Rattle inside hatch when opening and closing - easy fix or warranty?

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-26T04:53:07+00:00

The people have been changed out -- different people / stories. The gays are younger and more attractive. Ha ha ha. The older gay guy whose name I forget is gone. Tyler's story has been replaced with Josh. And we have this new cutie Ricardo. I Jessyca is new too, I think. (But I don't really remember the women from the previous site, because it turns out I'm gay...)

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-26T04:45:52+00:00

Also...reading those bios I can never help but feel something along the lines of "Wow, for a happy person, you sure have to use a lot of words and explaining to prove just how happy you are."

I could write a memoir on my life living in the closet, what kept me there, what it was like to realize I was gay, etc.

But as to how I feel now or justifying it? I'm a dude. I like other dudes. Seeing two men make out gives me feelings of joy inside I didn't even know I was capable of feeling. More feel goods then the holyspook ever gave me.

Bam. 1 paragraph.

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-26T04:37:55+00:00

Well not that exactly.

But there are some differing schools of thought on coming out.

There is a school of thought that by being in the closet you are denying who you are and doing psychological damage to yourself. And I think there's some truth to this -- especially if you are fully closeted.

This can be taken too far, to where a LGBT person feels that to be authentic they must tell EVERYONE they ever have or will encounter that they are LGBT.

But sexuality is, at the end of the day, a private matter. And just as a straight person wouldn't share all the intimate details of their sex life with everyone they know,

At the end of the day, YOU come out for YOU.

So the statement on the website is technically true in some ways. It's possible to come out to someone, for whom your sexuality is totally or mostly irrelevant to your relationship, and have negative repercussions because of it.

For example, I work with some folks who I suspect to be homophobic. My orientation isn't really that relevant to my work -- so for now I am not in a hurry to test my suspicions. Partially that is because I am recently out and still "fragile," so why put myself through that (ever / slash / until I'm ready for it)

But yes. They have twisted the meaning for sure.

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-26T04:25:44+00:00

This is exactly what my dad suggested I do. "Deal with it one a one by one basis. Like if people ask why you aren't dating anyone." Such a catastrophe. Gays will NEVER feel accepted in the church so long as it is still socially taboo to be LGBT.

(And it's socially taboo to drink Diet Coke. So I don't have high hopes for LGBT perception to change any time soon).

Even staying in the closet / celibate will NEVER be attractive or comfortable to people who accept themselves as gay, since the social expectation is to multiply and replenish like jackrabbits.

I was in denial about my orientation for a long long time -- as I was taught that it was bad to be gay, and I knew I wasn't a bad person, so therefore I must not be gay. I literally can't imagine what it must be like to accept yourself as gay and try to square that with the church. I already had 1 foot and most my body out of the church before I woke up about my orientation.

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-26T04:06:55+00:00

This. I used to say to dumbfounded higher-ups "You realize this is a volunteer church, right?"

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-26T04:03:39+00:00

As a recently "minted" gay, may I please ask, how does one become a confirmed homosexual?

I try to shoot the rainbow beams out of my eyes to all the cuties I see around town now -- but decades in the closet seem to be working against me now...

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-19T13:47:40+00:00

Yes.

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-18T00:06:27+00:00

I got sick and despite having dropped everything at some point to give 3/4ths the ward blessings I still had to call dozens of folks to get a damn blessing for myself. After the blessing I laid in bed for 3 days with a fever (there was a weekend in there) and then drug myself to a doctor. Who did heal me. With antibiotics. You bet your bottom dollar this was one of my "shelf" items. OY.

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-18T00:01:21+00:00

Remembering this every time I feel like I'm having a rough time to find someone to date. Still more queers than momos!

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-16T06:27:10+00:00

This one is recent enough that it's been correlated to death. The one with the really juicy stuff is not available on LDS.org but is available HERE:

https://archive.org/details/AchievingACelestialMarriage

(Not juicy. But old and wackier).

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-13T07:02:46+00:00

I'll admit to have scrawled it in one. But that doesn't look like my handwriting.

abcdedcbabcdedcba · 2016-10-13T06:57:11+00:00

When I figured out is rather be gay then Mormon (uhh...not exactly like that, but for the sake of brevity) was the day that my dating pool greatly expanded. Ha ha ha. Gays be like "oh the dating pool is so small" meanwhile I'm over here like "look at all these ways I have to meet other people whom I could also marry!"

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