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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Winterthorn" data-source="post: 306457" data-attributes="member: 1702">I'm a friend of Dorothy tooI'm really impressed by this thread, and I couldn't stay silent.From my experience, I have had to, and still do, separate my sexuality from my gaming interests. I hope to merge the two some day. But the gamers I know today are too homophobic and mysogynist too. While we all enjoy gaming, beyond that my politics veer a hard left while their's becomes straight AND narrow. To be more precise I know two who simply can't deal with "harsh realities" such as fact that they have a homosexual (moi) at the table--I swear at least one is a deep, deep, closet case, but it is only up to him to come out because no one has the right to drag someone out of the closet.On the flip side, none of my queer friends seem the type to accept gaming. Today, I would be embarrassed to let gay men know of my hobbies. (I would add that in my years working for Pride celebrations, I got to know many queers, and very little evidence that my gay male peers were interested in anything but dancing, sex and drugs or decorating their condos. Oh the stereotyping <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> But that has been my experience in one the most gay friendly cities in Canada. I wish it had been different. Maybe it can sometime in the future?)Gawd, I just realized, I play with 4-5 men, 3 of which are in their mid-30's and still live with their mothers (fathers deceased or divorced). My last boyfriend, the sweet air-head horror genre fan, would have snapped his fingers had he known this and said: "Can you say Bates, grrlfriend, Norman Bates?" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I have lived strange experiences and I have odd friends. Since I'm moving to a new city soon, maybe I'll find a "gayme" much more to my liking?Change is a good thing.Thanks for the chance to spill my 2 cents. I appreciate this thread.-Winterthorn <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />PS: I saw a few photos of Gen Con around here, and I found Morrus looked kinda cute behind his self-conscious scruffiness. Just an innocent little o' thought of mine <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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