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Offline ACinKC

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The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« on: April 09, 2007, 12:55:21 pm »
It seems as if NOTHING can stop them!



http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3022746&page=1

The blending is Guerrilla Queer Bar DC, a social experiment bordering on activism that Jones, Trott and "the lesbian of the group," Amy Mulry, host.

Through a network of Internet profiles on Myspace, Friendster and Yahoo, they sound the call to gays and lesbians around the city and descend on a straight bar, on the third Friday of every month.

Tired of being limited to a few dozen gay bars, and Mulry points out, just two lesbian bars in the city, the group began seeking out straight bars three years ago. The trio began with an e-mail list of around 200; it's now approaching 2,000.

"When you're the only gay person, people tend to engage on that level, like 'Oh, I have a gay friend.' That's what defines you," Jones said. "If there are 20 gay people, then all of a sudden the conversation changes and it becomes about you being a person who has other qualities."



P.S.
I'm all for it!

LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2007, 01:03:42 pm »
This can only lead to line dancing.

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2007, 01:03:59 pm »
I'm here.  I'm queer.  And I also want a beer.
AIDS isn't for sissies.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2007, 01:05:06 pm »
Thank God they are not Jewish.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2007, 01:06:19 pm »
I love this!
(that pic is from 9/11, though...still heartbreaking to look at.)

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2007, 01:06:56 pm »
When they begin invading smoke-free coffee houses I'm in!

As a tee-totaler non-smoker I don't go into gay bars for more than 10 minutes and I ain't been in a straight bar since the Dandy Warhols played in one in the late 90s. 

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2007, 01:08:08 pm »
... or deaf
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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2007, 01:11:33 pm »
When they begin invading smoke-free coffee houses I'm in!

As a tee-totaler non-smoker I don't go into gay bars for more than 10 minutes and I ain't been in a straight bar since the Dandy Warhols played in one in the late 90s. 

SD

Dandy Warhols fan, huh?   ;)

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2007, 01:12:07 pm »
 ;D

Offline ACinKC

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2007, 01:28:48 pm »
Great.  All the fuckin clique members show up.  Just because you are in my thread don't be thinking you can take over my #2 ranking BITCHES!!!
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2007, 01:33:31 pm »
I know, I hated being number three. I feel so Jimmy Olsen. I would post further, but I'm all dying and shit.

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2007, 01:34:31 pm »
I know, I hated being number three. I feel so Jimmy Olsen. I would post further, but I'm all dying and shit.



Shut up girl.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2007, 01:45:16 pm »
I've gone to many of the events sponsored by the Austin "guerilla bar" group.
I'm not a huge fan of bars.  But what I enjoy about this is the opportunity to
go someplace I may never have been before, and not feeling limited about
where I can go to socialize with other gay folks.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gqb-austin/

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2007, 01:46:02 pm »
At least you slutty bitches got mentioned. How much carnality must one person post before he gets on the list?

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2007, 01:46:50 pm »


As the motto says:  Don't Clone, Colonize.

Henry


I LIKE that quote! Who said it, do you know?

"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2007, 01:47:56 pm »
Great.  All the fuckin clique members show up.  Just because you are in my thread don't be thinking you can take over my #2 ranking BITCHES!!!

I've never been in a clique larger than one person.  Luckily I weigh enough to count as 2 people.

My clique is extremely restricted: no diptheria cases allowed, period.  No exceptions so please don't ask.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2007, 01:52:42 pm »
I've never been in a clique larger than one person.  Luckily I weigh enough to count as 2 people.

My clique is extremely restricted: no diptheria cases allowed, period.  No exceptions so please don't ask.

SD

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2007, 01:53:39 pm »
I know, I hated being number three. I feel so Jimmy Olsen. I would post further, but I'm all dying and shit.



Oh, Lord have mercy!  That was funny.  You of the despair and no sense of humor & all.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2007, 02:03:31 pm »
On a historical note, in QUEER NATION's 1990 days, that was a regular tactic on the agenda. A number of historically straight bars were invaded for an evening. Sometimes it happened because there had been a report of some anti-gay stuff. In other cases it was just a part of QN's committment to raising queer visibility in non-traditional settings.

Two historic bars, the White Horse Tavern in the West Village and McSorley's in East Village were among the targets which were very enjoyably rainbowed. Some supposedly straight Upper East Side watering holes were also visited en masse.

As I recall, once things got started at any particular site it wasn't always easy to tell the invaders apart from the invaded, if you get my drift.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2007, 02:06:36 pm »
Me and the WIFEY love going to Gay bars and would welcome your invasion with open arms!  I wish we had a big group here in KC I'd nominate a few places for them to start!
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #20 on: April 09, 2007, 02:18:38 pm »
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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« Reply #21 on: April 09, 2007, 02:29:04 pm »
On a historical note, in QUEER NATION's 1990 days, that was a regular tactic on the agenda. A number of historically straight bars were invaded for an evening. Sometimes it happened because there had been a report of some anti-gay stuff. In other cases it was just a part of QN's committment to raising queer visibility in non-traditional settings.

Two historic bars, the White Horse Tavern in the West Village and McSorley's in East Village were among the targets which were very enjoyably rainbowed. Some supposedly straight Upper East Side watering holes were also visited en masse.

As I recall, once things got started at any particular site it wasn't always easy to tell the invaders apart from the invaded, if you get my drift.

I want to be invaded.



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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #22 on: April 09, 2007, 02:30:48 pm »
You need to learn how to quote people and add your own commentary first!
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #23 on: April 09, 2007, 02:33:34 pm »
You need to learn how to quote people and add your own commentary first!



You need to bite me, second place homo-lite wannabe. ;D

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #24 on: April 09, 2007, 02:34:34 pm »

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« Reply #25 on: April 09, 2007, 02:40:36 pm »


You need to bite me, second place homo-lite wannabe. ;D

HOLY SHIT That was funny as hell!  I love you man!  Priceless, truly priceless!  And a perfect example of keeping our harshest words for ones we like the best!  (Big assumption on my part I guess!)
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #26 on: April 09, 2007, 02:53:29 pm »
HOLY SHIT That was funny as hell!  I love you man!  Priceless, truly priceless!  And a perfect example of keeping our harshest words for ones we like the best!  (Big assumption on my part I guess!)

I do love you because like me, we rather enjoy being the butt of the joke.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #27 on: April 09, 2007, 02:54:30 pm »
I do love you because like me, we rather enjoy being the butt of the joke.

Amen to that.
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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« Reply #28 on: April 09, 2007, 02:56:26 pm »
eep.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #29 on: April 09, 2007, 03:22:11 pm »
A total misjudgement as to pic usage......why use a 9/11 photo like that. I am offended.

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« Reply #30 on: April 09, 2007, 03:35:32 pm »
A total misjudgement as to pic usage......why use a 9/11 photo like that. I am offended.

I googled the word "Aghast" and used the picture I thought expressed the emotion that I wanted.  Had no idea it was of 9/11.

LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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« Reply #31 on: April 09, 2007, 03:42:37 pm »
A total misjudgement as to pic usage......why use a 9/11 photo like that. I am offended.

If the pic had the WTC in it I might have been offended, too, but it didn't.  AC made no reference to 9/11 but someone else did. A pic taken completely out of context and placed in a thread like this is no insult to those who died or their loved ones. 

9/11 is still somewhat fresh in the USA's collective psyche and the enormity of that day will never be forgotten.  AC was in no way joking about 9/11.  If he'd been able to find a pic of people reacting to the Hindenburg explosion it wouldn't be any more offensive than the pic used.

That is my humble opinion.

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« Reply #32 on: April 09, 2007, 03:49:05 pm »
Man... God bless my generation.

I go to straight bars all the time... standard operating procedure for me, really.

I loathe most of the gay bars in Richmond.

And the straight bars I go to are filled with scruffy bike kids and tattooed hardcore music fans... and they don't ever treat me like I'm "the gay guy."   

If this were done where I go... no one would know the difference.  Because it happens all the time without any organization. 

I prefer social fluidity and look forward to the day when tactics like this are obsolete.
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« Reply #33 on: April 09, 2007, 03:50:05 pm »
Two historic bars, the White Horse Tavern in the West Village and McSorley's in East Village were among the targets which were very enjoyably rainbowed. Some supposedly straight Upper East Side watering holes were also visited en masse.

The White Horse?

I love that place!

That's the bar where Dylan Thomas drank himself to death!

My best friend Jennie and I attempted to recreate it... but we ended up just drinking ourselves to awesome.
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« Reply #34 on: April 09, 2007, 03:50:37 pm »
do NOT joke about the Hindenberg



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« Reply #35 on: April 09, 2007, 03:51:16 pm »
Too soon?
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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #36 on: April 09, 2007, 03:52:40 pm »
Too soon?

TOTALLY what I was thinking?  Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

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« Reply #37 on: April 09, 2007, 03:56:49 pm »
do NOT joke about the Hindenberg

Did you read The Onion's Our Dumb Century for the Hindenburg? 

"AWESOME!

Nation Wowed By Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion!

Gay Ball of Flame Warms Hearts Chilled by Depression."
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« Reply #38 on: April 09, 2007, 03:57:30 pm »
TOTALLY what I was thinking?  Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

I've always admired Lincoln for having gotten shot in a fashionable theater. 
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« Reply #39 on: April 09, 2007, 04:06:02 pm »
do NOT joke about the Hindenberg

Now that pic is offensive!!  My great-great-great-3rd cousin died on the Hindenburg and so did her cat. 

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« Reply #40 on: April 09, 2007, 04:06:55 pm »
I was simply stating that the pic offended me. I think I said I was offended. Not that the photo was offensive. I think print is just like words...but more powerful because its there to be seen. As someone who lost a few people in those attacks as well as the ongoing war...it was a cruel reminder of 9/11. The thread also used the word INVADING....much like we were in the attacks. It was just me having a sensitive spot. And the pic, unbeknowst to the poster coupled with the thread was a bit much. Nor was the fact that I posted my comment after someone mentioned that it was a 9/11 photo. I do not in anyway expect everyone to know every photo from that horrific event. Nor did I intend to feel like I was wrong for making my post because of the reasons why it was an acceptable photo. And lastly I was not attacking the original post...more just asking a qeustion of why post that pic...which was answered by the poster. I wonder now what was posted with the pic....when located. Maybe a reference to 9/11. And if so....heartlessness and lack of consideration of those affected by the tragedy. Just my two cents. i know its only two...but I feel its worth a million.

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« Reply #41 on: April 09, 2007, 04:07:15 pm »
::long cat usage detected::
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« Reply #42 on: April 09, 2007, 04:10:17 pm »
My whole family died on the Challenger.
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« Reply #43 on: April 09, 2007, 04:11:40 pm »
ironically i googled aghast as well. Found that pic. Clciked it. read then writing underneath. clicked on the click button. next picture...hmmm the towers and a plan hitting one. <sigh> what wonders the computer provides. and with a little research...i know i would have had secod thoughts about that posted photo. and now i see where some of the other user are offened by words on here. death is not a joking matter...nor are tragedies.

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« Reply #44 on: April 09, 2007, 04:13:14 pm »
Did you read The Onion's Our Dumb Century for the Hindenburg? 

"AWESOME!

Nation Wowed By Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion!

Gay Ball of Flame Warms Hearts Chilled by Depression."

the Onions "Our Dumb Century" was a book I bought for my bother for Xmas a few years ago. I started reading it, decided it was WAY too cool for him, so I kept it :)

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« Reply #45 on: April 09, 2007, 04:17:04 pm »
the Onions "Our Dumb Century" was a book I bought for my bother for Xmas a few years ago. I started reading it, decided it was WAY too cool for him, so I kept it :)

It's absolutely brilliant.

"World's Largest Metaphor Hits Iceberg."

"Dastardly Japs Attack Colonially Occupied U.S. Non-State."

And the one from WWI about 20,000 dying in a four inch advance on the Western Front.  HIL-arious! 
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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #46 on: April 09, 2007, 04:21:41 pm »
ironically i googled aghast as well. Found that pic. Clciked it. read then writing underneath. clicked on the click button. next picture...hmmm the towers and a plan hitting one. <sigh> what wonders the computer provides. and with a little research...i know i would have had secod thoughts about that posted photo. and now i see where some of the other user are offened by words on here. death is not a joking matter...nor are tragedies.

Well, being that I was just looking for a picture of people who were "aghast" I wasnt really looking to research the photo.  All I wanted was the emotion.  And if it continues to offend I invite you to put me on ignore as I probably will have a tendancy to do that to you.  Which is not a slam or anything I totally get that I rub some people the wrong way, it may just be that you are one of them.  Which is ok.
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

Offline ademas

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #47 on: April 09, 2007, 04:32:51 pm »
mmmm...I wasn't offended.
that's just one of those 9/11 images that's seared into my brain.
i've googled images and used them before without having a clue where they originated, and I sort of assumed that was what AC had done.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #48 on: April 09, 2007, 04:35:37 pm »
I didn't find the picture offensive either but then again I didn't loose a loved one in 9/11. I guess it all depends in the way you interpret the image. I remember once I was offended by a comedian who was making fun of AIDS and i found to the be utterly disgusting but the rest of the crowd was having the time of their lives. Maybe the person who posted the picture should consider that.

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Re: The GAYS are INVADING!!!!
« Reply #49 on: April 09, 2007, 04:39:39 pm »
I didn't find the picture offensive either but then again I didn't loose a loved one in 9/11. I guess it all depends in the way you interpret the image. I remember once I was offended by a comedian who was making fun of AIDS and i found to the be utterly disgusting but the rest of the crowd was having the time of their lives. Maybe the person who posted the picture should consider that.

Anyway,  The Gays are Still Invading!
LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT A
RIDE!!!

 


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