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In reply to the discussion: My GLBT family: How did you meet your significant other? [View all]closeupready
(29,503 posts)52. Exactly. And even as to activities (and by that I think you mean sports or
health-related things like gym), sports is an endeavor which - in modern US times - is almost as homophobic as religion.
I don't mean the activity is homophobic; rather, many of the men who are athletic and sports-oriented are homophobic, very much so.
The point being that unless one lives in a university town where there are likely to be gay-oriented sports leagues or cities like New York or LA or SFO, it can be difficult for an openly gay person to find a sports activity where they can socialize with other gay athletes. They are all in the closet!
Or maybe that's just how I see it, but it's always seemed like that to me.
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Today is my guys 63 birthday....we met 23 years ago (3/7/89) on a Monday night at the only gay bar
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#4
Thanks for your kind words....I've been happy for so long I've almost forgotten how
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#6
I lived in Petal briefly when I was 6 (1960).....its about 25 miles from where I grew up....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#22
Hard to believe but you picked two names I have absoluely no known connection to....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#33
My great grandfather ran a small town restaurant there until 1932....Who knows....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#35
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Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#74
You, like several others on this thread, made me cry....damn you all and damn DU for
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#21
What a wickedly sweet story... all I can wish you is years and years more of the same....
Rowdyboy
Jun 2012
#30
Exactly. And even as to activities (and by that I think you mean sports or
closeupready
Jun 2012
#52
Yes, I'd love to see if i can find my husband in a place that is disgusted by us.
Amimnoch
Jun 2012
#55
Back then, there was an unwritten set up "rules" for finding a meaningful long-lasting relationship.
BeeBee
Jun 2012
#72
I met him at the candy store, he turned around and smiled at me, you get the picture?
WillParkinson
Jun 2012
#60