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Author Topic: Are you "out" at work? -> OT Weight Loss Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-13-2005 03:52 PM                        Actually, my LiveJournal is one place I just say what I think and am "out", although nearly every post making it obvious that I like guys is secure, so you have to to friend me to be able to read those posts.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 07-30-2006 11:47 AM                 It has been 562 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged William Phillips Expert Film Handler Posts: 117 From: Cardigan, Wales, UK Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-30-2006 11:47 AM                        Bored, bumping this one any new outs??  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-31-2006 06:17 AM                        How about the entire Pakistani cricket team, for 222 last Saturday?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-31-2006 12:44 PM                        Well, I don't come over to this forum as much as the others, so I just discovered this thread because it was bumped. I really think there is enough prejudice to go around. I have always be very sexually active at an early age (how old are you in the 7th grade?) and have been attracted to both sexes from very early on. It didn't take me long to discover that gays can be as bigoted as straights. I experimented all thru college with both girls and guys. Emotionally I am much more drawn to women; sex with guys is just easier because guys are ALWAYS horny. Thing is, I was not accepted by EITHER group, straight or gay. If gays find the ostrasism by the straight world painful, try being maligned by BOTH gays and straights. Very early on, I felt the wrath of gays who insisted that I was diluding myself in my relationships with women and when I said I was in love with a woman, I was told that my feelings were false; I was even sneared and shuned by a number of gays. As far as the gay guys were concerned, they said that I was "pretending to be straight" and encouraged me to "face the truth about being gay." While in the straight world, well...let me put it this way -- you can sleep with 300 women, but bed down with one guy and to the straight world, you are as queer as a three dollar bill, period. With that you get to experience all the nasty bigotry from that side of the isle as well. Most gays don't believe that a person can be bisexual. Thing is, I don't even consider myself bisexual (omni-sexual, perhaps), as that kind of implies that a person is 50% attracted to each sex. I feel that when I am attracted to a woman, it's as passionate as any other straight guy and 100% heterosexual. I haven't been with a guy in decades because I have been in long-term, happy and sexually fulfilling relationships with women, but still, that doesn't mean I can't have a full-blown, 100% attraction to a hot guy. As for being OUT....my close circle of friends, mostly straight, know that I have had both types of relationships. At work, I don't volunteer that information to co-workers who are just that, not friends, but people I work with. They can guess all they want, but what's it anyone's business? If I am asked outright, and I rarely am because I don't "look" gay (whatever that truly stupid concept is) my answer is, "Why is my sexuality important to you? I don't think a person's sexual proclivity is anyone's business, especially in the workplace, unless of course you want to go to bed with me -- do you want to?" That always shuts them up. All I know is, what I am attracted to is as much who I am as is the color of my hair and eyes and skin. And when I hear straight people talking about "choice" all I can say is, why are you so proud of being straight? You didn't to anything to get that way....you didn't work at it or earn it. You woke up one morning at the onset of puberty and looked at Mary Jane with the big tits and discovered, wow, you had a woody. You didn't say, "I wonder if I should choose to get a woody for her, or gee, there's Justin the quarterback with the bulging jockstrap, perhaps I'll get a woody looking at him. The woody chooses for you, and it never lies. You can tell yourself anything you want....WISH to be attracted to women, but why you like her or him has nothing to do with free will. Hell, even if you are totally straight you can't WILL yourself to be attracted to a particular girl. You are hot for this girl, but another does nothing for you. You can't control it at all. Even couples in love can suddenly realize that they are just no longer attracted sexually to each other, which wouldn't be such a crisis if as a society we weren't so damn totally hung up on sexuality, making it the measurement and the proof that we are "in love." Heterosexual, homosexual, bi, omni, even asexual, the thing that counts most is that we love well.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-31-2006 01:09 PM                     Good post Frank, I enjoyed reading that very much...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-31-2006 07:11 PM                        quote: Frank Angel The woody chooses for you, and it never lies. Quote of the day! Sounds like it should be in a "sig" or something.  |  IP: Logged Eric Hooper Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 532 From: Fort Worth, TX, USA Registered: May 2003 posted 08-01-2006 11:56 AM                     Frank brings up good points. There really are no hard and fast, black and white rules in life. And once the rest of the world gets over all the labeling stuff, we'll all be much better off.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-01-2006 06:12 PM                     quote: Frank Angel The woody chooses for you, and it never lies. I like that, it is now my new MySpace title! Haha, I'm like a little kid...  |  IP: Logged Donna Siegwart Film Handler Posts: 63 From: Houston, TX Registered: Jun 2005 posted 08-02-2006 12:45 AM                        I have been openly Bisexual at my theatre for over 4 years, and it made people feel odd when I first told them, but once they got to know me, they realized I was not the type of person to push my sexuality on people. Sadly in HS I had issues with A LOT of teens, as in my school I was one of the only OUT teens, with an very public lesbian relationship. Teens can be cruel. Anywho my coworkers stay out of my love life now a days. Some have noticed my pride keychain for my door keys, and I have gotten compliments from it. We had to deal with a homophobia issue recently, it was a rare thing, but it ended well at least.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-02-2006 06:02 PM                  It never ceases to amaze me that SOME gay people MUST make it a point to blab that they are gay to anyone and everyone... BOTTOM LINE: WTF CARES? Get a life! That is sooooo "High School". One's "worth" doesn't revolve around who they fuck! Most people, out of Jr High and High School could give a rat's ass as to who one sleeps with. I'm not sure about the theory that the "wood decides" one's sexuality. Most guys get a wood for many, even non-sexual, reasons. I think it's more of which sex one mentally covets and desires. Oh, and BTW Madamn Moderator, Hmmmm... just curious as to how your "wood" works for you? Strap-on dildo?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 08-02-2006 06:07 PM                     You seem so angry Phil. Marry me. Be the yin to my yang.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-02-2006 06:23 PM                  Angry? I'm not... and I don't get where you think I am you jerk! (hahhahahah Just kidding bud!) Seriously, I'm one that believes one's private life is just that and there is NO NEED to blab it to all within earshot. My post was not meant to be adversarial, but just ***MY*** opinion. Bottom line: FU Jeremy! HA! (OBTW: I DO NOT marry anyone without trying out the merchandise... let's fuck)  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-02-2006 09:18 PM                     Phil isn't the way "rent don't buy the depreciation is less"  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 08-02-2006 09:32 PM                    quote: Donna Siegwart I have been openly Bisexual at my theatre for over 4 years, and it made people feel odd when I first told them, but once they got to know me, they realized I was not the type of person to push my sexuality on people. Just out of curiosity, were most of the people that felt odd female? I ask this because it seems when a guy finds out a girl is bisexual they get the threesome flash or hey girl on girl going through their minds. When they find out a guy is gay they get the oooooooh gross going through their minds and the girls are like hey want to go to a club because they feel safe with them thing going through their minds.  |  IP: Logged

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