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Probably the only time I've ever agreed with Laura Ingraham was when she mocked Meghan McCain as a Valley girl gone awry.

I support the use of a neutral singular pronoun.
I have problems with the redefinition of they/them/theirs to accomplish this. Pronouns must be clear about the number of nouns they are standing in for. 
“It/It/its is dehumanizing, obviously. 
The English language has developed hundreds, if not thousands of words referring to human genitalia.
We can’t invent a new pronoun?

Does Rentmen not even care that they have an advertiser changing names every other hour?

I've been watching each night since Tuesday...at least for a little while.  Friday was the busiest night as far as number of dancers goes.  Most the guys were returning former dancers (Jay, Pauly, Adrian, Marco, Kyle, Frank, Zach, Ronny) plus a few mostly forgettable new guys.  Most of the returning dancers are not in as good of shape as before...which is understandable.  Gyms were closed for many months.  Alex the bartender is back but the rest of the bartenders I saw seemed new to me.  Former dancer Tommy seems to be the new manager.  He was there each night but didn't dance.  
It was hard to tell how busy the bar was as the camera didn't pan around the room whilst I was watching.  I'm sure it will take a few weeks for them to get back into the groove.  If I was in Canada, I would definitely plan on going.   

Current border restrictions extended until July 21.  I'm still hoping for some loosening on the rules for US passport holders getting into Canada.  Maybe late July/early August.
 
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/06/18/us-canada-border-restrictions-extended/7745459002/

I agree.  The border re-opening will be a slow process.  I don't blame Canada for wanting to be cautious.  Relative to the US, it handled the COVID situation much better during 2020.  With the exception of amping up the development of vaccines, the US management of the pandemic was awful in 2020.  Thankfully the person largely responsible for that is no longer in office.
I have maintained for months that the re-opening will occur in the July - September timeframe.  Do you feel that is too optimistic?

What a fun thread!
My first trip was in the summer of 1974.  I went to the UK with my mother for 3 or 4 weeks...I had just turned 15 a few weeks before the trip.  We were in the UK when Cass Elliott died there and we were still there when Nixon resigned.  Even the flight over was exciting for me...a Pan Am 747.  I had flown before but never long-haul  and never on a 747.  I doubt I slept a wink on the entire flight to LHR.
We spent time in London and also went to Edinburgh, Wales, and Dublin.  I remember the ferry crossing from Wales to Ireland was during a storm and it was very rough!  I met cousins on the trip that I continue to see to this day.  Just waiting for borders to re-open in order to get back over there.   I love traveling to the UK between mid-September and mid-October.  

What a fun thread!
My first trip was in the summer of 1974.  I went to the UK with my mother for 3 or 4 weeks...I had just turned 15 a few weeks before the trip.  We were in the UK when Cass Elliott died there and we were still there when Nixon resigned.  Even the flight over was exciting for me...a Pan Am 747.  I had flown before but never long-haul  and never on a 747.  I doubt I slept a wink on the entire flight to LHR.
We spent time in London and also went to Edinburgh, Wales, and Dublin.  I remember the ferry crossing from Wales to Ireland was during a storm and it was very rough!  I met cousins on the trip that I continue to see to this day.  Just waiting for borders to re-open in order to get back over there.   I love traveling to the UK between mid-September and mid-October.  

What a fun thread!
My first trip was in the summer of 1974.  I went to the UK with my mother for 3 or 4 weeks...I had just turned 15 a few weeks before the trip.  We were in the UK when Cass Elliott died there and we were still there when Nixon resigned.  Even the flight over was exciting for me...a Pan Am 747.  I had flown before but never long-haul  and never on a 747.  I doubt I slept a wink on the entire flight to LHR.
We spent time in London and also went to Edinburgh, Wales, and Dublin.  I remember the ferry crossing from Wales to Ireland was during a storm and it was very rough!  I met cousins on the trip that I continue to see to this day.  Just waiting for borders to re-open in order to get back over there.   I love traveling to the UK between mid-September and mid-October.  

my Dad was an airline captain (TWA) and so we had passes....first European trip for me was in 1969 at age 6......only Germany and Austria, I think.......the entire family was on one passport, I think...
I remember emerging from low clouds as we landed at Frankfurt and noting how all the buildings seemed to look old, uniformly dark brown, and a couple or three stories......I got lost in downtown Munich one busy evening (lost a parent's grip) and a German woman came up to me as I wandered the busy streets and started asking me a bunch of stuff in German....all I could do was nod "yes" to everything she asked me and I was finally let go and made my way back to the hotel (always have been good with navigation)....I asked the desk clerk about my parents and he said to just wait in the lobby....a few minutes later, while my Dad was still out looking, my Mom and younger brother came in and all was concluded.......
we all went skiing with other airline friends at Kitzbuhel in Austria - my first time on skis......I do remember being a bit of a brat during the ski lesson one day (several of us of various ages at the lesson) and taking off down the slope at full speed out of control....the instructor caught up with me - and I don't remember what happened next (I think I went back to the lesson??)......they gave out medals to all the ski students at the end of the week and I remember getting the lowest of the possible ranks......still have the medal somewhere around here.....   

I beat you guys by 7 years.  Flew to Paris (TWA) immediately following graduation;  met up with a friend who had graduated a year earlier.  Picked up a leased car (standard shift Simca) at a factory outside of Paris and had to drive back into town during rush hour through the Champs-Élysées.  Spent about 7 weeks touring all over France, Francophone Switzerland, and parts of England and Scotland.  He returned to the States from London; another friend joined me there.  We took the ferry to Belgium and spent another 7 weeks or so in Belgium, Holland, Germany,  Germano- and Italophone Switzerland, and Italy.  Somewhere I have notes of that trip....
 

You beat me to Europe for the first time by exactly two weeks! But we had very different itineraries, because I flew Icelandic Airlines (RT $218), which flew only to Luxembourg. I never got to Britain on that trip. My route was Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges, Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Bremen, Amsterdam, and Paris, back to Luxembourg and then to Reykavik on the way back to NY, all in six weeks.
I also spent my time a bit differently, since I met up in Brussels with a gay friend and traveled with him for the first 3 weeks, then stayed in Copenhagen for a week with another friend who was living there, and later met up with a third friend in Paris. During the day I saw the sights, but I had sex with local men almost every night, in bathhouses or with pick-ups from bars or the streets, in every one of the cities named above except Bremen (I needed a break).
It was a wonderful experience, so I went back frequently, even lived there occasionally, but there is something specially memorable about the first trip to Europe.
 

On this date in 1971, my younger sister and I flew to Gatwick Airport in London for our first Europe trip. The RT fare was $259. Over the next 7 weeks I spent $741, including passport, Rail Pass, food, hotels and incidentals. We had the Europe on $5 a Day book and followed it religiously. London to Scotland to Ireland. In Scotland a street sweeper asked why we were not down at Holyrood Castle. He said the Queen would be passing by as she went to Holyrood with Princess Margaret. So went down the hill and saw that pretty up close. In Ireland I kissed the Blarney Stone, thus my gift for gab.
Parisians didn't like us drinking Perrier right from the bottle, but it was so hot! We continued to Vienna and up to Denmark and The Netherlands. I hadn't yet acknowledged I was gay even to myself, but we did go see Death in Venice in Dublin, so my sister later told me that was when she began to wonder. Lots of things happened but I won't bore you.
It does seem so long ago. We surely never gave a thought to looking back 50 years later, but here we are! Yes, I have returned multiple times and would still go if COVID allowed.

Yep

Stock felt a little more sterile than usual when I stopped in last night. One drink and I left.
Stopped by Taboo- pretty good line up and the boys there are hungry and clearly have been practicing their craft during their downtime the last year- might be my new go to spot.
Alot of activity outside Expose cabaret when I passed but I didn't venture in. Any recent reports on this place? I went when they first opened and wasn't too impressed.

Sure.  I have been on three repositioning cruises (BTW, I consider transatlantic cruises to be a subset of "repositioning cruises"):
* Houston to Barcelona
* Miami to Southampton
* San Antonio Chile to San Francisco California
I think the shortest of these was 16 days and the longest was 21 days.  I also did a 23 day cruise around Asia that started in Singapore and finished in Hong Kong.  Strictly speaking, it was not a "repositioning cruise" as it didn't change continents.
They can be good value as far as the cruise price goes.  However, flight are more complicated as you start the cruise in one continent and finish in another.  One-way long haul flights can be expensive so its a good opportunity to tap into frequent flier miles if you have them.
The passenger demographic tends to be older on these cruises.  There are usually few children on-board (which is a good thing in my book).  I find the passenger group to be more interesting and educated than what you find on a standard  7-day cruise.  They are generally a well-travelled group.  Many nationalities are represented...and I consider that a plus.  I have always found there to be plenty of gay people on these cruises although I really don't seek them out specifically.  I find the piano bar area and the casino bar fun places to meet people in the evening.  I was once propositioned by a male/female British couple in the piano bar to join them for sex in their cabin.  I wasn't interested but it was fun being asked!
Some people dread sea days but I love them.  I don't care for cruises that have a new port stop each day.  I find the more relaxed pace of repositioning cruises much more restful.  There are plenty of shipboard activities to participate in to keep busy on sea days...and the casino stays open most of the day when at sea.
 
 
 

I've only recently started cruising in the last six years.  I use mainstream cruise lines and it works just fine for me.  The longer cruises attract a more interesting clientele than the standard 7-day cruises.  Transatlantic and repositioning cruises are fun.  I enjoy the sea days.
Personally, I can't imagine going on a gay cruise...particularly an RSVP-style cruise.  The thought of being locked up on a ship for seven days with a bunch of WeHo muscle Marys would make me want to slit my wrists.  LOL.  
I would encourage the OP to consider going on a mainstream cruise and make sure to attend the solo cruiser meetings (and also the LGBT meetings) on-board.  It's easy to meet folks and you will find all kinds of ages and body types.  You won't feel out of place at all.

I've only recently started cruising in the last six years.  I use mainstream cruise lines and it works just fine for me.  The longer cruises attract a more interesting clientele than the standard 7-day cruises.  Transatlantic and repositioning cruises are fun.  I enjoy the sea days.
Personally, I can't imagine going on a gay cruise...particularly an RSVP-style cruise.  The thought of being locked up on a ship for seven days with a bunch of WeHo muscle Marys would make me want to slit my wrists.  LOL.  
I would encourage the OP to consider going on a mainstream cruise and make sure to attend the solo cruiser meetings (and also the LGBT meetings) on-board.  It's easy to meet folks and you will find all kinds of ages and body types.  You won't feel out of place at all.

I've only recently started cruising in the last six years.  I use mainstream cruise lines and it works just fine for me.  The longer cruises attract a more interesting clientele than the standard 7-day cruises.  Transatlantic and repositioning cruises are fun.  I enjoy the sea days.
Personally, I can't imagine going on a gay cruise...particularly an RSVP-style cruise.  The thought of being locked up on a ship for seven days with a bunch of WeHo muscle Marys would make me want to slit my wrists.  LOL.  
I would encourage the OP to consider going on a mainstream cruise and make sure to attend the solo cruiser meetings (and also the LGBT meetings) on-board.  It's easy to meet folks and you will find all kinds of ages and body types.  You won't feel out of place at all.

I've only recently started cruising in the last six years.  I use mainstream cruise lines and it works just fine for me.  The longer cruises attract a more interesting clientele than the standard 7-day cruises.  Transatlantic and repositioning cruises are fun.  I enjoy the sea days.
Personally, I can't imagine going on a gay cruise...particularly an RSVP-style cruise.  The thought of being locked up on a ship for seven days with a bunch of WeHo muscle Marys would make me want to slit my wrists.  LOL.  
I would encourage the OP to consider going on a mainstream cruise and make sure to attend the solo cruiser meetings (and also the LGBT meetings) on-board.  It's easy to meet folks and you will find all kinds of ages and body types.  You won't feel out of place at all.

I've only recently started cruising in the last six years.  I use mainstream cruise lines and it works just fine for me.  The longer cruises attract a more interesting clientele than the standard 7-day cruises.  Transatlantic and repositioning cruises are fun.  I enjoy the sea days.
Personally, I can't imagine going on a gay cruise...particularly an RSVP-style cruise.  The thought of being locked up on a ship for seven days with a bunch of WeHo muscle Marys would make me want to slit my wrists.  LOL.  
I would encourage the OP to consider going on a mainstream cruise and make sure to attend the solo cruiser meetings (and also the LGBT meetings) on-board.  It's easy to meet folks and you will find all kinds of ages and body types.  You won't feel out of place at all.

My own encounter was not with a big celeb but he was a known TV fixture in the UK nonetheless.  I worked for a British company in the 90's and traveled to the UK 5-6 times a year for more than 10 years.   My business destination was not in London but I would spend my weekends in London and I would often stay in the Kensington area.  There was a gym in the area that several of the area hotels had a discount at so I used to go there.  I did workout, but my main interest was cruising in the sauna and steam rooms.  It was not a gay establishment...rather a pretty well-equipped gym (for UK gyms in the 90's) serving the Kensington community.  One Saturday afternoon, I was floating between the sauna, steam room, and showers of the wet area when this massive bodybuilder appeared and went into the sauna.  He was huge.  Not common in the UK in those times.   I of course followed him into the sauna.  There was no-one else around which was a lucky thing.  Long story short....I ended up sucking him off in the sauna.  It was wonderful as he had a beautiful huge cock and he was so masculine.  Only interested in getting head.   Interestingly, at the end of it all, he said something along the lines of: "we're both gonna forget this ever happened".  I answered "no problem".  I thought it was a strange comment given that no-one else saw us.  Only he and I knew it had happened and I had no idea who he was.  Anyway, his comment intrigued me even more.  
Mr huge bodybuilder changed and left the facility after the BJ.  I hung around for another hour or so.  When I left, I asked the girl at the front desk who the huge bodybuilder was.  She answered that he was one of the gladiators from the UK Gladiator show.  Sure enough, the next time I saw the Gladiators show in the UK, I recognized him immediately.  I won't reveal which one it was but, as far as I know, he lives a completely straight lifestyle.  This occurred in the 90's although I do not know which year.
Beyond that, another celeb story was told to me by others so I was not personally involved but it is interesting nevertheless.  In 1979, the touring company of the musical "On the 20th Century" had a six-week stint at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit.  The cast included Rock Hudson and Imogene Coca.  Those were the days when touring shows still included known stars.  Very rare today.  The show got lousy reviews and didn't last past subsequent appearances in Chicago and Los Angeles AFAIK.  Anyhow, at the time I worked in one of the offices at the new Renaissance Center complex in downtown Detroit.  The centerpiece of the complex was the Detroit Plaza Hotel (some 90 stories....now a Marriott).    I belonged to the health club facility at the hotel and would go there frequently in the afternoon after work.  It seems that Rock Hudson was staying at the hotel during his time in Detroit (I don't know if the entire cast of the show stayed there).  Anyway, I was told by several of the other gay guys that frequented the health club that Rock would sometimes appear in the steam room in early/mid afternoon and sometimes "play" around.  I never saw him there but when I would get there at 5:00pm, he was probably getting ready to head to the theatre for the 7:30pm curtain time.  Interesting tidbit.
A quick third story that did not involve sex but just nudity.  In 1980, the Republican Party held it's convention in Detroit.  Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush stayed at the Detroit Plaza Hotel where I frequented the health club.  One afternoon that summer, I opened the shower curtain to exit the health club shower when, to my astonishment, George Herbert Walker Bush was standing in front of me butt-naked with a secret service guy on either side of him.  He asked me:  "Are you finished?".  I answered "Yes I am" and I proceeded into the the changing room.  I don't remember anything about him...but I do remember the secret service guys were very hot!!
All good fun that I'll remember forever.

Absolutely.  Some of hollywood's biggest stars today are Canadian.  I saw Ryan Reynolds on a redeye flight from LAX to JFK once.  He was two rows in front of me.
Anyway, I have an affinity for Canadians as I'm 25% Canadian myself.  My maternal grandfather was born in Hamilton.  In those days (1910's-1920's), there were lots of good jobs in Detroit.  Lot's of Canadians would emigrate to Detroit for the jobs.  That's what my grandfather did.  Hard to imagine today. 

My own encounter was not with a big celeb but he was a known TV fixture in the UK nonetheless.  I worked for a British company in the 90's and traveled to the UK 5-6 times a year for more than 10 years.   My business destination was not in London but I would spend my weekends in London and I would often stay in the Kensington area.  There was a gym in the area that several of the area hotels had a discount at so I used to go there.  I did workout, but my main interest was cruising in the sauna and steam rooms.  It was not a gay establishment...rather a pretty well-equipped gym (for UK gyms in the 90's) serving the Kensington community.  One Saturday afternoon, I was floating between the sauna, steam room, and showers of the wet area when this massive bodybuilder appeared and went into the sauna.  He was huge.  Not common in the UK in those times.   I of course followed him into the sauna.  There was no-one else around which was a lucky thing.  Long story short....I ended up sucking him off in the sauna.  It was wonderful as he had a beautiful huge cock and he was so masculine.  Only interested in getting head.   Interestingly, at the end of it all, he said something along the lines of: "we're both gonna forget this ever happened".  I answered "no problem".  I thought it was a strange comment given that no-one else saw us.  Only he and I knew it had happened and I had no idea who he was.  Anyway, his comment intrigued me even more.  
Mr huge bodybuilder changed and left the facility after the BJ.  I hung around for another hour or so.  When I left, I asked the girl at the front desk who the huge bodybuilder was.  She answered that he was one of the gladiators from the UK Gladiator show.  Sure enough, the next time I saw the Gladiators show in the UK, I recognized him immediately.  I won't reveal which one it was but, as far as I know, he lives a completely straight lifestyle.  This occurred in the 90's although I do not know which year.
Beyond that, another celeb story was told to me by others so I was not personally involved but it is interesting nevertheless.  In 1979, the touring company of the musical "On the 20th Century" had a six-week stint at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit.  The cast included Rock Hudson and Imogene Coca.  Those were the days when touring shows still included known stars.  Very rare today.  The show got lousy reviews and didn't last past subsequent appearances in Chicago and Los Angeles AFAIK.  Anyhow, at the time I worked in one of the offices at the new Renaissance Center complex in downtown Detroit.  The centerpiece of the complex was the Detroit Plaza Hotel (some 90 stories....now a Marriott).    I belonged to the health club facility at the hotel and would go there frequently in the afternoon after work.  It seems that Rock Hudson was staying at the hotel during his time in Detroit (I don't know if the entire cast of the show stayed there).  Anyway, I was told by several of the other gay guys that frequented the health club that Rock would sometimes appear in the steam room in early/mid afternoon and sometimes "play" around.  I never saw him there but when I would get there at 5:00pm, he was probably getting ready to head to the theatre for the 7:30pm curtain time.  Interesting tidbit.
A quick third story that did not involve sex but just nudity.  In 1980, the Republican Party held it's convention in Detroit.  Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush stayed at the Detroit Plaza Hotel where I frequented the health club.  One afternoon that summer, I opened the shower curtain to exit the health club shower when, to my astonishment, George Herbert Walker Bush was standing in front of me butt-naked with a secret service guy on either side of him.  He asked me:  "Are you finished?".  I answered "Yes I am" and I proceeded into the the changing room.  I don't remember anything about him...but I do remember the secret service guys were very hot!!
All good fun that I'll remember forever.

It would be a firm "no" from me.