Is there anything that marks DL as a gay site anymore?

Personally I love the elder gay soap threads

The discussions about cruising for sex

DL as a gay site died out several years ago. Now it's an elementary school playground full of shrieking, badly-behaved children.

Can we get a new P&G thread? The current one is murieled and has been for a few days now.

We can save it by posting cock shots in all threads.

I think that is key.

They can't put back W&W because people learned how to game the system and put idiotic rightwing and racist shit on the sidebar.

I do think big hard cocks need to be mandatory on all threads, though, especially political ones.

That being called fat is the worst insult you can hurl here.

This should ‘gay it up’ a little.

They really need to do away with "W&W" entirely, as I see a lot of posters WWing their own posts, nanoseconds after posting. (You're not fooling anyone, ladies.) Overall, the content here is nowhere near as genuinely witty, inventive, and transgressive as it was a decade or so ago. It's just not.

And they should bring back red tags for the more offensive trolls (like racists and misogynists). Public shaming is hugely undervalued, IMHO.

WW just means "like" now, and yeah, considering the trolls have figured out a way to give themselves 85 WWs for saying alt-right QAnon crap, I think it's time to retire it. I think the system credits posters who get a lot of WWs so that means even if they get FFed a lot, all their self-given WWs outweigh it.

But Ivanka husband send me hiere! I stay to see picture of cock, no poosey like Ivanka husband have. Also, good advice for cream for old husband private back part, so I buy and making Ivanka put in. DL is Best!

OP, Have you ever stopped to think that hot looking, physically in prime shape men appeal to straight women as well as gays? Or do you mistakenly believe that all of the readers of Playgirl back in the day were men?

Encouraging the posing of more intelligent looking studs. . .

I don't mind that some straight men and women post here, as long as they're smart and funny, it's the creepy fraus with their weird obsessions who fuck it all up.

[quote]That being called fat is the worst insult you can hurl here.

You types and smells FAT, R7. Satisfied?

The snappish hatred of women you sometimes see is very dusty, old school gay.

[Quote]Have you ever stopped to think that hot looking, physically in prime shape men appeal to straight women as well as gays?

Even the the most straight woman who is like Kinsey -6 is not as enthusiastic about a throbbing dick as a Kinsey 3 bisexual man. Instead of dick pics we should flood DL with ass and hole pics.

I nearly only post on the porn threads, so I'm doing my part

it's one of the gayest sites online. Lots of gay porn, lots of discussion about gay celebrities and tons of bitchy gossipy comments about other celebrities. It has stayed a lot gayer than other blogs like JoeMyGod which has just become a Democrat political stan site and self righteous anti religious blog

Honestly - I can do without the gay porn. If I want to see a man naked, I call one.

[quote] We can save it by posting cock shots in all threads.

To be sure, it needs to be man on man sex scenes. That will help rid the place of straight females.

R14 = Sméagol/Gollum

R18: It's the Joe Jervises of the world who helped put Trump in office without even trying.

I miss this on the homepage

"25 years of being SO much better last year"

R8, I want to have his babies.

You're forgetting about all the porn threads, the videos of guys in the shower...

Wow. I honestly never noticed that the old Datalounge header/banner was gone.

[quote]To be sure, it needs to be man on man sex scenes. That will help rid the place of straight females.

You're joking, right? There's a subset of straight women who LOVE gay porn. They're the only ones who are likely to find the DL and stick around, because the OP's premise is utterly false. There is no mistaking that this is a gay site just from the thread titles alone.

I'm charmed by the naive people who believe there are no gay right-wingers, so the right-wing threads must mean an invasion by straight trolls.

[quote] There's a subset of straight women who LOVE gay porn. They're the only ones who are likely to find the DL and stick around, because the OP's premise is utterly false.

So Della loves gay porn?

r28, a subset isn't a majority. Why do you think most Playgirl subscribers are men?

R18 But JMG has user-posted cookery tips and kitty cat photos to go with the groupthink!

R28, I'm sorry, but the lesbians, radfems, straight alt-rightie ladies, the Twilight obsessives, and half of the Froy/Mendez/D-List obsessives are not gay porn lovers.

Over the years we've had a lot of threads cleansed of the riffraff by liberal application of gay porn gifs. It's like Raid for heteros.

[quote]R32 I'm sorry, but the lesbians... are not gay porn lovers.

The lesbians in THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT (2010) like watching gay porn together (?)

I can see gay porn turning off straight men, but lesbians have seen it all.

[quote] They really need to do away with "W&W" entirely, as I see a lot of posters WWing their own posts

Only registered uses should be able to W&W and users shouldn't be able to W&W themselves.

R32 trolling

R30, it has nothing to do with Playgirl or a majority of anybody. I was responding to the suggestion that gay porn would drive off straight women. It will drive off a few, but any woman hanging out at the DL is already, of necessity, porn-tolerant. Really gross gay porn might work for your purpose, but it will also drive off many gay men.

Honestly, I don't see why it matters in most threads. Looking at the recent threads right now, I see very few where women could not have interesting contributions. Do you think they can't have worthwhile comments on Patsy Cline's death, English grammar and usage, Agatha Christie adaptations, or celebrities making a comeback?

Hell, I'd be grateful if Real Jock stopped posting ads of Greg Pitt, who was run over my a train a few years back.

***by a train

All the political bullshit drags it down. That's part of straight world, leave it out there. We're here to talk about dick size, bank accounts, sexual flings and hairdids.

r39 Political threads are boring, I know this site hates Trump, but some anons make new threads about him every 25 minutes, it's annoying.

[quote] All the political bullshit drags it down. That's part of straight world, leave it out there.

Disagree. If there are politicians out there who are anti-gay and working toward laws that hurt gays, then DL is the place to post. If you don't like to talk politics (understandable), then don't click. (Ignore function doesn't work.)

R41, this is a gay gossip site, not a political site. It's supposed to be gay, fun and bitchy, not lesbian depressing. There's plenty of depressing activist sites out there if anyone is interested. It doesn't belong everywhere in the gay universe.

i love R39

I think what we need is more "Karen" posts! Because more misogyny and racism is always good!

I love the political threads - it makes me feel like I have friends and I am not alone. I am increasingly uneasy over how many people in my life - landlord, some co-workers, some neighbors and old friends have become rabid Trumpers - it is a relief to come here and make fun of Trump..... That doesn’t mean I don’t love making fun of Joan van Ark’s plastic surgery, quoting Valley of the Dolls, talking about what books I’m reading, dialing the telephone with my pencil and dining Once Around The Garden ..... I also look forward to the Company photo at Christmastime.

Sometimes politics and bitchery intersect greatly.

[quote]Is there anything that marks DL as a gay site anymore?

The mandatory dress code (caftans and earrings, of course) helps.

r1 Me too! The mix of the serious, superficial, gossipy and intricate details in many Dallas threads is much favoured by me!

Um..

Despite the recent onslaught of fascist trolls, DL is still my favorite geigh stop on the Internet. R18 nails it about JMG, but THAT is still head and shoulders above Towleroad, which has become Censorship Central i.e. Andy Towle’s dorm room at Vassar. Keep those caftans rustling in the wind, gurrls.

There's a Madonna and Lady Gaga thread making the rounds today.

So, that's pretty gay.

Datalounge Forever Gay.

The best thing about this site is the lack of censorship.

The worst thing about this site is the propensity of "anti-fascists" calling for censorship of other opinions than their own, and labeling everyone "trolls“, or "boris".

Right wing whatever people do not "troll" gay sites for fun.

You are boring and dumb.

Yes, R35, you're the one starting threads about how "repellant" [sic] Charlotte Rampling is, but it's everyone else who's a troll.

We currently have a Patsy Cline thread where two posters are going at it because one made a grammar mistake and didn't like being "Oh deared"..

Andy Towle is a hack. When he wrote that book about the 80s, he made fun of Soleil Moon Frye getting a boob job at 16. What he failed to mention is that her condition that caused her to need such a boob job actually had a name that I do not remember.

R9 I would’ve WW’d your post but somehow that didn’t seem right.

R54, I started the Rampling thread and this is my first post on this thread, I believe. I don't think I'm a troll. I just happened to see a Rampling film the other day and was musing about her.

No desire to offend anyone. I enjoyed reading what others thought about her and agreed occasionally.

No.

Women now outnumber gay men here.

Posting endless porn gifs seemed to get rid of the Twilighters

The political and race-baiting threads haven't completely destroyed Datalounge. There are still some great threads and discussions that pop up.

I also enjoy the eldergay soap threads. I enjoy the threads which celebrate Hollywood royalty, like the current one about Jane Fonda vs. Barbra Streisand. And although I have been a lifelong fan of Madonna's, I enjoy the Madonna-bashing threads because, frankly, there is nothing that is being in said in them that she hasn't deserved. I just find they become less enjoyable when Janbot pops up.

But nothing beats a great film, music or book thread on DL.

Streisand wins on a count of bringing a homosexual into the world.

You mean THIS Christmas photo, R45?

This place is now covered in hysterical fraus and lesbians. A sample:

[quote] Yikes. Hope authorities catch up with [R--107]/[R--110] before they inevitably end up murdering a camgirl or several in cold blood. That elevated level of incel delusion and bitter supremacist vitriol can’t bode well for hookers and Thai brides worldwide...:/ And there is no way that poster is a gay man, either. @Muriel can we have a more watertight filter to prevent the influx of creepster straight men? These days you can’t swing a fucking kitten in here without hitting some rabid mouth-breathing hetero zombie. If any do stray in from now on, on detection they should directly be fed to the trolls and the verified posters for brunch.

The above is typical of the posting quality of the dyke community. They have no wit or wisdom, immediately call anyone they suspect of being a man an "incel" or "small dick" (why would having a small dick prove how worthless someone is to a bunch of women that 1) have no dicks and 2) claim to hate dicks?! And why would a lack of sex be so shameful to a lesbian? We all know that dykes have no sex life), avoid any reasoned debate, and then call for men to be banned from DL when they hear an unpleasant cliche or fact that they "feel" connects too closely to them.

Ugh.

Why are there lesbians and fraus all over this site, demanding that gay men be banned? Shove it, fish.

Speaking of gay hallmarks: what's the best current closeted gay Hollywood thread? Links!

R64 You’re right. Absolutely humorless and dreary. They are ruining this board.

Gigantomastia, R56. Same as Trump.

Good morning from the Datalounge.

make up your minds. you either want to be part of the rest of the world and be accepted and be able to have the rights of straight people and be a part of the mainstream or you want to keep to yourselves and keep the rest of the world out and then cry because you aren't being accepted. You can't have it both ways.

R69, this isn't about 'the real world' it's about this site. A queen's gotta have somewhere where they can critique dick pics and the peaks and troughs of Debra Winger's career without putting up with the banal observations of straight people.

^^ yessss

Nice.

Gay. Gay sex. Dicks. Homo. Penis. This should scare the fraus and lesbians away.

[quote] They really need to do away with "W&W" entirely, as I see a lot of posters WWing their own posts, nanoseconds after posting.

Get a hobby.

I think it's weird to assume gay porn, sex, or dick pics will keep lesbians or fraus away. Lesbians don't care and the fraus obviously find it fascinating somehow or they wouldn't stick around. If the feel good in our bars where in some porn is on the screen at the bar and jaw flap away regardless, it ain't gonna get rid of them on an anonymous board.