Good for you, glad to hear everything is working out. In the end it's how we treat people that counts the most.
I'm Coming Out
- Thread starter savatage1973
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well "this" is a community, and viable communities accept their members for the differences outside of what brought us here in the first place.
we dont all hang out at shows or on sunny saturdays, but this is really no different from one of my car clubs Im in
Humor , get some .
IPADave
Turning a whiter shade of pale.
savatage1973
Addicted Member
No better words have been spoken. I already posted that my only goal is to have done more good than harm when I'm done. Life is strange, and you just have to roll with the punches.
Worked in the restaurant industry in the 70's, more gays than you can shake a stick at lol. Some of my best friends at those jobs were gay, I've never had a problem with someone's sexual preference. Hell, I like my partners to taste like the color purple so who am I to judge lol.
Pio1980
AK Member
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the skipper
Professional Curmudgeon
Not a problem. I've always believed in live and let live. You don't try to force your lifestyle on me and condemn me for mine and I won't try to force mine on you or condemn you for yours.. Congratulations on your relationship. That's longer than many "straights" I've known.
Route 66
Super Member
Well said Sir, and my hat's off to you.
Perhaps savatage has been encouraged a bit by the way you have proudly talked about your partnership in our forum for many years. Once again AK is showing that it is more than about gear and music.
I have a dream. I have a dream that one day coming outs are not necessary anymore...
savatage1973
Addicted Member
Congrats to you!!! We haven't done the legal marriage thing, but have durable POA over each other for over a decade, so it really is irrelevant. Maybe time for a big party when we hit 20 years in October--what the hell--who doesn't like a big party?
Heck, I'm just glad your happy.
And congrats to you Pio as well!
And congrats to you Pio as well!
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Mystic
We're all born mad
"...glad that you're happy.": BB, this sums it up pretty well, for the OP and for Pio; 20 and 30 years, respectively, in the same relationship. Geeze, closest I've ever come to Ns like those is nine (9) years. Y'all must be doin' somethin' right. I say keep on keepin' on.
-M
savatage1973
Addicted Member
Amen, brother. The times, they are a changin'. The 90's were a really rough patch with all of the funerals--that was when the AIDS epidemic really hit home, and I used to attend at least one or two per month. But by the grace of God, I was spared and don't have that hanging over my head.
Acceptance is the "new norm", and even in my industry (construction) it is a "non-issue". We are welcome in all of my guys homes and they are welcome in ours. No one runs and hides the children--they just hand them off to Maxx (my avatar)--wears out the kids and wears out the dog--and if you even think about harming one, you might lose an arm--he is very protective of his "little people". It's all good.
Again--thank you all for the kind words and support!!!
Yeah, Emma and I met Dec 7, 1996, became a couple April 1, '97, she moved here Thanksgiving 97,
and we legally married Mar 31, 2010 in DC (where I was born) ... So many good years!
Marine0811
I love it loud!
I just read Chuck Panozzo’s book. It’s really sad how people think. Does your sexual preference really depict who you are as a person? I don’t think so. I’m straight, but I’ll defend any gay person against personal attack. Like was said above, it’ll be nice when no comings out are necessary. Open your eyes, not your mouths.
Congratulations to you and your partner on 20 years. If you have a party, I’ll be there!
Congratulations to you and your partner on 20 years. If you have a party, I’ll be there!