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Post by YankeeFan on Aug 23, 2023 14:39:13 GMT
Is this a real thing, or just the latest New York Times "trend" article about something that 5 people in Brooklyn (ok, in this case it's Charlotte, N.C.) are doing.
When David Dulin celebrated his 36th birthday in March, he asked his Twitter followers for just two things: cash donations to his online payment account, and pictures of them in their own birthday suits.
“It started as a joke, but it’s just become something that we run with,” said Mr. Dulin, a retail worker in Charlotte, N.C. “Almost every birthday I’ll be like, ‘OK, Cash App and nudes: Drop them!’”
Mr. Dulin began coyly asking for nude photographs via social media on his birthday a few years ago as something of a test after seeing other gay men make similar requests on their own birthdays. He was surprised, he said, when some of his online acquaintances delivered on the invitation, admitting that they had been looking for an opportunity to flirt with him.
In recent years, many queer men have begun sending and receiving nude selfies on social media for their birthdays. Variations on “It’s my birthday, send nudes” have been uttered so frequently online that it has become something of a meme (or, at the very least, a generic way for a gay man to announce his birthday, whether or not he actually expects to receive any explicit images). The practice has become so normalized that the request is sometimes simplified to, “It’s my birthday — you know what to do.”
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Post by dirtybird on Aug 23, 2023 16:56:35 GMT
Is this a real thing, or just the latest New York Times "trend" article about something that 5 people in Brooklyn (ok, in this case it's Charlotte, N.C.) are doing. When David Dulin celebrated his 36th birthday in March, he asked his Twitter followers for just two things: cash donations to his online payment account, and pictures of them in their own birthday suits.
“It started as a joke, but it’s just become something that we run with,” said Mr. Dulin, a retail worker in Charlotte, N.C. “Almost every birthday I’ll be like, ‘OK, Cash App and nudes: Drop them!’”
Mr. Dulin began coyly asking for nude photographs via social media on his birthday a few years ago as something of a test after seeing other gay men make similar requests on their own birthdays. He was surprised, he said, when some of his online acquaintances delivered on the invitation, admitting that they had been looking for an opportunity to flirt with him.
In recent years, many queer men have begun sending and receiving nude selfies on social media for their birthdays. Variations on “It’s my birthday, send nudes” have been uttered so frequently online that it has become something of a meme (or, at the very least, a generic way for a gay man to announce his birthday, whether or not he actually expects to receive any explicit images). The practice has become so normalized that the request is sometimes simplified to, “It’s my birthday — you know what to do.”I have some friends who could tell you, but I need your phone number and birthday.
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Post by jaketaylor on Aug 23, 2023 18:34:41 GMT
We can only hope that, like drinking vodka cranberry and saying yaaaaas queen, this is another gay man's trend eventually co-opted by straight women.
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Post by doctorquant on Aug 23, 2023 20:07:00 GMT
My birthday gift(s) to the world -- straight, gay, and those for whom their sexuality is "all in their head" -- will be, in perpetuity, to not send any selfies (nude or otherwise).
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Post by Ridiculously Dull Bobby on Aug 23, 2023 20:56:41 GMT
My buddy used to photoshop my head onto gay porn pictures and send them to our text chain.
Does that count?
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Post by YankeeFan on Aug 30, 2023 12:51:44 GMT
Sad state of affairs. Thankfully our Canadian 2SLGBTQI+ friends, looking for some sun this coming winter, can still visit Cuba, where human rights are respected.
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Post by YankeeFan on Sept 12, 2023 23:59:43 GMT
Great job by the New York Times. The Sisters are the modern day equivalent of Jackie Robinson, and to be inclusive means inciting anti-Catholic bigots. The Dodgers, who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947 by calling up Jackie Robinson, have long viewed themselves as champions of inclusion and the annual Pride Night has been a high-priority event for the team. The decision to disinvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which came after complaints from politicians and religious groups, resulted in a swift backlash. LA Pride, the organization that runs the LA Pride Parade & Festival, pulled out of the Dodgers’ event in protest, as did groups like the Los Angeles LGBT Center and the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
The LGBT Center had gone as far as to insist that the Dodgers cancel the event if the Sisters were not allowed to attend. … The LGBT Center immediately announced that it would join the Sisters at Pride Night, honoring its pledge to return to the event if the team changed its decision. The group thanked members of the Los Angeles community who protested and said that a lot could be learned from how the situation played out.
“Last week’s debacle underscores the dangerous impact of political tactics by those who seek to stoke the flames of anti-LGBTQ bias at a time when our rights are under attack,” the group said in a statement. “We must continue to stand together as a community in defense of the rights and recognition of LGBTQ+ people in Los Angeles and beyond.”
LA Pride will also return. The group released a statement on Monday night saying it would “stand in solidarity” with the Sisters.
In the team’s statement announcing it had reinvited the Sisters, the Dodgers acknowledged that there was more work to be done to repair their relationship with the community.
“In the weeks ahead, we will continue to work with our LGBTQ+ partners to better educate ourselves, find ways to strengthen the ties that bind and use our platform to support all of our fans who make up the diversity of the Dodgers family,” the statement said.Stop shaming kink! It’s a lifestyle, and the Sisters do good work.
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Post by YankeeFan on Sept 14, 2023 18:35:37 GMT
Still not sure why the media thinks teachers should be discussing their love lives with students.
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Post by dirtybird on Sept 14, 2023 19:04:09 GMT
Still not sure why the media thinks teachers should be discussing their love lives with students. That’s fair. Straight people taking about their spouses should also be vulnerable to lawsuits. Probably for taking about their kids too. Kids are the product of fuckin’, after all.
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Post by YankeeFan on Sept 28, 2023 12:43:32 GMT
They get Pride Month, LGBTQ+ Month, and National Coming Out Day?
It has been almost 90 days since Gay Pride month. According to the Los Angeles Unified School District, that is too long a hiatus from the imperative of immersing young children in the arcana of gay and trans identity. So throughout the week of October 9, many elementary school classrooms in Los Angeles will celebrate “National Coming Out Day,” which falls on October 11.
October is itself LGBTQ+ History Month, the Los Angeles Unified School District bureaucracy has reminded what it calls the district’s “fabulous educators.” Other LGBTQ+ programming will take place throughout October, picking up where Gay Pride month left off. The goals for the so-called Week of Action are ambitious: to turn six-year-olds into budding gender and critical race theorists.
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Post by YankeeFan on Sept 29, 2023 0:28:47 GMT
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Post by YankeeFan on Oct 18, 2023 20:06:04 GMT
Sad to see this in Chicago.
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Post by doctorquant on Oct 18, 2023 20:11:16 GMT
Folding money says that's a made-up drama.
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Post by YankeeFan on Oct 19, 2023 12:24:09 GMT
At 56, she seems a bit old to be on this list.
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Post by ecwyanks on Oct 19, 2023 23:54:52 GMT
Maxim is still around?
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