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LGBTQIA+ |OT8| PrEPare Yourself.

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RatskyWatsky said:
why dont they make it official.
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Looking it up, I'm not sure if any of the history/heritage months are "official." They all seem to be based on repeated declarations. For example, in regards to African American History Month, It appears that since 1976 every US President has declared February to be African American History Month. I don't think that will change any time soon. However, honestly, if it's not officially recurring, given the political climate, I could see a President saying it's "racist" and refusing to declare it...

If someone like Ted Cruz became elected, I could easily see LGBT Pride Month not getting its official endorsement because "pride" is perhaps not something he'd want to endorse. Maybe we'd get LGBT Tolerance Month instead. :p For as long as being LGBT is controversial or seen as a "choice" by some people, I don't think an official LGBT Pride Month is a guaranteed thing.

TIL that of the various history/heritage months I could think of (LGBT, Women, African American, Native American, Asian Pacific American, Hispanic), LGBT is the only one without its own standalone government URL, instead being a subsection of the Library of Congress's website. Maybe that's another sign that it's not there yet. Or perhaps it needs to become LGBT Heritage or LGBT History Month first.
 
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RatskyWatsky

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kirbyfan407 said:
Looking it up, I'm not sure if any of the history/heritage months are "official." They all seem to be based on repeated declarations. For example, in regards to African American History Month, It appears that since 1976 every US President has declared February to be African American History Month. I don't think that will change any time soon. However, honestly, if it's not officially recurring, given the political climate, I could see a President saying it's "racist" and refusing to declare it...

If someone like Ted Cruz became elected, I could easily see LGBT Pride Month not getting its official endorsement because "pride" is perhaps not something he'd want to endorse. Maybe we'd get LGBT Tolerance Month instead. :p For as long as being LGBT is controversial or seen as a "choice" by some people, I don't think an official LGBT Pride Month is a guaranteed thing.

TIL that of the various history/heritage months I could think of (LGBT, Women, African American, Native American, Asian Pacific American, Hispanic), LGBT is the only one without its own standalone government URL, instead being a subsection of the Library of Congress's website. Maybe that's another sign that it's not there yet. Or perhaps it needs to become LGBT Heritage or LGBT History Month first.
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Interesting, I thought for sure Black History Month was an official thing. I wonder why it (and all the other _ History/Pride/Heritage Months) isn't?
 
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SuperStiltzkin said:
Met him in person at the park by his house yesterday. Parents story is whatever. Apparently asked his mom for relationship advice and dad overheard what he did to me and confiscated his phone for going out too much. Could be a half truth, could be a total lie. Didn't care enough to verify. Called his phone and instantly got voice mail. Asked his friend to call his phone and he said it went to voicemail. Dunno if he was covering for him or not.

He tried to guilt me. Says his parents hate him now and I hate him now and his work situation isn't good. Told him I'd like to feel sorry for him, but I don't. Told him his parents don't hate him, I do. Tried to excuse or deflect with another attempt to make me feel sorry. Said his infidelities might be a result of traumatic childhood experience that he never even told his parents about. I won't say what in case it's true. I have a hard time believing since he's joked about that a lot. Said I'm sorry to hear that, but that doesn't change anything or excuse anything. I straight up asked why he did it. What motivated him to contact those people. Don't give me any bullshit. Just help me understand. He said cause he was sexually attracted to them. Which was the most honest thing he's said during the whole meeting. So he has no self control and no respect for me.

He also back peddles on the "didn't have sex, just talked" thing. I told him he was irresponsible, disrespectful, and stupid for putting me at risk. Now he said he's only had sex with one guy last year and just "talked" to the rest. Told him I don't believe anything he says anymore. As far as I'm concerned, you had sex with all of them and that's a fact between us now and we treat it as such. He said he made a mistake and he's sorry he betrayed my trust. I said a mistake is getting drunk and kissing some guy at the bar in the spur of the moment. What you did was seek out guys behind my back through sustained contact. That is not a mistake. That was done with calculated intent. Whether you had sex with one or all of them makes no difference. The intent was there. The planning was there. You initiated it several times over the course of a year.

He asked me to forgive him and said he'd try to fix it. Told him I don't know what our relationship would even be anymore. I won't be the same person you claim to have loved so much. You aren't either. Unless I check your phone every day, call you 24/7. Send me your work schedule every week. No going out unless you're with me. I call your parents to check if you're actually home "just taking a lazy day staying in." He said he'll do all of it. Whatever it takes.

I won't lie. I really considered it. It was hard because he was crying and I'd never seen him cry before. I thought maybe I'd stick around to see how he treats me from now on. How far he's willing to go to keep me. But I just think back to those messages. Those pictures that he took "just for me" that he sent to those guys.

I said I don't have the energy to keep constant tabs on you. I don't have the energy to deal with the stress of not knowing what you're up to either. I'm not going to spend the rest of my 20's trying to salvage this.

I opened my phone and deleted all the pictures of him and us in front of him.

I hugged him hard. Told him I really did feel happy when I was with him. That despite everything that happened recently, he changed my life in a lot of positive ways. I didn't regret this being my first relationship even if it ended up being a big lie. Told him hopefully he'll find someone he likes enough to treat right someday. Said goodbye and left.



I am also incredibly insecure. A lot of my doubts and second guessing about him I attributed to my own insecurities. And it really wasn't until this thread that I realized that a lot of what I thought would be overbearing demands are simply reasonable requests in a relationship. If I had trusted myself more, I could have probably seen this coming sooner.



It is kind of liberating to just take care of myself from now on. Felt like I got sidetracked. Gonna go back to playing more videogames. Go back to the gym. Getting back to working on my portfolio. Basically move on with life.
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You've done well. No ambiguity, no maybes, just cut the drift and moved on. Well done
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Blood Diamonds

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Vorg said:
Why? I'm unfamiliar with her earlier stuff and her career in general, tbh.
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it sold 21k first week in the U.K which is terrible, 3 years later Electra Heart has sold 129k in the U.S which is okay... but it took 3 years to get there. Also people didn't understand the "humor" or satire that Marina tried to do during Electra Heart but even then a lot of people consider her whole satire statement an excuse to criticism about her selling out.

When Marina announced FROOT she announced her whole "FROOT of the month" thing which meant she'd release a new single every month until the albums release, her strategy actually lead to her selling 49k first week in the US alone. Unfortunately the U.K is another story as it opened with... 10k sales first week...

I just think that the whole Electra Heart era really killed her chances of becoming really big because of the imagery of that era and how many of her fans saw it as her selling out. Of course it doesn't speak about the quality of her music or anything, I'm just talking about sales.

also FROOT is better than Electra Heart
 
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Sai-kun

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Electra Heart was great in 2012, but nobody should be listening to it even ironically in 2016! FROOT and The Family Jewels remain relevant to the everyday life of people while Electra Heart is spinning in her grave.
 
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Sai-kun said:
Electra Heart was great in 2012, but nobody should be listening to it even ironically in 2016! FROOT and The Family Jewels remain relevant to the everyday life of people while Electra Heart is spinning in her grave.
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The Power and control video tho....

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June is pride month? Sorry, I don't know a lot about this...
We don't have pride day, or I guess we do, but it's celebrated with a pride parade of half naked people and some others.

(It's actually a protest for LGBT rights, but since I don't have many LGBT friends nor watch local TV, I have no idea tbh)
 
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LambdaTeos said:
June is pride month? Sorry, I don't know a lot about this...
We don't have pride day, or I guess we do, but it's celebrated with a pride parade of half naked people and some others.

(It's actually a protest for LGBT rights, but since I don't have many LGBT gays nor watch local TV, I have no idea tbh)
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I love your avatar!
 
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LambdaTeos

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i never use google for porn....

i'm not that good with computers so i don't want my history to be stored or smt by mistake...

i mostly use my phone huehuehue
 
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Where can I buy one of those baseball hats with a red P? I've fallen in love with the umpire in my cousins local baseball league, and I need to feign interest in the sport.
 
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A famous Christian musical artist has come out as gay

I grew up in a very conservative Christian home where I was taught that my sexual orientation was a matter of choice, and had put all my faith into that. I had never before admitted to myself that I was gay, let alone to anyone else. I never wanted to be gay. I was scared of what God would think and what all of these people I loved would think about me; so it never was an option for me. I have been suppressing these attractions and feelings since adolescence. I’ve tried my whole life to be straight. I married a girl, and I even have two beautiful little kids. My daughter, Liv, is six and my son, Beckham, is two.
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There is a weight that has been lifted, and I have never felt so free. I cannot even believe the joy and lightness I feel from being able to accept myself, and love myself, for who I truly am … but I have also lost some of the closest people in my life. I have felt betrayal by people I loved a lot, and cared so much about. I have had some church people act like the worst people I have ever experienced in my life. I have some people in my life who I have felt a shift in the way they love me, and the way they see me. I want to be loved for who I am, not in spite of who I am. I’m starting over in so many ways. It is freeing, but it’s also starting out lonely.
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Bladenic said:
ikr idk what those fools are talking about

and who the fuck uses bing lmao
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right? like obviously google is be-
Cosmic Bus said:
Well, Google ain't the one giving me $10 in Amazon credit every month for using their site. Bing can and certainly does buy my loyalty and affection. 👢💵
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wait what the fuck?? what? let me look into this....

berzeli said:
Video previews.

though tbh, I just use myvidster these days.
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slay! myvidster is the GOAT when it comes to porn.
 
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Cosmic Bus said:
Well, Google ain't the one giving me $10 in Amazon credit every month for using their site. Bing can and certainly does buy my loyalty and affection. 👢💵
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What Bladenic said. What do I need to do to get this Amazon moolah? Please let it be one search per month. I'd put it in my calendar.

EDIT: Signed up with an account. Now time to spam searches every day. This is like MyNintendo but for Microsoft.

Nintendo, please partner with Google again and let me earn eShop credits for searching for Kirby pictures.
 
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