mike carey

For some reason I read this as 'Costa Rica'. *Retires stage left*

Like Gman, I sort of wish I had accepted or admitted earlier that I am gay. Regret? No, that would be to say that I haven't enjoyed the life and career that I led, and I have. If I had regretted I would most likely have tried to make up for lost time and I haven't done that not wished that I could. I too wonder whether I can fall in love. Again, I don't regret that I haven't, but I don't stress about whether I can in the future.

(WAAC is WA [Western Australian] AIDS Council)

I didn't do extensive research, well, any research before I went to Washington so I wouldn't have seen his website (which I have now seen). I figured I'd just enjoy the lunch and whatever other functions were held and if something happened, it happened! I wasn't there determined to hire while I was in town!

Sad indeed, although even if he had I can't see myself picking up at the luncheon. Well not this time around!

And to think I hadn't heard of him when I recently visited that fair city!

Great shots, Lance!

That was ROFL stuff!

But they are all Christianists who are straight as the driven snow (or some other analogy) so why would they possibly hire some gay whore?

Is it just me, or are there other posters who are in the process of wiping their coffee off their screens and keyboards at the idea of this event being held at the Gaylord convention centre?

They are still a thing! Not that I fly enough to use them.

Tristan, you're not competing with local escorts or anyone else in Singapore or whereever. You are your own thing when you are there, and men (particularly expats) will pay based on who you are not who anyone else is in that city. I'm sure I'm not the only person who would know who you are, recognise what you are worth and pay accordingly regardless of what the 'going rate' was in Singapore. Maybe I'm just smitten.

Good summary Tristan, some great points for new visitors to Singapore. I haven't been there for years and years. You're right that eating at US branded restaurants will be expensive, people may find it cheaper to eat in local restaurants serving western cuisine so they don't pay for the cachet of a US brand. I always found street food to be cheap and delicious, but then I love Chinese and Nonya food (and Malay and Indian curries). Times I visited Penang in Malaysia on work trips (years ago) the consensus always was that if you were going to get a bait [food poisoning] it would be in a hotel restaurant and not at a street food market. I can't speak to gay culture but homosexuality is illegal in Singapore and Malaysia, although the degree of enforcement of the law is variable. Air fares are variable and if you are prepared to buy non-refundable tickets you can get good deals. Fares from Australia tend to be expensive. Clearly you pay more for refundable tickets. (I can't remember all the details but I paid about AUD3400 [uSD2300 at the time] for a fully flexible Canberra to DC and return ticket with a stopover in LA: I could have bought a roundtrip Sydney- LA non-refundable ticket for about AUD1100 [uSD750].)

Mattr, you have identified my dilemmas in this choice! Still Kurtis for me, and Austin (noting issues identified). That said, I am not on my way there and if I were I would contact them directly not just talk about it in here.

I'm sure I could have one for him!!

It's alcohol abuse as far as I am concerned!

Two years ago before reading this site and Dan Savage's I would have been similarly oblivious to what this 'cat toy' was. Yes, I'm embarrassed by that admission!

ROFL, 'It's also great as a hair gell but not after it's been used'! I don't know, there could be a certain je ne sais quoi about adding some, ahem, bodily fluids to it before applying it to one's hair!

Under cover, maybe not.

Brian, you are an amazing guy, I wish you all the best as you move out across the country!

I rarely think about it but I have similar 'old' feelings, as I have one degree of separation to someone who served in WW1 (my grandmother who was an army nurse in Egypt). 90 years later I was back in the same region on active military service, so there are parallels. (My grandfather served on the Western Front but died in the 1930s.)

Now are you sure about that??

When did he emigrate from Europe? If it was before 1918, Slovenia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire so he could validly say he came from Austria. After 1918 it would have been Yugoslavia (or Jugoslavia).