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

Population figures from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_village#Top_US_cities

"obligatory" list

also, NYC is getting our FIRST big snowstorm of the winter tonight, you Midwestern sap!

assuming portland is the one in OR i will vote for that

it does have the friendliest Eagle (Sea close)

I love the precision with which they calculate the number of out gays in these cities.

p.s. i have been struck down mercilessly by some type of influenza. your prayers are appreciated.

Yeah, I'm honestly not sure where these numbers really come from, but I'm OK with not counting closeted gays in this context. (Though a list of the top closeted metro areas would also be interesting.)

We just had that snowstorm on Thursday, Morbs. It was apparently the biggest of the season so far, but it didn't feel that bad to me.

yeah, well...! most of yr others dissipate.

to God's ears, elmo.

i am posting between pancakes

So wait. This POLL is the Spring gay thread???

only if we have a quiet spring!

I just want to belong. ILX = polls

im looking fwd to missing all the out gays in Austin in 4 weeks. (or at least two or three of em)

Plus I am a Minneapolis chauvinist.

er MEETING

xp

All my gay friends moved out of town. Mostly to nyc.

Which town? I'll update wikipedia's figures.

E, to be a convincing chauvinist, youd have to have a persuasive record of praising your local gays. :)

I've been to 7 of those 10 meccas, and as much as I likle to proclaim Sf's decline I've had my gayest times there.

(aside from a Boston thr**way a very long time ago)

I'm off this afternoon to 3 hours of Guy Debord films! THAT should be cruisy.

I'm listening to my pal Trouble's Welsh Week show:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/30496

wow, Tom Jones' "The Young New Mexican Puppeteer"!
(NUTS)

I'm friends with at least a few dozen of those 34,295.

you mensch!

in case you missed on the other thread, best gay Nixon tape ever:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/02/the-nixon-tapes-richard-nixon-hates-all-in-the-family-1971.html

"The last six Roman emperors were fags."

That's entertainment.

I clicked thinking this poll was going to be Provincetown vs. Key West vs. Guerneville.

The gay tourist trap poll will have to wait until June.

I think I helped add one more number to the gays in our city last night (first time experience with a formerly str8 friend)

No such thing as formerly str8 imo, just sayin.

guess he's bi now, but he dates ladies

Everyone's happy.

Sorry, I'm operating on about two months ahead of schedule. -2 this morning threw me into a deep denial.

nyc's about to get a foot of snow!!!!

i'm ordering meatball and brocooli pizza today in celebration.

omg i love march

March radness.

i mean, i also find san francisco not as good as it could be, but i don't really think you could get me to live in any of the other places above. especially boston, which is possibly the shittiest place on that list.

rooting for snow? man i was pissed off reading the weather forecasts these past few days. i hate this time of year

i had a rare solo excursion to a gay bar last night. talked with a nice drunk fellow about grindcore and italian horror movies, then he disappeared into the ether...?

solo excursion! which bar?

joe ya gotta embrace the beauty of this weather, before your face is melting off onto the scalding pavements of brooklyn and all you can do when you get home is sit in front of the fan

assuming washington is referring to DC, i have been to four cities on this poll (five, if layovers count)

really i'm just kind of sick of my winter jacket

I like winter just fine, but Chicago has had a very hard winter and I'm growing tired of it.

I was surprised to find that Chicago's % wasn't so high - around 5% gay. That seems wrong. But then, I spend the majority of my time on the north side, near the lake, so my view is skewed.

i mean, i also find san francisco not as good as it could be, but i don't really think you could get me to live in any of the other places above. especially boston, which is possibly the shittiest place on that list.

Yeah, a populace of stallions couldn't get me to drag me to live in Orlando or Portland.

That list isn't, by the way, in reference to metro areas but just cities proper. If I'd have done the former:

1 San Francisco 8.2% 256,313 4
2 Seattle 6.5% 154,835 11
3 Boston 6.2% 201,344 5
4 Portland 6.1% 94,027 21
5 Tampa 5.9% 119,044 16
6 Austin 5.9% 61,732 29
7 Denver 5.8% 99,027 19
8 Minneapolis 5.7% 130,472 15
9 Orlando 5.7% 81,272 24
10 Hartford 5.6% 49,000 33

So Georgetown and Round Rock are like the Castro of Austin?

i am thinking about the utter shit that is hartford, ct, and sort of making a weird face.

haha guy-who-disappeared last night was from hartford. his view of it seemed to jive with yrs, table

perhaps it is because my most nosy irritating relatives live there (though my cousin is a nice girl), and perhaps it is the fact that it seems to be the capital of 'casual dining experiences,' but really, the place is a shithole.

So what you're saying, table, is there is really only one proper place to live in the U.S. if you're gay?

oh hell no.

i like small towns more than cities. if i could find a man who'd move to Cheyenne, Wyoming, with me, i'd be blissfully happy.

i am beginning to harbor a sort of, "what the fuck why would you live anywhere but california" mentality though. yesterday i went hiking along the coast, then walked half the span of the golden gate, then got high in the park, then ate pho with my dyke-double and our other gay male friend, then drank forties and talked with 16-year-old punk dyke chicks in the park, then went to a queer bar, then....

i mean, only the hardy boys can do that shit with snow falling around. there were people sunbathing nude on the beaches.

in other words, i am very much a warm-weather person. fucking hate cold.

have you been to cheyenne?

Jude Law is pretty interesting all over.

no argument. Tho I haven't seen him since I Heart Huckabees, since like all H'wood A-listers he tends to make shit I will never see.

I can't remember the last time I found him hot. I ::heart:: Huckabees maybe?

the Dickie murder in Ripley is SO badly directed. Minghella, rest uneasily.

never seen TTMR, read one of the other ripley books (the one about the art forgery, can't remember the exact title) and loved it tho

the best Ripley film adap of the 3 I've seen is the one w/ Malkovich, Ripley's Game.

hey, I now have an original Rosa von Praunheim artwork, like everyone who attended last night's anthology clip fest! The words on mine are "I am a tomatoe. love, RvP"

http://www.rosavonpraunheim.de/bio/bio_engl.html

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/search-result/?program=Goethe%20Institut%20New%20York%20presents:%20The%20Films%20of%20Rosa%20von%20Praunheim

just re=read the talented mr ripley 2 weeks ago, definitely need to pick up the other ripley books now

Hahahah Alfred mentioned Hilary Swank! oh my god. No. There's a movie she's in about am FTM transsexual and I really don't like it at all. It's called Boys Don't Cry. But I don't like it. It doesn't feel like...me.

Thanks Morbs for keeping this thread going. Here's a freaking Liza Minelli clip, which I might get taken away by the style police for posting, but you know what? Who gives a shit, she's a human being too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOamKxW844

well, she was certainly more like a human physiologically in '72.

I love you Morbs, but if I could get KJB's opinion on all this, it'd be fantastic.

the Dickie murder in Ripley is SO badly directed. Minghella, rest uneasily.

That's only cuz you've forgotten the Oscar-bait conclusion Minghella wrote just for Damon (the Fake Somebody monologue).

Can I just have one more try?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emuVLVylBiA

This Streisand song...in my teenagerhood. Alfred should remember this. It's about the year he would remember stuff like this...late 80's. It's a cover, I know. I know it is. It's a cover from the West Side Story musical. Don't lecture me on it, I adore Natalie Wood but that's a discussion for later.

Alfred, you had said recently on the 1980 singles thread that "Woman In Love" was a fave of yours. Streisand was on that right? I'm going to play it in just a moment, but I'm trying to get all this straight in my mind, thanks.

Natalie Wood never sang it (dubbed)

Hahaha. Sweet things gayz of all stripes and colours I love you so much.

Will you let a bimble post one more link and leave you now? I adore you, here's a rose, darling. I adore you. Be nice to a bimble. He loves you. He's an open hearted, generous, compassionate individual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-KPGh3wysw

Alfred, you had said recently on the 1980 singles thread that "Woman In Love" was a fave of yours. Streisand was on that right?

Yup. Gibb keeps her in check.

Well alright! I can dig it, man. When I was a child I used to have stupid Andy Gibb "Shadow Dancing" single on my cassette tape and put my cassette player into the drawer of my um...what do you call that, when it's like a set of drawers? What is the furniture term for that? I can't think of it right now, but I'm feeling you, man. I'm totally feeling it.

Dresser! That's it. I put a cassette player in an empty drawer of my dresser when I played Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing". Oh the shame...

Alfred I'll be your friend forever if you just don't try to defend George Michael. Please.

GM kicks post-1960s Streisand all over the place.

I feel so sad that I can't sing in quite Streisand's range anymore. I used to be able to do that. No more.

What is GM, Morbs?

Oh I get it now, sorry.

A long time ago, I was a young child.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXlaOsNBDkk

I was the only one in my grade school class who could sing the "oooh oh oh" parts of that song. Some kid said to me "what are you doing???" I was the only goddamn kid in the whole place who could sing those parts. Thanking U.

Despite his claims of twin brotherhood, Eric H is about 100x sexier than Neil Patrick Harris.

Blasphemy! You take that back!

And as far as the Tonys go, I didn't watch a second of 'em. But they did give me a newfound respect for the Oscars in that at least the Oscars didn't award three Haley Joel Osments in one fell swoop.

Alfred, sweetheart, don't worry about it.

I'm so glad that Eric H. posted, but I still love you. And I'm filled with nothing but love. There isn't anything in my heart but love. Please don't get angry at me.
I know I'm going to make a fool out of myself. But why is it that when my heart is filled with love then I have to be ashamed? I love all you gayz so much. I can't stop the love in my heart. It won't stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_rEQ-nsQQM

If it says "embedding disabled by request" then just double click it. Thanks.

no point in my watching the tonys as i never see a damn thing either on or off broadway in the first place. but good for liza nonetheless.

Alex, that kissing on the streetcorner story is really adorable! i hope it works out

we've been missing our friend ti4rnan here as of recent...but i wanted to share with him that THE FACE, talked about upthread in relation to young Ashton Kutcher underwear photographs, is most likely being revived. i don't understand how or why, but it is.

this photo session: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/355105888_7ea13a5676.jpg?v=0

i admit that when i was 14 or so, i wanked to that photo once or twice.

I left messages for my boss. I can't find my glasses. I feel like a failure. I was crying.

I have to go back to the glasses store tomorrow, to get the glasses I lost when I got arrested. I can't find the other ones. I feel like a failure.

Thanks gayz for listening to my drunk ass.

AP writers in on the gangpile? I don't know what to make of this detail in the lead.

Court rejects challenge to 'don't ask, don't tell'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.
The court said it will not hear an appeal from former Army Capt. James Pietrangelo II, who was dismissed under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
The federal appeals court in Boston earlier threw out a lawsuit filed by Pietrangelo and 11 other veterans. He was the only member of that group who asked the high court to rule that the Clinton-era policy is unconstitutional.
In court papers, the administration said the appeals court ruled correctly in this case when it found that "don't ask, don't tell" is "rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in military discipline and cohesion."
During last year's campaign, President Barack Obama indicated he supported the eventual repeal of the policy, but he has made no specific move to do so since taking office in January. Meanwhile, the White House has said it won't stop gays and lesbians from being dismissed from the military.
Last year, the federal appeals court in San Francisco allowed a decorated flight nurse to continue her lawsuit over her dismissal. The court stopped short of declaring the policy unconstitutional, but said that the Air Force must prove that ousting former Maj. Margaret Witt furthered the military's goals of troop readiness and unit cohesion.
The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was the first that evaluated "don't ask, don't tell" through the lens of a 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Texas ban on sodomy as an unconstitutional intrusion on privacy.
The administration did not appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court and Witt's lawsuit is ongoing.
The appeals court in Pietrangelo's case also took the high court decision into account, but concluded that it should defer to Congress' determination that the policy fosters cohesion in military units.
The case is Pietrangelo v. Gates, 08-824.

wait what is this talk of "THE FACE"?

1. ramz, THE FACE was a style rag/mag that had some amount of cachet in the 90s and early 2000s, before it became one of the first of its kind to go under. now they're bringing it back, inexplicably.

2. eric, that detail is pretty questionable-- the president has no real say over which cases the SC takes on or not. however, it gives insight into the fact that BARACK OBAMA DOESN'T LIKE GAY PEOPLE. get it into yr skulls.

the president can file an amicus curiae brief, but no, he can't "make a request"

2. eric, that detail is pretty questionable-- the president has no real say over which cases the SC takes on or not. however, it gives insight into the fact that BARACK OBAMA DOESN'T LIKE GAY PEOPLE. get it into yr skulls.

That was sort of what I was getting at. Is AP writer perhaps in the burgeoning Obama-hate-gay-mafia?

Quite honestly, I don't give a shit whether Obama doesn't like gay people or not. There's so much more to hate about this guy: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/01/photos/index.html .

I MEAN REALLY? REALLY?

Where have you been all Morbs' life?

oh, Morbz and i are on the same page, i think, and we've known this for a bit...

In any case, states are doing it for themselves (Aretha feat. Eurythmics).

people really misunderstand what presidents are about. they are not our buddies.

by "our" I mean anybody who doesn't donate $100,000 to the warchest

God, that was a really frightening link. The Gitmo stuff on that site was terrible as well. Not too long ago I wrote my congressional representatives saying I wanted to see the people in the Bush administration that drafted the legal justfication for torture held responsible. One of them sent me a canned response thanking me for writing to him about some other issue that had nothing to do with torture. *rolls eyes*

ashamed to admit that i just yesterday figured out what this thread's title is a reference to

also opening the un-displayed messages crashed my browser just now and it is practically summer anyhow - new thread time?

i'm not ashamed to admit that i still don't get the reference

it reminds me of that nona hendryx song is all, though i know that's not it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I-790dGx-o

p.s. i agree we are due for a new thread -- we're past memorial day after all

Haha, never actually saw that clip before. There's ... a lot of gay shit going on in there.

because it's June
June
June
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