From Wonr Woman to Northstar, here are some of the most groundbreakg LGBTQ characters and gay superhero Marvel and DC Comics non.
Contents:
- AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
- LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- 'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
- A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
- GROUP HOP TO BUILD GEEK MUNY WH CHIGO’S GAY SCENE
- GAY GEEKS ARE COMG TO LA COMIC CON
- BEATBOXG COMMUNYDISRD IS HOME TO LNS OF UNIQUE MUNI G TOGETHER FOR A SGULAR PURPOSE. IF YOU DON’T FD A PLACE THAT FS WHAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR, YOU N EASILY CREATE .THAT’S WHAT DAVID DID WHEN HE FOUND THE BEATBOX COMMUNY, NOW THE FACTO HANGOUT WHERE BEATBOXERS AND BEATBOX ENTHIASTS E TO LEVEL UP THEIR CRAFT. BEATBOXG PARTICULAR IS A HOBBY WHOUT MANY OPPORTUNI TO WORK PERSON AND PRACTICE WH ONE ANOTHER, WHICH MAK AN ONLE MUNY IAL FOR HELPG TO SHARPEN SOME SKILLS. NOT ONLY DO THE DISRD SERVER HELP EXPERIENCED BEATBOXERS NNECT, ALSO CREAT A SPACE FOR NEWERS TO GA VALUABLE EXPERIENCE BEFORE ENTERG THE AY OF LIVE PETNS.BEE BEATBOXG IS ALL ABOUT VOL TALENT, ’S A GREAT F FOR VOICE-FOCED STAGE CHANNELS. THE BEATBOX COMMUNY RECENTLY RAN AN EVENT LLED “ESPE THE CYPHER,” OFFERG A SPACE FOR SOME OF THE MOST TALENTED BEATBOXERS OM ALL ACROSS THE WORLD TO E TOGETHER FOR A BETIFUL ETYLE JAM SSN. MULTIPLE PERFORMERS SHOWED OFF THEIR UNIQUE STYLGS, AND BEE OF THE LOW-KEY ATMOSPHERE, NOBODY HAD TO WORRY ABOUT PETG OR PARG THEMSELV TO THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS. REMOVED OM THE STRS OF HEATED PETN, ESPE THE CYPHER OFFERED A DAY JT FOR SHOWSG THE ART FORM AND THE CREATIVY .JT BEE THE EVENT WAS A LOT CHILLER THAN A FULL PETN DON’T MEAN WAS LS ANIZED, HOWEVER. DAVID ALWAYS MAK SURE THERE’S A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF STAFF AROUND, PL A PROPER, PREPARED HOST WHO N SPREAD THE ENERGY OF THE EVENT WELL AND ENGAGE THE DIENCE. HE WAS ALSO REFUL TO MAKE THE TONE AND STCTURE REFLECT THE CULTURE OF THE BEATBOX COMMUNY, SOMETHG HE REMENDS OTHER SERVER OWNERS DO: “LOTS OF SERVERS HAVE BEEN DOG SIAR STYLE EVENTS, SUCH AS TALENT SHOWS, WHICH I THK MAK HARR TO STAND OUT AS A MUNY OVERALL. MAKE THE EVENT PERSONAL AND PERSONALIZED [TO YOUR MUNY].”FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TCH A SLIGHTLY MORE HIGH-STAK EVENT, THE “ONLE WORLD BEATBOX CHAMPNSHIP” IS BEG HELD BY THE BEATBOXG COMMUNY BETWEEN AUGT 21ST AND 22ND. YOU’LL BE ABLE TO WNS SOME OF THE BT AND BRIGHTT BEATBOXERS THE WORLD DE OUT FOR THE TLE OF ONLE WORLD BEATBOX CHAMPN. FOR MORE , OR TO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS THE EVENT, CHECK OUT THE SERVER NOW.ART CLUBSHN AND KAT NEED A WAY TO SHARE THEIR ARTISTIC SI, AND THEY FIGURED OTHER PEOPLE NEED THE SAME THG. THAT’S WHY THE TWO -FOUND THE ART CLUB, A PLACE FOR CREATORS EVERYWHERE TO TALK SHOP, TRA TIPS, AND WORK THROUGH THEIR PROJECTS WH ONE ANOTHER.THE MUNY OFFERS A LOT OF SUPPORT TO S MEMBERS, AND DON’T STOP AT IDLE CHATTG. FOR ONE THG, THERE’S SUCH A STAGGERGLY LARGE LIBRARY OF ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE ASSETS AVAILABLE THAT THEY’VE HAD TO MAKE A SEND SERVER AS A DITED ROURCE DIRECTORY. ONE OF S NEWT ROURC IS A STAGE EVENT SERI SUPPORTG THE DISVERY OF “UNRGROUND ARTISTS,” AS-YET UNDISVERED CREATORS WHOSE TALENT HASN’T BEEN REGNIZED BY THE PUBLIC. THE THREE-PART EVENT ALSO HELPED SPIRE ART CLUB’S ARTIST MUNY THROUGH MOTIVATNAL TALKS OM RENOWNED ARTISTS AND PROFSNALS SHARG THEIR REER JOURNEYS AND STORI.“I KNOW A LOT OF TIM, N BE PRETTY ISOLATG AND LONELY, LOST YOUR OWN HEAD WH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS — PECIALLY IF THEY ARE DISURAGG. HEARG HOW OTHERS HAVE FACED THE SAME CHALLENG, THOUGHT OF THE SAME IAS, AND VOICED THE SAME BELIEFS N BE TLY SPIRATNAL AND MOTIVATG. IT N MAKE THE WORLD FEEL LIKE A MUCH LS LONELY PLACE. I WAS REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THIS HAPPEN WH THE DIENCE AT EACH OF THE SPEAKER SEGMENTS.”“EVERYBODY STARTS SOMEWHERE, AND AT SOME POT, EVERYONE IS AN UNRGROUND ARTIST,” SAYS SHN. “WE HOPE BY GIVG THE PROFSNALS A PLATFORM ON WHICH TO SHARE THEIR JOURNEYS AND HOW THEY OVERE THE HARDSHIPS THEY FACED, WE N ENURAGE AND MOTIVATE SMALLER ARTISTS TO KEEP TRYG AND TO NOT GIVE UP.”WHEN ASKED ABOUT ADVICE FOR NNG YOUR FIRST STAGE EVENT, SHN AND KAT ENURAGE FOLKS TO “HAVE A GOOD TIME AND LEARN OM MISTAK.” AFTER ALL, LEARNG AND CREATG IS WHAT BEG AN ARTIST IS ALL ABOUT.DO NNG AN EVENT FOCED ON ART SOUND LIKE SOMETHG YOU’D BE TERTED ? CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE ABOUT G STAGE CHANNELS TO SHARE ART OF ANY KD!GAY GEEKSTROPHIAS FOUND THE GAY GEEKS GROUP ALL THE WAY BACK 2010, BUT THEY DIDN’T MAKE THE JUMP TO DISRD UNTIL 2017. IN ALL THAT TIME, THEIR MISSN HAS REMAED THE SAME: GIVE PEOPLE A PLACE TO SHARE THEIR PASSNS AND MAKE IENDS AN ATMOSPHERE EE OF JUDGMENT OR BAD VIB. YOU N READ MORE ABOUT THEM ONE OF OUR PAST BLOGS, HOW DISRD COMMUNI CELEBRATE PRI.WHEN YOU’RE HELPG TO MANAGE A MUNY OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE OM ACROSS THE LGBTQIA+ SPECTM, MATAG THE TST AND NFINCE OF YOUR MEMBERS IS CCIAL. SCE THEIR LAST APPEARANCE ON THE DISRD BLOG, THEY’VE BEEN ABLE TO RPORATE STAGE CHANNELS AS A NATURAL EXTENSN OF THEIR MUNY AND HELP SUPPORT THEIR MEMBERS.ONE OF GAY GEEK’S RECENT EVENTS WAS A SORT OF ROUND TABLE BETWEEN THE MORATN STAFF AND THE MUNY, AN OPPORTUNY TO SHARE STORI AND OFFER GUIDANCE TO ONE ANOTHER. TROPHIAS AND THE TEAM SOON LEARNED WHEN YOU LEAD BY EXAMPLE, OTHERS WILL GA THE SPIRATN TO SHARE THEIR OWN JOURNEYS.“MEMBERS GAVE SPIRG STORI ABOUT THEIR G OUT STORY, WHICH TURN MA MORE OF THE DIENCE WANT TO SHARE THEIR STORI AS WELL! OTHERS SPOKE ABOUT THEIR JOURNEY AND SHED LIGHT ON SOME OF THE STGGL THAT MANY THE LGBTQ+ MUNY FACE DAILY. WE NEVER EXPECTED WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT SO WELL.”DEPENDG ON HOW LARGE YOUR OWN MUNY IS, BUILDG RELATNSHIPS WH YOUR MUNY MAY MEAN TAKG SPECIAL STEPS TO PROTECT YOUR MEMBERS. TROPHIAS ADVIS MAKG SURE YOUR MORATN TEAM IS READY TO ROLL WHEN YOUR STAGE STARTS. “ENSURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH STAFF TO BE ABLE TO MORATE ANY CHANNELS THAT YOU HAVE WH THE EVENT, BUT ALSO TO GRAB BAD ACTORS WHO MAY LOOK TO CRASH THE EVENT,” HE EXPLAS. “YOUR MUNY WILL THANK YOU AND SEE THAT YOU ARE TRYG TO PROTECT THE MUNY EVEN FURTHER.”IF GAY GEEKS SOUNDS LIKE A PLACE YOU’D LIKE TO LL HOME, YOU’LL FD THEM WH A QUICK SEARCH SERVER DISVERY. THEY’RE PLANNG TO HOST AN OPEN MIC NIGHT SOON, TOO — PERHAPS ’S TIME TO SHARE A STORY OF YOUR OWN?SET YOUR OWN STAGE AND SHARE YOUR COMMUNY’S SHG STARS
- OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
Larry Haworth's List: Gay Porn Tube * gay geek *
In the spir of batg stereotyp by reclaimg and celebratg them, BBDO NY Art Director Jam Kuczynski and illtrator Pl Tuller have created a “Gui to Gay Stereotyp, ” a seri of silk screened imag pturg the sence of your neighborhood gay posters, released this week as we head to Pri season, celebrate the recent Supreme Court cisn on DOMA.
The posters are available for $18 each, and some of the proceeds will go to the “Thk B4 You Speak” mpaign, which supports LGBT teens and rais awarens about homophobia and the e of terms like “That’s so gay, ” “Dyke” and “Faggot.
While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr.
LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
What started out as a small group of "gay geeks" Seattle has turned to a worldwi muny of 50,000 people. * gay geek *
Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea. Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods.
Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.
20 GAY GREEK GODS
The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture. That is a lie. It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they are. * gay geek *
As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.
” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.
On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man.
'GAY GEEKS': AN ONLE UTOPIA FOR LGBTQ GAMERS, COMIC FANS AND TREKKI
◊ Pl Charl is the Gay Comic Geek, a self-scribed dork who lov ic books, Transformers, llectable figur, sci-fi and fantasy movi, Anime … * gay geek *
Yet even after he fally started meetg gay iends five years after g out, he still didn't feel like they had anythg mon beyond beg attracted to men. ” He wanted to see if there might be a few other people out there who are gay and also GarciaCourty of Alex GarciaHe was astound when, wh s first year, Gay Geeks grew om a handful of lol guys to a worldwi muny of about 10, 000 said the fn of what mak a Gay Geek is pretty broad and clive, cludg, but not limed to, ic book nerds, Pokémon lovers and every type of gamer — be they tabletop, PC or, seven years later, the group has more than 50, 000 members — a membership tone passed jt this week.
K., Canada, Atralia and Brazil — ’s send, third, fourth, and fifth largt untri of membership, has acplished more than jt fdg a few other gays like him: He has built one of the premier plac onle for people like him to fd each Col O’ O'Neill, who was abandoned by his fay Seattle at 15 bee he was gay, found a new fay through Alex Garcia's Gay Geeks Facebook group. “Sam's fay accepted me pletely to their fay, and has been so amazg to have them my life, ” he said the group's membership is prised of mostly gay men, but do have a small, but active, number of lbians, too. Startg Gay Geeks (and now a host of other groups foced on geeks, beg gay and general fandom) has also proved to be a fulfillg enavor for the group's founr.
A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
* gay geek *
Largt LGBT groups1ExperimentaMadridOrganized by ExperimentaMadrid2ChrisOrganized by Chris3GaySocialOrganized by GaySocial4JennyOrganized by Jenny5Dom ErosOrganized by Dom Eros6John GOrganized by John G7TeriOrganized by Teri8TJ FlavellOrganized by TJ Flavell9JasonOrganized by Jason10Rima & RodneyOrganized by Rima & RodneyNewt LGBT groupsStarted Jul 22 New York, USA.
They may not be very faiar to the world at large, but they are certaly faiar to the brothers butt say that each gay person belongs to one of the typ is a b ceptive. Wild, ornery, and still gettg over their g out issu, the twk is the gay gone wild, and is ba to olr men who are to tryg to suck off their youthful energy.
GROUP HOP TO BUILD GEEK MUNY WH CHIGO’S GAY SCENE
Vio chat wh gay mal * gay geek *
Celebry Example: This is such a specific type don't really exists the world at large, but the Platonic ial of a circu boy is DJ Brett HenrichsenGay-Listers.
They ually work advertisg, PR, marketg, or the entertament dtry and make a ton of sh which they e to have perfect apartments, fantastic wardrob, and summer hom near all the other gay-listers. He drs eher the most current prissy fashns or like a homo versn of Terry Richardson, big glass, flannels, and jeans that looks so thrown together that took him hours to put together. You're more likely to fd them at a gallery openg or mol party, but every so often they'll be at a gay bar to b elbows, and other parts, wh the other homos.
GAY GEEKS ARE COMG TO LA COMIC CON
The night was billed as a way for disparate groups of the cy’s gay scene to e together and work. Geeks OUT, the group sponserg the event, hop to build a gay muny Chigo. * gay geek *
The drag queens are not only the urt jters of the gay muny, drsg up like clowns for our entertament, but they are also a bridge to the straight world.
I foced specifilly on the gay muny on a small liberal arts llege mp and ral, more nservative muni, like the on my rmants live and study , the Midwt. The fdgs of my rearch led me to nclu that llege-aged gay men, particularly those studyg at a small liberal arts llege, face a variety of challeng different om those their heterosexual unterparts face and that the men have many ways of pg wh the difficulti. Fally, thgs that are nsired to be general issu faced by all gay men are addrsed at the end of the sectn, cludg: fear of hate crim, difficulti wh people’s relig beliefs (both the beliefs of gay men and those of the people they teract wh), stereotypg, and the rise of the “GBF” (or gay bt iend), as well as self-acceptance and the popular view that homosexualy is a choice.
One of the first, and possibly biggt, challeng a gay man fac is the cisn to “e out”, or reveal his sexual orientatn to his fay, iends, and acquatanc. Though there is the mon ia that g out has to be a specific s down talk, there are many other ways gay men choose to munite their sexual orientatn, which vary greatly based upon the ntext which a person out. This rmal way of g out is credibly popular wh my rmants (and, acrdg to them, other gay men who are already out wh their fay and iends), and many new iends and acquatanc get a more sual treatment than if they had known Simon or Rorich when they were first explorg their new sexual orientatn.
BEATBOXG COMMUNYDISRD IS HOME TO LNS OF UNIQUE MUNI G TOGETHER FOR A SGULAR PURPOSE. IF YOU DON’T FD A PLACE THAT FS WHAT YOU’RE LOOKG FOR, YOU N EASILY CREATE .THAT’S WHAT DAVID DID WHEN HE FOUND THE BEATBOX COMMUNY, NOW THE FACTO HANGOUT WHERE BEATBOXERS AND BEATBOX ENTHIASTS E TO LEVEL UP THEIR CRAFT. BEATBOXG PARTICULAR IS A HOBBY WHOUT MANY OPPORTUNI TO WORK PERSON AND PRACTICE WH ONE ANOTHER, WHICH MAK AN ONLE MUNY IAL FOR HELPG TO SHARPEN SOME SKILLS. NOT ONLY DO THE DISRD SERVER HELP EXPERIENCED BEATBOXERS NNECT, ALSO CREAT A SPACE FOR NEWERS TO GA VALUABLE EXPERIENCE BEFORE ENTERG THE AY OF LIVE PETNS.BEE BEATBOXG IS ALL ABOUT VOL TALENT, ’S A GREAT F FOR VOICE-FOCED STAGE CHANNELS. THE BEATBOX COMMUNY RECENTLY RAN AN EVENT LLED “ESPE THE CYPHER,” OFFERG A SPACE FOR SOME OF THE MOST TALENTED BEATBOXERS OM ALL ACROSS THE WORLD TO E TOGETHER FOR A BETIFUL ETYLE JAM SSN. MULTIPLE PERFORMERS SHOWED OFF THEIR UNIQUE STYLGS, AND BEE OF THE LOW-KEY ATMOSPHERE, NOBODY HAD TO WORRY ABOUT PETG OR PARG THEMSELV TO THE OTHER PARTICIPANTS. REMOVED OM THE STRS OF HEATED PETN, ESPE THE CYPHER OFFERED A DAY JT FOR SHOWSG THE ART FORM AND THE CREATIVY .JT BEE THE EVENT WAS A LOT CHILLER THAN A FULL PETN DON’T MEAN WAS LS ANIZED, HOWEVER. DAVID ALWAYS MAK SURE THERE’S A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF STAFF AROUND, PL A PROPER, PREPARED HOST WHO N SPREAD THE ENERGY OF THE EVENT WELL AND ENGAGE THE DIENCE. HE WAS ALSO REFUL TO MAKE THE TONE AND STCTURE REFLECT THE CULTURE OF THE BEATBOX COMMUNY, SOMETHG HE REMENDS OTHER SERVER OWNERS DO: “LOTS OF SERVERS HAVE BEEN DOG SIAR STYLE EVENTS, SUCH AS TALENT SHOWS, WHICH I THK MAK HARR TO STAND OUT AS A MUNY OVERALL. MAKE THE EVENT PERSONAL AND PERSONALIZED [TO YOUR MUNY].”FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TCH A SLIGHTLY MORE HIGH-STAK EVENT, THE “ONLE WORLD BEATBOX CHAMPNSHIP” IS BEG HELD BY THE BEATBOXG COMMUNY BETWEEN AUGT 21ST AND 22ND. YOU’LL BE ABLE TO WNS SOME OF THE BT AND BRIGHTT BEATBOXERS THE WORLD DE OUT FOR THE TLE OF ONLE WORLD BEATBOX CHAMPN. FOR MORE , OR TO MAKE SURE YOU DON’T MISS THE EVENT, CHECK OUT THE SERVER NOW.ART CLUBSHN AND KAT NEED A WAY TO SHARE THEIR ARTISTIC SI, AND THEY FIGURED OTHER PEOPLE NEED THE SAME THG. THAT’S WHY THE TWO -FOUND THE ART CLUB, A PLACE FOR CREATORS EVERYWHERE TO TALK SHOP, TRA TIPS, AND WORK THROUGH THEIR PROJECTS WH ONE ANOTHER.THE MUNY OFFERS A LOT OF SUPPORT TO S MEMBERS, AND DON’T STOP AT IDLE CHATTG. FOR ONE THG, THERE’S SUCH A STAGGERGLY LARGE LIBRARY OF ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE ASSETS AVAILABLE THAT THEY’VE HAD TO MAKE A SEND SERVER AS A DITED ROURCE DIRECTORY. ONE OF S NEWT ROURC IS A STAGE EVENT SERI SUPPORTG THE DISVERY OF “UNRGROUND ARTISTS,” AS-YET UNDISVERED CREATORS WHOSE TALENT HASN’T BEEN REGNIZED BY THE PUBLIC. THE THREE-PART EVENT ALSO HELPED SPIRE ART CLUB’S ARTIST MUNY THROUGH MOTIVATNAL TALKS OM RENOWNED ARTISTS AND PROFSNALS SHARG THEIR REER JOURNEYS AND STORI.“I KNOW A LOT OF TIM, N BE PRETTY ISOLATG AND LONELY, LOST YOUR OWN HEAD WH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS — PECIALLY IF THEY ARE DISURAGG. HEARG HOW OTHERS HAVE FACED THE SAME CHALLENG, THOUGHT OF THE SAME IAS, AND VOICED THE SAME BELIEFS N BE TLY SPIRATNAL AND MOTIVATG. IT N MAKE THE WORLD FEEL LIKE A MUCH LS LONELY PLACE. I WAS REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THIS HAPPEN WH THE DIENCE AT EACH OF THE SPEAKER SEGMENTS.”“EVERYBODY STARTS SOMEWHERE, AND AT SOME POT, EVERYONE IS AN UNRGROUND ARTIST,” SAYS SHN. “WE HOPE BY GIVG THE PROFSNALS A PLATFORM ON WHICH TO SHARE THEIR JOURNEYS AND HOW THEY OVERE THE HARDSHIPS THEY FACED, WE N ENURAGE AND MOTIVATE SMALLER ARTISTS TO KEEP TRYG AND TO NOT GIVE UP.”WHEN ASKED ABOUT ADVICE FOR NNG YOUR FIRST STAGE EVENT, SHN AND KAT ENURAGE FOLKS TO “HAVE A GOOD TIME AND LEARN OM MISTAK.” AFTER ALL, LEARNG AND CREATG IS WHAT BEG AN ARTIST IS ALL ABOUT.DO NNG AN EVENT FOCED ON ART SOUND LIKE SOMETHG YOU’D BE TERTED ? CHECK OUT THIS ARTICLE ABOUT G STAGE CHANNELS TO SHARE ART OF ANY KD!GAY GEEKSTROPHIAS FOUND THE GAY GEEKS GROUP ALL THE WAY BACK 2010, BUT THEY DIDN’T MAKE THE JUMP TO DISRD UNTIL 2017. IN ALL THAT TIME, THEIR MISSN HAS REMAED THE SAME: GIVE PEOPLE A PLACE TO SHARE THEIR PASSNS AND MAKE IENDS AN ATMOSPHERE EE OF JUDGMENT OR BAD VIB. YOU N READ MORE ABOUT THEM ONE OF OUR PAST BLOGS, HOW DISRD COMMUNI CELEBRATE PRI.WHEN YOU’RE HELPG TO MANAGE A MUNY OF THOANDS OF PEOPLE OM ACROSS THE LGBTQIA+ SPECTM, MATAG THE TST AND NFINCE OF YOUR MEMBERS IS CCIAL. SCE THEIR LAST APPEARANCE ON THE DISRD BLOG, THEY’VE BEEN ABLE TO RPORATE STAGE CHANNELS AS A NATURAL EXTENSN OF THEIR MUNY AND HELP SUPPORT THEIR MEMBERS.ONE OF GAY GEEK’S RECENT EVENTS WAS A SORT OF ROUND TABLE BETWEEN THE MORATN STAFF AND THE MUNY, AN OPPORTUNY TO SHARE STORI AND OFFER GUIDANCE TO ONE ANOTHER. TROPHIAS AND THE TEAM SOON LEARNED WHEN YOU LEAD BY EXAMPLE, OTHERS WILL GA THE SPIRATN TO SHARE THEIR OWN JOURNEYS.“MEMBERS GAVE SPIRG STORI ABOUT THEIR G OUT STORY, WHICH TURN MA MORE OF THE DIENCE WANT TO SHARE THEIR STORI AS WELL! OTHERS SPOKE ABOUT THEIR JOURNEY AND SHED LIGHT ON SOME OF THE STGGL THAT MANY THE LGBTQ+ MUNY FACE DAILY. WE NEVER EXPECTED WOULD HAVE TURNED OUT SO WELL.”DEPENDG ON HOW LARGE YOUR OWN MUNY IS, BUILDG RELATNSHIPS WH YOUR MUNY MAY MEAN TAKG SPECIAL STEPS TO PROTECT YOUR MEMBERS. TROPHIAS ADVIS MAKG SURE YOUR MORATN TEAM IS READY TO ROLL WHEN YOUR STAGE STARTS. “ENSURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH STAFF TO BE ABLE TO MORATE ANY CHANNELS THAT YOU HAVE WH THE EVENT, BUT ALSO TO GRAB BAD ACTORS WHO MAY LOOK TO CRASH THE EVENT,” HE EXPLAS. “YOUR MUNY WILL THANK YOU AND SEE THAT YOU ARE TRYG TO PROTECT THE MUNY EVEN FURTHER.”IF GAY GEEKS SOUNDS LIKE A PLACE YOU’D LIKE TO LL HOME, YOU’LL FD THEM WH A QUICK SEARCH SERVER DISVERY. THEY’RE PLANNG TO HOST AN OPEN MIC NIGHT SOON, TOO — PERHAPS ’S TIME TO SHARE A STORY OF YOUR OWN?SET YOUR OWN STAGE AND SHARE YOUR COMMUNY’S SHG STARS
The Two Gay Geeks njunctn wh K. D. Edwards and Rabow Crate announce a limed edn Hard Cover of "Eidolon". This announcement post cis wh K.D. Edwards Book Lnch panel this eveng at ConCarolas, 7:30 PM Fountaview. You don't want to miss this. See below for more specifics. Let know what you thk * gay geek *
Simon mentned when he began the procs of his “big” g out (the first time he began publicly prentg himself as a gay man, but after he had e out to his close iends and fay) and he was meetg new people, he would drop hts about his orientatn durg a game lled “20 qutns”.
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LA Comic Con is BACK! After a two-year absence due to COVID, LA Comic Con returns to celebrate s 10-year anniversary as LA’s biggt all-thgs ics, gamg, sci-fi, eSports, and pop culture event. In addn to headlers Shazam’s Zachary Levi, Star Trek’s Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols, The Mandalorian’s Mg-Na Wen, Evil Dead’s Bce Campbell, and the st of Arrow, splayer and stylist Julian “Jetson” Chaix will morate the Gay Geeks and Where To Fd Them panel featurg digal artist and filmmaker Timo Ree, podster and journalist Alexanr Rodriguez (On the Rocks: Where Celebri & Cocktails Mix), publicist and podst Chandler Polg (X-Reads), and drag queen Ember Va to geek out about favore fandoms, the LGBTQIA+ muny, and their reers. The panel menc Saturday, December 4th at 1 pm and is sure to be the perfect mix of geekdom, gay, and sass. * gay geek *
For example, one of Simon’s aterny brothers disvered that he was gay bee he was helpg Simon ed one of his papers for a class which he was discsg his sexual orientatn. In orr to intify the range of rpons that gay men face, I had Rorich and Simon participate a ee listg exercise which they listed all the possible ways someone might react upon disverg a gay man’s sexual orientatn. He said ’s jt strange when a person acts like nothg has changed even though both of them (the gay man and the person they have e out to) know thgs are not the same.
This mak a b more difficult for him to meet other gay men if there is no personal nnectn already, which n be through a iend or acquatance or meetg them bee of an LGBTQ+ group on mp.
In orr to bat the issu of the limed datg pool on a small mp (and the difficulti due to beg ls obvly gay), my rmants e onle rourc, like datg webs or apps like Tr or Grdr, to meet other gay men. Acrdg to Simon, when you meet someone through an app like Grdr (an app for meetg other gay men, or, as Rorich puts , “…a trackg service for other gay men” that allows you to msage other ers) or an onle datg se, there is more of a sexual nnotatn.