MAINE - A new gay colony?

It's gorgeous. I envy those who live there.

Is Bar Harbor similar to Beverly Hills?

I take it that contemporary architecture isn't big there, is it? Hmm...

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Abusive top kills sweet bottom. Terrible.

Well he was polite enough to clean up his mess. Why linger in prison at tax payers expense?

if you can get rid of the psychotic governor

That's horrible. The top/murderer was a corrections officer — warning signal?

With global warming why isn't Maine full already

This is Mrs. Norman MAINE...

The top was hot and the bottom was cute. I guess Maine has decent gay guys... I mean by looks or whatever.

The coldest temp I've experienced in 30 years was a few of years ago in Ogunquit the weekend after Thanksgiving (it was 2013 - I remember that murder happening right after we were there). So cold it made my bones hurt.

Details. The top, Milliner (prison guard) was from Colorado

If like 50,000 Democratic gay guys moved there, would it make the state blue? I could become a trend.

All of the people I know who have homes in Maine only live there doing the summer months. The winters are brutal and the people who stay there during those months drink a lot. Also, the coastline is really lovely. But, go inland a few miles and its scary- very much like the mountains of West Virginia. The more isolated areas are often wild, scenic and full of crazies.. Sad about the guys-

See, stories like that make me nervous about getting way deep with another guy. Especially if he's kind of ... rougher.

Did Jessica Fletcher solve the murder?

Top: prison guard

Bottom: nurse

I can't imagine that the supposed bottom was actually the top.

[quote]The more isolated areas are often wild, scenic and full of crazies..

Known as MAINIACS.

R20, that's awful. Thanks a lot.

[quote]Once you have your trophy bear, we will skin, quarter and freeze it for you. We can also make arrangements for you with an excellent taxidermist (a deposit is required for this service, contact us for details). Examples of his work can be seen at our home and around the lodge.

Has Stephen King ever written a gay horror story?

We should all go there and vote out of office Susan Collins. The biggest Republican of all.

I'd love to buy thousands of acres and protect its animals from hunters etc. With well-paid, hot guards. Just keep it wild and free — but with high-tech monitoring equipment (e.g., face recognition-equipped cameras to provide evidence of trespassing, etc.).

R25, oh yeah, I forgot to add that to the OP. That's the main point -- turning the state blue and getting rid of Collins -- from the Kavanaugh gang rape victim thread.

Apparently:

[quote]The Maine bear harvest hasn't met objectives since 2005. State biologists have estimated that Maine's black bear population is more than 30,000, and to stabilize that population, an annual harvest of 4,500 bears is needed.10 Jul 2014

R28, interesting. Wish they'd try birth control (e.g., neutering some of them). Sad.

you also risk being shot to death in your own backyard

It's way too cold to live there.

Here's a followup to that horrible story at r30

[quote]I could become a trend.

Don't flatter yourself, R14.

Maine can thank independent candidates taking votes from the Democratic candidates in electing Paul Lepage - a republican tea-party candidate. Lets not forget that the people of Maine voted FOR marriage equality...

Portland is great. Ogunquit is lovely, albeit getting crowded out. The rest of Maine - see r15, r19 and r20.

Mainiacs.

Stephen King chose Maine as the setting for most of his novels - FOR A REASON!

Most of the cities and towns in Maine are so small that it'd be easy to build up a gay population large enough to have political and economic influence. That's the plus.

The minus is the fucking Maine winters! Gays aren't going to retire there.

Has anyone read Carolyn Chute's "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" from about thirty years ago? Or seen the movie? You might want to before moving there because not much has changed. The rural poverty away from the coast (and on it, too) is at the level of Appalachia. Portland is a small city with good restaurants, Bangor is like the last stop before the wilderness, Ogunquit's not as gay as it once was, and Bar Harbor is overrun with cruise ship tourists. There are huge drug problems, Paul LePage (the governor) is a lunatic. Susan Collins is a weasel. Recreational weed was legalized by a referendum in 2016 but it's still not sold in the stores - maybe next year. And the winters are long, bone-chillingly cold, and grind down your soul.

Martha's summer place (it used to belong to Edsel Ford) on Mt. Desert Island is not typical.

OP's article is from 2010.

[quote]Stephen King chose Maine as the setting for most of his novels - FOR A REASON!

Because he lives there?

[quote]Has anyone read Carolyn Chute's "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" from about thirty years ago?

Yes! Ohmygawd, what a compelling and sad read, but full of crazy humor at the same time. My work friends and I all read it in 1988 or so, passing it around enthusiastically. I still find it one of the best novels I've ever read, and amazingly, this was Ms. Chute's debut novel. I had no desire to see the film, as I just couldn't imagine how this delicate tale could even be made into a movie.

Sadly, her follow-up book "Latourneau's Used Auto Parts" was no where near as involving, I don't even think I got all the way through it.

Wait- the victim was 22 and they went to an equal rights rally 6 years ago as a couple? If they were lovers, doesn't that make the killer a pedophile too? Not that it matters now but it does say something about him. I imagine the gay population consists of more dykes than gay men. They are tougher and can brave the winters better

The top was a scumbag for killing that sweet guy.

Maine has lovely summers, especially compared to the rest of the Atlantic Seaboard. Cooler, less humid, gorgeous forests, hills, and beaches. - BUT - the insects are not to be believed. Mosquitoes, deer flies, black flies, no see ums.......and the list goes on. Every different kind bites in some horrible way. Was never there in winter, but most of Maine averages over 60 inches of snow each winter.....that's a lot. Some parts average over 100 inches each winter.

I heard about some guy in a town called Collinsport who can really suck you dry.

The Hillhouse Inn was well known for its excellent cottaging and wide glory hole's. Our Sheriff, Amos Tupper, turned a blind eye because he'd be seen frequenting the cruising area out back along with our esteemed Mayor (out walking his Lhasa Alpo) and sometimes (you didn't hear this from me!) Dr Seth Hazlitt!

Jessica isn't the only one who knows what's what in Cabot Cove! I'm open minded though and have a lovely selection of fine properties for you boys to come see if a quiet little town where very little happens tickles your fancy. I'm also not opposed to the occasional threesome if you're cute! (and girthy!)

R42 There was no pedophilia involved in that case. They worked on the marriage equality campaign in 2012, and the murder/suicide happened in 2013. The murder victim was 22 when he died, so he would have been 20 or 21 when they met the year before.

Most of the gay people of New England move here to Portland, because Boston and NYC are too expensive, and their own hometowns are not accepting. That's why Portland is very gay.

Most people do live here year round, and they swear they are moving out, all throughout the winter. But then the spring and summer and fall come, and it's beautiful, so we forget about the winter.

Also a lively drag scene, with several transgendered people. Many many lesbians as well. Sadly, there is currently only one gay bar left, Blackstone's. The other three gay bars that we used to have became straight-ified or closed down. A fun side trip for us is 20 minutes away - to Ogunquit, where it's a livelier scene.

Yes, we like our booze here, beer especially. Keeps us warm in the winter. Very unpretentious city for the most part, yet sadly not very worldly or curious either. We often wonder why anyone ever would want to leave Maine, and get bored with sophisticated topics.

Also, we all know each other, so we've either all had sex with one another at one point or other, and/or dated, and the dating pool is still too small - you can't just meet any new people, because as soon as they move here, they get scooped up by one of the many cliques or by an aggressive monogamist within ten minutes. We really could use more new blood here, but the jobs/economy situation is sub- optimal.

Born and raised here. Happy to answer any questions.

You don't really care for people from "away," do you, Your Majesty?

Anyone is free to move here. Like I said, we welcome new blood...you just need to kind of fit into the Maine way. Not my view, personally, but that's the prevailing sentiment.

The murder-masturbators are ruining this thread. Grisly murders happen everywhere, and you death-obsessed queens constantly post about it here. It's your porn.

How’s the vegan food, Portland Queen?

Yeah, how's the vegan scene?

Yes, Maine is nasty. Lived there for 6 years and everything someone upthread said about the interior is correct. Avoid the hell out of it and even as a tourist. They love to rip people off.

I was there when this woman was shot and killed and yes, watched how the native Mainers treated that family as 'outsiders' and isolated them with their 'Maine ways.' I've lived in NE all my life and I was shocked at how they treated that poor family as if it were her fault. There were other reasons I left, but the people and how they treat who they perceive as 'outsiders' was the primary reason.

I wouldn't spend one red cent in that state.

Witness R50 tell people they have to 'act' a certain way or that 'anyone is free to move here as long as....'

They also vote in assholes like LePage and Collins.

You don't have to listen to anyone who's lived there to to figure it out.

I'm reading this in a gay haven: Ogunquit. The beach is horrible! A huge barren mudflat that is inaccessible but for very few and far between stairways (e. g., at The Norseman)! And without a car, you'll find the walk from, say, Shore Road farther than your resort host will tell you.

Give me Kennebunkport or Boothbay!

I’ll take landlocked Vermont over Maine. The coast is so wildly random that it’s hard to access and get a decent view - a lot of its private and inaccessible. Visited a few times. No where I would bother going back to. The people were cold -and the election of LePage confirms the abundance of Deplorables.

The thing about Maine is that it's one of the few areas in the eastern US that's lightly populated. The largest city, Portland, has about 60,000 people, which is considered a town where I come from. There's nothing in Maine except a couple of towns large enough to call themselves cities for lack of competition, small towns, and scattered depolorables. That's why the inland deplorables make up the majority of the population and vote in these loons, there's enough of them out lurking in the woods to outnumber the civilized people on the coast - probably a million of them given a total official population of 1.34 million.

It would be easy to turn individual towns into gay enclaves there, because most of the coastal towns are so small that a few hundred new residents could change its character. Same for a few thousand gays in Portland. But the state government is always going to be controlled by the inland populations.

Greater Portland is half a million people, R58. As is typical of cities in New England, Portland's city limits are very tight, and a lot of the twenty square miles of Portland's land area is taken up by the CBD and historic district. If you've been there, you know that driving more than a few minutes in any direction takes you out of Portland proper and into one of the many adjacent cities/suburbs.

The "inland population" is also not monolithic. There are college towns like Lewiston, Waterville, Augusta and Bangor that regularly vote Democratic, and are the main reason why the second district swings between Democrats and Republicans.

I'm underwhelmed by your drive-by demographic analysis.