"Milk" does the body good: The Winter ILX Gay Thread

Symmetry required the Lord to start this.

...you really do mean you when you say the Lord, don't you ; )

As if there weren't enough reasons to worship The Soto. I bow to you, milord!

plz let's those of us who are here while Chris is meet up w/ him.

I hate winter. But I love the gays.

So does everyone remember the bullshit drama of my mom FORBIDDING me tell my friends at [our] work that I'm gay because she was "afraid people would say bad things about me" and because it was sort of embarassing for her to have her co-workers know? I got so disgusted with her attitude towards the whole thing (while, you know, claiming she totally was accepting and not homophobic at all the entire time) that I just told people at my work anyway. So about 10 people know--both that I'm gay, and why I didn't tell them months earlier--but it's all people my age and none of the middle-aged people that my mom is buddy-buddy with. She still doesn't know, and quite frankly I could give two shits if she does or not.

She can be so horrible at being a mom sometimes, though. I was venting once about how frustrating it was that my co-workers freely used "gay" and "faggot" to describe things they didn't like, and she just says "Well, I'm sorry to tell you, Steve, but that's life. There's nothing you can do about it." Not anything, you know, comforting (or even on my side).

Kevin J. Bozelka just called me "Sugar Bear Booger Britches". LOL!!!

Also an ilxor sent me a photo of another ilxor dude who um...is really GOTH AND HOTTTT. Or at least he was in the 20 year old pic on his last.fm page!

let's see what else...oh yeah KJB sent me this compilation of Queer music put together by Jon Savage called "From The Closet To The Charts: Queer Noises 1961 - 1978". It's fucking hilarious, especially the 60's stuff.

I have to get a new DVD player today because mine is broken and I can't even play the pr0n I rented, so it's an emergency! ;)

Also I have the first four Sheena Easton albums now. DO NOT LAUGH. They're going for fucking US$100-$125 dollars on CD, EACH. Even if you hate her, that's just fucking ridiculous.

I'd like to hear A Private Heaven.

Really feeling KJB lately.

Stevie, I'm glad you got to tell some people!

"Nothing you can do" is a pretty depressing response.

Teen heartthrob Jesse Suave.

SO the other day there was this CUUUETTT boy applying for a job at my work, and I was all "Please please hire him!" in my mind AND THEY DID AND HE IS SO CUET

Also an ilxor sent me a photo of another ilxor dude who um...is really GOTH AND HOTTTT. Or at least he was in the 20 year old pic on his last.fm page!

lol, is this crutis?

I now have like hxc crushes on three of my co-workers.

None of whom know that I am gay.

whatta lame thread title. and it's "milk does a body good." all future gay threads should be titled by surmounter.

sorry that is bitchy but seriously

oh go fuck a girl or something.

It's actually "Milk: It does a body good". Or, was, originally, maybe it has changed since.

Also an ilxor sent me a photo of another ilxor dude who um...is really GOTH AND HOTTTT. Or at least he was in the 20 year old pic on his last.fm page!

lol, is this crutis?

Haha no. Check this out:
http://www.last.fm/user/ilx_onimo

loooooooool

...

these threads suck, y'all are boring

uhhh try you're angry and not nice and not in the holiday spirit

sucka

i'd also like to point out Matt P that the last thread title was conceived by table.

and milk can do the body good if you want it too.

thanks.

Wow lots of snatchiness around here last night.

I came here to post this
Pat Boone compares anti-Prop 8 activists to Mumbai terrorists http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/09/prop_8_protestors_mumbai_ter

and as long as we're on the subject of being a cunt -- i've been a bat out of hell this weekend. ryan's had to suffer through it a little but that's allowed cuz that's like, his job.

but i really need someone to explain to me how it's possible to gain 5 pounds from 1 peanut butter binge. really, i would love to know.

Peanut butter contains salt, so maybe you're just retaining some water.

I too went on a PB binge this weekend!

! ok salt, point taken. i threw the scale at the wall this morning...

I would have no problem with weight gain.

Yeah, me either.

Brainwasher OTM.

We're boring?

These threads have declined significantly over time.

It's really all about summer. These threads should probably hibernate in the winter.

Also we ran out of fag related issues to run through.

geez ppl. it's not always chatterchatterchatter in this life. but sometimes, when ya need a thread, one exists. now stop being negative and pour yourself some eggnog or something.

The threads have changed in nature, from being about the gays who have, like no friends in this town, to being about showcases for all things conventionally gay.

<3 ramzi

Which would we rather talk about -- the brief bio of Martin Van Buren I just finished or last night's dancing?

I didn't know you were writing a bio of Martin Van Buren.

Brief bio! Brief bio!

Also, boredom comes from WITHIN so BRING IT, bitchers!

Also, stfu!

Also, <3 Ramzi 2

Also, thanx for big upping me, ikr. xoxoxo

OK which of the gays would like me to upload somewhere this comp, my all-time fave gay album:

Queer to the Core CD. A probably bootleg reissue of some old queer novelty tunes. The Teddy and Darrel These Are the Hits You Silly Savage LP is reissued in its entirety. According to Rhino Records, one of the people on this record was future California Lt. Governor Mike Curb. It's kind of like the Frogs, in that it's probably a joke record where the people doing it aren't gay, though who knows. Three singles on Camp Records are included (including the classic "I'd Rather Swish than Fight," which I always wished Sta-Prest would do a cover of.) Camp Records also released the LP "The Queen is in the Closet," but it's not on here. (The Camp Records tracks are apparently circa 1965, as they're advertised in a Vagabond catalog from that year.) And there's an excerpt of the Pearl Box Revue double LP, which is a tape of a group of drag queens including Dorian Corey of Paris is Burning fame talking circa 1970. If the people who put out this rerelease are reading this (or people who know about the original releases, even better) please get in touch with me. (Quick Nuts) (reviewed 3/98)

If so, I'll do it sometime next week.

I thought the whole point of ILX was integrating the bio of Martin van Buren with last night's dancing?

KJB, this is a comp of 60s queer novelty records? If so, that sounds interesting.

i would be VERY interested in that KJB, thx!

Most of them are 1960 queer novelty records. But the real gem is that Pearl Box Revue record which is called Call Me MISSter which is a round table discussion about drag/gay life/politics. There's a probably drunk quasi-homophobe that the queens just lay into it. It's riotous!

just lay into PERIOD.

I thought the whole point of ILX was integrating the bio of Martin van Buren with last night's dancing?

I'll vote for this.

Still want KJB to do his bootleg THANG, tho!

(I like boots, I like legs...)

Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat?

I saw you mentioned that. He's J*hn H*ard's son? (who's done way better than Home Alone)

when milk screenwriter won the award i shouted "CHEEKBONES!!" at the TV

he's cute but there's something Stepford waxy about him...

Oh, I just Googled him. He's too pretty, but I overlook that due to his writing and the speech.

On Melissa Leo:

She has a son with actor and former boyfriend John Heard named J0hn M4tthew Heard (born 1987).

explaining my friend's presence. oh what the hell.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v63/162/38/35500015/n35500015_30271053_9469.jpg

he was very depressed and not cut out for 0berlin (he's now at c4l4rts), and used to walk around sulking in these tight pajama pants and really thin t-shirts all the time. we used to smoke blunts together and make fun of dumbos.

poor John Heard.

(his nickname/name is j4ck)

home again. blowoff was okay, nice to see so many thick, fuzzy men in one room but damn if the music wasn't just mediocre boring clubby gay shit. i was also kinda bummed because d. didn't make it to southpaw with me (too tired) and i don't really know what to do with myself at a gay club w/o my buddy.

southpaw is like down the street from mahouse

i'm always late on things like this. but that's just how things go i guess

damn if the music wasn't just mediocre boring clubby gay shit.

yeah, my prob the one time I went, too. what the hell happened w/ Bob Mould?

sorry elmo, i wd've made an effort to hang out w/ you there if i'd known the bf was fatigued... but my disco nap went til midnight, so then i just jumped on G train to see my DJ pal @ Metropolitan.

Sur, let's get that drink on 5th Ave sometime then!

i would like to, but i don't know when. i'm really depressed as of late. "it's not you, it's me"

<3

that's too bad, lmk when yer up for it <3

okie doke. i had a bagel with egg n cheese but i'm still hungry!

i'm thinking: chicken soup and a salad.

or chicken salad wrap and soup.

hmm...

I am eating tomato salad for lunch.

I was very, very pleased to find that I have lost 10 lbs since mid-December (thank you lovesickness - I couldn't eat and the only thing that made me feel good was running) and I want to drop an additional 10...maybe more? (I want to know what it's like to actually be *skinny*, at least for a while.)

mmm tomato salad. oil and lemon? oil and vinegar?

congrats you! that sounds like a lot of poundage

If I can scrounge up some cider vinegar, it'll be extra virgin olive oil and vinegar.

I wear weight well, but once I dropped it, I realized that I was getting pudgy. I'm 5'6" and I at one point I weight 180!

i don't know that i've had cider vinegar... maybe like once

i just love vinegar. i've been rediscovering balsamic lately

now, there's a difference between white vinegar and white wine vinegar, right?

I was sort of so-so about balsamic until I had the high-end shit, and now I get it.

Cider vinegar is nice b/c it's sour but has more flavor than just sour. But it's not sweet or seasoned.

xp- yes. Flavor is similar to the difference described above, plus plain white vinegar is made from grains and white wine vinegar is made from - NO ONE KNOWS.

you're so knowledgeable!

and slender!

aw feel better ramz! missed you at dave's! (once my friends upload the pics i will be sure to post the pictures of the gayest birthday cake ever made, by yours truly and a friend)

morbs, no worries! and honestly, it would have been fine for you to meet the boyfriend. i just have strange social anxieties sometimes.

on that point, i had fun enough at blowoff -- i was with the friend we were staying with and some of his friends -- but like i said, i don't know what to do with myself in a situation like that, where i'm not with my boyfriend and surrounded by hot beefy dudes. like, what's acceptable behavior and what is not? can i smile? can i flirt? can i dance with someone? obviously this is something that needs to be talked out with the boyfriend but i just got so nervous about it for some reason, like the people i was there with (esp. one drama queen) would tattle on me or something.

flirting is a universal language, everyone should be able to flirt.

joe i'm sorry i couldn't go -- i was in a wedding that night! will try and post pics of that too. :)

i had a hard enough time flirting at bars when i was single!

tell me about it.

guys i gave a toast at the wedding! and i didn't faint! but after that i did have 4 martinis.

What would you do if he had been there (aside from hang out with him)?

i don't know, jesse! i mean, it's not a rational anxiety.

far less bearlike, we all got made up w/ costumes & wigs on oscar night. i looked pretty fantastic. perhaps i'll post a pic?

also: ru paul's drag race C/D

OK, just wondered. It was an honest query.

xp

drag race is totally fun and worth watching, we've gotten really into it

anyway, i'm no stranger to social anxiety, elmo. especially around guys. it's kinda disturbing.

well it disturbs me, at least.

ditto

What a shame I've met none of you.

We could stand around and be gay and awkward together.

haha Sur, have you seen Anne Hathaway's wedding toast yet? did you better it?

omgosh, i only saw a clip of it! i need to see that. loving her more and more these days

but sometimes honestly her features really do freak me out. i think her mouth really may be bigger than julia roberts'.

i kinda hated her in devil wears prada until i realized that i hate the character she played and not anne herself

yes, she almost swallowed Shirley MacLaine the other night, it was like Jaws with lipstick.

i find her pretty likable for the most part

xp WOULD PAY MANY $$$ TO ACTUALLY SEE THAT HAPPEN

Spring Is Busting ILX Gay All Over ... (Bonus feature: vote for the best gay population mecca in the U.S.)

Sorry. It's freezing this morning and I'm too through with winter. (Plus, I've never gotten to start a new season yet.

)

I'm leaving in 30 minutes for a wedding -- a "normal" wedding.