Quote Originally Posted by zencentury View Post
When I lived in Fort Lauderdale I had a gay guy friend who loved to take me shopping. It may be a stereotype but he did have a great fashion sense.
Thank you Zen. Finally, someone recognizing this is a huge stereotype.

I'm speechless, which whether you only cyber-know me or know me IRL is rare for me but I'm surprisingly bothered by this. I realize it's all good but to wake up and before even my first cup of coffee see the Q word splashed in the title .... I dunno.

Maybe I'm over-reacting because after all it is TE and it's all good but ....

I'm glad you had a fabulous shopping experience and I'm thrilled that they guy is open and out. Also QEFTSG is an actual show, so it's not like you're calling anybody the Q word. It's a good pun. I like puns and plays on words

We all have stuff to teach each other. Their should be SGFTQG & QGFTSG & SGFTSG and.... I could sure need fashion tips.

This is a very personal thing. If you ask 1,000,000 gay folk you will get 1,000,001 responses (the extra one is me changing my mind. It's also generational and I love it that our younger generation often think nothing of the Q word and other terms. It's a breath of fresh air.

Personally I like the Q word vs. the alphabet soup of LGBTQ, and the general term Gay usually is taken to mean our awesome Gay men-folk and leaves us out. So I like the Q term. And I use it ... a lot .... around others who bat for my team. Because it's our word, and it's us, and in the tribe so to speak.

It's a completely different thing to hear from a straight person before my 3rd cup of coffee.

And slightly OT as these things tend to go, Mr. Silver (and any other men-folk on the board and/or women with opinions on this isue): what's with all the dark blue, gray, black? Why no bright colors?

I was just reflecting on this because where I work and live there are a lot of urban cyclists. Now the punks and goths and fixie riders all dressed in black because it's a style thang I can understand. And the folks with "no blood for oil" stickers on the bikes (a sentiment I agree with but not their fashion sense) We would not want to look cheerful or happy or like cycling's fun or anything, it's serious not fun no colors.

But your average working Joe, construction guys, working class. Whether he's on a bike due to the cost of gas or just trying fit a little work-out in. Why are they all to a man in black, gray or dark blue? OK, so you're in the East Bay and you're a Raider fan, you have the jacket. It comes in Silver too. It's reflective

So maybe we can't get folks to wear helmets but how about a nationwide movement to have men accept that colorful clothing can be manly!

I'm glad TE is here to provide a forum and an open place to discuss this. Long live TE