Newbie -- Let's get to know eachother

[DVC~OKW~96]

ConcK! Do you have any idea at all how hard it is to hear you say that? You are the kindest person! I am absolutely grateful that you made it through that dangerous time.

Hi Jessa. I'm late to the party (nothing new there)! LOL. I have shoes that are 20 years old. Coming out is vital to existence. Congratulations on your journey!

Welcome to this site. I'm another "local" who can get to WDW within 20 minutes or so.

Have been with my wife for years and years and years and years. Intend to be with her for a lifetime more.

 

[JarethDrakul]

Gratz!

Comming out is a big deal. I was severely depressed and suicidal because I couldn't come to terms with myself. When I finally came out, it was like the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders

Thanks

Yeah, I've been having really bad periods of depression for the last few years, and I've found it hard talking to friends about some things but now I can...and I'm happier

 

[BarleyJack]

Welcome! I'm Dale, lurk mostly but post here and there. Came out in 1992 when I was 20 as well. Live just outside Nashville TN with my partner of nearly 10 years. I'm the Disney freak, he tolerates it LOL. There's a lot of great ppl here, our first trip wouldn't have been the same without their help!

 

[ConcKahuna]

By the way, your avatar is creepy!

I have a thing against clowns. It comes from having read Stephen King's "It" for a middle school book report!

 

[BarleyJack]

Thanks

Yeah, I've been having really bad periods of depression for the last few years, and I've found it hard talking to friends about some things but now I can...and I'm happier

Glad you found an outlet! Remember, family doesn't always mean blood relations.

 

[BarleyJack]

By the way, your avatar is creepy!

I have a thing against clowns. It comes from having read Stephen King's "It" for a middle school book report!

You read "it" in middle school? Damn I'm old LOL

 

[JarethDrakul]

By the way, your avatar is creepy!

I have a thing against clowns. It comes from having read Stephen King's "It" for a middle school book report!

Mine? mines my favourite singer dressed as a nurse with typical cyberpunk fashion too....weird because I'm scared of anything medical (needles :S) haha.

Ah Stephen King's "IT"....the only character I've ever liked, hated and feared all in one haha

 

[ConcKahuna]

You read "it" in middle school? Damn I'm old LOL

Hey now, IT came out in '86. You were only 16 at the time!

 

[BarleyJack]

Hey now, IT came out in '86. You were only 16 at the time!

True; when you said middle school I was thinking, wow, I was in HS by then. Now I don't feel so bad, thanks D! LOL

 

[Sphyrna]

I'm Kieron, I'm 18...haven't really come out properly but I told some of my friends on Thursday Night

Just coming to terms with accepting myself...which is weird after I've been telling people for years to accept themselves for themselves haha.

It can be hard coming out. I didn't have a difficult time with it but then again I'm not totally out still. In a way I feel it's on a need to know basis and few need to know what I do in the sheets. But at the same time it is who I am. I have a feeling after my Gay Days trip I'll be coming out at work. I think people have it easier now then when I was a teen and much easier than decades ago. It is more accepting and sometimes it seems like it's even "in" to be gay or bi. But that doesn't mean there aren't problems and difficulties. At least the internet helps. You can do research and find communities like this to talk to people about any problems you're having.

 

[JarethDrakul]

BarleyJack:
Yeah, I only came out because I'm friends with alot of the regulars on a band forum and we were all in chat and somehow got onto the discussion of sexuality and I said about how that day someone was discussing if I was gay or not in college and I said how I have never told anyone what I really was (some think I'm gay, some bi, some straight, some asexual)...and then somehow I ended up saying my sexuality to them haha (its weird everyone went quiet from the point where I said I was gonna say what I was to the point I said it haha).

I think my mother slightly knows, or assumes (why does everyone assume?!)

Sphyrna:
Yeah the reason I am having problems accepting myself is because everyone in school made out it was wrong...I know its a perfectly normal thing always have but when it comes to me...I don't know its just weird haha. Though I am going to London Pride with quite a few of my friends haha.

 

[ConcKahuna]

Sphyrna:
Yeah the reason I am having problems accepting myself is because everyone in school made out it was wrong...I know its a perfectly normal thing always have but when it comes to me...I don't know its just weird haha. Though I am going to London Pride with quite a few of my friends haha.

Remember: kids are in school to learn not to teach. I'd be willing to bet that your friends had zero life experience, and were going off of things they had heard rather than anything real.

Also, research in serveral universities has linked homosexuality to a combination of genetic markers. That means you were born that way (aka God made you like that).

 

[JarethDrakul]

Yeah that is true...most of them did go based on assuming...then most of the ideas they go came from the media funnily enough....

Oh I've always believed people are born that way, one of my favourite artists said this:

...or when people talk about the day they had their glorious coming-out. I mean, I can empathise, of course, at least to a certain degree ... but what I never understood is: how come they didn’t know before??? And how come that their difference wasn’t obvious to the whole world (at least on a subconscious level)??? As for me, I have always known. At the age of five these things were long crystal-clear to me, even though I had no proper terms to name it. I knew that I was attracted to boys...

the next bit she says about how her gender (long story but she believes in the perfect neutrality (third gender...which some cultures do have), its a complicated thing to explain Anna-Varney without reading alot of interviews and listening to the music).

 

[TJM1976]

Welcome, welcome...

I am one of the straight people that they let hang around!

You are amongst many fine Disney lovers. I'll tell you what I was told when I was new to the boards... "grab a party hat and jump in"!

hmmm.. I 'pose we will let ya hang around! We are just one big happy family!


I guess I'll chime in...... I live in Orlando.... been out for.... a while. Am single...... Love going to WDW!!!

 

[wilde_oscar]

Columbus, Ohio.

Land of ... Cedar Point?
Thats like... the parking lot of MK.
Haha, not nearly as fun either.

Cedar Point still rocks... I just need to be a little less tubby to fit in some of the rides.

so zulumara told me I should stop in the lgbt boards more often, so here I am. I work in gay bars, i plan gay events, and run a gay company... but don't tell anyone but my BF so I don't have to come out.

oh, last trip was a couple weeks ago for a cruise, next trip is in a couple weeks for slightly more gay than usual days

 

[ConcKahuna]

Cedar Point still rocks... I just need to be a little less tubby to fit in some of the rides.

so zulumara told me I should stop in the lgbt boards more often, so here I am. I work in gay bars, i plan gay events, and run a gay company... but don't tell anyone but my BF so I don't have to come out.

oh, last trip was a couple weeks ago for a cruise, next trip is in a couple weeks for slightly more gay than usual days

Good to see you around! I recognize the name, so i'm sure you've posted before (although it might have been on other boards).

You'll have to hang out with us on one of the days!

 

[Sphyrna]

Cedar Point still rocks... I just need to be a little less tubby to fit in some of the rides.

so zulumara told me I should stop in the lgbt boards more often, so here I am. I work in gay bars, i plan gay events, and run a gay company... but don't tell anyone but my BF so I don't have to come out.

oh, last trip was a couple weeks ago for a cruise, next trip is in a couple weeks for slightly more gay than usual days

Welcome to the lgbt boards!

That's one of the things that surprised me about CP last time I was there. I'm a big guy but I don't think I'm THAT big, yet there were a couple rides there that I don't think I would have fit on.

 

[insoin]

Hello all
Scott
Louisville, KY
I came out in college, about 23 or so

Im Lukas, 22, came out at 20 also.

I live in Orlando, so Disney is an every other weekend thing for me.

You, sir, make me jealous!

:]

I have to agree I'm jealous as well.

I'm David, 28, and out since 1999

I live in Winter Haven, and lets just say I'm at Disney multiple times a week...

Ummm and rumor has it you even get paid to go there. How lucky you are...

I'm Kieron, I'm 18...haven't really come out properly but I told some of my friends on Thursday Night

Just coming to terms with accepting myself...which is weird after I've been telling people for years to accept themselves for themselves haha.

I hear that I had a hard time coming out as well.

Gratz!

Comming out is a big deal. I was severely depressed and suicidal because I couldn't come to terms with myself. When I finally came out, it was like the weight of the world had been lifted off my shoulders

I had the exact same feeling.

Welcome! I'm Dale, lurk mostly but post here and there. Came out in 1992 when I was 20 as well. Live just outside Nashville TN with my partner of nearly 10 years. I'm the Disney freak, he tolerates it LOL. There's a lot of great ppl here, our first trip wouldn't have been the same without their help!

Hi Dale, not to far down the road from me here in Louisville.

Cedar Point still rocks... I just need to be a little less tubby to fit in some of the rides.

so zulumara told me I should stop in the lgbt boards more often, so here I am. I work in gay bars, i plan gay events, and run a gay company... but don't tell anyone but my BF so I don't have to come out.

oh, last trip was a couple weeks ago for a cruise, next trip is in a couple weeks for slightly more gay than usual days

Hi Wildeoscar, I feel you on being to fluffy for the rides at CP. Were you the one that won the cruise from Pete by stalking him at Universal???

 

[I<3EvilQueen]

You can get in some serious trouble around here with words like that!

I love Cedar Point. Best Amusement park in the world. Notice I said Amusement park and not Theme park

 

[princess_dboo]

Okay. I'm very shy about this because it's new for me.
I'm bi.

I'm still hiding it from a lot of people because I live in a hick town where it isn't really accepted.