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Hello you guys! Here’s a list of LGBT Themed Movies I’ve watched and I thought of sharing them with you. If you have any suggestions you can always drop a message on my dm’s. Here goes:

Appropriate Behavior (2015)

Beach Rats (2017)

Beats Per Minute (BPM) (2017)

Being 17 (2016)

Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)

Boys (Jongens) (2014)

Boy Don’t Cry (1999)

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Call Me By Your Name (2018)

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

God’s Own Country (2017)

Holding The Man (2015)

Keep The Lights On (2012)

Love, Simon (2018)

Maurice (1987)

Moonlight (2016)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

My Own Private Idaho (1991)

Stranger By The Lake (2013)

Tangerine (2015)

The Danish Girl (2015)

The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

The Handmaiden (2016)

The Way He Looks (2014)

*Not erotic…yet*

Just to preface, I’ve hooked up with several “straight” guys. Ones with girlfriends, ones who tame vast amounts of strange, the works - but the common denominator between all of them is that we met on Grindr. This isn’t about those guys. This story is about an experience with a friend belonging to that entirely separate group of straight guys; you know - the ones who can never even bring themselves to download Grindr in the first place. The ones who take society’s “taboo sins” really seriously, particularly if they come from Leviticus. The ones who, despite all of this, love dick just as much as I do - but may only act on it once or twice in their entire lives. Luckily, I can usually sniff that shit out like a truffle pig. I spent my fair share of time in that closet myself, after all.

We met through a mutual straight friend, who had once drunkenly left his shacker in his bed to “sleep walk” to the couch I was on and “pass out” on top of me. That’s a story for another time, though. He introduced me to one of his fraternity brothers (we weren’t in the same fraternity) and my gay sixth sense immediately picked up a subtle tension between them. It was one I happened to know well, and it screamed “We got drunk and fooled around so now we have to avoid so much as sitting beside each other even though we can’t stop eye-fucking from across the room!” For me, recognizing that interaction is like the equivalent of a buck catching a fat whiff of doe-in-heat piss. It basically puts me into a primal frenzy. Hence the nearly year-long pursuit of my new friend that ensued. For the rest of the story, we’ll call him Josh. 

Josh was a really handsome guy. Wavy blonde hair and blue eyes, a great smile, and a beautiful body that you knew was built by manual labor. If that didn’t already make my dick throb, he was also really fucking smart. Granted, it was in a sort of Rain Man-ish way that only applied to math and science, but damn if that kid couldn’t solve equations like a fucking Texas Instrument. On top of all that were a lot of common interests that are tough to come by like hunting, fishing, fraternity life, and heavy drinking with hetero friends. Needless to say, I was hopelessly attracted to Josh. Which would have quickly faded to a little man-crush then gone away, had Josh not reciprocated just enough every day. It didn’t take long to develop a “best friendship” (almost like there was some sort of ulterior catalyst..), and he started to get jealous if I hung out with my other (actually straight) bros more than him. It was kind of sweet and endearing, at first. I figured it would be no time before he’d give in and I’d finally get to at least suck his cock - I knew it’d be a done deal if I could get that far. But how? It would only happen when we were drunk, obviously. He needed alcohol as an excuse. 

The problem was, he’d get absolutely obliterated every time he went out. While he used to bring random girls home to fuck every time he went out, he now always ended up at my single-bedroom apartment off the square at the end of the night. He had also adopted the habit of downing several shots before he closed his tab and stumbled to my door. He’d show up with a clear but unspoken battle raging inside, I’d calm him down with a more-than-friendly shoulder to cry into, and he’d quickly pass out in my arms while I ran my fingers through his silky hair. This went on like clockwork for quite some time. The blue-balls were becoming unbearable and the absurdity of the whole thing was starting to drive me mental. I knew I had to do something when I started entertaining the idea of taking advantage of him while he was passed out. And don’t get me wrong, I’d been thinking about that since the first night it happened, but I would never act on it. Unless my nuts were about to explode like forgotten landmines. Which they were. So one weekend, I decided I’d get him home before he had a chance to pass his blackout threshold…

Some good news, I’ve been talking to two developers now and got them working together, we just had a meeting with the guys behind an existing large (millions of users) site similar to Tumblr, with a vibrant and open-minded community, and more importantly, it has open-minded owners who believe in free speech. They think we can get something done here to rescue the whole community.

I’m not allowed to reveal the site name yet. I can tell you it’s mainstream, open to everyone, open-minded and welcoming. (It’s not WordPress or any site owned by Facebook or Twitter. It’s not Pillowfort, that’s in closed beta. It’s not Ello, that’s mainly for artists. It’s not kinkspace or fetlife, those are too specialist. It’s not jux, that seems to be closed. It’s not Soup, that seems still in development and too small.)

One of the reasons for delaying the announcement for next few days is they don’t want a “land grab” where people take the names of current popular Tumblr users over there (cyber squatting). So they are looking at ways for existing Tumblr users to keep the same names on the new site.

More info over the days to come.

The plan is, broadly:

1. By December 9th, announcement of the new site and how to secure your username there

2. By December 10th, an online tool for bloggers to copy their existing content to the new site automatically, with the same tags and captions.

3. Bloggers will need to copy their content across between December 10th and December 17th if they want to use the automatic tool.

4. My understanding is that after December 17th there will be no public access to any “flagged” posts on Tumblr, but the original poster will still be able to see the flagged post (for a short time at least). Therefore, the original poster may still be able to manually download a post to their own PC or phone, after December 17th, and manually upload it to the other site. But if you have lots of posts that will take a long time, it will be better to use the automatic tool before December 17th.

Please understand that these dates are approximate and may change for technical or other reasons.

There may be a few rough edges or not so perfect looking site design on the transfer tool. Everyone is doing their best. The main goal here is to help as many people as possible preserve access to their content, in the short space of time Tumblr has allowed us, and preserve as much as possible of the Tumblr community spirit somewhere new.

The new site will cater for photo, GIF, text and html posts. It will not offer video and audio posts, due to cost reasons - maybe in future, but for now you will need to preserve video and audio content yourself in some other place.

If your Tumblr blog has a mixture of original content and reblogs, or all reblogs, all of that can be copied over to the new site. Reblogs will become “your” original content if nobody else posted them yet, otherwise they will be shown as reblogs. The devs are looking at ways to preserve attribution of reblogs back to the original Tumblr poster, if that person also moves to the new site.

Important: your Likes cannot be copied from Tumblr to the new site. You will have to go find the same posts again on the new site, and like them afresh.

(Similarly, existing reblog comments, asks, messages and other user interaction on Tumblr cannot be copied to the new site - that’s just too much to do, in the short time available.)

If you want to preserve any of your existing Liked posts on Tumblr, you will need to either: (1) download the post to your own PC, or: (2A) reblog it now to your own Tumblr blog, and then (2B) use the automatic tool, before December 17th, to move your whole Tumblr blog across to the new site.

If you have Liked a lot of posts here on Tumblr, the gridllr.com webapp should be able to help you do steps 1 and 2A quickly, I mean download or reblog.

(Someone complained to me today about the appearance of Gridllr on a phone. It’s best to use Gridllr on a PC, Mac or Tablet with a large screen.)

If you have liked a post here on Tumblr and the original poster decides to delete it, or even to delete their entire blog, some time before December 17th, then that post will be permanently lost. So if you want to be sure to preserve any of your Liked posts, you should best download or reblog as soon as possible. If it’s reblogged to your own blog it is safe from deletion, at least for next few days.