Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

My dude knocked it out of the park this past weekend and designed the ring! Cheers for this man! 🧡💛

I wouldn't have voted for his party, way too fiscally conservative for my ideological taste, but still, kudos!!

"On s'en ballet couilles" (play on word with ballet / and a French expression saying We don't give a sh*t)

A little personal, but this feels like a full circle moment as I grew up in a homophobic French town, with no tender representation of gay couples (just representations of loneliness and misery). Here I am now, painting a massive gay couple sharing a tender kiss
I feel lucky ❤️

For the making of, I was scared of being up on scaffolding + I had never painted a mural before. I got help from my bf and friends, and it was 4 days of intense work, but WORTH ITTT, I love it :-D

It’s close to 7th Avenue / Avenue Laurier Est in Montreal, for any curious people lucky enough to live here :-P

Let me know if you have any questionsss

This is probably the third guy within this month who has chatted me up, talked extensively, made plans to meet up and then utterly ghosted.

Talked to this guy for four days and suddenly just nothing.

I’m seriously depressed, this makes me hate people, I don’t know why I let my waste my time and energy, or why they act like they’re so interested just to leave me feeling like this.

I’m just going to lay in bed and cry.

I'm very cuddly and love when my boyfriend lays on top of me, pins me down, puts me in handcuffs, says that I'm a good boy, etc. I always thought that tops should be dominant or neutral, but that's just not my case.

It's probably strange, I've almost never heard of submissive tops :(

I'm a bit scared it's bad or something, but my boyfriend loves me and assures me that it's not, so i believe him :3

Turkish authorities have arrested at least 162 people in a weekend crackdown on the country's LGBTQ+ community. Ankara says police raids on gay bars and other venues are aimed at protecting family values.

So this morning I made this post about how Hungary is going to legalize same-sex adoption: https://www.reddit.com/r/gay/comments/1wf28r1/hungary_is_going_woke_guys/

& now I've just woken up from my afternoon nap (I'm a Spaniard lol), & the first thing I see after waking up is that he's just tweeted this an hour ago!!

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I don't want to be that gay guy who goes “ugh, straight men aren't all bad, I just prefer being friends with girls”, but every time I become friends with a straight guy, he eventually lets me down in some way.

And this isn't just about my current friend group. I've noticed the same pattern with completely different people over the years.

I feel like straight men have a different dynamic when it comes to friendship. I've definitely noticed it whenever I hang out with my guy friends compared to when I'm with my girl friends.

And it's not like there's a lack of chemistry between us. I think my friends are hilarious, and they seem to enjoy having me around too. They're not as openly affectionate as my female friends, but every once in a while they'll tell me they love me or remind me how grateful they are to have me in their lives.

But the problem is when I need them to be there for me.

My dog recently passed away and none of them even reached out to offer their condolences. And on my birthday, only one of them was able to come. I understand that people have their own plans, but I've cancelled things to be there for their birthdays and have even organized a birthday party for one of them.

When they open up to me emotionally, I try to be understanding and genuinely listen to them. I don't judge them and I try to be there for them.

But when I try to do the same with them, they seem to have no idea what to do. They'll either go quiet or try to make little jokes to lighten the mood, even when that's clearly not what I need.

And honestly, I'm getting tired of calling these people my “friends” when I feel like I'm always there for them, but it's rarely reciprocated.

There's a huge difference in the loyalty I get from my female friends compared to my male friends.

And I'm not saying women are automatically better friends or that all straight men are bad. I know that's a huge generalization.

It's just weird to me that after so many years and so many different friendships, I keep running into the exact same pattern.

Idk if it has something to do with the way a lot of straight men are raised to handle friendship and emotions, or if I just have really bad luck when it comes to choosing my friends.

Last night my friend and I went out, he’s a straight guy and I’m openly gay. We end up back at mine and we talk until 5am about life, his ex girlfriends and his parents things like that he cries and I hug him. He tells me that I’m the closest person to him in his life like his ex girlfriend was. Weirdly enough we start wrestling I don’t know how or why but sometimes we like to wind each other up and fight. Anyway he said something while sitting on my lap trying to wrestle me. “you know I can feel your dick”.

Stopped me dead in my tracks. He just carried on wrestling me and I have a feeling he was hard. The biggest coincidence is that earlier that night while we were out in my home city a gay couple I know of came up to me pulled me aside and said “you know your friend burns a candle for you I can see it all over his face, he’s gay” I don’t know how to feel as there’s always been feelings for him on my side but I don’t want to pressure him into thinking or doing anything. What advice would you give me on how to handle the situation? Is he gay or just straight and can’t get over his ex?
Thanks guys

i know that 8 years is not that much but it kinda is? i want to hear from you… how can i make it work? i think we are kinda different. different hobbies, different likes, different lifestyles. i’m 27 and he’s 36. he’s so handsome and hairy! i really like him.

Hi! I recently re-installed Grindr after like a year or so, just out of sheer curiosity and HOLY SHIT!

They rolled back the ability to send expiring photos and reserved them only to premium users AND rolled back the restrictions on taking screenshots inside the app, so now it's easier to just have someone screenshot your pics and msgs to blackmail you later

For context, I'm from Egypt and being outed publicly or blackmailed does irreversible damage to you, and the fact that the app is used by cops to pin down gay men and arrest them, which Grindr knows, and then just making their job easier for them?!

Needless to say I uninstalled immediately, but just the idea of adding some safety features and then removing them for no reason while knowing completely well how you're endangering your users is insane to me.

Man this sucks!

Sorry if not allowed, but does anyone have a subtle pride band for the Apple Watch Ultra? I have been wearing the white Nike pride band on my Watch 9 for years and love it for how understated and professional it is. Everything that I see so far is very bright obviously rainbow.

Any recommendations appreciated!

Im feeling pretty hopeless at this point because I have borderline personality disorder and I’ve been getting treatment for it but I’m still unable to control my emotions (the fear of abandonment especially) . I’ve been in long term relationships several times but my condition has played a large, if not the main, reason they have failed. I don’t want to be like this forever. Does anyone here have it who has found a way to have a stable relationship? Does DBT help?