PeterRS Posted August 11 Posted August 11 "As a gay man, I feel like a wave of anger, and violence, and resentment is heading towards us on a vast scale. I’ve literally seen a difference in the way I’m spoken to as a gay man since that November election, and that’s a few months of weaponising hate speech, and the hate speech creeps into the real world. “I’m not being alarmist. I’m 61 years old. I know gay society very, very well, and I think we’re in the greatest danger I have ever seen.” The reference to the November election may sound as though the quote comes from an American. Nope. He is British and very much an icon for British gay men. Russell T. Davies is one of the country's most prominent gay screenwriters. Think Queer As Folk about a group of friends in Manchester’s gay quarter and you know how his ground breaking tv series changed a lot of views in the UK. He had originally titled the series Queer as Fuck, but the network controllers understandably had a collective breakdown. In an article in today’s Guardian, his concern now is that, as he suggests, what happens in America always happens here. Reform UK, the party formed recently by the dreadful lying Brexiteer and one-time adviser to Trump, Nigel Farage, has been gaining voters at a rapid speed. “As we look down the barrel of a Reform government, we, the gay community, the queer community, should be revolting in terror, anger and action,” he says. And he blames Trump for much of it. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/11/russell-t-davies-blames-reform-and-trump-for-decline-in-uk-gay-rights Mavica, Vessey and Connordrick 3 Quote
Members Riobard Posted August 16 Members Posted August 16 Yet you are one of the top ranked board scolds, persistently squabbling with gay men and downvoting them at every turn. PeterRS 1 Quote
Moses Posted August 16 Posted August 16 30 minutes ago, Riobard said: Yet you are one of the top ranked board scolds, persistently squabbling with gay men and downvoting them at every turn. When an opponent with low culture and/or education finds himself in a situation where he has nothing to add or object to, he resorts to personal attacks. Just like illiterate peasant grannies at a village market who argue over the best trading place. On that forum it looks like this Mavica 1 Quote
PeterRS Posted August 16 Author Posted August 16 4 hours ago, Riobard said: Yet you are one of the top ranked board scolds, persistently squabbling with gay men and downvoting them at every turn. I do not recall downvoting any post until your posts appeared. And there is a good reason for that, as other posters have pointed out. Riobard 1 Quote
Members Riobard Posted August 16 Members Posted August 16 26 minutes ago, PeterRS said: I do not recall downvoting any post until your posts appeared. And there is a good reason for that, as other posters have pointed out. Well, cuz you rag on select others with text but have nothing intelligent to say other than a lazy emoji when you anticipate digging yourself into a deeper hole. I’m supposed to be impressed with your meagre motley crew of alliances when the readership is several thousand members? Even then, the low single digit subgroup that you just stated you rely on for backing seem to be subpar relative to your own intelligence. You’ve just served up a big nothing-burger of a response and you hardly exemplify gay rights advocacy other than the very deterioration to which you attempt to call attention . 🥱🥱🥱 PeterRS and Keithambrose 1 1 Quote
PeterRS Posted August 17 Author Posted August 17 10 hours ago, Riobard said: I’m supposed to be impressed with your meagre motley crew of alliances when the readership is several thousand members? Even then, the low single digit subgroup that you just stated you rely on for backing seem to be subpar relative to your own intelligence. What utter garbage - as we have come to expect from this poster. On how many topics have you posted? How many readers actually have expressed their liking of your posts? How many have you on ignore? You ridiculously claim to have joined the Board in 1970 long before it started, yet your first post was at the end of 2017. Perhaps not surprisingly it was on the subject of syphilis and gonorrhoea. Obviously right up your alley. 🤣 floridarob 1 Quote
Moses Posted August 17 Posted August 17 3 hours ago, PeterRS said: You ridiculously claim to have joined the Board in 1970 long before it started No. It is 100% technical issue. 1970 is year which operating systems will add to data base for to fill calendar field, if original data is corrupted. I think it happened at time of board migration or update. Quote
PeterRS Posted August 17 Author Posted August 17 On 8/11/2025 at 1:01 PM, PeterRS said: In an article in today’s Guardian, his concern now is that, as he suggests, what happens in America always happens here. Reform UK, the party formed recently by the dreadful lying Brexiteer and one-time adviser to Trump, Nigel Farage, has been gaining voters at a rapid speed. “As we look down the barrel of a Reform government, we, the gay community, the queer community, should be revolting in terror, anger and action,” he says. And he blames Trump for much of it. The Reform UK movement is already on the march. Durham County Council, run since May by the dreadful ultra right-wing Reform UK Party, is withdrawing the funds it has contributed regularly to the annual Gay Pride March from next year. Councillor Grimes (a somewhat appropriate name, I'd have thought) has said "Taxpayers shouldn't be bankrolling it. Durham Country Council isn't an ATM for contested causes." Instead the Council spend its funds on "the services everyone relies on, not on flying the latest alphabet flag for the professional offence industry." Durham Pride 2025 Quote
PeterRS Posted August 17 Author Posted August 17 4 hours ago, Moses said: No. It is 100% technical issue. 1970 is year which operating systems will add to data base for to fill calendar field, if original data is corrupted. I think it happened at time of board migration or update. It does not matter. The fact is that @Riobard has a false start date and has not bothered to update it. Corrupt misleading activity! Quote
Moses Posted August 17 Posted August 17 8 minutes ago, PeterRS said: has a false start date and has not bothered to update it. Corrupt misleading activity Forum hasn't such function. Nobody of users may do it, but admins. Quote
PeterRS Posted August 17 Author Posted August 17 19 hours ago, Riobard said: I’m supposed to be impressed with your meagre motley crew of alliances when the readership is several thousand members? Even then, the low single digit subgroup that you just stated you rely on for backing seem to be subpar relative to your own intelligence. You compare the readership who 'like' posts my as "subpar to my own intelligence". I suppose you do sometimes joke, for that is not merely a monster of a joke, it is utterly demeaning in the extreme to those who do enjoy my posts. And that is the more so compared to small number who actually bother reading your posts and then downvote them. Reality is clearly not your thing! 4 hours ago, Moses said: No. It is 100% technical issue. 1970 is year which operating systems will add to data base for to fill calendar field, if original data is corrupted. I think it happened at time of board migration or update. But you fail to note that it is still a lie and that @Riobard has done nothing to correct it. Funny how a random check of long-term posters shows that all have a specific start date going back to 2006. Well, I suppose that accounts for most of @Riobard's posts being in a fantasy land since no Board existed in 1970 Quote
