Hunter Thomson

Stranger indeed. I'm alright. How are you tim? It's been awhile...

Hi folks

Hi everyone.

Troye Sivan's blue neighbourhood trilogy The three songs are meant to be played in sequence, and follow a fictional queer teen (teens?) growing up.

Poor Mom. We fans torment her almost as much as she torments her characters

Watching Declan puzzle through what happened the last time he was in Bailey's room and figuring it all out was heartbreaking. It's clear he cares deeply about Bailey, and he wants to do what is best for him. I was surprised at how mature Declan's response was. I know that he's been established as a smart guy and not a stereotypical jock, but its difficult to imagine that he would be able to recover that quickly and avoid having an overtly emotional response when Bailey returned to his room. My heart breaks for Bailey who has to continually face up to his own demons about living up to his father's expectations. Without realizing it, Bailey's mother is making the situation worse every time she talks about how his father would want things a certain way for Bailey. Very good chapter, looking forward to the next one. Hope it comes soon!

But I think that's the point. The idea that what happens in our cosmopolitan centers is the "gay lifestyle" is what seems to be irking people. Its all well and good to accept that's how the media portrays urban LGBTQ people, but its hardly the lived experience of most of us. Even people from those urban centers don't necessarily subscribe to the club circuit, and it unfairly erases us when that's considered the "gay lifestyle". To answer your question I do identify as part of the LGBTQ community because I am. I've always been an activist and currently serve on the You Can Play Project's Western Canadian board of directors, and that gets me doing some speeches and whatnot. But I don't play in gay leagues or anything like that for other reasons.

SQUEEEEE COLD FRONT AND GAY DRAMA!

Always good to have another chapter of one of my favourite stories. That was an interesting and important insight Declan had about his and Daniel's role within the McIntyre family right now. Hopefully Declan keeps that in mind as he develops his feelings for Bailey and they see where their relationship goes from here. You really fleshed out Bailey's mother in this chapter, even though she only appeared briefly in a couple of scenes. Her character feels more real now, as opposed to the small glimpses of her that we'd seen previously. She feels more authentic and real now that we can see that she does see what her son is going through, and that she is genuinely conflicted with all of the feelings going on in her own mind.

We start classes at 8:45 and I promise you, my students are still zombies at that hour. Thats not a sleep cycle thing, it’s a teenager thing.

I shall think about it! That might be a project for the new season, and that's all I'll say.

I agree, the role reversal was a nice touch. It obviously doesn't always happen in the real world, but its important to have balance in a relationship. The fact that Bailey seems more comfortable with himself in an area that we might not expect is a nice piece of literary irony as well.

Thank you thank you thank you! I enjoyed this, all the little stories and tormenting poor Cory with childhood antics. Totally something I would do.

Thank you for including it. It's nice to hear from my readers. Whoever you are, if you have more questions please don't hesitate to contact me before the 7 foot icicles finish me off. ...But seriously, they're big, and they're outside my window. And they're getting pointy.

Don't look at me, I exiled myself because there's no Canadian content, and I didn't wanna have topics that only interested me and Steve

It's just very aggravating. There's no reason for this. Junior does not want to play in women's sports, so it's not like they want to use their predisposition for increased testosterone to give themselves a performance advantage. They want to play in the same men's sports they've been playing in this whole time, so there's absolutely no rationale for this at all. It's just like last year with Mack Beggs. He was born female and wanted to wrestle with the men after he started gender transitioning, and he's still being barred from men's competition. Drives me insane.

California has some of the strongest protections for LGBTQ people and athletes, and yet that hasn't been enough to protect a 12 year old gender-fluid athlete. Junior White was born male and identifies as gender-fluid. The superintendent of the school district has decreed that Junior can only play on co-ed or girls teams because they have started to identify as gender-fluid and more female. Let's be clear. This is a violation of Junior's civil rights, not to mention California state law. https://www.outsports.com/2018/2/8/16989304/junior-white-trans-athlete-football-basketball

I loved reading this story on nifty, and I'm looking forward to seeing the changes and reading the rest of your works. Thanks for bringing your talent here!

Skirting the lines of politics, but I see marriage equality up above so I'll add this. PrEP, or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, has become FREE for all at-risk populations in the province of British Columbia. That means yours truly and all other MSM people, along with intravenous drug users and people who are engaged in sexual activities with people with HIV. PrEP is a once-daily pill that is taken before exposure to the virus, which reduces the transmission rates of HIV by over 99%. I can't overstate how exciting this is and how wonderful it is that this becomes free on January 1st. https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017HLTH0114-002108

I'm open about my own sex life (as last night proved in spades), but I can't talk to my boyfriend about sex. We have this block between us and talking about sex always leads to a fight or to one or both of us going silent, so we just sort of not deal with any of it and don't have any sex. But with anyone else I'm happy to talk about my experiences.

I am screaming. Those last two paragraphs were perfect and I remember being that guy who said things like that. So I am screaming and squeeee!

I'm going to put my athlete hat back on for this one. Nothing in the world compares to playing in front of a friendly crowd. I've been in competitive sports for twenty-three years now, and while its always nice to play and there's an expectation of at least one parent being there when you're a child and can't drive yourself, nothing beats knowing that there are people who took time out of their day to watch you do the thing you love to do. I'm bad about it, in that I don't even acknowledge the people in the crowd until after the game is over. People know that its my time and I'm dialed in with my team before and during the game, and for the most part I get the space I need during competition. Even though I don't wave or smile or even look at them, it makes me feel really good to know people showed up. Incidentally, I tend to play better and I think the Heritage Boys probably felt the same way with having all the extra supporters in the stands. Bailey is starting to incrementally accept that Daniel is part of his life now. Though I would submit that his encouragement in this case had more than a few ulterior motives involved in it all, seeing as though it was the only way for Bailey to get to spend the night with Declan.

I mean, I guess we could if that’s still the consensus.

Thank you so much for replying. I know we sort of went overboard in our pleas, but it's appreciated that you're still working on Ripped and I can appreciate that the muses are not playing nicely right now. We shall be faithfully waiting, don't feel the need to rush.

OMG Yes hugs. I hug everyone so no one even considers that to be flirting from me anymore. It's just that thing I do that people put up with or enjoy depending on their mood. I don't bite though. I'm young enough to be your son too, that doesn't stop anyone I can understand that there are probably good reasons why you're concerned about younger men getting flirty or attached. There's a whole social stigma about the issue that makes it really hard to talk about. Heavens, I had no idea you lived in Vancouver. We have a very similar problem up/down there with predatory twinks hunting for sugar daddies. I know a whole bunch of the people in question and they live it up in their downtown apartments, but I know *exactly* how its paid for and it's not from their minimum wage slavery. I know who's connected to who and what the exact relationship between all those people is, and on the one hand I suppose everyone is getting some kind of benefit from it, but on the other hand its pathetic and disgusting to me to see people reducing intimacy to simply a matter of financial exchange.