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Robbie certainly got flirty once his normal inhibitions were lowered! It’s probably a good thing it hasn’t happened before. I think Billy has been scarred for life! ;-)

Maybe when Tom gets back to England, he can get together with Andy – if Andy ever manages to escape the infantile Tyrone unharmed! Nothing about that story makes much sense, so a bit of time-travel will fit right in! Andy needs someone more normal than the troublemaker who just threw his clothes out the window! ;-)

Unlike with W.A.R., at least the conclusion of Resurrection is not the end of Oli, Ryder, and Teddy! I’m going to miss the frequent, random chapters! Technology seems to have stalled in the last 21 years, must be a lingering side-effect of xxxxxxxxxcensoredxxxxxxxxx! ;-)

@Timothy M. has been dodging the tines quite successfully! Maybe we should be chasing his muse with the pitchforks! Poking Timmy hasn’t had the desired effect… ;-)

I guess you haven’t seen Game of Thrones, also shown on HBO. The US/Canadian version of Queer as Folk contained significant amounts of nudity with full frontal from many extras. Rome (shown on HBO) and Spartacus (produced in NZ and shown on Starz) contained nudity too. US cable TV operates with many fewer restrictions than does US broadcast TV (primarily ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, and PBS). ;-) Prisoners don’t have a lot to do to occupy their time, many work out – a lot! ;-)

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Of course, it’s not BBC! ;-) I know Channel 4 is very adventurous. I know they showed the original Queer as Folk. And I often see them listed in the credits of movies in the LGBTQ film festival I attend every year! ;-) I’ve seen pictures of the show. I’m surprised that a few of the guys seem to be unaware or unconcerned that their bodies are, shall we say, pudgier than average. But then again, especially in the US, many of the naked bicyclists photographed while participating in the WNBR are obese or even morbidly obese, not just overweight! ;-)

Even in the UK? I thought this was mostly a US issue! I thought we were the only prudes in the industrialized world!

In other words, you didn’t think of it first! ;-)

One of the four or five concerts I've attended in my life was Hall & Oates back in the Private Eyes era – I was annoyed that they were waving very intense spotlights into the audience during Private Eyes, temporarily blinding me! ;-)

I would have thought they’d have talked to Theo before they talked to Pat! He might have been able to helped them figure out a strategy that would have reassured Pat while informing him of the new information. This could be a great thing for Pat or it could make things much more complicated and confusing. Ian and Adam aren’t taking advantage of all the resources easily available to them. I’m sure Theo would have been thrilled to help. He might have had some useful advice to offer. ;-)

Oli is 13, but he’s been hanging around chronological adults who also have the immature vocabulary of rebellious teenagers. I’m surprised that those two words got the reaction they did. I would have expected the general trend towards continued relaxation of the prohibitions against using certain words on TV. In the ‘70s, radio stations used to bleep out Paul Simon singing ‘crap’ in Kodachrome! In the ‘70s, Canadian Paul Shaffer (bandleader for the SNL housebound and later bandleader/sidekick for David Letterman) was the first to utter the ‘f’ word on US broadcast TV. These days, broadcast TV censors allow at least one or two of George Carlin’s notorious Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television from 1972 (vulgar synonyms for defecate, urinate, intercourse, vulva, fellator, one who has had intercourse with his maternal parent, and breasts). In 1966, Lenny Bruce said he was arrested for saying nine words, seven of which are on George Carlin’s list but included the synonyms for donkey and testicles. U2’s Bono said on live television that his 2003 Golden Globe award was “really, really f-ing brilliant” and despite complaints, the FCC did not fine the network. But of course, Janet Jackson’s ‘Wardrobe Malfunction’ occurred in January 2004, which had an immediate chilling effect on words and imagery on broadcast TV in the US.

Oh, you mean the Microsoft theme? ;-)

Out of the mouths of babes! ;-)

I hope your parents didn’t saddle you and your twin with rhyming names (Ryan and Bryan? Ryan and Ian [like the 90210 guy]). But I’m not sure Ryan and Rhiannon (if you have a sister as your twin) would be a whole lot better. The closest my family came to a pattern was my older brother, his wife, their son, and their daughter: DKDK (first initials) or their wedding anniversary sharing the month/day with both their daughter and younger granddaughter’s birthdays. ;-)

Well if they ever experiment with having men carrying fetuses, the ‘expulsion’ will be by Cesarean Section only! ;-)

Ronyx’s stories are always well-written and thought provoking. This one is an exploration of identical twin dynamics. Neither the author, nor the parents were aware of the famous Gay porn star when Kevin was named! ;-)

At the rate @Dodger is posting this story, we should be finding out Andy’s fate sometime around November or December! ;-) Poor Andy. Dodger loves torturing him. First by pairing him with slow Bob, then by making him the focus of Tyrone’s ‘interest’ and the wrath of Dewsbury! Church has been held just out of his reach since the story began. ;-) I’m still annoyed that Dodger has slandered the US by transferring the nationality of Canada’s notoriously infantile ‘singer.’ ;-)

Just make sure he’s already strapped down and sitting up in a gurney so he doesn’t hurt himself when he faints! ;-)

I thought that was the entire interview! ;-)

You know, I vaguely remember this story. ;-) It’s not going to happen for me since I have no wealthy relatives and I refuse to waste my limited income on lotteries, but my cause would be homeless people, particularly LGBTQ homeless people, in this area. I’d work to set up shelters that were designed to be comfortable for LGBTQ people while allowing straight people in if there was room and they didn’t cause problems. I’d also set up villages of tiny homes so there’d be a transitional stage towards more traditional housing. The villages would offer support while allowing more freedom and individuality. Our issues are not always the same as or equivalent to those of straight people. ;-)

And since the soap box is available now… As a cis-gender Gay person of color, I can see both sides of this issue. Since most of us who have expressed an opinion are either Gay (or bisexual leaning male), we don’t see Gay as not including us. But people who do not identify as Gay might not appreciate having the description forced on them. Sure, there are women who identify as Gay women, but there are many others who chose to describe themselves as Lesbians instead. There are also Transpeople and Intersex individuals who are not Gay. It’s just like straight people who want to tell us how we should feel about something. We need to listen to what others are saying rather than just complain that they’re muddling up the message. Inclusion is about trying to make others feel like they are welcome. [/rant] ;-)

Thank you for having someone notice Troy’s fashion choice! ;-) And as I was reading about Troy’s problem, I immediately thought of the same solution! In the past that would have been thought of as being too weird for boys to do, but these days, it’s another fashion choice! Even into the ‘90s, I remember seeing a video with marine choosing not to shave his pubic hair (after shaving off the rest of his body hair) because of the reactions he anticipated from his buddies. ;-)

Ronyx’s stories are always well-written and thought provoking. This one is an exploration of identical twin dynamics. Neither the author, nor the parents were aware of the famous Gay porn star when Kevin was named! ;-)

My only complaint with this story is that the title is a little misleading! Of course, one of your stories begins with a nightmare, so I shouldn’t complain about your deception! I’m not sure what a better title for this story might be. ;-)