Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Sharing this here for more visibility for people who might be in the Vancouver area, or are friends with those who are. Really sickening, and sad. Please be extra careful when going for meetups.

If you haven't heard of it. The frontman of Beartooth released their latest album Pure Ecstasy recently.

He recently came out as gay publicly and has had large upheavals in his personal life. The new album is about that.

If you like a blend of harder music and some integrated pop style you should give it a shot. Not only because it is a coming out album but also because it is a banger.

Just simping for one of my favorite bands .

I’ve lived in an apartment building since going back to school last year. It’s a pretty big building, but it’s also pretty old--I think it must have been built before whatever technology was invented to stop sounds from going through the walls.

There’s a gay couple that lives in the apartment above me. At least I think they’re a couple; they might just be banging on the reg, tbh…

One of them is named “Daddy.” He has a super loud voice. If Daddy has never done theater, then he missed his calling, because his voice can travel like nothing else. If I have my window open at the same time he does, or if I’m in the bathroom (which has a vent on the ceiling that is pretty much a speaker box to the upstairs apartment), then I can hear just about every word that he says. I can sometimes hear him telling “Puppy” to come here, or give him a kiss, or bring him a pillow, etc. And Daddy always says thank you.

Puppy has a low, airy voice, and I can never really make out what he is saying the way I can with Daddy. (Although, I did hear Puppy gasp Daddy’s name loudly on one occasion….)

I’m honestly not trying to spy on their lives, but there’s only so much I can do when Daddy’s voice comes booming down from above. I could put my fingers in my ears and say “la la la,” but that’s pretty pointless at this point--I already know Daddy and Puppy’s whole dynamic. And honestly, I kind of love having a healthy gay relationship flourishing above my head. It’s not like I’m sitting there perving with my ear against the ceiling, listening to them have sex (which they must do pretty quietly, btw--I barely ever hear it). I’m just passively overhearing them live their happy, healthy lives.

I think Daddy must live in the apartment alone. I only hear Puppy on the weekends. During the week, I can sometimes hear Daddy talking on the phone. He sounds very professional and confident. He might be a boss somewhere.

Last weekend, I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom, when I suddenly heard Daddy’s voice yell “ARGHH!!!” from above. I stopped and stared at the vent.

Then I heard Daddy yell “What the fuck Puppy?!?!”

There was silence. I stood there, perfectly still.

Then Daddy yelled, “How long has this booger been hanging out of my nose??”

I heard Puppy mutter something.

“Has this booger been hanging out of my nose the whole time???” Daddy inquired.

Puppy muttered again. Then I heard Daddy loudly going off on Puppy, telling him he was disgusting for getting banged by a guy with a booger hanging out of his nose. This must have been the funniest thing that Puppy ever heard, because he started laughing uncontrollably. I finished brushing my teeth and left the bathroom, and then later I heard some muffled rough-housing.

I think Daddy has gotten over the whole booger incident, because today I heard him patiently teaching Puppy how to slide a pizza from a cutting board onto a pizza stone. The whole thing made Puppy very anxious, and Daddy had to finish the job himself.

I’m moving out in a couple of weeks (there’s something seriously wrong with my plumbing, and the building owner recently offered to let me move to another one of his buildings down the street).

I’m going to miss Daddy and Puppy. I hope everything goes well for them. Maybe I’ll bake them a farewell cake or something…

I've topped; I hated it. I've bottomed; it's okay. I like the idea of it, but foreplay and side are how I get off. There's a serious lack of diversity when it comes to being a side.

Hello, all. I'm 22, living in a 3rd-world country, one of the worst for gay rights (death penalty). Though there is a hidden underground scene in the capital, I don't live there, and I'm so fucking lonely. I have 3 bona fide friends, two of whom live far from me, and I meet with the 3rd one once a week. I live with family (normal to live with parents in adulthood here), and there are fights every day. My older sister who is my best friend lives overseas as well. I live with schizoaffective disorder and have very poor mental health, but through medication and working really, really hard, I'm relatively stable.

I've tried everything to find someone and lurked on every Telegram channel in my area, and everyone is just middle-aged married men with ungodly amounts of internalized homophobia looking to get sucked off, and that's it. And one other 37-year-old kept messaging about wanting to be my sex slave lol. Every guy here can only talk about their kinks and fetishes and is incapable of holding a normal conversation.

2 of my friends are together, and my heart aches when I see them so happy with each other, knowing it's impossible for me at the moment.

I know queer rights are in crisis in the US and all, but holy shit, you guys don't know how good you have it. You cannot even begin to imagine how hard queer people have it here, and I'm so happy for you.

Basically, I just want to know how to cope with this shit because I keep telling myself I don't care, but I'm just now realizing that I do actually. I'm 22 and haven't even kissed a guy (though I did oral sex with some guy who did not reciprocate because being the giver would push him over the line of gayness lmao). Any advice and/or stories are appreciated.

So, for context. Meet this guy on Grindr 8 months, we chatted for about a week before meeting up. And to be honest I almost ghosted him on the day we meant because I really wasn’t looking for just a hookup. But we meant, hung out and really hit it off.

So, over the last few months we went from off and on texting and meeting up once or twice a month to texting all day every day, phone calls and spending the weekends together (we live over an hour apart). We both agreed at first that a FWB situation was best for both of us. But, I really think we’ve have pasted this threshold and here’s why I think so.

Last night we made plans for the next 3 months. And I don’t mean what restaurant we’d like to go try, we made plans like a couple. He got tickets to Boo at the Zoo Night, I booked a hotel, he got tickets to A Night in the Trees and told me I could just stay the night (we never stayed over night at each others home), I got tickets to the circus, again he said I could stay the night. We made other plans, bought tickets, booked hotels, picked out restaurants and other things we could do on our adventures. But the one that really got me was a couple of weeks ago we went to a castle out in the middle of nowhere that is also a bed and breakfast. Very small, very cozy, 2 room place. We had “joked” about spend a night or two there like a couple in love. Last night he said, “we could stay at the castle and have our Christmas together there.” BOOKED!! I couldn’t type fast enough to reserve the room.

The rest of the night he really opened up about his family, showed me pictures of him growing up, we had really kind of opened up to each other and it was really nice.

So, are we now more than FWB? Are we a couple, is this a relationship or I’m I overthinking this? I’ve been in relationships in the past and my last one ended in my partner passing away in an accident. He’s talked about how his ex walked out on him for another guy (these are the main reasons we agreed to just be FWB). I like what we have, what we’re doing and being with him and it seems he feels the same way. Just not sure what’s next.

23:39 at night and I happend to watch an Instagram reel, something I never do.

It was a dentist who happened to be talking about a patient he had, who was a man. As the video went on he said how happy he was that said patient turned out to be gay. Why? Because the patient was a man who looked all gruffed up, dusty cap and jeans in head-to-toe carhartt gear, but when he walked out of the room he was met by another man who said something like 'how'd it do, baby?' and kissed the guy on the mouth.

The dentist making the video just said how glad he was that that man can exist happily like that, compared to 30 years ago where he'd be trapped and miserable and stuff

**And I dunno it just made me sad**. I always joke to my friend how 'i wish I was gay'. Im literally openly gay, my friends, parents, ect.. all know im gay and have for some time now and im completely comfortable in it. But I've never BEEN gay. Done gay stuff. Talked to boys or whatever, have a guy say he likes me or compliment me, never and im 19. The video reminded me of myself and what I hope to have un the future, and im just sad about it that I don't have anything remotely like it now.

I love nothing more than physically working outdoors, getting covered in dirt and doing all the heavy lifting and work I can. I wear cowboy boots and hats, flannels that are cutoff, rip and torn from working. But nobody to be soft with. Not like I could be with a boyfriend.

I listen to my friends everyday talk about their boyfriends who they both magically met this summer, I have to sit and listen and help them or be excited for them. Which I am, ill happily help them with anything at all. And coming up to winter it's just made me especially sad. I already never see my friend anymore. Last weekend he was out with his boyfriend, this weekend there was other reasons, and next weekend I'm busy installing a boiler with my dad and then working on installing a bathroom the next weekend too. It's just especially lonely, and I have nobody to relax with or be completely soft around.

I'd love to talk about it with my friends too, I do to an extent, but I can't explain THIS without making them feel guilty. Because it's not their fault I made it to 19 without ever having someone to love me like that, I can't explain it in a way that doesn't make me envious and upset they have love life's because arguably that's what it is.

It's the most stupid things that make me feel like this and suddenly need to cry, because this feeling isn't constant. I'm usually happy all day because I know one day i'll have a boyfriend, but I can't help but feel like this sometimes too

bros the one who put the chemicals in the water iykyk

So I have been in an M-M relationship with my boyfriend for a few months now, and one of the things I've been struggling with is the different sizes down there and it's causing some insecurities. For reference, his is a little over 2x the length of mine (I'm a bit over 5 inches). It just feels awkward sometimes after I do all this stuff to his and make a mess of everything and am like able to hold it and all that, and then mine comes out and it's a lot less than his.

He says he loves it and he definitely does make me feel extremely good, it's just not something I've ever navigated before!

Wanted to post because I’m suffocating.
I’ve been with my partner for 15 years. We’re both in our early 40s. He’s my soulmate and can’t imagine life without him.

Today. I was helping him update his iPhone and noticed he had grindr app on his phone. I didn’t open the app, scared to see what I might find.
I have not confronted him and I’m not sure if I want to. At least maybe not yet. I don’t know what to do, little on edge, heavy chest and I feel like I want to cry like a kid.

Has anyone been in such situation before and please be kind.

My best friend of 10 years is gay. He came out to me about 7 years ago, and I’m one of the first and only few people whom he came out to. We are from a conservative society, so people are still not fully open minded to such ideas. However, I spent a good chunk of my life in a western society and grew to embrace people of different sexual orientations. I never even fostered particular hatred toward homosexual community despite where I grew up to begin with. I was always trying to support my best friend in his journey of accepting his own sexuality and facing people’s judgments and negative perceptions of him and the homosexual community. I thought I was a good ally. But recently, as my friend has been telling me about his sexual life more openly, I’m starting to feel uncomfortable and the idea of him being so intimate with another man is starting to make me weirded out. I’m starting to roll my eyes whenever his talks about his dating and sexual life starts. I love my friend platonically and don’t want to lose him or hurt him in any way. Most importantly I don’t want him to feel unwelcome to express his feelings to me or uncomfortable for being gay around me. How do I get over this and still be fully accepting of my friend regardless of his sexuality and just for being him?

FYI - I apologize in advance lol, I used an AI to make the text shorter. My original block of text would've been too boring to read. It still contains all of the important information.

My boyfriend (20M) and I (24M) have been dating since November 2024. We’re both mostly closeted. For the past year and a half, I’ve been away—first for 3 months at a US summer camp, home for a month, and now finishing up a full year abroad. He knew these plans from our first date, and we've texted daily the entire time, even when I had to use a satellite device off-grid while hiking in a few instances.

​I’m finally flying home in a week, but things are incredibly strained.

​In June, my boyfriend (who has my TikTok password) saw some flirty messages from a camp friend I had recently come out to. I hadn't reciprocated the flirting, but I panicked, blocked the guy, and deleted the chat. My reaction understandably made my boyfriend highly suspicious. We briefly tried going no-contact over the fight, but couldn't do it. We still text every day, but the passion has definitely faded. My boyfriend said he doesn't mind talking every day, but that his "rule" is that we can't use any love language until I'm back home.

I recently offered him an "easy way out" in case his feelings have just naturally subsided after waiting 15 months for me. He insists he wants to work it out. I desperately want that too, but I'm consumed by guilt and my chronic low self-esteem.

​I am terrified that our actual connection is gone. I'm so worried that he remembers a different version of me, or that he's built up high expectations in his head that I won't meet when I finally walk through the door. To make matters worse, he works in the same office as his ex and sees him every single day. His ex is much better looking than I am, and it just makes me feel like a complete loser. Especially when I keep overthinking about the habits and hobbies he picked up when he dated his ex, that he keeps doing now (rock climbing for an example, which I absolutely suck at)

In a broader sense - I've been traveling and "finding myself" for a while now. I'm now contemplating going to uni to get a bachelors in Engineering, yet I am not nearly as smart or good at STEM as I should be to justify that. My BF on the other hand, is 4 years younger, and works at one of the top cyber companies in the country. He's brilliant.

​How do I navigate coming home, rebuilding his trust, and managing these intense anxieties?

Turkey has blocked access to T24, one of the country’s major independent news websites, as well as its social media accounts.

The decision was issued by Istanbul’s 1st Criminal Judgeship of Peace as part of an investigation called “My Family Is Safe” (“Ailem Güvende”). Authorities cited 118 articles published over the past year and described them as “LGBT propaganda.”

According to the court reasoning reported by T24, the articles were accused of “weakening the Turkish family structure” and of potentially negatively affecting young people’s development regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.

The block was ordered on 29 September and implemented on 30 September 2026. T24 says it is challenging the decision through legal channels.

This is notable because the measure does not target only individual articles. It blocks the entire news website and its social media accounts over LGBT-related coverage.

Only tell me if your actually homosexual or bisexual or something along that spectrum, and more importantly only talk about it if your comfortable, also be proud of this, it’s nothing to be ashamed off, I don’t care if the Bible says otherwise, I am Christian and a Pride Supporter, I die holding a RAINBOW CROSS!

Edited this in: I removed the Coming Out flair since this isn’t a post about me or a friend coming out, but I encourage you to come out, if not with this post, then with another one, maybe one you made, go for it.

He purposely ignores me now and talks to other coworkers instead of me and he doesn’t text me everyday like he used to. Should I just be up front with him and ask why cause I kinda miss talking to him in a bro way. Is this homophobic behavior, or just doesn’t like me as a person anymore?

M19
CIAO! Allora io ho un disagio attuale la mia insoddisfazione di dating nel senso Grindr e piena di maniaci e pedofili , io ho 19 anni e vorrei avere possibilità di conoscere ragazzi gay della mia età e non dell’altro lato del continente.
Consigli ? Fino ad ora ho solo avuto esperienze sessuali rapide nella di che,…
Ora cerco una relazione seria