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I thought being gay in France and places like that wasn't a big deal? Why isn't he out to his father? I like the ad, but I would have been more impressed with it if his father at looked at the picture and said, "you look just like me at that age, quite the handsome lad", followed up by "that Marcel is quite nice looking too, don't you think?" Indicating that his father had noticed who he hung out with, that he understood what was between them and that it was okay.

Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue Red, purple, green, yellow, orange, red red Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue Red, purple, green, yellow, orange, red red Blend them up and what do you get? Cerise, chartreuse, and aqua Mauve, beige, and aquamarine and every color in between Hazo ka li ka no cha lum bum Color has it's harmony and just like I have said Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue Red, purple, green, blue, purple, red red Blend them all and what do you get? Cerise, chartreuse, and aqua Mauve, beige, and aquamarine and every color in between Ing za ri ko fo zi brun brun Color has it's harmony and just like I have said Red, yellow, green, red, blue, pink, grey And white, and plaid and blue, green, white, yellow and toodinz 'n' and and and Right and and strips with blue and a black and plaid and a....a Oo and ...vut vut, wait a second, what what's going on with all da colors? Blue, red, green, green, white, white, black.... Whatever happened to just plain old lavender blue dilly dilly dilly dilly... dilly ...Silly

My cousin the lesbian and her partner of of 37 years are both deacons in the Episcopal Church, my ex is a lay reader in his Catholic church and doesn't hide who he is and neither do any of the other gay congregants, what happens 10,000 miles from the Vatican in local churches is very different from what happens on the ground with individual churches that serve their community. I think you would find a good gay community in the pews at many Catholic churches in San Francisco. The Congregational Church (now UCC), my mother's main church, is actually open and affirming, there is the MCC (gay church), the Methodist Church has strong statements about accepting homo's but not the behavior, but it amounts to a wink and nod policy, ditto for the Presbyterian Church, my father's primary church, and they are debating full acceptance like the Congregationalists. Our last church, the Dutch Reformed Church (goes by different names in dif places) is much more conservative and much further away from "open and affirming", but is also strong on "treat everyone well".

Has anyone noticed how damned expensive it is to eat healthy? Why is that? How can Mickey D's charge $1 for a hamburger that I can't make for less than $4? (meat, bun, lettuce, pickles, tomato, cheese, onion plus sauces).

I found remarkably that there didn't appear to be any forum discussions of this very good Mark Arbour story. I am not sure what the over arching theme is, but here is what I got out of it. It is easy to hate people you don't know. The British Lt. hated Germans and Germany because they killed the love of his life. It was very easy to hate Germans and Germany because Lt. Bellairs didn't know any Germans until he met Gerhardt. When he finally did meet Gerhardt his 'enemy' now had a face, a soul and really gorgeous pale blue eyes. So it should be pretty obvious and on some level we all get that it is easy to hate groups, but much harder to hate individuals. I hate "illegal immigrants" they have totally messed up California schools and hospitals and our state prisons are chock full of them, but I really like my parent's gardener of twenty-five years. I see what he has accomplished in those twenty-five years from one old broken down old truck and going door to door in my parents neighborhood to find clients to a fleet of six fairly new trucks and a 'landscape maintenance' company that employs about 20 people. He was single when he started cutting my parents lawn and trimming their trees. Then he got married, somewhere along the line, his son, about ten years old when I first met him, would join him during summer. That first son went off to college. Two other sons also worked summers beside their father, one will go off to a four year college next year and the other opted for community college to stay home and work leading a crew for his father. So yeah, I hate "illegal immigrants" and will continue to clamor for the government to do something about it, but it isn't as easy when you know one. (by the way, Arturo did become legal and then about ten years ago became a citizen, he may still root for El Tri to win the World Cup, but will also be pulling for the U.S. when not playing Mexico). Maybe Mark could write a story where a gay activist falls in love with another man, only to discover he is a Republican and a Christian? P.S. A follow up story with Bellairs and Gerhardt in a Paris cafe in 1946 would be lovely.

Have you read any Vince Flynn novels? Not as good or sweeping as Clancy, but still pretty good. Vince Flynn Books

What if we get the answer wrong?

And another, sad angsty song from someone taken too soon. http://www.umsl.edu/~keelr/mycourses.html And another, sad angsty song from someone taken too soon. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5r2spPJ8g

OMG! The angstiest!! It is about how fast life flies by, can't you hear the angst in his voice? "33 for a moment.... but you see I'm a 'they, a kid on the way".... he is a they now, an adult, responsibility, something he never thought he would be, he thought he'd be a cool kid for ever...... "45 for a moment..... chasing the years of my life"... It is the same theme as Our Town kinda in the sense that it is about how you never appreciate your youth or life until it is gone. There is even a reference to Robert Herrick's, To the Virgins, Make Much of Time I'm 15 for a moment Caught in between 10 and 20 And I'm just dreaming Counting the ways to where you are I'm 22 for a moment She feels better than ever And we're on fire Making our way back from Mars 15 there's still time for you Time to buy and time to lose 15, there's never a wish better than this When you only got 100 years to live I'm 33 for a moment Still the man, but you see I'm a they A kid on the way A family on my mind I'm 45 for a moment The sea is high And I'm heading into a crisis Chasing the years of my life 15 there's still time for you Time to buy, Time to lose yourself Within a morning star 15 I'm all right with you 15, there's never a wish better than this When you only got 100 years to live Half time goes by Suddenly you're wise Another blink of an eye 67 is gone The sun is getting high We're moving on... I'm 99 for a moment Dying for just another moment And I'm just dreaming Counting the ways to where you are 15 there's still time for you 22 I feel her too 33 you're on your way Every day's a new day... 15 there's still time for you Time to buy and time to choose Hey 15, there's never a wish better than this When you only got 100 years to live

Ultimate angst song for me. Also could be in songs that make me cry.

I think you misunderstand the point of "Rose's Turn" in both Glee and Gypsy. It was always about Rose (Kurt), in Gypsy. Rose says she just did it for her girls, but her girls left because they knew better, I mean she turned her little girl into a stripper for God's sake. Ditto for Glee, Kurt says "I did it for you Dad", but he didn't, it is how he justifies his selfish actions in his own mind. Listen to the great Patti LuPone on how the song is sung and note her inflections.

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I was impressed with Idina Menzel. Damn can that girl sing. Oh and i would have been impressed with Kurt, it he'd told his dad it wasn't all Finn's fault, because he had been hitting on him, that getting his dad together with Finn's mom wasn't to help stop his dad from being lonely, but so Kurt could be closer to Finn. I think Finn was pretty patient with Kurt's antics.

I am of two minds. I think no one handles the sex scenes better than Dom, very few are explicit, but still hot. I do enjoy the explicit scenes if they are well done and there are some people here who do that well too. I can't say who, because his story on GA hasn't gotten there yet, but when it does.... it is perfect.

Your quote is generally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. On a side note and kind of related to another thread about mis-attribution of quotes there is a really cool book I saw at Borders the other day, The Book of General Ignorance. It is about things we assume to be true because everyone says it, like "Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain", which it really isn't.

Bite your tongue Arbour, Aaron was our last, best hope for a gay to win! I agree, I love Crystal. She reminds me so much of Janis Joplin. She has a uniqueness about her.

Blacksmiths are an interesting lot. I didn't even know we had them in the U.S. still. Bombing sparked 1892 labor war

Your friend should have made you watch this video instead. While the other might have been poignant (that is how it is spelled by the way) this is just too funny and too right on if you live anyplace that gets lots of Asian tourists and you watch them take picture and videos. This Wong Fu Productions is terribly talented. Wong Fu Productions

My Top Twenty Films 1 Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 2 How the West Was Won (1962) 3 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 4 Chariots of Fire (1981) 5 Summertime (1955) 6 An Affair to Remember (1957) 7 Ben-Hur (1959) 8 My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) 9 Hotel Rwanda (2004) 10 Never On Sunday (1960) (II) 11 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) 12 Gone With the Wind (1939) 13 The Usual Suspects (1995) 14 Meet John Doe (1941) 15 Zulu (1964) 16 Khartoum (1966) 17 Young Frankenstein (1974) 18 Quo Vadis (1951) 19 It Happened One Night (1934) 20 The Big Country (1958)

I would venture that most people have thought about it, me included, and sometimes more seriously than others, but I always come back to I could never do that to my parents. That is why I can get that others, especially gay kids who felt their parents don't care about them have no problem completing the act. I have thankfully never had anyone close to me commit suicide, or at least no one who was a close friend at the time they took their own life. That would have been tough for me to handle knowing they couldn't come to me.

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Why not gather the facts of the case and do the next best thing, send all the information to media outlets, local and national. The bullying case of that Irish girl got good national attention and people are always screaming "for the children" let them see what the results are. There shouldn't be any more Prayers for Bobby made.

Don't need to see your hair..... just lift the t-shirt, we are very shallow

I forgot this one. It reminds me of all the young men who didn't come home from World War II. So melancholy when I hear it.

Well geeze, I was gonna be polite and not point out you were getting older..... But here is a special greeting from my close personal friends Paul, Ringo, John and George.