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Aug 4, 2005, 12:18am

Announcing AWGays.com: a new site dedicated to the LGBT community of
Active Worlds. Since the collapse of Pink Village, LGBT users of AW have
had no central community in which to gather and discuss. Representation
of LGBT users has degraded to the point of non-existence.

AWGays.com's aim is to provide news, resources and a discussion forum,
to give LGBT users of Active Worlds a voice again.

Aug 4, 2005, 1:36am

Congratulations. I'm glad to hear LGBT folks get to have a central community
to represent them for first time since the collapse of Pink Village. It's a
shame that Pink Village has collapsed years ago. It was such a great
community. It was considered to be one of the early successful communities
that deserves the mention in the Active Worlds history. I think Bille and
other folks has done an extraordinary job for Pink Village during its early
years.

Pink Village has certainly played a major role in the Active World community
affairs. I think awgays.com is a good move toward resurrecting gay & lesbian
communities in the Active Worlds. I say that despite my, *ahem*, problem
with homosexuals because I think it's terribly wrong to hate the homosexuals
and to discriminate them. It is just that I am not most comfortable with
homosexuals, considering the fact that I grew up in the community in real
world that is mostly heterosexual (sp? >_<!), which is probably not
surprising since my hometown is generally within the Bible Belt. I don't
think that I have a most extreme form of homophobia. It is more of a limited
degree of homophobia. Very limited, I emphasize. But, in the consideration
of one of my high school friends being a former homosexual, it has given me
a something to soften my anti-homosexual attitude in the high school days (I
graduated last year) but I think it remains difficult for me to at least
completely eliminate my certain discomforts with homosexuals.

But, at least I hope that someday the divide between most conservative (and
currently anti-gay) communities and the gay communities is to be at least
resolved. But that's unlikely. But I don't approve of murders and abuses
against gays and lesbians just simply because of them being largely
un-Christian (not sure if this is also a problem with Islam either O_o). I
don't approve because murders and abuses are not simply sanctioned or even
approved by any Gods, whether it be Lord of Christianity, Yahweh of Judaism,
or Allah of Islam. Even without religion, the common sense will tell you
that nothing good is gained by simply abusing or murdering gays or lesbians
just because they're gays or lesbians. It's even stupid to think that
murders are answers to problems anyway.

With that said, may Gods of all religions blesses you all and good luck with
this whole thing.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Legion

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Aug 4, 2005, 1:45am

Good on ya rossy :) Great idea

--
Ry
Blog: http://ryslifeagain.blogspot.com
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Aug 4, 2005, 1:56am

[View Quote] Former??? Huh?
It's not something you "get over".
There are sober alcoholics, but I never heard of a "former homosexual".

Plz explain

Aug 4, 2005, 2:45am

" (not sure if this is also a problem with Islam either O_o)."

It's a capital offence in some muslim countries. Christian culture is like
a tranny on a gay pride float compared to the islamic world when it comes to
gay acceptance.

Aug 4, 2005, 3:37am

yay floats! ^____________________________________________^

-Joe


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Aug 4, 2005, 10:26am

He's probably talking about someone in the "ex-gay" movement. Ex-gay
groups are usually conservative religious organisations that believe
homosexuals can change through the power of God and some crackpot
psychriatric methods.

The general opinion outside of ex-gay circles is that denying your
sexual orientation is mentally unhealthy.

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Aug 4, 2005, 11:00am

Ohhhhhhhhhhh ok

I have many Gay and Lesbian friends, so I'm well aware of all the "miracle
cures" for homosexuals.
They make us laugh. : )


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Aug 4, 2005, 11:28am

As seen on the uk show "Sugar rush", last weeks episode, where some
methods of "becoming straight" range from deep brething to saying very
violent things about how god would treat homosexuals, although thats
just the show, unless because its religion, its reality? (The violent
things)

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Aug 4, 2005, 1:39pm

Actually.... it is. It's just difficult to do. I am a recovering
homosexual. SURPRISE!!!! :D Your worldview paradigm has just been
shattered. ;)

Chris

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Aug 4, 2005, 1:41pm

Wow I didn't even reply and yet you marginalized me. ;_;


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Aug 4, 2005, 1:51pm

Crackpot? Unhealthy? My home, this is!!! :( Strange how you still
believe this even though you've been seeing me change right within your
midst.

Chris

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Aug 4, 2005, 2:58pm

Was this your parents choice for you, or own own?

- Joe

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Aug 4, 2005, 3:41pm

Sorry, Chris, but the fact that I know you doesn't make your experience
different from others'.

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Aug 4, 2005, 8:35pm

I have had a few homosexual friends too. One of them claims that he is not
gay anymore but strangely enough I have trouble taking it seriously :\
sometimes I worry about him, as if he were lying to himself...
Ideally though, I'd rather hope toward a world where people don't -need-
exclusive communities. If there weren't so many pressures involved, in fact,
sometimes I wonder if everybody would just be differing degrees of 'bi'.
Such is one of the blessings of the internet, in fact; that one may embrace
the concept of personality alone in its purest, unhindered by material
qualities like gender, race, or structure.
Here's to hoping that someday one may never need to confine themself to the
standards or constraints. Though individuality is important, it should
never, ever, ever segregate you from the rest of the world. Heh. Perhaps
someday even the powderkeg issues of politics and religeon will become as
lighthearted, innocent, and frivolous as choosing a favorite color.
(I love purple :D )

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Aug 4, 2005, 8:40pm

O_O Holy COW! I didn't know!
wait... 'recovering'? >_> ...
I'm SURE this has been covered in many many many ways but... am I the only
person that is irked by how much that makes homosexuality sound like some
sort of ... error to be fixed? I mean, uh, evolutionarily speaking it's not
necessarily very helpful to the sustainment of the species if mates sought
are incapable of creating progeny with their potentials... but it doesn't
hurt anyone--eheh--?
Er, that is, don't we have an overpopulation problem anyways?
....

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Aug 4, 2005, 8:41pm

The root beer ones are my favorite ^_^

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Aug 5, 2005, 5:46pm

Nobody's choice.


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Aug 5, 2005, 6:00pm

And yet the fact that I am coming out of it in no way implicates moral value
being assigned to homosexuality. It simply means it's possible. Deal with
it.

Chris

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Aug 5, 2005, 8:18pm

[View Quote] >Even without religion, the common sense will tell you
>that nothing good is gained by simply abusing or murdering gays or lesbians
>just because they're gays or lesbians. It's even stupid to think that
>murders are answers to problems anyway.
>

I quite agree with you, but in my case I'd rather refer to religious
fundamentalist: the common sense will tell you that nothing good is
gained by simply abusing or murdering religious fundamentalists
just because they're religious fundamentalists. It's even stupid to
think that.



Police (aka Vips)

"There are only three kinds of people in this world,... those who can count, and those who can't."

Aug 18, 2005, 4:34pm

Cool, interesting there are plenty of Vr places wiht a large gay freternity
these days, dare i mention there dot com? has a large gay following there...
a new community in aw is always good news- all the gay folks I know are
lively happy and energentic and creative people and know how to party! Good
job Rossy!


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