Gay-friendly Thread!

[SparklieSunShine]

Oh geeze....You want names? lol. Let me try to remember....Well at the "Tiki bar" as I will call it at the pool they have a small list of drinks posted. I tried all of them and I became obsessed with one that was some sort of coconut, pineapple mix. Sort of a bay breeze, but frozen with other stuff mixed in. I'm not much help am I? They were amazing though. In my opinion the best I had down there. Well the Sake in Japan was good too.

While I am remembering has anyone ever eaten at the California Grill? I ate there on my last trip and we had a window seat with a perfect view of the fireworks and it so was so magical and the food was amazing! It was a little loud, but still romantic. That was the biggest highlight of our trip. The meal was not rushed it took a little over two hours and we just enjoyed the atmosphere, the view, and each other's company.

Also we experience no problems or animosity from anyone during our trip. We held hands a lot and gave each other little pecks now and then. It was fine! We could never do that where we live so it was very refreshing. The only problem was the Disney photographers. They always put us in silly friend poses. I wish I had told them we were a couple so my photos would be a bit nicer. Oh well. Live and learn.

 

[OrlandoMike]

The first "real" date my partner and I went on was to the California Grill. I was trying to impress him.

We were sat at the window table closest to the Magic Kingdom, by pure chance! I knew I was golden then! LOL

Just as desert was put down the fireworks went off! ( I thought to myself, "It's a shoe in for tonight"!

He moved in a month later! LOL

The best part about it was he was trying to impress me, so he left his glasses at home, couldn't see the Fireworks at all! Geesh! And I gave him the seat facing the MK!

WOW, it's been 10 years now!

We still go there at least once a year, such a great place!

 

[crazydingoman]

i am free of social predjudices

 

[Valentine]

I hope everyone is having a great time RIGHT NOW dismeeting while the rest of us are at our various homes being jealous! LOL!!

Well.. i am off to the theatre.. have to get into make up and costume by 7:30.. all I want to do is take a nap though!! LOL!!

Hope everyone is having a good night!

Stay warm!! Getting mighty chilly here in NY!!


Kathy

 

[True North]

OrlandoMike: What a great story! I think it could clearly be the next topic starter! How did everyone meet / start to date their DP?

 

[OrlandoMike]

I missed the meet last night!

1. I got out of work very late and

2. Viki left her cell phone in the room.

I just talked to Viki this morning and they are having a great time! Might even go swimming today.......BRRRRRRRRRR

I have assured her that I am not upset about her leaving her phone in her room, but have secretly arranged for her to spend a good half hour riding Small World endlessly on her Magic Kingdom day as punnishment!

We are planning on meeting Thrusday night at PI.

BTW EPCOT was a madhouse last night! PACKED!

 

[SparklieSunShine]

OrlandoMike that was such a lovely story. ) That was a nice thing to read first thing at the office.

TrueNorth that sounds like a lovely story though I must admit my story is not very interesting. I think you should go next.

 

[mickeem]

Well, ugh... I'm back at home, in the cold.... brr.... 23 last night when we flew in, and it was 80 at MK yesterday!!

We got to meet up with Penny and Linda, Sue, and Viki. We missed you Mike!!
We had a great time, and a couple drinks... & Got to listen to some piano playing inside the Rose & Crown.

I know Sue and Viki & her Crew are still down there for the rest of the week.
So, cant wait to hear some stories...

I will try to post some later today.

Can't wait to go back, thats for sure!!

__________
Traci

 

[raddyroo76]

Hey guys I went to MVMCP last night It was fun but really busy! We are going to Epcot tonight hopefully it will be a bit less crowded. I am planning on being at PI Thurs. Hope to meet some fellow disers there.

 

[jamieandben]

Olandomike
what disney park do you work at
and how long have you been with disney

 

[RickinNYC]

Hey gang. How's things?

Someone catch me up on what's going on. Gimme the "previously on Desperate Housewives" version!

 

[SparklieSunShine]

I would fill you in, but I am really not so sure. Things are very scattered on the thread right now which I think has a lot to do with the fact that some of us are in Orlando. TrueNorth suggested that we each tell our story of how we meet our significant other and then I suggested he go first. He hasn't come back yet since I said that. lol.

 

[True North]

hahaha! SparklieSunShine busted me! I think after OrlandoMike had such a good story, no one could compete. My story isn't that good.

DH and I met through a mutual friend during university. We instantly became great friends and hung out all the time. We were both dating other people, and really were nothing more then friends. About 6 months later we had both had ended it with others and had a group outing to a bar with a bunch of our friends. As always we met up first and headed to bar. We arived a little late, and everyone got quite as soon as we got there. (AKA: the obvious "we have been talking about you" silence) So after a few drink I asked what that was about. One friend finally told us, "you two have been dating for 6 months, but don't even know it". We all laughed about it, and that was it.

Well, I don't know if it was that comment, or the fact we ended up drinking more beer that day then I have seen in my entire life, but by the end of the night we were dating.

 

[SparklieSunShine]

Awww. That is a really sweet story. It's funny the way things happen like that sometimes.

 

[True North]

Okay SparklieSunShine, I did mine, you have to do yours!

 

[joanjett1976]

Great partner stories everyone!

We met at a cruisy gay man bar here in Montreal. It was one of those, see the other person from clear across the dance floor kinda thing. Didn't say a word. At closing time, touched arms and asked if we would be there again next week. That was three years ago. And that... is pretty much that!

Work is a little crazy, Shakira is coming in next week. Some fool broke into my apartment and stole my digital camera and a few other things. And I will be 30 in 26 days

 

[SparklieSunShine]

Oh gosh... my story. I am sort of embarassed by it, but here it goes...

Well I had known of Kimberly for years and years. We had Kindergarden together. We weren't friends, but we road the same bus and she sat across and up one row from where me and my cousin sat. I was very into Buffy at the time and my cousin pointed out that "that girl" was reading a Buffy book. I started talking to her and she reintroduced herself to me and we became friends. This was in November of 1999. We stayed casual friends and we talked on the bus everyday and then school ended and I started to go over to her house to watch taped Buffy episodes. She gradually became my best friend and got me a job at a gas station where she works.

Once the following school year started we were inseperable and I felt like I could tell her about everything. I was dating a boy named Jeff at the time and I used to talk to her about how things we going with him. Then Christmas came. I used to hate Christmas, but I spent almost the whole day with her and we worked and I had a great time. That night I was sleeping over and we had this little bed made up on the floor and we watched movie and I remember getting butterflies in my stomach.

The next night I slept over agian and things got a little....hmm...more intense shall we say and we ended up sleeping together. I was, to my knowledge, completely straight until that happened. So afterwards I had a very long conversation with myself about whether or not I might be gay. I could not deny that I was attracted to her and I realised that I had always been atracted to girls and boys and perhaps this mean't I was bisexual. I broke up with my boyfriend the next day. We ended up staying over each other houses every night that week and on New Year 2001 we had our first kiss when the ball dropped. We spent a little less time together after that and I was a little upset that she hadn't asked my out yet. So on January 3, 2001 at 1:34am I called her and asked her if she would be my girlfriend. She said yes and we have been dating ever since.

I feel like we have a very romantic relationship with a not so very romantic start. However it was high school. It was very backwards and I wish it would have gone a little differently, but the end result is nice. I'm still so in love with her and I feel lucky to have her in my life. Her personality contrasts mine in the perfect way and I do not think I could have contructed a better partner for myself. There you have it.

 

[RickinNYC]

Joe and I met in a kind of wierd way. He had actually met a good friend of mine first and they hit it off, at least by smooching. Nothing came of it. Then about a month later, same thing, same bar. Good friend and Joe met up and once again, got interested in each other, i.e. bar smooching. I asked them to watch my coat while I walked a friend of mine to the subway. I get back, my jacket is stolen out literally from under them. I go bananas and yell and rant and make an *** of myself. I cool off a little while later, apologize and buy them both beers.

Nothing ever came of Joe and my friend at all.

Throughout that year following, I'd see Joe out, we became "bar friends" but that's it. I intimated him. He thought I had a temper, I thought he was kinda "easy". (Turns out he wasn't at all) Saw him out, spoke to him. Talked about books and I admitted I had never read anything by a gay author at that time. He's in publishing so shortly after that night, about three days, a huge package arrived at my office. I open it and it's packed with novels by gay authors, or with gay characters. He had put post-its on all of them with his opinions.

I called him to say thank you and to offer to buy him a drink that evening in appreciation. We met, had a beer, which led to dinner. I thought he was a great guy. We subsequently went on 9 dates defore I'd smooch him. I had gotten out of a bad relationship the year prior and didn't want to get involved again for a while. I also didn't want to smooch so easily as my friend had the year previously. Plus, I knew he liked me and didn't want to lead him on.

But after those first NINE dates... 15 years later...

 

[nordkin]

Our story of how we met and got together......

We met in 1980. I was partnered with a former partner of hers from California and we lived in DC. We became friends and she moved back to California in 1982. We stayed in touch and she returned to the DC area in the fall of 1986, but I was still in a relationship with her former partner. I broke up with my partner in January of 87 and started seeing her (Joi) as a friend, just going out and having a good time. Well, March 15, 1987 we had gone out to dinner, gone back to her house and were talking. Suddenly it was 1 in the morning and when I said I was going home she said you can stay here. Your choice the guest room or my room, but I promise nothing will happen. I stayed in her room and needless to say something did happen. Here it is 18 years later and we are still together. We laugh about it now and when our kids asked how we got together they laughed as well. Just goes to show sometimes friends make the best partners.

 

[SparklieSunShine]

I love hearing these stories.