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Gayness during the internet era Vs 70-80s

I am with CnAnPB here. Growing up in rural New England there was not a lot of chances to go out and find other gays. Which led many guys to go to "the city". The problem with this is what if you don't like the urban seen, the guys who want to stay in the sticks become closeted basket cases.

To me being gay means be who you want to be. What the internet has provided is information to guys letting them know they are not alone.

This is a gay porn sight but there is allot more then that here and on the internet in general there is allot of great healthy information about being gay and coming out. Unfortunately when i was coming to age (im 35) the most I saw of the gay community was the part I still don't like today. The internet has opened up the hole world of gay experiences.
 
Oh and I think it might have been were I learned about the finger in the ass thing too.
 
I grew up in the 50s and had the benefit of living through the 'Hippie Era' which more-or-less kick-started the sexual revolution.

"Make Love. Not War."

By the time the 70s rolled around here in Canada, there were gay support groups which, for the most part, were quite successful. The university I attended even had a gay newspaper which was offered for Free in local stores around the city.

But we had something else here in Canada. A man whose political battles over 3 decades would ultimately change our country forever.

His motto: "Reason before passion."

His efforts lead to gay people in Canada becoming first-class citizens with all the rights and privileges granted to every other Canadian. Sadly, he died 5 years before his dreams came to fruition. On July 20, 2005, same-sex marriage became law.

Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau
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Jasun said:
I'll tell you... I managed to get my hands on a porn magazine when I was 18. It was like.. salvation.

I learned that yes.. there were other gay men out there.

I had no connection to any gay community and had no way to make friends even on the internet... It was very different.

that being said, I kinda feel bad for the younger generation who now don't have the need to go out and find other gay people... they don't have to go to bars or clubs or parts of town and meet real live people or get involved in their communities... they just go to Manhunt and order men like ordering a pizza.
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I suppose it's just me, but I can't help but find a tiny bit of irony in this post juxtaposed with the "cocksure men" ad underneath it.
 
I remember at 18 (the late 60s) going into my first porn shop and buying Screw. It actually had (gasp) men with erections and (gasp, gasp) masturbating!

Then the next time I bought some full color magazines that (gasp, gasp, gasp) showed two men having sex!

I thought I was in heaven.
 
josher said:
I remember at 18 (the late 60s) going into my first porn shop and buying Screw. It actually had (gasp) men with erections and (gasp, gasp) masturbating!
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This is the first photo of an erection I saw in Canada. Men could be shown naked, but they had to be soft:

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It was quite an evolution of pornography after that.
 
In the 80's the only outlet we had was watching MTV music videos. Groups like Culture Club and Thompson Twins, Divas like Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. It was the only place where you could see someone "different" or acting out in a rebellious manner. There were no message boards where we could share the pain of falling for our Straight Best friend so we just had to suffer through it alone. Some of us were lucky enough to live in places like New York or San Francisco where you could eventually figure things out but then again it was the 80's and there was no "Will and Grace" and Aids was a very scary thing. The internet has created a super highway of information and a whole new way of communicating. We are all lucky to be living in these times.
 
^ (18) yeah I remember the first time i saw MTV was in the spring of 1983 when I went on a ski trip to colorado with some fraternity bros. the first time a culture club video came on, i swear our jaws dropped open in a "What is THAT?" kind of reaction.

actually, in retrospect, quite the awesome moment.
 
Sometimes I think the Internet has created a generation of young people, gay and straight, who lack transferrable social skills. That is, they can't relate to anyone outside the tight little cliques that they cyber and text with 24-7.

In the club scene of the early to mid 1990's, before the Internet really took off, and before drugs ruined it all, you needed to have charm, personality, and be sociable to have a good time.

I went to a club recently and there were people there, but they were all in their own little corners texting and surfing the web on their iPhones. Nobody danced. Kind of sad, really.
 
Jasun said:
that being said, I kinda feel bad for the younger generation who now don't have the need to go out and find other gay people... they don't have to go to bars or clubs or parts of town and meet real live people or get involved in their communities... they just go to Manhunt and order men like ordering a pizza.
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Indeed.

Remember the first time you were on a dance floor in a crowd of hundreds of guys and you thought- "They're all gay!"?
 
i was a twink in the 70s and being gay in that era was more exciting, scary, just down right more fun because you had to "hide" your actions from the public. we came out of a repressed era into all the sex you could handle in a very short time [i guess i had between 400-500 'tricks' from about 73 to 78. i got a std a few times but a trip to the doctor/health dept and you were cured. lots of drugs, poppers and disco's, every city had its studio 54. i was in my prime during the sexual revolution and i fired a few shots. as soon as i started hearing about the 'gay cancer' [aids] sex lost it luster and excitement with me. it was a time that won't happen again for the youth today is not innocent like we were back then.
 
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