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I think Speedo thing became an issue in the 90's. You'll notice now that it is mostly middle aged men and older who wear Speedos.

In America or Europe?

Speedos are sexy but they're said to be TMI and then there's the pubic hair poking out!

I see no problems there ;-)

Everywhere.




No problems? So you like your men au naturelle?

"So how much of homosexual exclusivity is due to the hetero-majority's bigotry that segregates gays, for example?"

So you're basically saying that homophobia wiped out our potential or existing bisexuality and hardened our straightness/gayness?


I think Speedo thing became an issue in the 90's. You'll notice now that it is mostly middle aged men and older who wear Speedos.

Speedos are sexy but they're said to be TMI and then there's the pubic hair poking out!

In the Q/A forum, anyone can start a thread but only I and the original poster can respond. Feel free to start a new thread here on Ian Thorpe, or ask me below in this thread.

That's such a waste!

I was going to add the link to his full interview with Michael Parkinson.

In it, he does go on to say that he IS gay.

In my experience, everyone is straight until the lights go out :-)

Huh?!  What about those who are gay?

andkon, I wish I could talk to you about this one on one.


Oh!

I CAN'T post in that Ian Thorpe thread! The reply button isn't there! Why is that?

Perhaps the heterosexual nuclear family is the myth and homosexuality/grero is the reality.  That's what you just admitted.

Care to introduce yourself, Siya?

"I'm gay" is individual; grero is global

Individual??

Oftentimes, straight-acting gay just means "not as feminine as other gays." But they're still feminine. This is a problem because I'm quite sure that lots of guys don't want to be with other guys because they don't want to be seen as feminine. So if gay was recognized as feminine AND that it's not the only way to like other men, masculine men would be more likely to consider same-sex relationships.

I wouldn't really use the word feminine. I'd rather say gay which more or less means gay = effeminate.


So you're saying that they don't want to be with other guys because they don't want to be seen and treated as and lumped with the gays or the LGBTs(freaks, really)???

And which guys are these? The gay ones or the straight on the surface ones but not quite straight in reality?

"thus driving away those who are really masculine. What a shame."


What do you mean by that?

I think there are people who can sexually function with others regardless of their sex.

I think these gaybros are fake. Gays with a huge inferiority complex about being gay and about the image of gays and try to make themselves feel better by imitating straight guys fully.

Imagine them still addressing each other as BROS in their fifties? Sheesh!

The Western media is having a field day during the Sochi Olympics â€" attacking Russian president Vladimir Putin for his stand against so-called gay “propaganda.” But the media have a way of overlooking countries that are far more aggressive in outlawing homosexuals.

Take Nigeria, for example. It recently brought in laws that are much worse than those in Russia.

Nigeria, which has a population of 168 million, adopted a law that imposes a 14-year prison term for anyone entering into a same-sex relationship, as well as a 10-year sentence for anyone found to support gay clubs or meetings. Even public displays of affection by gays and lesbians is considered a crime.

Indeed, homosexuality is illegal in 38 African countries.

In contrast, Vancouver councillor Tim Stevenson, who is openly homosexual, spent time in Sochi earlier this month at a gay bar, which operates without official sanction.

The West has always got a kick out of attacking Russia, partly for its old Soviet ties and ongoing authoritarianism. And there is little concern in the West about being called “racist” for mocking Russians, since most of the world’s 148 million Russians are white. Many are also Russian Orthodox, a denomination that is not strong in the West.

But what really explains the relative silence about the much more extreme laws against homosexuals in places such as Nigeria, which is almost entirely made up of blacks, Christians and Muslims?

Cameroon, Tanzania and Uganda have similarly brutish laws.

An excellent story by Religion News Service writer David Gibson points to the division among Catholic church leaders in Africa over the anti-homosexual law in Nigeria, where one of the country’s top Catholics enthusiastically supporting it. This is in a whole different category about what you hear regarding Russia and homosexuals. Here’s an excerpt from the RNS piece:

    In Nigeria the leader of the Catholic hierarchy fully supported that country’s new law, which prompted a wave of violence against gays when it passed.
    Nigeria's Roman Catholic archbishop Ignatius Kaigama

    Nigeria’s Roman Catholic archbishop Ignatius Kaigama called it “courageous and wise” to send people in homosexual relationships to jail. Russia’s laws are far less draconian.

    In a January letter on behalf of the Catholic hierarchy of Nigeria, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos praised Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for his “courageous and wise decision” in signing the legislation.

    Kaigama said it would protect Nigeria “against the conspiracy of the developed world to make our country and continent, the dumping ground for the promotion of all immoral practices.”

    A few days later, however, a strongly worded editorial in the The Southern Cross, a newspaper run jointly by the bishops of South Africa, Botswana and Swaziland, took aim at the new law, calling on the Catholic Church in Africa “to stand with the powerless” and “sound the alarm at the advance throughout Africa of draconian legislation aimed at criminalizing homosexuals.”

On a related note, Der Spiegel has just published a brilliant editorial headlined: “Sochi Schadenfreude: ‘Ha Ha, The Russians Screwed It Up Again!’

The editorial in the excellent German news magazine questions why journalists in the West are working so hard to bash Russia’s Winter Games, especially given that the citizens of the host city and country are trying very hard to be hospitable.

Someone on Facebook also directed me to an article on the way American journalists in particular are hammering Russia, Sochi and Putin (not that the latter, in particular, doesn’t deserve criticism). It’s called “Distorting Russia.”

WERE homophobic?


Doesn't matter! They're guilty!


Have you ever scolded them? Have you ever thought about hitting them?

Do you have any siblings?

Are you out to your parents?

Have your family ever been homophobic to you?

I know that. I'm a left-hander myself.


How many boyfriends have you had?