LGBT Friendly Thread (it says "friendly")

RoadDog

haha Roaddog, when you are creating your post, composing your thoughts, there is a small link right above the box you're writing in, that says "add smiley" when you click on it, a whole menu of smileys comes up! click on one that matches what you'd like to show and TA-DA!!


:laugh: :happy: :ohwell: :flowerforyou: :glasses: :smokin: :smooched: :bigsmile:

Waht a great day. Thanks everyone fro bringing me in to the 21st Century.

DeathIsMyGift

I'll start things off by introducing myself. I'm Jessa. I'm 31 and live in the DFW area with my girlfriend. MFP has helped me tons since I joined in Feb. I have fallen off the wagon for a bit but I'm back on it full force and have set a goal to lose 10lbs by Nov. My ultimate goal is to be 150lbs. Still "overweight" for my height but I carry it well SO...welcome fellow queers. Let's make this thread a friendly and safe place for us to discuss...whatever.

Welcome back Jessa, I was wondering where you had gone off to! :drinker:

HERE I AM! HERE I AM! Thanks.

immacookie

Hello Everyone,
My name is Deb & my partner Lori and I joined MFP a little over a month ago and we love this site! We live in Eugene Oregon.
We moved here in June 2009.I was born and raised Cape Girardeau Mo .Lori is originally from Ohio.Feel free to add me as a friend : ) Have a blessed day...Namaste...

Hey Deb! I'm originally from just West of Farmington... although in Philly, PA now.

Mindful_Trent

Hi all! I consider myself a member of the LGBT community.

I'm really not trying to be a jerk...and I am not anti-gay....but I just wondered.....isn't ALL of MFP a friendly and safe place to discuss ...whatever?

Why the need for a separate thread, why the desire for a label? Isn't segregating people bad?

If I made a "straight people" thread, wouldn't you feel a little offended?

I just don't get it.

Please don't imagine I'm mad, I'm really just more confused than anything.....

I don't think it's that this thread is excluding anyone who isn't part of the LGBT community or that we want to segregate ourselves, but it's that sometimes we need a place to talk about issues affecting us that someone who isn't a part of the LGBT community wouldn't necessarily understand or relate to. It's no different than women posting their "woman only" threads about that time of the month - that particular issue is unique to women. They're not trying to discriminate against men, they just want a thread where they can discuss that issue with other people who deal with it.

DeathIsMyGift

So in other news:

Lady GaGa....love her? hate her?
Go to her show this summer and pay $40 for a tshirt that you wear every weekend and only take off to wash or shower? Uh..yeah.

DKWaggoner

Love Lady Gaga!

geekyjen

Hello LGBT thread!

As another vote for this thread, there is actually pretty good research indicating that LGBT body image / weight issues are slightly different (worse). Gay men are more likely to be underweight, and gay women are more likely to be over weight. Hopefully we can all support each other to get healthy.

Mike

Sorry folks, I have to lock this thread. The last thread was locked because we were constantly having to delete attacking/insulting posts from it. Many of you never saw those posts because we managed to delete them fairly quickly, but the attention required to continually monitor this topic unfortunately became too time-consuming. We literally were spending hours on it, and although we did our best to keep the topic up for weeks, it finally ended up just being too much work and was taking away from our ability to add features to the site, develop new apps, etc.

There have been some topic areas on the forums that have, from past experience, proved too "controversial" for people to chat respectfully and civilly. Politics and religion are two prime examples, and as a result, we've had to disallow discussing either politics or religion on the forums. We would love to allow both, but it's simply too much work to manage all the arguments/fights/insults/etc. that inevitably result. We simply don't have the manpower to devote to moderating topics on the forums that people, for whatever reason, are unable to discuss respectfully with one another.

Unfortunately, it looks like this topic falls along the same lines and will have to be locked. There have been many, many people who've posted on this topic (and the previous one) in a wonderfully polite and respectful fashion - but there are a few bad eggs who ruin it for the rest. I do wish we could allow virtually any topic to be discussed on the forums, including this one, but regrettably, that hasn't been possible to date.

We are planning on adding the ability to create "groups" which hopefully will allow like-minded people to be able to discuss some of these topics more freely. So you could create an LGBT group, and within that group there would be forums that group members could use to talk with one another. But for now, the broader public forums will have to be more restrictive.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation. Hope you are all enjoying the site.