking ladies their age is not kosher. I didn't think it offensive to ask a guy his age. Am I wrong? Did I commit an error?

OK. The official Gay Thailand report on the IPad 3G. First, it is amazing. The speed is incredible. The versatility of the programs almost compares to Gaybutton's versatility. I love the look and the feel. There are just too many programs out there not to love this thing. In the USA, all the stores I went to were sold out of the WiFi only version as I was trying to pick up one for a friend. I was not successful. I did get the 3G version for myself and I was able to test it and while it is not 3G speed in LOS, it is not 3G in USA either. It is very sufficient to do e-mail and casual Internet work. For Thailand, I suggest that if you want to use it on the 3G, that you go with 12Call. Buy a new Sim Card. Put 700 on that sim card. Call the company and tell them you are going to be using a blackberry and that you want the Unlimited Package. This will get you a savings of over 300 baht per month. The plan costs 650 per month. Forget all you have read about it being blocked. That is not true. You don't need to jailbreak it. It is as simple as putting a new sim in. HOWEVER, these are mini SIM cards just like the new IPhone 4G. So, you will have to trim it down. I suggest going to Tuk com and having someone do that for you. Then, you insert the Sim in and you are ready to go. So, to sum things up. If you want an amazing device that works on the telephone network in Thailand for e-mail and Internet: 1. Get a Sim Card. 2. Put money on it for the first month and then don't forget to deposit money online for other months. (Why? If you need to call them, you can only call from a 4G IPhone to talk to them). 3. Call your provider to sign up for Unlimited Internet. 4. Insert a pin to eject the Sim. 5. Take out ATT (Shitty Ass company from USA) and put in your new Sim. Turn On and surf. If you have questions on the process, let me know. Lastly, I love this device. The battery is amazing and the graphics are awesome. My favorite program is a Crossword program that downloads the newest crosswords from about 20 of the best places daily and stores then for you to play with. Second best program is the Kindle for IPad (IPhone). It lets you read all your Kindle purchased books on a great screen.

I have a free Gold Upgrade certificate that I can use by November. I was planning on flying back to LOS with this. But, trying to book out of USA anywhere other than LA proved impossible. Thai would not book Dallas or Houston. I could have booked with Continental but was told I'll have to pay double baggage and use 2 tickets. Continental was trying to charge 6k USD to book with them to use Thai Air out of LA. What a true Pain. Any suggestions for next time when I am trying to leave from Dallas or New York?

We are going to have a photo contest. The rules are simple. 1. Post your photos here and post as many as you like and want to enter. (They can't be photos that you posted last year for the contest. You are still welcome to post those entered last year but none of them will be eligible for this years contest prize). 2. The photo must be original and taken by the poster who posts it. 3. The photos will be judged by a group of impartial judges with the top 10 selected 10 days before the All Forums Meet and Greet. 4. The top ten will be voted on by the members here and the winner will be the ones with the most votes. Only one vote per registered. Prizes will be given away on night of our choosing. If unable to attend, we will find a convenient date when you are in Thailand for the prize. The Prize is a bottle of Chivas Regal Scotch Whiskey.

Been taking some photos of the boys you know in the Land of Smiles? Well, lets see those smiles. Post them here and get a chance to win a bottle of Whiskey. 1. Post your photos here and post as many as you like and want to enter. (They can't be photos that you posted last year for the contest. You are still welcome to post those entered last year but none of them will be eligible for this years contest prize). 2. The photo must be original and taken by the poster as it is a Smile contest, hopefully it will have a boy or girl with a beautiful smile. 3. The photos will be judged by a group of impartial judges with the top 10 selected 10 days before the All Forums Meet and Greet. 4. The top ten will be voted on by the posters here and the winners will be the ones with the most votes. Only one vote per user. Prizes will be given away on a night of our choosing. If unable to attend, we will find a convenient date when you are in Thailand for the prize.

We are going to be upgrading our forum to newest version. This entails us making a back up, adding new and then bringing back all topics. You may see some features not working properly. We hope to have this done by week's end. My apologies for any inconvenience.

I am currently in NYC in a very overpriced hotel the size of a shoebox. However, I am having a great time. I have been helping friends with the events of Broadway Cares / Equity Fights Aids events for this weekend. When I lived in NYC, it was one of my favorite weekend (other than the Black Party and Gay Pride Week). I had dinner with some friends from law school and caught up on old times as one of them is having a grandchild. OMG. I am getting old. I did not get to spend too much time in NYC this week but it was a fun weekend. It was so different from my weekends in LOS. What's your idea of the perfect weekend? Do you generally prefer unstructured time or a busy social calendar? Charity work? Bar hoping? Being alone working the crossword? Catching up on e-mails?

What is the most disgusting food you have ever eaten in LOS? My Aunts and I were discussing the trip I took them on a few years ago and the things they saw on the streets. They are VERY southern and picky eaters. I told them that I have tried just about all the things on the carts that roll around. Eating the grasshoppers were perhaps the most disgusting for me but only because I could tell what it was. What is the most disgusting food you have ever eaten in LOS?

I am not breaking up with my beloved. He and I get along great when I am out of LOS. However, my best friend in USA just broke up with his BF and is having a hard time. How do you recover from a bad break-up? The proverbial pint of ice cream? Quality time alone? Going out with friends? Getting laid? Going to the bars? What are your personal healing strategies?

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers arguing a landmark federal case involving California's same-sex marriage ban made their final arguments Wednesday, with supporters describing matrimony as an institution intended to promote childbearing and opponents saying the U.S. Supreme Court had recognized it as a fundamental right. Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson delivered the closing argument for the two, same-sex couples who sued to overturn voter-approved Proposition 8, claiming it violated their civil rights. He told Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker that tradition or fears of harm to heterosexual unions were legally insufficient grounds to discriminate against gay couples. "'We have always done it that way' is a corollary to 'Because I say so.' It's not a reason," Olson said at the start of the five-hour hearing. "You can't have constitutional discrimination in public schools because you have always done it that way." Former U.S. Justice Department lawyer Charles Cooper, who represents religious and conservative groups that sponsored the 2008 ballot measure, countered that cultures around the world, previous courts and Congress all accepted the "common sense beli ef that children do best when they are raised by their own mother and father." "The plaintiffs say there is no way to understand why anyone would support Proposition 8, would support the traditional definition of marriage, except through some irrational or dark motivation," Cooper said. "That is not just a slur on the 7 million Californians who supported Proposition 8, it's a slur on the 70 out of 108 judges who have upheld the decision as rational." Walker is being asked to strike down the ballot measure that banned same-sex marriages in California five months after the state's highest court legalized the practice and after an estimated 18,000 couples from around the nation had tied the knot. The judge heard 12 days of testimony in January, but closing arguments were delayed until Wednesday to give Walker time to review the evidence and because of a skirmish between lawyers about putting additional material from the 2008 campaign into the trial record. Walker did not indicate when he might make his ruling in the trial, the first in federal court to examine if states can prohibit gays from getting married. Whatever the judge does will be almost surely be reviewed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and could land before the Supreme Court. Olson invoked the high court often during his closing argument, stressing that it has afforded prisoners serving life sentences and child support scofflaws the right to marry and refused to make procreation a precondition of marriage, as evidenced by laws allowing divorces and contraception. "It is the right of individuals, not an indulgence to be dispensed by the state," Olson said. "The right to marry, to choose to marry, has never been tied to procreation." Judge Walker pressed Olson on that point, noting Proposition 8 supporters have gone to some lengths to argue that gays and lesbians only can have children with help from a third party, unlike opposite-sex couples. "That is a difference," Walker said. "And why is that difference not one the Legislature or voters could rationally take into account in setting the marriage laws in California?" Olson said that argument would only work from a constitutional standpoint if the ban's backers had proven that allowing gays to wed was a threat to heterosexual relationships, a requirement Olson said had not been met. "You would have to explain or make some statement that allowing these other individuals we represent here today to engage in the institution of marriage would somehow stop people from getting married ... or cause them to get divorced," he said. Cooper used his closing argument to try to persuade the judge that it was up to the plaintiffs to prove that voters lacked justification for outlawing same-sex marriage, even if they acted only out of fear of the unknown. He urged Walker to sidestep the "judicial tsunami they are asking you to sail into." "The plaintiffs have to negate every conceivable rational basis that might explain the policy at issue," he said. Cooper's repeated efforts to use the procreative abilities of opposite-sex couples as the rationale for Proposition 8 drew a series of challenges from Walker. The judge asked if similar arguments were once used to keep interracial couples from marrying, and if procreation was so central to marriage, why didn't the state refuse to sanction marriage by infertile couples or couples who choose to remain childless? "It is Orwellian, but isn't that the logic that flows from the premise that marriage is about procreation?" Walker asked. Cooper answered that it would be impractical for governments to test couples to see if they were capable of having children before they marry or to require those that were capable to sign pledges that they would have children. With respect to laws that banned interracial marriage, Cooper said, "those racist sentiments and policies had no foundation in the historical purpose of marriage, and in fact they were at war with it." During Olson's rebuttal, the judge seemed to wrestle with whether he should declare Proposition 8 unconstitutional when public opinion appears to be moving toward accepting same-sex marriage, which is legal in five states and the District of Columbia. A premature judicial edict, Walker said, could harden public opinion in the same way as the high court's 1973 decision legalizing abortion. When the Supreme Court invalidated interracial marriage bans in Virginia and 14 other states in 1967, "there was already a tide running, a political tide with respect to interracial marriage," Walker said. "Do we have a political tide here that is going to carry the Supreme Court?" "Your honor, there is a political tide running. And I think that people's eyes are being opened," Olson answered. "But that doesn't justify a judge in a court to say, 'I really need the polls to be just a few more points higher. I need somebody to go out and take the temperature of the American public before I can break down this barrier and change this discrimination." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOiMLmsztmiGlNvjNLQLw4N41h1QD9GCNNJG0

"She Loves It When You Poke Her Face" “When it comes to gag factor, Lady Gag Gag’s got it,” says Kevin Johnson, Marketing Manager of Pipedream Products. “This is going to be one of those boxes people are going to collect and display proudly for friends to come over and talk about. We definitely recommend everyone stock up because she is going to sell out fast!” http://www.pipedreamproducts.com/email/060110-Press-Release/060110-Press-Release.html

The BF wanted to be sure I paid UBC when I was away from Thailand. Why? The World Cup of course. He had not touched the TV in 3 months. But, now he wants to watch all the games late at night with his friends. When the UBC bill came, he SMS me to make sure I knew there was a bill that needed to be paid. I found this poll on live journal and thought it was great.

Has someone you loved and respected ever done something you consider despicable? If so, how did you deal with it? Did you try to forgive them? Did it permanently change your feelings for them?

If you could only visit one website for the rest of your life, what would it be? Me: I choose BBC

Perez Hilton posted a photo of Miley Cyrus on his Twitter. It was her getting out of a car without panties. Her pussy was showing. The problem. She is 17. Thus, Perez is in hot water. Miley has said she is very comfortable with her body and wants to show it off. Personally, I think Miley is stupid for this and her parents should have been in charge of the situation. However, she is almost 18 and I don't think Perez really thought about the consequences of the photo before it appeared. Do you think Perez should get charged? The photographer? Or, is this even a big deal?

I am currently in the USA on business, pleasure and family time. I have been in hotels for a bit and have had issues with Firefox on my Mac. Does anyone else use these with no trouble? If so, I think it may be a provider issue. Thanks.

OK. Silly question I know. My beloved is going away to be a Monk for his mother's good luck. He will be gone for one month. He says that the cost will be over 25k baht. Is this accurate? A complete fabrication? He said that I can hand the money to the monk myself. LOL But, I still have a VERY hard time understanding why anyone would pay to be a monk for a month. Anyone gone through this?

The season finale to Breaking Bad was fantastic! Can't wait for next season.

(Reuters) - Iceland, the only country in the world to have an openly gay head of state, passed a law on Friday allowing same-sex partners to get married in a vote which met with no political resistance. The Althingi parliament voted 49 to zero to change the wording of marriage legislation to include matrimony between "man and man, woman and woman," in addition to unions between men and women. Iceland, a socially tolerant island nation of about 320,000 people, became the first country to elect an openly gay head of state in 2009 when Social Democrat Johanna Sigurdardottir became prime minister after being nominated by her party. "The attitude in Iceland is fairly pragmatic," said Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, a political scientist at the University of Iceland. "It (gay marriage) has not been a big issue in national politics -- it's not been controversial." The prime minister's sexual orientation garnered far more interest among foreign media than in Iceland, where the attitude toward homosexuality has grown increasingly relaxed in the past two or three decades, Kristinsson added. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65A3V020100611 Iceland's protestant church has yet to decide whether to allow same-sex marriages in church, although the law says "ministers will always be free to perform (gay) marriage ceremonies, but never obliged to." The largely protestant countries of northern Europe, including Sweden, Norway and Denmark, have all endorsed some form of civil union between same-sex couples, but the issue creates more controversy in Mediterranean Catholic nations. In the United States, gay marriage remains a frought political issue, with laws varying widely from state to state. Vermont was the first state to allow same-sex civil unions in 1999, followed by Massachusetts and Connecticut and others

Tony Award show host Sean Hayes had implied in a press call last week that he might make a nod to the Newsweek article that said he wasn't convincing as a straight man in his Broadway show Promises, Promises. And last night night during the Tony show he did. He didn't say anything, he planted a big wet kiss on his play co-star Kristin Chenoweth. "I know what you thinking," he said afterward. "She's too short for me." A photo doesn't really do it justice. Here's video: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2010/06/sean-hayes-makes-out-with-kristin-chenoweth-at-tony-awards/1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAPagwN55U&feature=player_embedded

Tony Award show host Sean Hayes had implied in a press call last week that he might make a nod to the Newsweek article that said he wasn't convincing as a straight man in his Broadway show Promises, Promises. And last night night during the Tony show he did. He didn't say anything, he planted a big wet kiss on his play co-star Kristin Chenoweth. "I know what you thinking," he said afterward. "She's too short for me." A photo doesn't really do it justice. Here's video: Sean Hayes makes out with Kristin Chenoweth at Tony Awards - USATODAY.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAPagwN55U&feature=player_embedded

I am absolutely positively amazed at all the talent you find. I have yet to meet someone that seems to find so many hot guys. And, on top of that, you always get me yearning and longing for a return visit to Brazil. Thank you!

I am a VERY regular person to get the extra screening at airports when returning from abroad and especially Thailand. Today was no exception. I was sent for the extra screening and they searched everything I own (typical and they have never found anything inappropriate). But, today for the first time the guy asked me to turn my hand over and he felt my pulse and measured my heart rate while he was asking questions. I was stunned. I didn't know what to say or do. I answered all his questions as truthfully as I could. He asked if I went to Thailand to visit ladies, did I have a girl living with me, etc etc. It seems after 50 or more extra searches and me talking about the BF and even them asking for his photo in the past that they would have it written down. But, they were asking me about ladies. Flattered I looked straight and not flamboyant but also wondered if they knew something I didn't. I wonder if my future is to be with ladies? Am I not gay? I am dazed and confused and after a few nights of sleep I'll reflect back on the cute TSA guy holding my hand and my pulse.