Interesting how this seems to happen every single time there’s a large gathering of Republicans.
Imagine the utopia we could have if these cowards just came out as themselves instead of becoming psychotic self-hating fascists.
Make anuses gape again!
The dog whistles are coming from inside the house.
This kind of hypocrisy makes the left look so stupid… So it appears lots of grinder users are at a majorly republican get together. So what? Isn’t the left for that kind of thing? These guys are much less likely to come out and support your cause if you are degrading and shaming these folks.
We all understand the optics I think. What it looks like. Some of these Republicans are hypocrites as well. They all like dong, but dont sing the same song.
Its crazy and does homos no good by shaming these Republicans.
Whoooosh.
The shaming is for the hypocrisy, not for being gay.
You don’t understand that criticizing hypocrisy is not the hypocritical part?
The criticism is not that they go on grinder. It is that they go in grinder while being publicly homophobic.
You sure? Who is doing that?
Fuck off.
But these are the people trying to take away the right to be gay. You don’t get to hide in the closet, have your secret gay hookups, and then turn around and say gay people don’t deserve the right to marry and trans people don’t deserve basic human decency and respect. No one is forcing them to be a Republican but themselves. Hell, you still be a Republican and be gay, the log cabin Republicans are a thing. But they alone are not the ones causing this spike in Grindr usage.
The idea that we should just let this kind of shit slide where it’s only ok if you do it in secret is beyond idiotic. It’s only bad if you are open about your homosexuality apparently.
Gay Republicans have a high degree of understanding of politics and a certain degree of sacrifice that is admirable and 110% American.
The left panders and patronizes to the gay community. If the left wants to have families and instill positive family values it is going to come from the right, not left.
Some gay people are welcome, but some gay people are more welcome than others.
I would imagine it would be the ideal situation to talk about differences between US tribals.
But virtue signaling behind a device is much more easy.
To use an metaphore for the tribals who need it:
“Nazi Germany wouldn’t have fallen if it were also not because of the many defectors, collaboraters and spies from inside Nazi Germany”
L take.
It’s a kink they want to make it edgy again…
To be fair, I also hooked up with gay dudes that same day
Nothing to see then. It was you who hooked up with 18400 dudes that day
Busy day
Just a Tuesday for some
Ok, but does this also happen at other large congregations in that location? Otherwise this is just a population density anomaly map.
If the only population change is that MAGA is there, then it’s pretty specific.
Might be a low density neighborhood. Also it’s a very high density congregation in a potentially uncommon location as their voters are more rural.
Don’t mind comment. Testing.
Replying to test. IDK what you’re testing, but just in case it helps.
Just new to lemmy. Testing how things work and what can be said.
It’s funny they have 8 upvotes right now. Sort of like at a concert when people start cheering for the sound check guy
If the crowd doesn’t make the sound check guy ask the crowd to please be quiet for just a second then the crowd doesn’t belong at the show.
I always love when the people testing drums and guitars and such just jam a little. Sometimes it’s the band themselves, but often it’s just some stage hands having a little fun at work, and I’ll always cheer for that.
The engagement that “test post please ignore” brings is something that ought to be studied
The hypocrisy is what bothers me. These people scream about hating gays.
Plenty of closet gay or bi conservative men who hate themselves and other gay men for social/religious/political reasons but plenty of conservative hetero flexible men who find the thrill that comes with doing something “naughty” or the risk of getting caught appealing. If they were in more understanding situations, they probably wouldn’t bang other guys cause the thrill would be gone.
Maybe they are trying something at the one occasion in their lives when they are away from home?
I think the guys banging them are worse. They’re fucking us all in the ass…
The local gays probably don’t know who is who dude.
You don’t understand, they aren’t gay, they are just men having sex with other men!
Don’t worry, I brought protection to keep it from being gay.
pulls out a package of new socks
They’re just making sure they AREN’T gay by having sex with other men.
“How do you know you don’t like fucking men? Have you tried it? I know I’m super duper straight because I fuck a guy every week just to make sure I still don’t like it.”
Watching them process that is wild.
“I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there!”
Ain’t nuffin gay about gettin yer dick sucked! Thems the ones thatter gay for suckin em!
Its not gay if its a girl’s dick.
Technically, yeah
In the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, you’re only gay if you’re a bottom
And only if you’re older than your top. Otherwise, you’re simply receiving some masculinity.
So if you’re a switch you’re fine? (That’s the term for someone who switches between top and bottom right?)
In addition to the other informative answers, the “serious” reply to the first question would be “no, not really”. I’ll summon up a “Tales of Time Forgotten” blog post on the matter, as best as I understand it, with the recommendation to read the original if you can.
The difficulty with understanding Ancient Greek sexuality from our modern perspective is that they didn’t strictly think in two genders so much as a scale of masculinity, or something close to it. Accordingly, sexuality wasn’t thought of in terms of hetero- or homo-, but as an act of the less masculine party receiving the more masculine one. The expectation then was that your role and choice of partners would evolve throughout our life and progress along the expected social hierarchy.
An adolescent boy in his mid-to-late-teens (~14-18) was expected to be courted by young men (in their twenties) and eventually choose a lover (although suitors did have to work for it and being “easy” was shameful).
It’s worth noting that there was a distinction between (adolescent) boys/girls and children, which were off limits. Obviously, adolescents are still vulnerable and the whole thing is still messed up by most modern western standards. “Not quite as bad” is still bad.
Eventually, they’d reach adulthood and thus become (young) men themselves and were expected to strive and even compete for the affections of boys.
In their late twenties to early thirties, men were expected to proceed to mature adulthood, losing interest in boys and seeking a girl to marry instead (with much of the same expectations as before, though arrangement of marriages typically gave girls much less choice).
Any significant deviation from that expected course would, of course, be considered shameful. There might have been some leeway on the age brackets, but the “direction” of the age dynamic was quite firm, and men seeking out or receiving other men was seen as unnatural and effeminate.
Female sexuality is much less well-attested, just as women in general are less “visible” in most sources, and somewhat contradictory. On one hand, Sappho of Lesbos achieved quite a reputation, but she was writing ~500 BCE. On the other, some sources written in the first and second century CE strongly condemn it. One woman is criticised for loving boys, which would fit with the expectation that both women and boys were to “receive” men.
This might have been a shift over time, but the scarcity of evidence makes it hard to pin it to that cause alone.
On the whole, it’s pretty clear that a male vers would not have been “fine” by any standard. Men were to be tops, boys to be bottoms and mature adults were to be interested in girls and women alone.
If you do both everything cancels out and youre asexual.
That would be vers or versatile.
Love that the two of you answered this at the same exact minute
What’s a switch then, or am i just hallucinating new terms here?
Switch is going between Dom and sub. Like being Dom top to sub top or sub bottom to Dom bottom.
Typically a Dom bottom is called a power bottom and a Dom top could call himself a Dom top or power top.
Technically it’s dom and sub, but colloquially it’s kinda both, yeah. Pretty sure they’d consider a switch a bottom tho, like a top is a never-bottom and getting pegged is also gay?
Vers is someone who both tops and bottoms.
Love that the two of you answered this at the same exact minute
What’s a switch then, or am i just hallucinating new terms here?
Like degen said, switch is if you do both dom and sub.
I’d argue they had it backwards, bottoming isn’t gay, it’s just having a fun experience. Penetrating another man is super gay though.
They just like to suck other non-gay men’s cocks.
They’re called “brojobs” for a reason.
Choo choo!!!
They are imposing their dominance on weaker men. It’s not gay, it’s purely about dominance
Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?
“Henry, the only label I need is Sexual Libertarian. An omnivore of genitals and hearts. Come as you are… All over the place. And so will I. Does that sound enticing, Henry?”
Wtf is this from, it sounds like a fandom I need to join immediately
Roy Cohn https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angels_in_America and there’s more context to the quotes, generally the context is realpolitik, power for power’s sake. A real asshole you wouldn’t want to play Diplomacy with. Someone with no ethics but winning. The subject of a run the jewels song.
FamilyFamously Donnie T’s never admit you lost coach. The message is alluring if taken at face value, and seems like wisdom, but if you get taken advantage of was it really you who was weak?Oh I thought it might have been like a TV show or something
Angels in America is a play and was made into some made for TV movies, yes. I don’t think Roy Cohn the man ever said that, although he was gay and it matched his attitudes.
I had no idea - my add-on comment was just what came to mind as would fit in well. Not shocked to learn it’s about Roy Cohn, though, the “I’m gay, but I exist in a plane of wealthy predator above normies that worry about their sexuality as a label because I’m allowed to participate in society however I want” vibe was strong. I figured it was Peter Thiel, so not far off.
Doesn’t make them Gay necessarily, but it does make them at least Bi.
Thank you for acknowledging bi people exist. No sarcasm lol
They’re always complaining about the MSM too!
"Sitting whilst black was what first drew our suspicion. Then after we were called and we determined it best for him to leave the train, he simply refused to leave, AND asked questions! Judge, as you see, we had no option available other than to arrest and detain. If it wasn’t for my colleague being so liberal, we’d have thrown him to the floor too, just like in our training "
This is part of the reason they are going after transgender people so much. Most Republicans are in the closet and they don’t want their past lovers to let the public know what they are doing behind closed doors.
It’s also why they choose so many white, blonde women to be their face on the news and in the Whitehouse.
They try so hard to make their voter base think they are " MEN!!" and do “MANLY THINGS!!!” When actually most of them are crybabies and closet bisexuals.
some of them are into transgender people too, trans people are an easy target, because there is so few of them, and they dont have as much representation as the rest of the queer folks.
Alex Jones got caught with a tab open on his phone didnt he?
IIRC transgender porn is by far the most popular in the deep US south.
in utah, at least for PH statistics.
When actually most of them are crybabies
To be fair, they all cry on tv about how their feelings are hurt.
Also why they are convinced sexuality is a choice and they hate the ones who have made the choice they wanted to make but felt they couldn’t/can’t due to social and religious pressures.
At the Manly Mens club in Manhatten.
A Republican manufacturer running for governor in Wisconsin as a conservative supporter of “family values” and President Donald Trump followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday that Bill Berrien, the CEO of Pindel Global Precision and one of two announced 2026 Republican candidates for governor, unfollowed several accounts in recent days after the newspaper asked about the matter.
The gay Nazis are gonna be hella mad when they find out xstian nazis have been sizing them up for the ovens the whole time.
there is a major overlap between them
And they’ll gladly throw each other into the ovens to save themselves. Feels like beating a dead horse to bring up the “jews for Hitler” movement but here we are.
Wouldn’t that be an interesting list of names, if it unfortunately ever leaked?
Leaking it wouldn’t really accomplish much because they’d just get replaced by more Republicans. But if they were blackmailed, that could potentially influence policy, or make the thief rich.
