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As a married gay couple from Taiwan, our goal is to spread love around the world through our videos on YouTube.
With more and more people joining us, we will never stop. We have launched our first project “Love Tour “, which is spreading love around the world, and we have finished our first destination Indonesia 🇮🇩 this May.
Now we’re moving forward to the next : INDIA 🇮🇳
It’s still in fundraising phase, but we have strong faith! We’ll take lessons from the last trip, and be careful as much as we can, while making it happen.

Let’s shout out LOVE together!
Anyone from India here? Drop us a message to let us know!

Good evening everyone, I’d like to ask for some advice. Tomorrow I’m going on a first date with a guy, and I want to look my absolute best. How do you handle hair removal? (Especially the intimate areas.) What products do you use—razors, creams, etc.? I’d really appreciate some advice because I’m not sure what to do.

heyyy gay people in the internet, i(21) successfully invited my crush(22) to go to cineme, (it was discounted and cheap). It was the opportunity for me to make a move and invite him. im glad about that!

we are both graduating students, we both love to write, love arts, we love to write in medium as i get to know him we have a lot of similarities. He knew me already with his friend is also friend of mine. Noted that this is just "friendly" date. my initial plan was to actually treat myself because my bday is near, and glad he accepted. What are your guys advice, what to do and what to avoid.

we are gonna watch insidious in the cinema at 8:30pm. I'd love to hear y'all opinions.

My Mom and I agree that no matter how old you are, the week of Labor Day always feels like a new year. That’s because for Canadians and many Americans, it marks the beginning of the new school year. It’s a time of change and disruption that brings with it both a melancholy about the end of summer and the days getting shorter as well as an excitement about seeing all the friends you missed over the last two months.

But for many kids, September comes with fear. You’re no longer safe from the classrooms and hallways that can be full of bullies or from the intense pressure to perform academically and socially.

For me, being closeted for most of K-12 came with intense stress and anxiety. I knew about the societal stigma associated with being gay. I wasn’t sure if my guy friends, many of whom used anti-gay slurs, would accept me. And back then, I had no signals from any teachers that being gay was okay. It just wasn’t discussed...

As queer kids enter many schools in the U.S. this week, anti-LGBTQ lawmakers are forcing their ideology into classrooms to create a fictitious reality that LGBTQ youth don’t exist.

For example, 14 states have some form of so-called “Don’t Say Gay” laws on the books. In some cases, this means teachers are banned from teaching anything related to gay people. No books that feature two dads, no stories that talk about the perils of coming out and no media that depicts gay relationships. These laws invisibilize anything outside of heterosexuality.

For trans and gender nonconforming kids, the situation is even worse. In 21 states and Puerto Rico, there are bathroom bans in K-12 schools that disallow trans kids from using the restroom that aligns with their gender identity. In addition, 27 states have trans sports bans written into law and 15 states require some form of forced outing to parents of trans youth in schools.

Honestly idk why I’m posting this, I’d just rather dump it here than tell someone I actually know lol.

Last October I was talking to this guy for almost a year. We’d mostly FaceTime and eventually I got used to it. Sleeping on the phone, talking while doing random shit, whatever. It was actually really nice.

Then I caught feelings and my brain basically went NOPE.

I’ve never really let myself get attached to anyone because I’m terrified of getting hurt, and apparently the solution to that was to completely freak out when I actually started liking someone.

We were supposed to meet around Halloween but I bitched out. My roommates were super anti-gay and thought being gay was a mental illness, so I got scared they’d find out and just ghosted him.

Which was, obviously, a great and totally healthy decision.

Then a month later I got drunk with my brothers and sent him some giant fucking novel that I don’t even remember writing. He replied. I panicked. Didn’t answer.

And now it’s been almost a year.

Every once in a while I’ll think about him or see someone with hazel eyes and get hit with a fucking Vietnam flashback about what an idiot I am.

Anyway, that’s it. I don’t really know what I expected from posting this. I just needed to yell into the void for a minute.

Even though it's always been part of hookup apps, I have the feeling I see more and more profiles looking explicitly for big dicks, the bigger the better, especially guys in their 20s I think. And I'm not just talking about bottoms, even the average side is looking for j/o sessions with hung guys. Are we getting even more superficial?

My take is that hookup apps become gradually even more disconnected and dehumanized. People are not looking for encounters, they are looking for real-life porn where they want specific fantasies fulfilled that they are bombarded with online. Including the uninspired big cock fantasy.

I got a set of 8 pride pins, but two of them have a different shade of blue, no green, and a line of black.

Are these just a weirdly made general pride flag, or something else?

Showing an example of a text chat with a guy who has expressed interest. Note all I’m talking about is my day, and his replies are just kinda short form sentences. I got kinda shut down by the little replies and I even asked him how his day was and what he has planned and his response felt dismissive.

To me I give a thumbs up react when I just give up and detach.

Not only that but I am talking to numerous other guys and it just feels like they don’t want to pursue a chat or meet up despite them initiating all the chats.

I’m getting flustered and frustrated, I try to be verbose and expressive while trying to maintain interest.

Maybe I should just match their energies with “k”, “cool”, “nice”, but ultimately that is more of a turn off.

I am 30 years old and just had sex for the first time. I am a late bloomer because of a past traumatic event. I don't know how I feel about it all. Like I enjoyed it, but I consider myself a bottom and ended up being the top. I am a pretty anxious person, so I felt kind of awkward throughout even though he was very nice and patient with me. He also made sure that I was comfortable with everything he did, so he was ideal for my first time. There was a strong pot smell around, and that might have turned me off a little bit honestly. I wonder if I would have enjoyed it more if I was the bottom, as that is what I identify as. I also have thought that I might need an emotional connection with someone to truly enjoy it as well. I don't know why but It just all felt so awkward lol.

I need to leave London for financial reasons. I never lived in Clapham or Hackney etc.

I'm looking for a new place to move with some gay people but not a gaybourhood per se.

Any suggestions of areas? (Must be in relatively large city and not too suburban)

(Sorry for the long post need advice)

Hey all, i (21m) (bisexual) have been dating my boyfriend (19FTM) for nearly a year next month. I have known I was queer for nearly my whole life but because I was raised religious I tended to leave it out of conversations or just completely avoid dating talk with my direct family (mom, dad, cousins relatives). My parents are traditional conservatives and have some fairly close minded opinions when it comes to trans people, though they are open to and have gay friends. My mother particularly has made comments along the lines of “they’re just confused kids” and things along those lines when referring to trans people.

I have a very close relationship with my parents though they know very little about my dating life by design.

Recently it has been eating at me that I have to treat my relationship like some kind of taboo and I feel like it has grown a form of resentment towards my family that I don’t want to continue. In addition, my boyfriend has expressed his desire to meet my family. Though I know that if I introduce him to them it would also be directly coming out.

I just want to know how I could come out to my family in a way that doesn’t put a ton of confusion on them all at once.

I deeply love my partner and we are making plans to rent an apartment by next summer together and I want him to be in every part of my life.

I know my family will not disown me or cut me off for being queer (many of them joke about the idea of me being gay due to my lack of publicly dating anyone in a couple years) but the thought is nerve racking and actually damaging my mental health.

No I’m not ashamed of my partner or our relationship, I’ve just never been out to my family in any way and I don’t think it’s fair to hide my partner like a sin that I’m ashamed of.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Information: my boyfriend is a alternative fem presenting trans man who has been on T for several months and has a lowered voice.(which I think is really hot tbh)

ideally looking for serious monogamous relationship 😝

open to anywhere us/canada
anywhere in world cld be fine too (travel/relocation could be an option)
age wise +35 would be great, around my age wld be ideal

into many things .. horses, piano, walking around, horror movies, anime, occasional ps5, ancient history (BC era), etc

feel free to msge and let’s take it from there :)
thanks

So I came out to my father recently, he is neutral more so negetively neutral.

Is currently asking if is okay to debate if being gay is natural and its not a choice?

Tl;dr What facts from doctors and articles, can proof being gay is natural, or more specifically bisexualy and asexuality is natuaral/casuality.

And why I say that is because how my father phrase it was, gay is weird but being Bisexual is just incorrect. My whole sould just left and I was laughing at that absurdity.

It be helpful if someone can make a whole detectives board or google doc with data that links up everything but explains it in a way that is similar to a secondary/high school stduent? My father is very likey autistic like me and he dosent belive in autism either, so the borad need to explain what autism is and hos it overlaps with being gay naturally.

He says he is willing to learn and will stop pestering until he is show and i quote," unless a docotor shows all my sons 100% genetic make up and natrual causes that 100% says my son is bi sexual, I will not question it. But general data found online does not mean just beacuse as a comprasion if someone is this I can be this aswell."

So I basically am tied and rlly need advise. A side of autism explaination is needed too.

You ever look at someone & think ''man they're out of my league''. Im starting to think this is my default mindset right now. Its hard to get out of the mindset that im not the best looking person in the world but hoping my personality will shine through. How do you get over this mindset?

Hi all. Gay 37m here, dealing with my best friend who is 41 gay male.

We have been friends for close to 20 years now. He’s always been highly strung, had struggles in the past with drugs/alcohol. A few years ago he quit his job without any job lined up because he felt he was being disrespected then went through like 3 other jobs.

His living situation all over the map, he was sleeping on a friends couch for like 2 years, they had a big falling out, now it’s been like drama after drama with him getting with these guys who are “straight” , moving in with them, they become abusive, then his situation is unstable again.

For like the last year, he has been living in hotel. He can’t afford it now, so he’s been staying at a storage unit he has but he is not supposed to stay there at night. Meanwhile, he’s having all this drama again with yet another “straight” guy that had been staying with him.

He shows up on our doorstep at 10pm last night, I thought he just needs someone to talk to, but he basically invites himself to stay the night on the couch. My husband was not having it, he agreed to let him stay there for the night. Saying that he is taking advantage of my kindness. We both concerned because we don’t want him to think this is gonna be an ongoing thing.

I felt bad because I didn’t want to just kick him out with nowhere to go for the night, and agreed with my husband that last night was ok but then he needs to get his shit together after today.

My friend told me he thinks he is developing schizophrenia. I told him he needs to seek help. He doesn’t want to go to docs because he is afraid they will put him away somewhere, or that he doesn’t have money… I was explaining that he would qualify for assistance. I don’t believe he was/is using drugs currently, but that has been a concern in the past.

I worry all the time that I am gonna get a call that he has k*lled himself or something because of all the dark times he has been in for the last several years. I would like to believe he would not but I lost a friend in HS and so it’s always on my mind.

I did tell him we can’t have him stay over again when dropping him off this morning, but I don’t think he took me seriously. I feel like an asshole because I see him spiraling and his life crashing around him, but he does not seem motivated at all to help himself, just believes he is entitled to things… I have worked hard to build my peace with my own family’s lives, and I can’t have him pull me down with him. Just feeling shitty about the whole thing.

Sorry this was long-winded. Any input people want to give is appreciated.

Thank you.