Hello all dopers. My first post in about 6 months so i’ll start with one which will no doubt spark controversy but i don’t intend it to (caveat). Just been watching the golden globes and brokeback mountain did well. I’ve not seen it so cannot comment on the movie itself, but i get the impression it’s becoming more and more trendy/fashionable being gay. Im not gay but have many gay friends whom are all pretty clean living, outgoing and productive with their lives. Will being gay become a trend for the yoofs of today/the future, i think it might. :wally
Thank god you chose to break your silence with this insightful posting. I look forward to many, many more such posts in the future.
I am confused by the inclusion of the putz smiley.
Or alternately, less life-threatening to come out.
I think the timestamp on your post got screwed up. I remember this being a fresh and intersting comment of great public interest, oh say, thirty years ago.
I’m not sure what this has to do with the topic. Are you implying that if your gay friends were slovenly, introverted, and lazy, then that would indicate that being gay is not trendy?
Well how about this, in a (possibly vain) attempt to make this a sensible thread.
Same-sex civil unions were just legalized in the UK. Not “marriage” in a legal term, but all-but-marriage. Furthermore, the general public and media are referring to the ceremonies as “weddings” and people “getting married”.
When Elton John married his long-time partner David Furnish, the press treated it as “Elton gets married” not “OMG LOL GAYS GET SPLICED!” The gossip magazines had “Elton’s honeymoon pictures!” not “ROTFLOL GAY PEOPLE ON HONEYMOON!!!one111!”
Apart from a very few religious misery-guts waving signs, the unions have been largely greeted with opinions ranging from “no big deal” to “a great day for civil rights”.
Does this mean that being gay in the UK has now become “trendy”? IMO, no. I fully believe that my sexuality was defined from the day I was born, and I like chicks not chaps. Getting jiggy with a gentleman just doesn’t do it for me, and there’s very little likelihood that I would ever have got with a guy, even if being gay were suddenly the latest adolescent fashion when I was a teenager.
Um…it **is ** marriage in the legal term; not in the churchie term. They are as married as my husband and I are.
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[Moderator Underoos On]Insulting implication that being gay is some sort of fashion choice, coupled with a "putz"ing? You made us wait six months for this?
Please don’t post junk like this in IMHO again. Closing thread.[/Moderator Underoos On]