The Rainbow Connection [LGBTS Club] Page 120

Started by Shining Raichu May 22nd, 2011 5:52 AM
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In any other situation, you would be right, Careful. But my friends really aren't bad people - they were all just raised and taught to hate gay people. It's just the way it works here where I live.
The first and only attempt on a gay pride parade was 4 years ago. It ended in a matter of minutes, with bottles, firecrackers and other stuff getting thrown at the participants (Here's an article about that). With such a mind-polluting community, who wouldn't hate homosexuals?
As for the relationship thing, it's not that I don't have one because I'm scared of what my friends will think. It's because I don't know any gay persons, and I have no idea how to meet some :\ Ditching my friends won't really help me there.

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What CWP is doing is speaking idealistically. Nothing he said is wrong, it's just not really realistic for your situation. It's not as simple as "they don't accept me for who I am so I'll chuck them because they're not worth it" because in your current situation they are your only option.

So what I'd suggest is something more radical. Get out. Are you in college? If not, would you like to be? Just find somewhere far away to go to school, have an amazing college experience in a more accepting place and leave them all in your dust. You're never going to meet any gay people in that town; you need to get out and about and see that the world isn't really like that.
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I'm in a similar situation. I've never met another LGBT person in my life, and live in a fairly homophobic place. (Although probably not as bad as where you live.) Even though the college in the town I live in would be perfect for me, I insisted on leaving town (for a lot more reasons than just the homophobia... I made that decision before I even realized I wasn't straight.) Now I'm going to a college in Seattle, and everyone came out like it was no big deal on facebook while talking about the school's GSA, so I'm out before I even got there. lol
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Yeah, I am already in college, and it is awesome xD Well actually, I've done a lot of crazy things even before college :\ I guess that keeps my mind off this stupid situation I'm in.
I'll probably move out when I finish it (in 3 years), and then I'll finally be free. That's the plan, at least. Thanks a lot, guys, at least now I know that I am accepted here, on PC, which is really nice.

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That's what I love here. Gays, bronies, Tales fans, there's room for everyone in PC.

Conspiricy time! I don't know if this has been discussed, but Oreos released a pro-gay statement that recieved a lot of hate and boycotting. To the LGBT supporters, that seems brave of them. My mom has a different opinion. (She's a LGBT supporter too, so don't say it's a bigoted opinion) She thinks that despite the boycotting, this decision will end up boosting their business. It's possible that their pro-gay statement is just undercover business.

I'm not sure what to think, but she's rarely wrong. Then again, only time will tell.
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Of which you can check out here:
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We actually did discuss this a few pages back, and your mother's very point was brought up. While there's no way to prove it conclusively, she's most probably right; it probably is just an undercover business ploy.

But my argument is 'why does it matter?' It doesn't really matter that their motives aren't 100% genuine. A show of support is a show of support, no matter how shallow or mathematically minded. As long as their gesture spreads the message that it's OK to be gay and people shouldn't be discriminated against for it, then whatever benefit they gain out of it is no business of mine.

What matters is that a good deed was done lol
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As this club's resident rain cloud I am contractually obligated to disagree with Shining Raichu's "any show of support is good" stance and insist that only genuine shows of support, unconnected to any potential business gains, are worth praise.

Putting that aside, I've read recently that Scotland might be trying to make same-sex marriage legal. And Vietnam. And the American Democratic party might be adding it to their official political platform.

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[s]Putting that aside, I've read recently that Scotland might be trying to make same-sex marriage legal. And Vietnam. And the American Democratic party might be adding it to their official political platform.
You'll be interested to know that the whole of the UK has plans to legalise Gay Marriage by 2015 (possibly excluding Northern Ireland, it doesn't mention them) - But it would seem Scotland are doing it first, those go-getters.
Also it's great news about Vietnam!
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Is it ok if I ask a question concerning trans? Just need advice on something but just making sure its ok if I ask.
Megaman, you can always ask questions here - don't worry :3

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Yay. But isn't three years too long for that? Or do I just not know enough about politics?
The more you learn about something, the more you realize just how much you don't know. I've shelved my more ambitious ideas in favor of smaller, more feasible projects and contributions. While I still have an ongoing project, and still intend to experiment with improving Gen 3's multiplayer, it's been much less stressful doing smaller things, like entries for Anthroyd's MAGM contests.

Of which you can check out here:
Naillevaihcam
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Everything in politics moves at a glacial pace. That's the problem with the world today in general; there's too much red tape to cut through :P

And yeah Megaman, whenever you're ready to ask your question we'll be here :D

As this club's resident rain cloud I am contractually obligated to disagree with Shining Raichu's "any show of support is good" stance and insist that only genuine shows of support, unconnected to any potential business gains, are worth praise.
Now now, lets not put it aside so quickly :P. Simple question: why?
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Hey Altix! As long as you don't get too graphic on the forums themselves, you're more than welcome to ask sex-related questions. I have no issues with that whatsoever.

But if it is too graphic and you need an answer to it, you're more than welcome to PM it to me. I'm an open book and more than willing to answer any question you like :)
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LOL!

See, I would have absolutely no problems answering this here in the thread, but I know somebody would report it for being inappropriate and then I'd get my ass kicked. So, I'll let you know in private :P
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Does anyone deal with family members that think its a phase and you will grow out of it? I feel thats how my grandparents are seeing me being trans. Instead of respecting my wishes about it they ignore it and it leads to many fights. I just have been staying up in my room instead of spending time like we used too. Ugh its stressful

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I was going too ask how bad bottoming hurt, and how to make it hurt less. do I need too delete this or am I ok?
You're OK, you don't need to delete it. It's fine to ask the question, you don't have to worry :P

As for the answer - there's no real way to answer it that's appropriate for a Pokemon forum lol. I also don't have enough experience in the bottoming department to answer your question totally (I have some experience, but your question is designed for a specialist haha) so our friend SwiftSign has volunteered to PM you a better response than I could give. :)
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cool, thanks for the answer SwiftSign!

Does anyone deal with family members that think its a phase and you will grow out of it? I feel thats how my grandparents are seeing me being trans. Instead of respecting my wishes about it they ignore it and it leads to many fights. I just have been staying up in my room instead of spending time like we used too. Ugh its stressful
That sucks :( I hope your situation improves soon.

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I'll let you know in private :P
That could be taken more than one way. I'm now shipping QK x SR

Goodness, what I said could be taken more than one way, too. xD

Does anyone deal with family members that think its a phase and you will grow out of it? I feel thats how my grandparents are seeing me being trans. Instead of respecting my wishes about it they ignore it and it leads to many fights. I just have been staying up in my room instead of spending time like we used too. Ugh its stressful
I wish I could help you. My attitude to people who don't accept me is to cut them out of my life and I can luckily do that. That's just how I deal with things in general though. When I've had to deal with stuff like that I figured I could go one of two ways: either ignore what people say and avoid them or any situations where it could be a problem and hope time will help things sort out, or confront them and try to get them to understand - or at least find out how deeply their misunderstanding goes so I could evaluate whether the time and effort it would take to get them to come around would be worth it.

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So I got reminded of this thread when Andy decided to stalk old pictures of me.

Whilst we're on the subject of "bottoming" (I guess), I've noticed how a lot of people in the LGBT community have such a problem with the terms "top" and 'bottom," for the same reasons people have problems with the terms "man" and "woman of the relationship." Thoughts about this while we're on it?

Since I have no sexual experience because I'm lonely and on Pokecommunity.com.

Personally, I don't get offended by the terms themselves- I find the labels rather ridiculous; but not really for the usual "gender roles" dilemma. I mean, my sister is a very strong woman and my brother-in-law isn't a wimp, so I don't see either being "the man" or "the woman" in the relationship. People are usually a bit more complex than that.

But specifically for the whole "bottom" and "top" thing, I don't really like the tune of it. It sounds too selfish to me, I suppose. One person always giving and the other always receiving? For me at least, that just sounds weird to someone who isn't into it strictly being like that. I would rather not be forced into one or the other all the time.

I hope this isn't too spicy for the rules to handle.

Damnit guys stop having cybersex in this thread geez. I'm looking at you, Quilava. >:C

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Hey Guys I know I haven't been on in a while but I need some advice....

Should I come out to the rest of my family. I mean mother and little sister knows but my grandmother, and my two aunts who I'm fairly close with don't know. My mom was like it would kill them if they knew. So basically I'm just in need of some advice.

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Hey guys, I know I haven't been on in a while, but I need some advice....

Should I come out to the rest of my family? I mean mother and little sister know but my grandmother and my two aunts, who I'm fairly close with, don't know. My mom was like: "It would kill them if they knew." So basically, I'm just in need of some advice.
Sorry, my inner grammar nazi kicked in and so did the fact that I'm a douchebag.

Those relatives, I think, are hardest to come out to. Extended family. If it helps any, I plan to deal with my extended family by.... not having to tell them at all. They don't need to know as much as my family does and I really just don't value their opinion on the subject if they aren't accepting or I don't ask them for it, and quite frankly, they don't have to know. So if they have a problem with it, they can go kiss places that aren't very pleasant to kiss. My mom even said to me after I came out to her that "You know, you don't have to start telling everyone like Aunt Carol about this. She doesn't need to know."

But seeing as your family seems to be a bit closer with its extended family than mine, I guess this solution wouldn't work as well for you if you don't think it fits. :/

But maybe it'll give you inspiration or a different outlook that will help you, I suppose? Good luck.

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