How did you find Datalounge?

I was looking for a white belt for a man.

Don't remember

from either a gay bbs (delos? beeline? or maybe the annex - it was less gay, adult, attracted a lot of industry.. so, that was just a drink or a gig away fromg ay) in the greater Los Angeles area...

A friend told me about it back in the 90s. Forgot about it until I remembered and did a search.

Datalounge found me.

I was googling some 80s public access tv shows such as “Mrs. Mouth”, then returned by accident while looking for info about the legendary Sondra Prill. Stayed for good

This evil witch wasn't invited to my christening, so she cursed me and I ended up here.

Looking for info on Lucy and Desi's relationship

Someone mentioned it on an early iteration of Manvox in the late 90s. I've been here since.

I got drunk one night and the next morning DataLounge was there in bed with me smoking a cigarette. That's all I remember

I was typing in that gonorrhea rumor of that one marvel star and a thread from here was suggested by my search engine.

I forget what or who I was googling about 17 yrs ago, and it brought me here. I love this site. However, I've only started commenting in the last year. I do really enjoy reading the different threads, and its helped me a lot too.

I’m not sure, but what I do know is that a Datalounge thread appears in about 25% of the results for my Google searches.

I have some esoteric tastes that seem to match well here.

I was looking for a speeder that I really liked with an open cockpit and the right speed capabilities. Googling for that led me here.

A work colleague recommended it in probably early 2005. He particularly cited the witticisms on the Scott Peterson case.

I work in academia.

I defintely was googling some actor to see if he was gay. This is about 2013. The thread I discovered was hilarious. Somehow two queens started bickering over Britney Spears in the thread of this C-list actor whom I can't remember.

I swear about 10 years ago I googled “Whitney Houston Hot Mess” and up came data lounge. It was love at first sight.

Late, late ‘90s or very early aughts. Probably chasing down gossip about the gayness of some actor or other.

"Rate-a-Rod" website around 2000.

One of the rod owners said this was a favored site. Been here since.

Rod owners?

And what kept is that my intellectual gays made some very insightful commentary about politics and world affairs. Things would often get heated but nowhere near as polarized as they are now. And now even many of the liberals have gotten quasi racist but they're only reacting to the obnoxiousness of black Twitter. God, I miss the pre-Trump days.

I think I made a few visits before I figured what this place was exactly.

Tommy Kirk's death brought some very vague statements (not necessarily prurient material) about him online and in the papers, material which I was curious to get some clarity on. I had a vague notion of DL's habitués' knowledge and experience with Hollywood figures, and thought there might be someone here who had been a friend or colleague of his, someone with a well-grounded anecdote, who could provide some detail large or small. Still waiting for [italic] that [/italic] to pan out; but the wisdom, wit, insight, and (sometimes) kindness here are addicting.

April 2011, googling if Tom Cruise was mentally ill. Arrived here, took a look around and then never left.

I got kicked off Twitter, DataLounge took me in 😢

Why did you get kicked off Twitter, R25?

^ I told a MAGAt to "blow it out his butt"... Twitter said I was advocating violence, blah, blah... Derp 😠

I'm ashamed to admit i used to be a CDAN devotee. Somehow or another, someone must have linked to here in a comment and when i followed the link, took a look around and decided I liked the cut of DL's jib. Been here for 10 years now.

I took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

I found it as a teenager (20+ years ago) while researching something obscure and since-forgotten relating to old gay Hollywood. Came for the information and stayed for the humor. Back then there were few websites that neatly (and cuntily) curated so many of my interests.

I was searching (shall we say, “versatile”) caftan patterns.

I heard voices

I was an aficionado of The Wonkette (not for years now, though) and she mentioned DL in her column. It was 2004. Stopped by for the wit, even now while it's sh -- oh, never mind.

But truth be told, it really was much better then.

I just worked a night shift in the village and got drunk after. I lost my shoe and only subway token back home. So, I walked all the way from East Village to 49th and 9th, a fuckin' long walk with a headache and one shoe. I finally got to the traffic light at 49th and this black, drag hooker was standing next to me looking me up and down. She says to me, "You better move your white ass, bitch! This here's my corner!"

I crossed the street feeling rejected by a drag hooker when the phone rang in the the booth. I figured 'what the heck... what could be worse than tonight?' I answered the phone and the voice said, "For a Good Time, go to Datalounge.Com! You won't regret it!!!"

^^r34 I thought you were going to tell us you ran into J. Peterman while wandering about in a drunken haze and he took you home and introduced you to the earthly delight that is DL!

I noticed that an increasing number of my Google searches led back to Datalounge, so I decided to hang out and explore. I was hooked.

I had just read a story somewhere in which Jake Gyllenhaal stated that he was never going to show his dick in a movie. It was early in 2013, and I googled "Jake Gyllenhaal penis" or "Jake Gyllenhaal cock."

I didn't find any dick pics, at least not any real ones, but I did find other gay men with the same interest here at DL, and I decided to stay.

2007 - I wanted to read about bisexual film star Alan Bates - I was reading a rather depressing biography about him that had just been published I think the gurls were talking about it (hardly surprising) - and a number of obscure things that seemed to interest me - ALSO. v. fun fact -the Diana Scream video had just been posted for the very first time - so it was an historic day for two reasons.

There was a fantastic archive in those days - you could look up anything all the way back to the beginning.

It was the first GAY place on the internet I found that didn't focus in the heavy side of gay, on AIDS and recent gay-bashings and the rest - people wanted to make each other laugh more than anything. Anyway, I fitted right in and never left.

It was very different in those days. They were always saying "You'll get flamed for this!" and the big shame was to be a "newbie!" - new people were TOTALLY ignored especially if they revealed themselves or if they asked what some odd word or expression meant. The gurls were OBSESSED with spelling and grammar. OBSESSED. If you blundered you might get 13 or 14 posts tearing your post apart. And obsessed with ESTs - and would determine at GREAT length over dozens of posts as to whether a post was an EST or not. Everyone was always calling everyone a freeper, that was the other big insult...bit like "troll" now.

Passed out in her own vomit with a bleeding anus in the backroom of the Mineshaft

Sorry that sounds all rather negative - the positives - much maturer, it was dominated by the eldergays which I loved, I've aways been more interested in older people for company. I think it was much wittier (those eldergays had really known suffering, so the jokes came fast and furious).

Things moved much faster. We had pages and most people just read the top 50 posts on the first page. It was more like a hit parade or a pop chart - that's why people bitching about your spelling if you were an OP helped a lot because they bumped your post onto the first page.

Also anyone could just turn up and post, so you'd get violently homophobic posters turn up in the middle of some thread about soup or something. People would step over them like a dog turd - you'd be berated if you responded to a homophobe, but I often couldn't resist it.

I think it was in Cmbyn era when I was googling Armie the Cannibal or Timothee or both.

I've been here off and on since it was the Out.com forum. I moved over to Is He/She Gay? in the late '90s, then came back to DL after the fighting started at ISHG regarding ownership of the board.

I didn’t, like, scratch my ass and boom DL. Of course not!

I kept seeing in mentioned on a Daytime Dish spoiler/gossip thread. (2006)

I was a regular poster at IMDb. Often resorting to internet searches to try to verify various claims, especially regarding whether or not an actor was or wasn't gay, I kept encountering Datalounge in the search results. After a few years, I became curious and browsed a few threads. But the place never really interested me until after the demise of the IMDb message boards.

I was googling Tony Geary from General Hospital. It was around the time he left GH so six or seven years ago. I think six/seven years makes me a newbie here compared to some of you.

I was looking up the gay rumours about two young stars from General Hospital - Lucky and Nicholas.

[quote]How did you find Datalounge?

In a drunken stupor.

Basically I gave up social media that is designed to divide people. I often find sites that way but this one is the most heartwarming, relatable and humorously interactive. The aspect that I recall is registering, but the original reason is not retrievable via my memory.

I discovered DL back in 2018 looking for real names of some Corbin Fisher models. Then I fully engaged to the site by 2020 reading threads regarding Aaron Rodgers, lol.

Googling Vivian Vance.

Man I'm old. Believe it or not, it was a frau forum on Google groups back in the early 2000s (2002 or 2003). It was a celebrity Gossip Google sub group and a great was a moderator and a celebrity's sexuality was being discussed. I don't remember whom they were discussing, but the moderator was very disappointed, she said something kind of life "sadly, I think he is gay, they're discussing him on Datalounge". I was like what is that? So I googled it and I found on the homepage the 9/11 thread so being discussed and I started the and read every single page on that thread. And I was hooked. This is where I discovered terms like troll, queen, fag, cunt, dyke being used cavalierly and gratuitously but not in a derogatory way. I'm black so the racism did bother me, the "please don't let them be black" and "simian" comments on crime threads upset me a lot but I take it for what it is, a huh of all kinds of LGBTQ folks, even the racist ones.

Tuened left at Greenland.

Pre-9/11, I heard somewhere that Wendy Williams was outing celebrities on her radio show and I wanted to read about it, and a search led me here; I haven’t left since.

Pretty sure I was googling to see if a certain celeb had gay rumors but I can’t for the life of me remember who the celeb was.

The Datalounge thanks you for your service r54!

I was here very early on, like 94 or 95. I think I heard about it in an AOL Chat room or an alt-gossip site. The topic was always about gay celebrities and big dicks.

A friend told me to check it out. I did, I liked it, so I stayed.

Defamer during the early years of Gawker mentioned Datalounge in connection with something salacious and snarky. Visited. Laughed my ass off frequently even while at my desk during work. Never left.

[Quote]I was looking for a white belt for a man.

I was looking for a white man with a belt.

I was looking for a romance novel featuring Lindsay Graham.

Seeing Cheyenne Jackson in a muscle-slut shirt, complete with hoochie-daddy Xanadu shorts on The View way back in 2007. I took to the Google to find more video of him in the shorts, and here I landed to find you bitches talking shit about him. Never left.

I was searching Hedda Hopper at Duck Duck Go. DL threads were among results.

What's a "Duck Duck Go"?

^ Alt search engine

I used to see references to DL on a voy.com message board known as IHSG? (Is He She Gay?), which back in the day was actually a better board for info on minor celebrities, local news anchors, weatherbois, and daytime soap opera actors, etc.

A friend told me about it a number of years ago, but I didn't join until April of 2020 after I started working remotely.

I read something about it... I think it was a reference on Gawker - one or two sentences - the gossiping boys over at Datalounge behaving badly... It was gays, gossip and DL, I recall that much.

I don’t remember what I was searching but the threads regarding the affair between Arnold Schwarzenegger and his housekeeper were referenced in my Google results. I was intrigued and clicked on the link and found a hilarious thread and never laughed so hard in my life.

I was looking for information on a General / Secty of Defense James Mattis and DL links popped up.

There was a long thread about the show I was on at the time. I stuck around.

I used to read the Usenet group alt.showbiz.gossip a lot back in the late '90s and early '00s. There was a thread discussing rumors about Christina Aguilera hooking up with women and DataLounge was the source of the rumors (this was back in 2002, when this site had gossip like this posted daily). I searched for the site and haven't left since.

[quote]There was a long thread about the show I was on at the time. I stuck around.

Did they talk about YOU? What did they say?

[quote]I was intrigued and clicked on the link and found a hilarious thread and never laughed so hard in my life.

That [italic]was[/italic] a long time ago. Sad face emoticon.

[quote]Did they talk about YOU? What did they say?

It's DL, it wasn't exactly positive about the show or me. It was fun to read about all of the people who had apparently slept with me.

^ Tom Villard, back from the dead.

When did people start saying "addicting" instead of "addictive"? I think it happened around the type "casted" became acceptable, so within the last decade.

The worst one is "dropped" - apparently you don't release a new movie or song, no, you drop it.

Discovered it when looking at book reviews (of all things). Took me a while to realise it is a gay man's website predominantly (I get there eventually). Enjoy the discussions, snark and warmth so been here ever since!

A mention in Entertainment Weekly.

R80 What? When?

I was reading everything I could about Barbara Payton and DL had multiple threads. “I’m Not Ashamed” should be on the DL required reading list.

Searched for information on a gay actor and was captivated by the site. Made it part of my daily routine.

This is the "sexy" chubster y'all want to fuck y'all?

In the early 2000's, one of my best friends sheepishly told me about 'this site I go to' because there was something here he knew I'd love. After I showed up here I was furious that he'd kept this oasis of wit and wisdom from me for yeeeeaaaars! I have turned so many guys onto this site. There really is nothing like it.

A reference in Michael Musto’s column in the Voice. Thank you Michael!

2000. Looking for which boy band members were gay.

I came here googling for gossip on Daniel Craig.

I googled "real name chris steele gay porn", and this link from 2010 was the top result.

As an aside, Chris Steele's real name is "Jan Milstead".

I didn’t. It found me.

I can't remember at all. It's like an episode of The Twilight Zone.

In 1997 or 1998 I was searching for info on AIDs symptoms and the latest news on HIV because I was concerned about a friend. This was when DL was an all-purpose website with sections on health, politics, etc. From there I stumbled onto its forums. I think there were just 2 but I can't remember anymore.

During the mid 90s, I wound up on DL by following a link from either the Television without Pity or Fametracker forums.

I was obsessed with all 3 sites, now only DL remains.

I think I googled hot, naked athletes, and it brought me here.

Same way as a lot of previous posters. My internet searches kept turning up DL hits. At first, I was repelled and clutching pearls reading the DL threads. DL is hilarious, smart, random (in a good way), & yes, sophisticated. I actually like the care that goes into spelling and grammar. DL is a cut above a lot of sites. I like that it's mostly anonymous. I found that in sites where everybody has a handle / avatar, people actually form cliques. I hate that. There are enough cliques in "real life."

I was looking for reviews of Brokeback Mountain, and was lassoed in here.

[R64] It’s a search engine.

Ted Casablanca mentioned it in Premiere Magazine. I had to see for myself.

Hell's Kitchen was overrun with whores...and it led here.

Googling for more clues about a celebrity gossip blind item. I loved it so much here I don't bother with the other site anymore.

I hadn't seen Phantom Thread but couldn't wrap my mind around what it could be about. Was Daniel Day Lewis supposed to be gay? How could he not be? The search led me to a DL thread that showed a picture of DDL next to Jennifer Connolly. A Separated at Birth type picture. Who posted that?

Discovered this site around 2015, doing a google search on old rock stars. I wish I had found DL years earlier.

March 2014 searching for overlooked, underappreciated films. DL was the second link. I always believed that I could never do committed relationships. Yet 8+ years later, I'm still here.

The word combo of pointless bitchery was like a neon sign.

alt.gossip.celebrities

I have been here since 98. There was nowhere to go on 9/11/2001, and I came here, I posted in the legendary thread, but none of the memorable ones. The whole thread was that day for me, interspersed with non-stop television news.

“Butterscotch Stallion”

I was searching for the latest in caftan fashions.

Some people forget about the “pointless bitchery” aspect of DL. There’s always someone in a thread saying why does anyone care, I’m indifferent or some other bullshit. But here ya are, Blanche.

Started watching episodes of “What’s My Line?” in 2016 and a Google search for Dorothy Kilgallen led me here.

Chinless wonder.

2009 when a friend told me about it. It got me through some dark times.

However, DL threads have come up in some of my Google searches so I would have found it anyway.

DL shows up in your Google searches because you visit DL.

ESCANDALES!

I spent a lot of time on the Style.com boards in the late 90s and there were several references to DL.

People on manvox were talking about it.

Ages ago I saw the site url written out on a grimy, men's bathroom wall underneath some graffiti describing the cock size of a male celebrity. Alas I can no longer remember which celeb was cited in the graffiti. I guess urls are the new "for a good time call..." bathroom wall scribbles!

Earrings. Caftans.

Someone made the mistake of running speech to text on data lounge and a bird picked up some jokey comments , so there are birds on dl

Someone told me about it. I've been on here since sometime in the 90's but not sure. When did computers arrive with AOL? I also have had only email account since there was email and its an AOL account.

I was first referred here from the old Atkol gay porn forum.

In 1997 I was a much younger lez. My wife and I had just bought our first home computer and I had left my previous job to work in a different department. The gay male co-worker training me and I were talking about how computers had changed life. I mentioned the MSN discussion forums that I had found, which included a gay and lesbian one. He was unimpressed and introduced me to DataLounge. (FWIW it was an inappropriate site to be visiting at work even then, but there were no pictures at the time and DIAGF was still to come so not quite the level of inappropriate it is now.) I mostly lurked for the first two decades.

Looking for intelligent message boards. Ok, mostly. Alright, alright, some.

Googling some old ass film, don't remember which

R10, who topped??

My gay BFF turned me on to it in the late 90s.

1999, I was reading a gossip forum and on a thread about Kevin spacey someone linked to DL. Been here ever since.

I was googling if an obscure actor was gay and couldn’t find the goss anywhere else. Google recommended a snarky DL thread. The snark, the humour has kept me addicted to DL.

In 2013, Googling rumors about Henry Cavill being gay 🤣 . I now check several times a day and have gotten strange looks when I bust out laughing in public. I've learned so much.

Came from a soap opera site and never left. Like other posters, became addicted to all the snark and gossip. It's a wonder I'm not dead from a grease fire....lol.

I found it to be a shockingly terse, frank and "totally lacking manners or redeeming quality" website. I am astonished that I hung around here. It is truly a stinking pile of horse-shit, just as it advertises itself.