Topic: the more you know about columbus ohio....home of asshole stairbuilder omen..

+Anonymous A — 12.8 years ago #29,505

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/hello-columbus/?_r=0

In Ohio’s capital city, gay men, lesbians and bisexuals make up about 6.7 percent of the population of about 750,000, according to a 2006 study by the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute. That’s a far cry from more than 10 percent in San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Minneapolis and Seattle, but it’s higher than most Midwestern cities, including Chicago (5.7 percent). And in several Columbus ‘‘gayborhoods’’ ~~- like the Short North, German Village and the lesbian stronghold of Clintonville~~ - the gay quotient is far higher than 6.7 percent.

Companies lure top design and retail talent ~~- many of them gay~~ - from larger cities. They come and stay for at least a few years, maybe buying a jewel-box Victorian or Craftsman fixer-upper for as little as $200,000. ‘‘We have tons of crossover here from New York and San Francisco, people constantly moving in and out,’’ said Chris Hayes, 37, an Ohio native who moved to Columbus after several years in New York City. ‘‘Columbus really turned itself around in the late ’90s,’’ said Hayes, the editor in chief of Outlook: Columbus, the town’s glossy gay monthly. ‘‘We’re not recession-proof, but we’re not a manufacturing economy, so we’ve done O.K.’’ Four years ago, he paid $281,000 for a 1,400-square-foot loft downtown. ‘‘It’s like my New York dream apartment, but it was affordable.’’

While life here seems easygoing for gay folks, it’s especially so if you learn to love college football. The Ohio State Buckeyes, the reigning Big Ten champion, create citywide mania. ‘‘You can either dive right into the O.S.U. craziness when you move here,’’ Hayes said, ‘‘or you can hate your life for six months.’’ I was in town on game day ~~- when the Buckeyes, to no one’s surprise, trounced small-fry Ohio University, 43-7~~ - and seemingly everyone in town was wearing scarlet-hued Buckeyes shirts and strings of buckeyes around their necks. That included a dozen members of Scarlet and Gay, O.S.U.’s G.L.B.T. alumni group, plus their friends and lovers, whom I joined at their tailgate party.

‘‘Columbus isn’t awful if you find your niche to plug into,’’ he said. ‘‘But it can be tough. It’s very Abercrombie-cornfed-jock-I-eat-at-Max-&-Erma’s-and-Bob Evans. Some of the older gay men are a little more sophisticated.’’ Mastin grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and told me that his parents have rejected him for being gay. ‘‘We do holidays and birthdays, but that’s about it.’’ In Columbus, he’s found a surrogate family of established, mostly partnered gay men with whom he has thrown himself into activism. Still, he said, ‘‘I want to make major bank and move to London. When I meet someone here who has style, I’m like, ‘Who are you? Can we be friends?’ ’’ Most of the time he just tries to get his male Nordstrom clients out of pleated Dockers and into skinny jeans.

Yet Mastin is doing more in Columbus than just biding his time. ‘‘Gay Pride here is amazing,’’ he told me over wine and Donatos Pizza at Grote and Neal’s house. (Amoret was brought down to say good night in her red Donatos onesie.) ‘‘We get up and dance on boxes with our shirts off every year.’’

‘‘Well,’’ Grote corrected him, ‘‘maybe every few years.’’

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 27 seconds later[T] [B] #343,531

omen builds stair for the faggots!!!

+Antikhristos !M6R0eWkIpk — 12.8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 3 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #343,534

What's it like in space?

+Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 40 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #343,567

@343,531 (A)
That's very prejudiced of you. You're prejudiced.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 18 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,572

@previous (C)
I am prejudiced against loutish asshole like omen....who spout off hateful bullshit at people they do not have any business talking to that way.....yes..

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,573

@previous (A)
You're a lousy man.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,574

@previous (C)
no...I am not....omen is the lousy man....for being so disrespectful to me..

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,575

@343,573 (C)
all I did was make my displeasure known....concerning his bullshit towards me..

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,577

@343,573 (C)
sure I may have handled it with juvenile cursing and in a distasteful manner......but I know that a strenuous effort at eloquence in communicating around here is seldom appreciated....so why waste the time....he is boring and largely liked because he flatters the people...he very seldom says anything remotely interesting and he lambasted me without provocation..

you people need to see who is real and who is not..

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,578

@previous (A)
Please stop communicating with me, trout.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,581

@previous (C)
you came into my thread...lol....guess your and idiot..

(Edited 18 seconds later.)

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,583

@previous (A)
Can't you read? Or did you lose that ability with the severe alcoholism? Or was that lost with the heroin? Regardless, your ability to use English in general is obviously gone. No more, trout. Begone.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,585

@previous (C)
your mom loves the way I communicate my lust to her lovehole with my tongue..

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,588

@previous (A)
My mom is dead. The fact that you lick dead corpses' loveholes is not surprising to me at all.

+Anonymous D — 12.8 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,593

Inb4 syntax re 10 myle sewer pipe.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,594

@343,588 (C)
the fact that you sound like you are about 10 years old does surprise me....it is past your bedtime...junior..

·Anonymous D — 12.8 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,598

@previous (A)

> the fact that you sound like you are about 10 years old does surprise me....it is past your bedtime...junior..

Hank Hill, Block Captain

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 17 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #343,600

@343,594 (A)

+Triptych !IupsXZPnnU — 12.8 years ago, 43 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,620

What've you got against gay people?

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 55 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,623

@previous (Triptych !IupsXZPnnU)
not too much.....I went on a tirade....and mainly just used the standard hateful type stuff people use to taunt gays with...as ammunition I guess....it was like canned laughter...sort of.....if that makes any sense..

(Edited 8 minutes later.)

·Triptych !IupsXZPnnU — 12.8 years ago, 8 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,625

@previous (A)
You're disgusting.

+Omen !!hnQvReR0M — 12.8 years ago, 5 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,645

You're making friends fast around here, John.

+The Doctor !7MHPahvoGY — 12.8 years ago, 1 hour later, 9 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,653

@343,623 (A)

You're pathetic.

+Hello !KiTtY4Diw. — 12.8 years ago, 10 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,658

I stopped reading at "gayborhoods" lol

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,659

@previous (Hello !KiTtY4Diw.)
Take a bath.

·Hello !KiTtY4Diw. — 12.8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,661

@previous (C)
Keep it to one thread

And forum. Unless youre' Walter, because I openly hate him across boards.

(Edited 18 seconds later.)

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,662

@previous (Hello !KiTtY4Diw.)
If you respect no one but yourself, you will take a bath. Go.

·Hello !KiTtY4Diw. — 12.8 years ago, 14 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,664

@previous (C)
I plan on taking another shower today :/ I take one most days.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 15 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,666

@343,625 (Triptych !IupsXZPnnU)
nno.....nno...I am not..

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 10 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,667

@343,625 (Triptych !IupsXZPnnU)
why do you think so?

·Anonymous C — 12.8 years ago, 13 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,672

@previous (A)
You're repulsive. It's clear to everyone.

·Anonymous A (OP) — 12.8 years ago, 5 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[T] [B] #343,675

@343,625 (Triptych !IupsXZPnnU)
and fyi...my explanation in reply to your question was entirely genuine...I did not just pull that out of my ass..

I have one gay friend.....known him from like fourth grade....except for the sexual preference I would trade lives with him right this second.......I mean...what do you want me to say? how am I 'disgusting'? really you just say that cause your head is screwed on wrong...or something...and I am the one you use to channel whatever negativity you have in you life....into.....or fucking what?

give me a fair shake Trip....I have attoned and repented from my previous sins.....yet you seem to still hold every single solitary thing against me..

+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 12.8 years ago, 13 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #344,045

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