GayWay - the gay and lesbian discussion (aka. Any Gays here?)

[slooksterPSV]

I say this to all my friends and people who I care about very much so. Well, I care about everyone on this forum - male, female, gay, str8, bi, trans, lez, black, white, blue, pink, orange, yellow, etc. etc. etc. -. Anyways, if any of you ever need to just talk to someone, vent, get into personal matters (no matter what, ANYTHING means ANY/EVERYTHING) and want it to be just between you and me, you can always talk to me. I'll be here, drop me an email, contact me online:
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send me a PM here, but know I'll be here for you, in any time of need, no matter what. It may take a minute to get back to you, but I check my email (when I don't have school) about every 20 minutes, unless I'm asleep of course. So you can expect a quick response - but meaningful.
That is for everyone and anyone.

 

[slooksterPSV]

We all do what we can in our own time. My wake-up call was my doctor's comments. I mean- at risk for a heart attack at 27? It was quite motivating.

Wow, it shocks me, but its like in the past you were old if you even got to your 40's, now you live till like your 100's and now anymore some don't even live past their 20's - because of heart diseases, diabetes, etc. It's like we've gone up in years, then down.

You know, you just made me want to go get my green tea and drink it.

I always try and eat healthy when I can, but my family probably consumes (everyone all together, including me) about 40+ gallons of Pepsi a month. And chocolate is just addicting as well. But I always want to eat health, so when I have $$ and we go to the store, I buy like Kiwi, green tea, bananas, and salad and that. I just need to get everyone to shift over and do that in my family. - Although we do eat like alfredo pastas and pizza (the cheese is about the only bad thing in large amounts on pizza). I dunno.

 

[scem0]

my primary motivation is simple - I'd rather be fit than unfit and I'm willing to work to accomplish that. Plus, I find my workouts to be rather enjoyable - dancing and handstands, who wouldn't enjoy that?

_Emerson

 

[slooksterPSV]

my primary motivation is simple - I'd rather be fit than unfit and I'm willing to work to accomplish that. Plus, I find my workouts to be rather enjoyable - dancing and handstands, who wouldn't enjoy that?

_Emerson

I love to work out, but I didn't get into a workout class this year. I might drop Calculus and get into Body Conditioning. I love to workout, but I'm a full time uncle at home with my niece.

 

[scem0]

I'd love to be able to take a physical education course, but alas, I go to an art school .

_Emerson

 

[leekohler]

Wow, it shocks me, but its like in the past you were old if you even got to your 40's, now you live till like your 100's and now anymore some don't even live past their 20's - because of heart diseases, diabetes, etc. It's like we've gone up in years, then down.

You know, you just made me want to go get my green tea and drink it.

I always try and eat healthy when I can, but my family probably consumes (everyone all together, including me) about 40+ gallons of Pepsi a month. And chocolate is just addicting as well. But I always want to eat health, so when I have $$ and we go to the store, I buy like Kiwi, green tea, bananas, and salad and that. I just need to get everyone to shift over and do that in my family. - Although we do eat like alfredo pastas and pizza (the cheese is about the only bad thing in large amounts on pizza). I dunno.

I eat all that bad stuff too- just not so much.

 

[leekohler]

I'd love to be able to take a physical education course, but alas, I go to an art school .

_Emerson

Well, if you transfer to NYU it'll be all better.

 

[slooksterPSV]

I'd love to be able to take a physical education course, but alas, I go to an art school .

_Emerson

I thought you had to take one course of it, no matter what college you went to. Guess not though. So are you majoring in Graphics Design?

I eat all that bad stuff too- just not as much

See there's where I fail. I need to eat less of the bad and more of the good. Or way less of the bad. I try to quit drinking Pepsi, but its just soooo good.

 

[scem0]

Well, if you transfer to NYU it'll be all better.

I've decided against NYU, the NYU business school is really prestigious but according to a friend of mine who worked within the business school when she attended NYU, it's totally over-rated and the students are horribly full of themselves. I don't want the large lecture style classes, too. I like the friendly nature of my classes at Parsons.

I thought you had to take one course of it, no matter what college you went to. Guess not though. So are you majoring in Graphics Design?

Not really. It's called 'Design and Technology' and it's a broad major that encompasses graphic design, but isn't exclusive to graphic design.

Innovation, exploration, collaboration and anti-traditionalism drive the BFA in Design and Technology. Students use new and emerging technolgies and collaborate on real-world projects that take them to the next level. Graduates pursue careers in Game Design, Digital Filmmaking, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Broadcast Design, Animation, Web Design, and Technology-Enabled Environmental and Architectural Design, to name just a few. In the freshman curriculum, students receive an intense introduction to the web, audio and video, interface design, and computer programming skills.

I loved the program at first, but I don't want to have a tech career anymore due to personal changes, so I'm trying to get out of D&T and into Design and Management, which is a more business oriented program, which will help me in pretty much any career.

Oh, and the concert was amazing, Mates of State totally blew me away. They played 3 or 4 songs from their unreleased album and they were all fantastic, so I'm going to get that as soon as it comes out.

edit - goodnight gents, I'm exhausted and I have class at 9 tomorrow/today .

_Emerson

 

[Grey Beard]

BTW, are there any other gay guys here who REALLY enjoy football? And no, I'm not talking about watching all those hawt & sweaty guys just run into each other and push each other around. I'm talking, really throughouly enjoy the sport? I've been accused of not being a "good" gay (LOL) for liking football so much. So, am I alone? Or, are there any more football freaks out there?

Of course I love to watch football and can really get wrapped up in a good game. The only problem is it's the original football that you can kick it with your head. Nothing like the fairie football with all the padding and head gear.
Oh my laudy, I hope I haven't started someting here that'll get me in hot water again.
Kevin
aka Grey Beard

 

[Grey Beard]

I've seen the pounds drop off and some major sculpting, I'm really enjoying the physical side effects of my new physical lifestyle. Just 2 or 3 weeks into me moving to NYC I noticed the fat disappear from my legs. I barely even recognize my legs in the mirror anymore. My whole body had changed, except my ass - it... prevails. ._Emerson

De la peau de lion l'ane s'etant vetu
Etoit craint partout a la ronde.

Ferdinand Foch

Dressed in the lion's skin,
the ass spread terror far and wide.

 

[Grey Beard]

We all do what we can in our own time. My wake-up call was my doctor's comments. I mean- at risk for a heart attack at 27? It was quite motivating.

Lee, I had my first heart attack at 18. My family doctor told me if I didn't change my ways, I'd be dead by 25. I partied like there was no tomorrow (there may not have been) I drank heavily, I did any and every drug I could lay my stubby little fingers on. I still worked hard - and this is where I lost my buddy - and played harder. On my 25th birthday I made an appointment with my doctor, the last of the day. I took along a bottle of scotch, and we proceeded to demolish it.

But I'm still alive and kicking. Just not kicking very high these days. So I guess that the devil really does look after his own.

Kevin
aka Grey Beard

 

[Zaid]

When I told my straight suite mate about what happened at Splash that one infamous night (Getting Splashed at Splash), he laughed and said "Emerson - I didn't think you were gay when I didn't know you, but now that I know you, you are the gayest person I know" . That is pretty accurate though. I really really really like men, but I don't conform to most of the stereotypes. ... _Emerson

Yeh ok so i'm replying to something from two pages ago, forgive me. BT still haven't pulled finger and completed my phone line transfer so i grab my internet fix when i can.

Anyway ...

Liked the visual aides Em, btw, Windows and Mariah, i mean how much bad taste can one man have [/me ducks]

I get that same reaction from my mates Em, Never would have guessed that i was gay but now that they know ... OGTs all over the bloody place

I guess you're right about it being the people you're around. Throughout high school and uni i was surrounded by very stereotypically straight guys. The beer drinking rugby playing type. You know what i mean. So yeh i guess that rubbed of on me, no pun intended.

Though I'll back lee's threat to come and kick your arse (cute as it may be) if you turn into a celebrity worshipping flamer The gay mafia will get you boi.

Liked the t-shirt design. Did you do the artwork?

Some other good t-shirts that i've seen have been
1. Swallow my Pride!
2. Dolphins are gay sharks
3. Queer Britannia [underneath a union flag with the blue replaced with a light pink and the red with a darker pink.]

Also some posters that i made when i was on the committee of my uni's gay and lesbian society. (some good, some not so good ) They were party of a campaign to raise awareness of the society. It worked we even got into the uni paper. And one of the Christian fundie groups on campus (called His People - check poster 6) took offence. Nothing like free publicity huh)

homepage
Then follow the link to my idisk.

I'll keep them up for a week or so.
[also ignore the other galleries there, i need to update the links to the pics coz i renamed them all to have a saner naming structure ]

Frozone, I love watching rugby (which is sort of like American football, but for men . No padding, and none of this substitutions every 5 min, most players play for the full 90 mins ), for the sport of it, not just seeing some really fit guys running around on a field. Though of course that helps

football (soccer) I'm not so hot on. International matches yeh for sure but other than that i'm not to bothered with it.

Hey slookster, you said you're dropping calculus for body conditioning. What degree programme are you doing? Its probably a lot more fun. I wish i could have done that at uni. But then i was doing a math degree, so that probably wouldn't have gone down to well with the faculty. Never really enjoyed calculus. I mean don't get me wrong i never struggled with it, quite the opposite actually, but it was way to practical. I always shared the sentiments of my Set theory professor who said "Math is a lot like sex, it has a practical purpose but that is not why we do it" Nah pure abstract math was what i liked. Its a lot like mental masturbation

Anyway i have to go now. see you guys on Monday. And behave yourselves

 

[gekko513]

Zaid, the posters were just absolutely great!

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

We all do what we can in our own time. My wake-up call was my doctor's comments. I mean- at risk for a heart attack at 27? It was quite motivating.

I am getting closer each day to being able to do what I need and want to do in regards to my weight. It will be a tough road, but I have a goal to be able to lay out on the Caribbean beaches next October in my black speedo - without the children running up to me say "maybe we can roll him back in to the ocean to save him!"

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Also some posters that i made when i was on the committee of my uni's gay and lesbian society. (some good, some not so good ) They were party of a campaign to raise awareness of the society. It worked we even got into the uni paper. And one of the Christian fundie groups on campus (called His People - check poster 6) took offence. Nothing like free publicity huh)

homepage
Then follow the link to my idisk.

I'll keep them up for a week or so.
[also ignore the other galleries there, i need to update the links to the pics coz i renamed them all to have a saner naming structure ]

IMO there was not a looser among the group. Nicely done. Not much into t-shirts like that that - but there are a few that I would wear.

 

[vniow]

Vniow, lesbian sepratist, almost pissed myself when i read that. Made my morning. I'm having visions of vniow in rambo gear with an MK assault rifle in one hand and an AK47 strapped over the shoulder. Red headband, with a little rainbow flag embroided on the front (a bit of detailing clearly done by one of her gay-male friends). Leading a team of GI janes storming the island of Lesbos. [ok so maybe my imagination is a bit over active ]

I would so do me if I looked like that.

 

[scem0]

Loved the posters, Zaid, I think the "Two of a Kind Beats a Straight" one is particularly good .

_Emerson

 

[neildmitchell]

Lucky you're in sunny Cali. I wish they had that kind of open-mindness here. I'd go to a course like that, just for once, to see what it's like. I'm not that talented at drawing (well... not talented at all ), but who cares? I'll pretend to be serious and I'll... fake being talented... somehow. What matters is what I get in the end .

So where do you live, where they dont allow drawing of a nude male model in a school? The human figure is the hardest thing of all to draw. But when your inspired you'll see progress in your drawings. I know I did with the male model yesterday vs. the female model a week or two ago.

 

[neildmitchell]

Loved the posters, Zaid, I think the "Two of a Kind Beats a Straight" one is particularly good .

_Emerson

Heterosexuality isnt normal, its just common

Thought that one was a good one

 

[Grey Beard]

You 'Life' drawing

? The human figure is the hardest thing of all to draw. But when your inspired you'll see progress in your drawings. I know I did with the male model yesterday vs. the female model a week or two ago.

Hey Neil,
When are you going to scan your work, put it up, and post a link for us all to play the critic?

Kevin
aka Grey Beard

Le bon critique est celui qui raconte les aventures de son ame au milieu des chefs-d'oeuvre.
The good critic is one who recounts his adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

 

[Ugg]

I am getting closer each day to being able to do what I need and want to do in regards to my weight. It will be a tough road, but I have a goal to be able to lay out on the Caribbean beaches next October in my black speedo - without the children running up to me say "maybe we can roll him back in to the ocean to save him!"

It's a tough row to hoe and I fully appreciate where you are coming from. When I was younger, as long as I got enough exercise, I could eat whatever I wanted. I hit my mid thirties and the exercise slipped away and I kept eating. Over the last 8 months or so, I have lost about 15 pounds, not much but a lot of the fat has been sometimes painfully transformed into muscle. I got a new bicycle and have ridden it at least 3 times a week.

Today I was at the baths in Budapest /don't get too excited, it was a mixed baths and pricey so mostly older, but there were a few hotties there / and am proud to say that I looked better than most of the Hungarian men in my age group. Anyhoo, the point is that it's all about commitment and not worrying what you look like at the beginning but what you WILL look like at the end. Let us know when you need a moral boost, we're here for you.

 

[leekohler]

It's a tough row to hoe and I fully appreciate where you are coming from. When I was younger, as long as I got enough exercise, I could eat whatever I wanted. I hit my mid thirties and the exercise slipped away and I kept eating. Over the last 8 months or so, I have lost about 15 pounds, not much but a lot of the fat has been sometimes painfully transformed into muscle. I got a new bicycle and have ridden it at least 3 times a week.

Today I was at the baths in Budapest /don't get too excited, it was a mixed baths and pricey so mostly older, but there were a few hotties there / and am proud to say that I looked better than most of the Hungarian men in my age group. Anyhoo, the point is that it's all about commitment and not worrying what you look like at the beginning but what you WILL look like at the end. Let us know when you need a moral boost, we're here for you.

Well said Ugg.

 

[neildmitchell]

Hey Neil,
When are you going to scan your work, put it up, and post a link for us all to play the critic?

No sorry, not scanning my work, nothing to see, The poses were 5 minute poses, so not much got down except for some rough lines unfortunately.
Plus my sketching is bad, and I would be embarrased.

 

[Grey Beard]

The Moral boost

Let us know when you need a moral boost, we're here for you.

And Chip,
While Ugg and others can help you out with a moral boost, rest assured that I'm here to give an immoral boost when needed.
Grey Beard
aka Grey Beard