Tag Archives: Open Thread Thursday

Pimp out your own blog or personal site with some links to your favorite work. And tell us what other sites are ringing your bell these days.

What’s for dinner? Share your recipes, traditions, and disasters.

Speaking of gay coffins, what are your plans for disposing of your body?

Today is Veteran’s Day. Have you served in the U.S. military? Tell us where and when you were stationed and how you handled being gay. Would you serve today were DADT to be lifted? And if you aren’t American, tell us about your experiences in your own military.

What’s on your DVR this season? I’m loving AMC’s Walking Dead and BBC America’s Law & Order: UK. (Even though I have to keep the closed captioning on for the latter.)

What are your favorite scary movies, classic and recent? I always loved the dystopian stuff like Omega Man and more recently, 28 Days Later. Could never get into the campy slasher flicks like Freddy Krueger and Halloween.

Are you dressing up for Halloween this year? Snooki, Steven Slater, Lady Gaga, Chilean miner? Bad boy angel with wings? Naughty nurse? Or something from the Village People milieu?

Internet, landline, cable TV. What do you pay, who do you pay it to, and what do you get for your money?

Monday is National Coming Out Day. Who was the very first person you came out to? How’d they handle the news? What about your parents? And since they say coming out is a never-ending process, who was the most recent person you came out to?

When Dan Savage emailed me a couple of weeks ago to float the concept of his “It Gets Better” project, I almost fell out of my chair at the idea’s brilliance and, perhaps as importantly, its simplicity. What an easy to execute, yet incredibly powerful way to reach LGBT youth at risk! But a moment later, I also felt a …

Tell us about your very first apartment. Suggested by JMG reader Joe (AO)

Astro Boy. Time Tunnel. Dark Shadows. Tell us about your favorite TV shows when you were a kid.

How was your summer? Vacation or staycation? Give us the highlights and lowlights.

We need some new tunes up in this here joint. What’s blowing up your iPod right now? UPDATE: OK, I just may have heard my favorite song of the YEAR tonight on Letterman. Below is Schizophrenic by the DC-based trio Jukebox The Ghost. Mika meets Scissor Sisters meets late 90’s happy trance (sort of, in the piano runs, aging circuit …

Let’s talk about forgiveness.

If you could relive one day in your life, without any changes, what day would that be?

Is legal marriage for you? Why or why not?

Yesterday was one of the most momentous days in American LGBT history. Where were you when you got the news and what was the reaction among the folks around you?

Here am I in Montreal, not speaking a single word of French. Boo me. What languages do you speak? Which are you learning?

The complaint box is open. Rant, vent, bitch.