{This thread is a continuation of the original “Ask the Gay Guy!”, “Ask the Gay Guy II!” and "Ask the Gay Guy III! threads.}
Time for yet another housewarming! Response continues (albeit sporadically) from the original Gay Guy threads, and part III was getting too long to maintain, so here we are at part IV. For the sake of continuity, I’ll re-post the original premise here:
As there continues to seem to be more than just a little misinformation out there, both subtle and gross, about homosexuality, this thread is here to function along the lines of “Homosexuality 101: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Homosexuality But Were Afraid To Ask.”
Essentially, if you have any question regarding homosexuality or related issues (i.e., “Why are people gay?”, “What does top/bottom mean?”, “What’s your phone number?” ;), etc.), post it here, and I and several of my gay male cohorts here on the SDMB (you know who you are) will post our personal experiences and knowledge on the subject. No, none of us are “experts” on homosexuality, but we do know what it’s like to be gay, so between our personal experiences and factual data we can cite, it seems to be useful for some people to even have one gay person’s point of view. (Personally I used to do these things in sociology, social work, etc. classes in college - basically it was, “Hi, I’m gay - any questions?” and people would write down questions and a bunch of us would answer them. We called them MTQ’s [Meet The Queers].)
Fortunately, we have also been blessed with even more diverse points of view on this board. First, we have several lesbians (and you know who you are) who have been willing to share their experiences and knowledge with us. Then, we have several bisexual men and women (and you know… never mind!) who have also been kind enough to impart us with their wisdom. (And please, if you have any bisexual-specific questions, pop over to Chef Troy’s “Ask the closeted bisexual guy!” thread and feel free to post them there.) We even have Asmodean’s “Ask the Transgendered Person” thread to handle questions in the area of gender identity.
Fortunately everyone has adhered to a few simple rules, which I’d like to see continue:
[ul][li]No flaming (other users, that is); that’s what the Pit is for.[/li][li]No religious debates; there are adequate other threads in GD for that.[/li][li]No civil rights debates; there are adequate other threads in GD for that, too.[/li][li]Opinions should be expressed in a non-abusive way (at least try not to be offensive, and assume what you’re reading isn’t intended that way, either).[/li][li]If you are expressing an opinion, do not state it as fact, unless you have the cites to back it up.[/ul][/li]
I’ll recommend that if you do have a question you might want to first consider searching the other “AtGG” threads (either by reading through them [and note there is a summation of part I on the first page of part II] or using the “Search” function at the upper right-hand corner of this page) as we’ve already covered a lot of ground and your answer may already be waiting for you to find it, but any questions asked will either be answered or replied to with an appropriate link. (I’ll eventually do a page-by-page topics summation of the II & III threads here.)
So let’s open up the floor once again… any questions?
Esprix [sub](The Original One Trick Pony!™)[/sub]
