Isiah rashad is gay

hi people c: im looking for kpop friends who are as obsessed with kpop as i am. its my hyperfixation so if it is yours too we could be a great match :D i only have 1 kpop loving friend currently :<
something i really enjoy is telling ny friend everytime there's a new comeback and we listen to it together (online ofc, we just do 321 and play it at the same time lmao) and say if we liked it afterwards and kinda review it or chat about it. we even used to have a ranking list of all the new comebacks we listened to with scores lol so that could be something we could do it u like the idea :) (the top 1 song currently is chopstick by niziu if anyone was wondering lol)
a bit about me: i'm 24 from israel, i game on pc and switch (i like plateup, don't starve together, acnh... im open to trying new games), i really like voice chatting so we could do that but not a deal breaker if ur not comfy with that.
i stan too many groups to list but my ults are xg, tri.be, woo!ah!, ive (kitsch soty), twice, loona (rip), class:y, itzy, lee chaeyeon, adora, viviz
ive been enjoying watching gays plane- sorry, boys planet 😀 so we could watch that together if ud like
dm me if interested :)

I’m 14, gay and trans, but the deeper I look inside me, all I see is the fear and frustration that’s completely overwhelmed me for weeks.
It feels like whenever I go online, the Internet is inundated with transphobia. I’ve tried arguing with them, but I’ve learned not to because it’s like punching a brick wall: no matter how hard you try or how good your technique is, it will never budge, and at the end of the day it will only make your own hands hurt.
I’m just so tired of arguing with people who don’t know what it’s like, and will never know what it’s like, and are so lucky that they will never know what it’s like, but don’t know that they’re lucky that they will never know what it’s like because of point 1: they don’t know what it’s like.
As selfish as it might sound, I wish I could be living in a time when the war was already won, and I could learn about trans rights in history and not have to go through all of this - but unfortunately, we are right in the thick of it, and it feels like with every day, we slip just a little bit backwards. And I just want to dissolve into my own despair whenever I remember that there’s a chance I may not live to see that victory, certainly not with the way things are going now.
I’m just so tired of having to fight the same fight, over and over, a fight that I didn’t ask to have to carry the weight of.
So yeah. Does it … ever get better? It’s hard to connect with stories of trans joy when every single post they make is inundated with transphobia. Will it ever get better?

Every day living in the US is more terrifying as a nurse and a Mom, especially with daughters. My husband and I are seriously considering relocating to another country. We've been looking at Australia or NZ, but don't want to exclude any other great options. I'm a critical care nurse, primarily Trauma ICU at a Level 1 center, so I'd like to find something comparable. Where you live, how is nursing pay? Do you have ratios? Nursing unions? Do doctors respect you as a member of the interdisciplinary team? Do you feel like your hands are tied by insurance companies? Do you have a good work/life balance? Outside of work, do you like where you live? Are schools good, and free or at least not thousands per year per kid? Is cost of living manageable? I want to know the good stuff, but I know the grass isn't always greener, so what don't you like about where you live as well?
If we move, I want it to be somewhere warm/temperate. Sorry Canada! We are 34 and 33, as I know that matters for some countries' visas, and my children are 7 and 4yo twins. Ideally we'd like somewhere where English is the primary language to make the job transition easier. We're looking for a more liberal/progressive country. But really I just want to live somewhere where I don't have to worry if my kids are going to come home from school each day because yet another gunman went off. A place where if my children are gay or transsexual they won't be prosecuted. A place not sliding back in time to dystopia.

I'm all for gay marriage, but the engagement ring part is a mystery for me. Last month I've met with my gay friends and they told me they got engaged. Usually, when there's a woman involved, there's also a ring. They went with a bracelet which seems like a good choice, since engagement rings are kinda girly, and both of them are more alpha male types. My other straight friend said that he would just ask without the actual proposal, because guys don't need the drama. I'm a man, but I'd get offended to be just asked in a casual setting... The whole situation got me wondering. Like, who pops the question? Or what's the most common propose item?
I, for one, would be fine with both getting proposed to and proposing, but I'd never wear a diamond ring. I guess I'd prefer a necklace, since it's something you can wear everyday without it interfering with various outfits.

Dear people of the internet,
TW: homophobia, violence, refugees (TLDR at the end)
Two of my Moroccan friends (I visit occassionally because I have a relative living in their city) have been facing homophobic violence anywhere they go. After unwillingly being outed, they are at risk of homelessness, and have been subjected to violent attacks with injuries. Their well-being is on a quick decline. When they go to different cities, information and videos soon spread there, leading to violence again. People who have been trying to protect them have gotten badly beaten as a result.
They need to get to safety. We are working on a plan to get them to Brazil, where they can enter without a visa. After reaching, they want to request asylum, find a job, and build a life. They are young (19 & 20), don't know Portuguese, have no traveling experience and were unable to finish basic education because of attacks at school. This makes them very vulnerable. I am looking for people and groups who are able to help out once they get there. Think of: queer organizations (that provide legal assistance), relevant NGO's, immigration lawyers, communities that can give them some guidance, suitable jobs, language teachers, etc. They are planning to go to São Paulo, but tips for other suitable cities are welcome as well. Please reach out with information and spread the word, if you can.
TLDR: two young gay Moroccan men need help requesting asylum and settling down in Brazil, preferably São Paulo. If you know people or places, please reach out. Please share.

Y’all need to come together and get shit done and stop the groomers from ruining our reputation! These so called “Gaybros” have been running around influencing the baby gays for far too long now! They are everywhere now, it needs to stop! You can’t even go to a gym without being molested by one of those degenerates! But it’s not me who is their main target. It’s the str8s! We need to warn them from the dangers of being exposed to the gaping fleshwounds they call their holes! Nobody wants to see that, it’s disgusting and immoral. And they make the baby gays believe it’s normal behavior to just go around and casually ask str8 coworkers to blow their backs out! What are they even thinking?
Ban Gaybros from public spaces now!

So I (18f)in a relationship with my girlfriend (18f) of two months have been feeling very conflicted. In the beginning it was great and we ended up dating because of a college trip we were on. The thing is recently... I've not been feeling normal.
My feelings have been all over the place and not just for her. Even with my friends I've been feeling less attached to them since i went on college break. I'm back now. Usually it wears off after a day of being back but this time i can't even sleep well wondering about how awful i feel. I keep occupying myself by constantly listening to things so that I don't think about it more.
I met her day before and we hug out at her place in the evening. It was great and i felt like i liked her again (not as much but definitely more than how i was feeling at break). But when I'm not with her I don't want to think about her because it makes me sad and i get conflicted about my feelings.
I'm not even sure why because i could swear i loved her before the break. Im also always feeling homesick because i don't want to deal with all these emotions.
The thing is I do want to hang out with her because I'll like her again but i also want alone time which i can't seem to tell her about because I think she'd take that as me not wanting to hang out with her. I don't like her hanging out with my friends that much because my friends other than two in my group dont really know her and she doesn't really know them so she just hangs out with me instead and I can't be with my friends.
I also have this feeling that i just want to go back home and forget I ever even went to college here even though I cherish her and the close friends I have made here. Because then I'm not conflicted about her or them or anything.
My family is pretty homophobic and I think my mother knows I'm gay but doesn't know I'm dating someone. It's another reason I've been feeling disgusting about my relationship. Her family doens't know either since they're also homophobic.
I just want to cry and go home to my family because I miss them so much and i don't have to think too hard with them.

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So I tend to socialise mainly in queer circles, well, exclusively really. I’ve tried to challenge this because I’m aware I might have some bias here. I’ve not challenged in person, but in online Meetup groups. But I keep having experiences where I am viewed as a potential sex object rather than a group member. This grosses me out, I’m lesbian and had negative experiences with men in the past. In my pursuit of challenging bias I’ve had one creep following me to every group I joined and lots more proposition me in groups or making lewd sexual comments etc. This happens over and over again. I used to just say I’m gay but they turn that in to sexual comments rather than a viewing it as a boundary. I found a group that I had been to twice, mixed group. You have to register to enter the zoom and keep your camera on to limit chance of trolls. Well I attended for the third time yesterday thinking I finally found a safe mixed group, I was proven wrong. Another person commenting on me being “cute”. The reason I hate this is partly because I am a people pleaser and hate rejecting people. But also - just see me as a person! I have got a septum piercing which apparently puts men off but not these ones.
Is this just standard in a mixed world? Is it specific to Meetup groups? What can be done about it? I have experienced anorexia in the past which was partly maintained by my fear weight gain would attract male. I just want them to see me as they would another dude. In person clothing can help a lot with this, but when it’s just head and shoulders on screen that’s different.
Besides cutting my hair short is there anything I can do to stop this happening? To send a clear signal before they even consider me in a sexual way?

Hello, so I'm aromantic in that I don't feel romantic feelings for anyone at all. I'm not sure the specific label, I'm not asexual, in fact I have a long term friend who I'm sexually active with. We met a long time ago on a forum he modded and I chatted with him a lot and we met irl, had a lot of fun, made more plans to meet and eventually he offered for me to be his roommate which I accepted and he came out to me as gay which was cool with me I'm sexually bi and honestly I already kinda knew from stereotypical cues and we started having a casual sexual relationship. He's been a good and bad friend both but that's over a period of like 12 maybe 13 years.
We've moved apart a couple times but eventually we end up back living together somewhere else and now I live with him on his family farm he's set to inherit and he's invited me to make my own life here too if I wanted. He knows I'm aro, we've talked a couple times while I was more open and intoxicated how I don't think I'm going to ever find someone else because I don't seek out relationships which is kinda step one and he's much more online active in lgbtq circles so he was well aware what aromantic was.
Thing is, he's in love with me regardless. I'm glad to make him happy but I've always felt a little guilty he does things for me out of love and I just don't feel it. I like him, he's my best friend, annoying sometimes when he gets cuddly and I'm extra not in that mood. I'm sometimes receptive for his needs, but I honestly hate romantic contact like cuddling and kissing.
Well the point of all this is he proposed to me. Rings for us both and everything. A little shocking but I talked about it a bit with him and he said he doesn't have plans for a marriage if that makes me uncomfortable, which it does ngl, but he wanted to sort of "claim" me so he knew for sure if I wanted to have our arrangement a lifetime type of thing.
I agreed. I mean it's been over a decade and we've almost exclusively hung out with each other, he does take care of my sexual needs, and we've learned a lot over the years that would almost seem a waste if we stopped cohabitating, but there's still that guilt knowing again he has feelings I can only pretend to have for him time to time to make him feel loved and it feels fake. Is that just what it feels like when an aro is in a relationship? He's told me he thinks I'm valid as is and loves me regardless, but can that actually work out? I'm confused and afraid I've made a mistake or worse set my friend up to be disappointed. I feel like he thinks one day I'm going to be someone I'm not but maybe I'm just being too hard on myself and I can be loved by someone without feeling the butterflies or whatever people in love feel back? I do like his company and he really has been there for me a lot. He's helped me through some major formative life moments, got me a good job, and through a tough injury I got that took a lot of time to recover from and required a lot of care and time from him.
We sleep in separate rooms so I'm glad to have my own space and we have our own hobbies we do around the farm, he does a lot of earthworks and I garden and keep a pond. He knows my faults and weaknesses, he's helped me with an anger issue I had even though I've taken it out on him a few times when we were younger, and I don't mind his issues, we can ignore the specifics.
I guess I'm looking for advice. Am I wrong to have accepted his ring knowing I'll probably never love him like he wants? He does seem honestly okay loving me as is, but maybe the engagement thing is a little too heteronormative and something he felt he had to do to keep me around? I think I might have spooked him, at 30 I applied and got accepted into college which is kinda unlike me? It was spontaneous and I only updated him on the big milestones and I think that's what prompted the proposal.

I haven’t seen much here that describes my situation, and I’m looking for some outside perspective.
I am a 52 year old gay male who has been in a 14 year primary relationship with a wonderful guy (lets call him Adam) who is 14 years younger than I. This relationship has been open pretty much since the beginning. Usually that openness showed up by introducing a third for sex, and that usually happened only when travelling. Adam enjoys casual sex at the bath house, but that never felt like me. I tended not to explore sex separately, and I felt a lot of hang ups about sex from my strict religious upbringing.
Our sex life has suffered for many years now. For a while I thought I may have been asexual because I just wasn’t into it at all. Adam was more interested in sex, so I felt like the problem was me. At the same time, I masturbated regularly and enjoyed porn. The stress and aftermath of the pandemic made the situation worse, and physical intimacy appears to be dead in this relationship.
In June of 2022, I finally came out of our pandemic hibernation and I met someone (let’s call him Beau) at a Pride event. The first kiss was like being struck by a lightning bolt out of the sky. The chemistry was off the charts. We started dating long distance. The sex was incredible. There was a strong romantic connection. I felt alive. I felt like I finally knew what I was missing. I disclosed this all to Adam and while he was a little concerned about the level of romantic attachment in this new connection, he encouraged me to pursue my sexual reawakening through this relationship and we both expressed our hope that this new energy would come back to help our sex life.
Meanwhile, Beau was also in a sexless primary relationship, and his partner is 14 years older than he, who is close to my age. Their understanding was less of a disclosing open relationship and more DADT. Beau has a long history with many sexual partners outside his primary relationship and has a strong libido. I was uncomfortable being a secret and encouraged him to open up “properly” so we could continue our relationship more in the open.
By this point I became very interested in polyamory and read a lot on the subject. I knew that I wanted both love/romance and sex together, and I didn’t believe in monogamy, so poly seemed like the answer for what I wanted. I began opening up to more casual sexual partners, some of whom I quite like and would like to see more regularly.
Beau’s attempt at opening his primary relationship didn’t go as planned. His partner was freaked out when Beau confessed that he was “in love” with me. His partner believes that one can only be in love with one person at a time, so he decided to end their relationship. He moved out and they have been informally separated for a number of months now.
My relationship with Beau has been a tumultuous roller coaster, with many misunderstandings triggering his anxious attachment and my avoidant style at the same time. It all came to a head on a recent extended visit, where Beau became jealous of a connection I had made at a gay bar we went to together, and me becoming very angry at that. It turns out he thought I was actively cruising for hookups with other potential romantic partners while I was visiting him, because I had been such an advocate for poly. It came to a head as a massive argument and a sudden, humiliating breakup.
But within days, I felt tremendous longing and questioned how this had happened. Beau and I started talking, realized our misunderstandings and we have been working really hard on figuring ourselves out and what our version of consensual non monogamy looks like. Dr Zhana’s Open Smarter course has been a godsend for us: https://www.drzhana.com/open-smarter
Through this thinking, I came to realize that I want a primary relationship, but that relationship needs have both love and a passionate sexual connection. I knew that my relationship with Adam was never going to recover that, if indeed it once was that. As soon as I realized this, I told Adam. I said I want a primary with sex and love and felt that our sexual connection was over. He was understandably upset, confused and angry. He thought he had been waiting for me to get myself sorted out sexually and now I was saying that I just wasn’t attracted to him in that way.
But in the end, we both accepted that we are on the path to separation. I know of and read a lot about (mostly straight) couples in sexless marriages staying together for the kids. In our case the “kids” are a dog and a comfortable, financially secure domestic partnership. But it’s not enough, for either of us. I believe Adam and I still love and care for each other, and I’m hopeful we’ll be able to “consciously decouple” and maintain a deep and enduring friendship in the long run.
Which now returns me to Beau and the question of what is next. Beau and I clearly love each other deeply. The sexual connection is as deep and passionate as ever, with lots of room to experiment and grow through new adventures. We have expressed a desire/goal that we could eventually become primary partners living together, which means one of us relocating. We both believe that monogamy is not for us, but have slightly different takes on it.
I am more oriented to having both sex and romantic connections outside of my primary relationship than he is. Beau feels a bit insecure and threatened by that. I also acknowledge that I’m just a baby when it comes to poly and even as it relates to having multiple sex-only partners. I lived a closeted youth and young adulthood and a repressed sexual life overall. I feel I have much yet to experience. Going slow towards a possible poly future makes sense to me.
Does this situation resonate with any of you?
What do you think about switching from one primary relationship directly into another?
What about spending some time as single/solo poly and dating after separation before jumping into another primary relationship?
How do I get to experiment and experience more of myself sexually with multiple partners while maintaining and protecting this very rare, unique and beautiful relationship that Beau and I are developing?
What is the role of time and letting things unfold slowly vs the rush to book the U-Haul and move?
Wisdom and advice from your own experiences are greatly appreciated!

Dear people of the internet,
TW: homophobia, violence, refugees(TLDR at the end)
Two of my Moroccan friends (I visit occassionally because I have a relative living in their city) have been facing homophobic violence anywhere they go. After unwillingly being outed, they are at risk of homelessness, and have been subjected to violent attacks with injuries. Their well-being is on a quick decline. When they go to different cities, information and videos soon spread there, leading to violence again. People who have been trying to protect them have gotten badly beaten as a result.
They need to get to safety. We are working on a plan to get them to Brazil, where they can enter without a visa. After reaching, they want to request asylum, find a job, and build a life. They are young (19 & 20), don't know Portuguese, have no traveling experience and were unable to finish basic education because of attacks at school. This makes them very vulnerable. I am looking for people and groups who are able to help out once they get there. Think of: queer organizations (that provide legal assistance), relevant NGO's, immigration lawyers, communities that can give them some guidance, suitable jobs, language teachers, etc. They are planning to go to São Paulo, but tips for other suitable cities are welcome as well. Please reach out with information and spread the word, if you can.
TLDR: two young gay Moroccan men need help requesting asylum and settling down in Brazil, preferably São Paulo. If you know people or places, please reach out. Please share.

Heyyyyy heyyyyy, Im Rai, M18, I hopee everyone is doingg welll.. Im looking for a long term genuine friendship...👉👈
A little about myself, im in my senior year of high school.. im taking bio and chem, and I want to go to medschoool... Im gay ace..
Honestly, i dont have a specific interest, but I love taylor swift... but I feel like i dont deserve to call myself a swiftie hehe..
We can talk about anything tbh, we can share tiktoks, chat, or prolly even vc..
so hehe if ur interested pls do dm mee... Hopeee everyone has a nicee dayyyy

Hi everyone I am a male, with crossdressing fantasies and even homosexual desires. I have a question: is it possible to be gay and shower with athletic and muscular guys without feeling sexual desire? I am confused about my sexuality and for this reason I am asking. Thanks