Suggestions?

[jflag]

I'm sure most regular visitors (Do we have any left? Can I have a show of posts so I know you're out there?) have noticed there hasn't been any moderator here for a while. I'll be checking in to clean up and try to generate some interest when I can. But I must say it's frustrating working in what feels like a vacuum. Ideas for development of this forum most welcome ...

/fyah

[Aria]

Hiya...

Another newbie here, and happy to see that this forum is still here...

Have got some ideas... I run a forum too and know how difficult it is sometimes to get and keep things running...

Someone suggested to me an email newsletter... and I found that be a good idea... Sure by now you have developed a mailing list from the folks who have registered and I think it doesn't help to let them know that you are still around. I usually point out in mine, new topics of interest that have been posted, interesting news items and sometimes even tips for using the Internet that have come my way. I also use the site to celebrate various holidays and so on, so sometimes that is something that is included in the email news... Sometimes, it helps to bring the folks back home...

Just a thought...

Crossing fingers that, if you are all still out there that you will return home to JFlag..

ok, ok... call me an optimist, but hey.. Big oak trees from little acorns come *smile*

Byeeee!

[Jason]

...A new body colour might do the job......No?

[sizllakalangi]

one thing that shocks me is how so much people in this world has turned their back on god.He sacrafice he son to forgive us for our sins, and all that we know that he has done for us we still insist on betraying his holyness.I am not going to judge anyone or bash anyone or swear at people I just want to know the truth from people who are gay.I Iwant to know why we have so much hate between eachother gay people and straight people and I also want to know is, what happens to a person that makes him or her decide to go public with their sexuality.Oh one more thing,why do gay jamaican's hate sizllakalangi? Here in Canada his music is like gold.I mean they play it in parties sometimes to calm tention between rival crews,so please let me know.

[gunshots4allfags]

fuck you faggots! I hope u faggots die like the bitches u r.

If ur a fag, go here
fuckfags

[Darkgemini707]

I don't get it...

[FRE]

sizllakalangi,

The hatred to which you refer does not exist in all countries; I can assure you of that. We know from reading the Bible that such hatred is contrary to what Jesus said when He told us to love our neighbors as ourselves.

I suspect that people like gunshots4allfags (who, from the way he writes, seems to be only semi-literate) have serious problems. Many people like that are themselves romantically attracted to others of the same sex and cannot deal with it. When a person has been taught from childhood to hate all gay persons and then discovers that he himself is gay, obviously he will have serious problems. One way that some of these people deal with their hated same-sex feelings is by attacking other gay persons. Another way is by committing suicide.

I am openly gay, although I don't advertise and people meeting me ordinarily would have no idea that I am gay. However, I do not hide it. If it comes up in conversation, I deal with it by being completely open. It is basically destructive for a gay person to listen to hateful remarks without responding. I regularly work out with weights in a gym and have taken classes in martial arts. People would be well advised not to attack me.

Non-gays advertize their sexuality. They do it by having wedding announcements in the newspaper, openly talking about their spouses and children, wearing wedding rings, etc. So obviously it is discriminatory for us who are gay to be forced to hide the fact that we are gay.

The situation in Jamaica is totally bizarre. The ancestors of most of the people in Jamaica were slaves. Obviously salvery was totally contrary to social justice. So, one would expect that people coming from a history of slavery would defend the rights of others but, for some reason, it doesn't always work like that.

Note that slaveholders quoted the Bible to support slavery. There are many passages in the Bible to support slavery. In fact, there is nothing in the Bible that directly condemns slavery and it took the church almost 2,000 years to figure out that slavery was wrong. And, why is slavery wrong? Not becasuse the Bible says it is wrong, but because it is contrary to social justice. Moreover, in quoting from the Old Testament, Jesus says that we are to love our neighbors as ourselves. Obviously one cannot force people he loves into slavery. Likewise, one cannot preach violence against gay persons without violating the direct command of Jesus.

Let me also point out that people do not choose to be gay. We don't know why some people are gay, but we do know that it is not a matter of choice. In fact, many of us who are gay struggled for years to change before finally realizing that we could not change and learned to accept ourselves the way we are.

Gay persons who do not learn to accept themselves can do considerable damage. I've met many gay men who thought that they could change by getting married. The marriages failed, causing people to be hurt. In some cases, they had children. Usually a gay man, to have sex with a woman, has to pretend that she is another man. After while, that becomes impossible and the marriage breaks up. When I was trying to change, I dated women and left some of them very confused. When a woman became emotionally involved with me and I could not become involved with her in the same way, I realized that I had to stop trying to change because by doing so, I was hurting other people. Surely no parent would want his daughter to marry a gay man who was using her in an attempt to change.

[AustralianFriend]

HI EVERYBODY!!

My name is Lloyd I am 24 and I live in Queensland Australia. I have been 'out' since I was 18 and in the ensuing years I have learnt a lot about the treatment of gays throughtout the world. I have been a member of Amnesty International for quite a while and there are several countries where the issue of violence towards gay people seems to come up regularly: Iran is one, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq..and Jamaica. Feeling quite helpless from here in Australia I would like to at least be a friend for anyone and let me know if there is anything I can do from here to help your situation and also to learn a little bit about gay life there. There are only negative reports in Western media so I wanted to know 'for real'. I do have a suggestion: I strongly recommend removing nutcases like bulletsforfags or whatever his stupid name is and any other people who post messages like that. From what I gather the self esteem of gay Jamaicans is bad enough without having to read crap like that on a website for them! Anyway just wanted to say hi and hope I can help!!

[FRE]

Hello, Lloyd,

I lived in Fiji from 1994 to 2004 and have been to Oz many times, but not to Queensland. Perhaps I should go there some time; I've read that it's very interesting. In January of 2004, I drove a rental car all over Tassy.

As most people know, the attitude towards gay men and women varies considerably from country to country. Where I live (Albuquerque NM U.S.A.), generally there are no day to day problems as there are in Jamaica and other countries where gays have to fear physical violence. That, however, is not to say that there are no problems here.

The current contraversy here is protection for same-sex relationships and their families. Many same-sex couples have children by adoption, from a previous marriage to an opposite-sex person, or because relatives have died prematurely leaving orphans behind. One of the problems is that unless same-sex couples are legally recognized, if one dies, the surviving partner may have the children taken away and put into an orphanage or be put up for adoption. Also, if one dies and the relationship was not legally recognized, relatives of the deceased may be able to claim all the property that the couple jointly held. Then, there is the problem of hospital visitation. If one is critically injured or critically ill, the hospital may permit visits by close relatives only in which case the well partner may not be able to visit his or her partner in the hospital.

In a few states, there are domestic partnership laws which confer some of the rights and protections of marriage, but they always seem to fall short of providing the same protections and rights of marriage. Also, there are emotional needs which are not completely met by anything other than marriage. Domestic partnership laws leave same-sex couples feeling as though they are second-class, and that is not acceptable. No one wants to be second-class, and that is one of the reasons that we are pushing hard to make it possible for same-sex couples to marry legally. If some churches choose not to accept civil same-sex marriages, that is not a matter for the law. Instead, gay members of that religious denomination will have to work for acceptance within their religious denomination.

It's interesting that those who oppose legal recognition for same-sex couples complain about sexual promiscuity among gay persons, yet by opposing recognition of same-sex relationships, they make promiscuity more common.

St. Paul, in my opinion, should not be considered to be infallable. Even so, much of Paul's advice is good and should not be dismissed without careful consideration. Because Paul expected the second coming to occur very soon, he recommended that people remain single instead of becoming married. However, he said that if people cannot abstain from sex, they should marry. In other words, Paul recognized that not everyone is able to abstain from sex. Those who put down gay men and women fail to recognize that. They assume that all gay persons are able to abstain from sex, i.e., that all gay persons have the gift of celibacy, and of course that is not true. Surely it is better to support committed same-sex relationships than to condemn them since condemning same-sex relationships results in promiscuity which drives the AIDS epedemic and causes many other problems as well.

Another problem that our detractors fail to recognize is that in general, very close human relationships include sex. If sex is denied, then most people find it impossible to maintain very close relationships and generally end up living alone. I wonder just what living arrangements our detractors would approve. Would they approve of it if a gay man shared his residence with a woman, given that there would be no romantic involvement, or would they see that as scandalous? If two gay men shared a residence, there could be temptation for sexual involvement. Just what kind of living arrangements, other than living alone, would our detractors approve? Probably they never think about that.

People who are concerned about world hunger sometimes go without eating for a day to show support for the world's starving people. Would our detractors be willing to so without sex for a while, perhaps during lent, to show support for those of us who are supposed to abstain from sex and close relationships for our entire lives? Somehow, I suspect that they would make excuses for being unwilling to do so.

Perhaps I've already written too much. Let's see whether there are any responses.

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