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About Connery as James Bond, he was my favourite actor in the role. But I only saw 4 or 5 of the films, two with Connery. I’ve read several of the Fleming Bond novels and they are not as glitzy as the films. But then Ian Fleming was a real intelligence officer in the Second World War and he knew what the real life of a spy was like, not the movie screen version. Of course, it was the glamour that made the franchise such a success. It was in stark contrast to what had befallen Britain after WWII, when it was reduced to being a second rate world power and impoverished by their wartime efforts. This Super hero British spy James Bond on the celluloid films gave Britons a reason to chear up despite their reduced standing in the world. And for Sean Connery, who grew up in the slums of Edinburgh, he achieved the Bond dream. Not bad.

I always remember it as the 1964 World’s Fair but it actually wasn’t an official World’s Fair, as the 1939 NY Fair was. It was just called that by the businessmen who organized it over a two year period, as it ran for the summers of 1964 and 1965, something officially recognized World Fairs do not.

For those who don’t know Montreal, the Old Montreal or Vieux Montreal is not far from the Gay Village and can easily be reached by foot. There are many fine restaurants in the old port (as it is also referred to) and their closure would account for the empty streets at night. I wonder if the Gay Village is doing any better in the evenings.

Nice clarification. The pronounciation is all important.

I have a fairly extensive collection of silk ties, mostly from my working days so they are THAT OLD. I still wear one occasionally and find they still look good as they are all classics. Names from the best Italian, French, British and American fashion designers. I don’t have a fetish of having my escorts wear a tie tho, and prefer them in body defining attire, out of the bedroom, of course.

I learned about the second whole the first time I bottomed for a very hung guy, over 10 inches and thick. He wasn’t a skilled top and because he rammed it in, my sphincter resisted and it was extremely painful. I pushed him off and that was the end. Some years later and much more experienced generally, I was able to accept and derive pleasure from thrusts into the “sigmoid colon ”, past the second hole. The only drawback is that if you are going to bottom for someone that large, you need to do extra douching and that sphincter generally holds back feces until they are ready to be released into the rectum, sort of the last holding area, so to speak. If that area is clean and the top is not going to venture into the next chamber, then you should not have a problem. Unless of course, something happens and all the activity provokes a response that is unexpected.

I was not surprised to hear about this but it does mark another closing of an era, not just an individual enterprise, and so I feel a little bit nostalgic. But as others have noted, many of these places have outlived their usefulness or relevance. The younger gays probably don’t value these places as they live their lives differently now, for many reasons. The old ones like myself don’t patronize them either, for different reasons. I stayed at Parliament House back in the 90’s and 00’s. It was a lot of fun but I was much younger and loved raunchy places. Now I just like raunchy men! I prefer more luxurious places to stay and dine. Of course, meeting up with providers is so much easier today and more predictable in who you are engaging to have some fun with. I haven’t picked up someone in a bar or gay resort for about 20 years or when the Internet really took off. As the saying goes, Sic transit Gloria.

I would take issue with a couple of points in the preceding post. The warmest Ocean water to swim in during the winter months from New Years till Easter is on the Atlantic side of south Florida, and Miami in particular. This is because of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, which brushes the East Florida coast on its way from Cuba to Bermuda and beyond To Europe. And the beaches are gorgeous (As are the men who populate them). Having lived in Miami Beach for 5 winters 2 decades ago, I could swim every day if I wanted to and it was delightful. I had friends on the West Coast and would visit a couple of times each winter. Very few people were in the water although they congregated on the beach. The water temperature was generally below 62 degrees and even more chilly sometimes. The other point concerns culture. Miami had a vibrant cultural scene although my interests were mostly in the art scene, not music or theatre, and of course the gay scene which was very hot from Miami up to Ft. Lauderdale, all within an easy half hour drive.

This film, while ok, could have shown so much more of the Gay Village. Ste Catherine is the main commercial street but there are others that should have been shown, like Amherst (recently renamed), Ontario and Rene Levesque.. Other side streets are very charming and more shots of them would have conveyed the sense that the village is a neighbourhood where gays live, not just a main drag.

I guess I am out of step with the majority as I read everything if the subject interests me. The example of obituaries is a case in point. I scan these daily and have done so for years. Some people have led really interesting lives and reading their obits can be a mini history lesson. I particularly enjoy stories of “the greatest generation”, those who went to war and had amazing experiences and lived to tell about it (Or not, some were extremely reticent about talking about their exploits).

That’s no exaggeration. Seen him in multiple videos taking it lik a champ!

Haha

I was guilty of that in my two posts so I went back after reading your post and edited them to provide spacing. My posts were numbers 14 and 17. Does that make them more accessible?

I just realized I misspelt racquets, as I was thinking besides tennis, I have played squash and badminton (and racquets once) and my old friends are hanging up in the garden shed. I also loved sailing and once took my lover out on a two person catamaran in Hawaii and gave him a wild ride. In the 80’s I learned how to windsurf and had my own board at my cottage, which I could do when no-one else was around. I took up scuba diving briefly on three trips to the Caribbean and will never forget the night dives. I tried target shooting with rifles and once with a pistol but didn’t have good enough eyesight. And finally, I wasn’t a bad curler, a winter sport popular here in Canada but not so much in the US. I learned that in high school and was good enough to get on the school team to play against other schools. Thinking back, I guess I was jack of all trades and master of none, when it came to sports.

Eton, not Elton

I had the misfortune of having two older brothers who preceded me at a private school where sports and academics were equally emphasized, modelled on the English “public” schools like Eton and Rugby. Misfortune because my brothers were more gifted at organized sports than I was. I arrived in grade 7, the last year of junior school, with expectations that I would be like my older brothers. I quickly dispelled that notion by my absolute ineptitude in football, basketball, hockey and baseball. All of these sports were compulsory so there was no way of avoiding them. The poorer athletes like myself were relegated to the “house” teams, which only played within the school. The better athletes, like my brothers, played on the school teams which competed with other schools in the city. The picture was not altogether dismal, however, because in primary school I had spent a lot of time skipping rope with the girls in my class (Shades of things to come). However, what I didn’t realize at that formative age was that skipping rope is something many professional athletes do, such as boxers. So I became very agile and flexible, and built up stamina in my limbs. This was to help me in gym and later in life when I took up many sports such as tennis, horseback riding, downhill and cross country skiing and waterskiing. I got to be pretty good at most of these sports, at least an intermediate level. Along the way I have stopped doing most of these sports but it was a gradual casting aside of the skis and rackets etc. Today I swim at least once a week but usually more often and I spend a good 45 minutes doing laps. My two brothers are physical wrecks, having sustained many injuries through contact sports and putting on too much weight. I gave up going to a gym a decade ago but by then I had preserved my ideal weight throughout my life and now face old age fairly well equipped physically. I work equally hard on the mental part as well, another legacy of my school days.

I doesn't persuade me. Sorry.

Thanks for posting this photo of Brando with his arm around Tennessee Williams. The photo appears in John Lahr’s biography of Williams but he attributes it to the “ bad notice” party Williams threw after the opening of his new play Summer and Smoke In October of 1948 which had been panned by the critics. After the party, Brando took him for a ride on his motorcycle around New York. Later Williams said he enjoyed the ride, feeling the exhilarating surge of power of the machine underneath them and clamping his knees around Brando’s buttocks. That would be some ride.

Where is he travelling to?

I am of the generation that went through the AIDS epidemic from beginning to end. Just thankful I survived it.

That’s been my experience also. Never had trouble getting a top to cum in my mouth. Must have been my extraordinary skill and ability to pick out a good candidate. Lol

Just out of interest, where is he visiting that you might want to meet up with him?

Definitely not Charle’s son.

Sorry to hear this. I was going to stay there on my next visit, but then who knows when that might be. I guess that’s the problem. Not enough guests. Feel sorry for the staff. They were very nice and helpful during my stay.

I’m an empathetic person so I feel badly for Jeffrey. I try to put myself in his position and think how crushing it must be from one day being a well respected or at least well known personality on TV and now having exposed himself unwittingly to the public gaze on what is a very personal and private part of himself. I just hope he has personal support from those around him in this time. The worst thing is if the people around him turn their backs on him. In the distant past I think of a man named John Profumo, who was a Cabinet minister in Britain in the early 1960’s and was caught up in the sex scandal involving Russian spies and national security (he was a junior Minister of Defence during the height of the Cold War). He lied to Parliament about his relations with a prostitute who also slept with the Russian Military Attaché in London. He fell from grace and was ostracized by British society. What he did was to commit himself to a life of public service without pay. He never held public office again but many years later the Queen officially recognized him for his service to humanity.