Any gay Eagle Scouts here? Holla!

[pausanias_usa]

A scout is <takes a breath> trustworthy loyal helpful friendly courteous kind obedient cheerful thrifty brave clean AND reverent!

But not gay, supposedly. Ha. No hot stories to tell about my time in the Scouts (well, maybe a few ) but in retrospect I enjoyed the camping and outdoors activities. One 50-miler canoe trek was most excellent!

Back in the 90s there was a Gay Eagle forum, but it either died or I changed my email address and lost touch. A few paraded in the SF Pride parade at one point, some in uniform (grrr -- won't be fitting into my old outfit anymore).

Once an Eagle, they can't take your badge away. So I'm surprised there are not more openly gay ex-Scouts. Who here was an Eagle?

 

[pjlikesporn]

Made it to Life--4 badges away from Eagle (even led a fuckin' service project), and I just quit and never looked back.

Not exactly what you asked for, but I couldn't help but answer.

 

[looseliam]

Right here!

Oh, I knew a couple of gay Eagle Scouts in the day. Man it's been a while. But good times!

I for the life of me can't recall what the WWW was from the Order of the Arrow.
Shhh! If you remember, don't tell! =]

I always liked those nights. The little hotties with their arms exposed. Big fires... Mmmm. Heh.

 

[NongreasySweatproof]

I got up to Life, and then became too busy to carry out a service project. I had some good times in the scouts. My troop could have been a little less lame, though (i.e., more camping trips and less leadership-training bs). I always had an issue with the OTA stuff -- I was uncomfortable with the whole "playing Indian" aspect of OTA (along with scouting in general). If you're not a Native, you shouldn't go around romanticizing the whole Native thing and acting like you know something about somebody else's culture.

There were one or two dudes in my troop that acted kind of gay, though I didn't consciously realize that _I_ had any same-sex attractions until after the scouting period of my life. I used to find it really cheesy the way the language in the Scout Handbook, and in certain things our adult leaders said, would sort of indirectly allude to the whole issue of homosexuality, without saying it directly. This one time, before a world jamboree, our leaders warned us that scouts from other countries might have, as a part of their national customs, a habit of climbing into your sleeping bag with you as a show of friendship, but that we should politely decline. I was like, "uhhhh . . . what country are YOU thinking about?"

 

[pjlikesporn]

This one time, before a world jamboree, our leaders warned us that scouts from other countries might have, as a part of their national customs, a habit of climbing into your sleeping bag with you as a show of friendship, but that we should politely decline. I was like, "uhhhh . . . what country are YOU thinking about?"

Which Jamboree?

I had my first major sexual experience at the 1988 Jamboree in Australia.

 

[momp57]

I was one merit badge away from Eagle at 13 and managed to drag out actually making it until right before my 18th birthday. Too bad there wasn't a badge for Procrastination. I was a Vigil member of the Order of the Arrow, attended the 1977 National Jamboree, and went to Philmont twice, once on foot, and once on horseback. Wonderful memories!

 

[Elwood]

I was in Cubs did a lot of camping then, summer and winter camping. Actually the winter camping was when I was a Scout. It was really cool we slept in train caboose's in the woods.

In cubs we went to Camp Jakson Dodds and in Scouts we went to camp Tamacouta

 

[DiaryOfAMadman]

I was a "Life" rank, only one away from eagle....... or was it "heart"..... I think it was life, it came after star. Anway I still had 2 years left till I was 18 to make eagle and for no reason I just dropped out of scouting. It's ashame to, I really dont know why I did it, but shortly after I did, the whole troop disbanded, but it would have been around if I stayed I'm sure of it. Not that I was important, but we only ahd like 10 kids in it anway so when I left, it like opened to door for everyone to leave. I regret it know, just like I regred leaving Little League Baseball in 5th grade.

 

[Kurn]

Hmmm...come to think of it, I'm one o'those.

 

[looseliam]

Any Makajawan veterens here?

 

[justsimon]

My first boyfriend was an eagle scout.

 

[pausanias_usa]

Camping on the Great Wall of China???

That is beyond "cool" -- what an experience!

OTA might have been a bit, um, "twee" as the Scots say, but I really loved those loincloths 8').

 

[pausanias_usa]

Oh, and remember the Scout handbook version that had what you did for a frostbitten friend?

Why, you got him naked, took off your clothes, and nestled together in one sleeping bag.

Too damn bad I lived in the hot South --- GRRRRR!

 

[Gros Morne Guy]

I made Eagle senior year of HS. Stayed in the movement, and was Scoutmaster for about 10 years, before I moved to Canada.
(The Boston area council was a bit more gay-friendly than the national organization. It was very much "don't ask, don't tell" and the occasional public statement mildly criticizing the national policy)

One of my Eagles, at his court of honor, used his remarks to denounce the anti-gay policy.

 

[DiaryOfAMadman]

Oh, and remember the Scout handbook version that had what you did for a frostbitten friend?

Why, you got him naked, took off your clothes, and nestled together in one sleeping bag.

Too damn bad I lived in the hot South --- GRRRRR!

Frostbitten hand was um............. but your hand between on of your friends legs. That used to get me so horny thinking about it because my first crush was in my scout troop, I'll never forget all the times seeing him naked and in his undies.

Oh was anyone else here in "The Order of the Arrow"? In the OA I was elected Vice Chief - Adminstration and Vice Chief of Program (the following year I was supposed to run for cheif) That was cool, I was at "brootherhood" rank however my soutmaster told me that when I was 17 they were going to make me a "vigil" member and that was cool. I stayed in the OA 6 months longer then regular scouts becasue the "membership/orientation weekends were soo fucking fun.

 

[cynicus]

I am giving away my age (if I have not already), but my two sons are both Eagle Scouts and loved the Scouting thing.

I was a Scout until my Freshmen year of high school and I will tell you the number of times I got a handful of cock after "lights out" on many camping trips was prodigious. Trouble is, then it was just horsing around, no matter how much we handled and fondled each other. Think of all the missed opportunities. Pretty good times, though.

I remember one time--not a Scout trip--when I was maybe 15 another guy jacked me off in the tent. I still think it was perhaps the most memorable orgasm I ever had. I would have returned the favor, but he got so excited that he came at the same time I did! Never got another opportunity to pay him back for a truly exquisite sensation. Don't know what it was--age, hormones, or just the first time that another guy brought me orgasm. I sure know that no woman has ever been able to match it.

 

[brettbryan]

I earned Eagle when I was 17 was a Vigil member of the Order of the Arrow WWW. Some of the best sex I had was at Order of the Arrow Conclaves. We slept in cabins and I always made sure I was next to the hottest guy there. Maybe it was early developing gaydar or just teenaged hormones going wild, but I was never rebuffed when my hand wandered . A couple guys even followed me out of the cabin and into the woods for more than a hand job. The smell of slightly mildewed sleeping bags still makes me horney.