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Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 The Forum Has a New Address! | Yes, the forum has a new address, and everything appears to be in place. As a refresh for why the move was necessary, this is from the original announcement: For a host of technical reasons beyond Dave’s technical ability, he needed to turn his website over to a service that can handle much of the work—and it can’t support the massive forum database. Dave really wants the forum to proceed, so the solution is simple: just split Dave’s personal pages and the forum to two separate web addresses.
The two sites are now separate entities, but both remain under the ownership of Dave Cullen.
As you explore, if you should see something that is not working properly, please send a PM to a member of the Mod Team, and they will escalate it to the proper person.
Thanks for your patience during the transition, and it's good to have you back and participating!
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Annie Proulx Loves Her Ski Time | The house stands in Vermont’s crooked terrain of slanted field and steep wood. A hundred years ago people worked the copper mines and raised sheep in this town. The metal and the sheep are long gone and the population has withered to a few hundred. Yet a network of abandoned roads from those old days, reamed out from time to time by log skidders, still laces the hills. Under deep snow they become superb backcountry ski routes.
My skiing time notches a precise part of the winter day. Sitting and scribbling, telephone talk, reading, typing—how stiff and restless one gets. But in late afternoon, the work ends. The final hours of light are mine and over the years I have come to love skiing in the blue dusk. So important to me are these hours that only a blizzard can keep me inside.
When I start out on the hill it is often sun gilded and, on the return, I can see the way only because of the faint luminescence of the snow and because my eyes have adjusted to the failing light. The crepuscular rim of twilight seems a powerful and mysterious hour for me. The wind drops and a stillness falls. The fading sunset colors unroll like bolts of French silk behind the woods. Wildlife begins to move. I have seen fisher cats, coyotes, foxes on these dusk occasions.
To read more of Annie's words, describing her evening ski trips, click the link below.
Skiing After Dark by Annie Proulx
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CMT Star Cody Alan Comes Out as Gay | To country music fans, Cody Alan has always been a ball of sunshine. But for years, the seemingly happy-go-lucky CMT and iHeartRadio host suffered an identity crisis, holding onto a secret he’s finally ready to share — that he’s gay.
“Though my TV or my radio persona was always that of a happy guy, there was this underlying ache inside of me for years, so I decided either I was gonna do something about it, or I was gonna live with this layer of misery underneath that happy face on the TV,” Alan, 44, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“Once I realized it was okay to accept the truth, that it wasn’t my choice,” he adds, “it was a lot easier to start figuring out where to go with my life next.” Since having that epiphany, the CMT personality has spent years coming to terms with his sexuality. And today, “I feel comfortable enough with myself to share it,” Alan says. “I’ve wanted to share this part of my life, but I now have gotten to the point where it just feels right, and I’m at peace with where I am enough to be able to express it.”
In a Thursday morning Instagram post, Alan offered a heartfelt letter to his fans and followers, opening up about his journey to self-acceptance.
CMT Star Cody Alan Comes Out as Gay
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Pregnant Lesbian Shuts Down Trolls Who Said She Shouldn’t Carry Baby As She’s ‘More Masculine’ | A pregnant lesbian has found a brilliant way to respond to trolls who told her she shouldn’t carry a baby as she’s the “more masculine” person in her relationship. Domonique and Crissy Wilson, who regularly post YouTube videos, recently shared their first pregnancy photo baring Domonique’s baby bump. However they received some negative comments such as:
“Tell me why the masculine one is having the baby?”
Screenshots of Domonique baring her baby bump on Snapchat were also shared on Facebook with negative comments.
One user, Bri Naylor, shared a picture of the snaps with the caption: “Somebody explain wtf is going on.” Her post was shared nearly 5,000 times.
One person wrote on the picture: “I’m confused why didn’t Chrissy carry the baby?”
Pregnant Lesbian Shuts Down Trolls
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Meet Gloria Allen - Trans Icon | Gloria Allen, 71, is a transgender African-American woman who is seen as an icon by many in her community. She volunteered for years teaching a charm-school class at Chicago’s Center on Halsted, trying to teach transgender and gender nonconforming youth how to survive and to believe in themselves.
“If we were all the same way in this world, we would be boring,” Allen tells The Root. “When God created mankind and womankind, we were created in his image. So that means if you don’t like this person because this person is black or white … or this guy wants to be a girl or this girl wants to be a guy, something is wrong. We’re not giving God his due respect, because God made us out of love. That’s my theory on it.”
Allen, a retired licensed practical nurse at the University of Chicago, started teaching etiquette at the Center on Halsted. She says she was having lunch with other LGBTQ senior citizens—whom she calls a group of “seasoned women”—when a group of scantily dressed young girls sashayed in, being loud and gyrating around the tables, and she was not having it.
Meet Gloria Allen - Trans Icon
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Austin Armacost Identifies as Asexual | AUSTIN Armacost has revealed he’s asexual and like a “nun in bed” after splitting from husband Jake Lees. The model who re-entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Tuesday night made the surprising revelation, adding: “I’m just not that into it.”
Austin, 28, who split from his personal trainer husband Jake Lees last year, confided: “I am very asexual person. I am probably in all honesty the least sexual people you will ever meet. As much as I love getting my kit off and showing my bum everywhere, I am like a nun in bed.”
Chatting to former Big Brother star and showbiz reporter Andy West, Austin went on: “I am not going to go out with someone and have sex with them. Even after a fourth or fifth date – that’s not what I want. I want a nice man! It has little to do with physicality."
Austin Armacost Identifies as Asexual
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Brokie Gathering - 2017
There will be a Brokie gathering in 2017 in August. We're meeting in Casper, Wyoming, to watch the solar eclipse together.
Here is a link to the thread about the gathering, if you're interested, post in the thread and let us know!!!
http://www.ultimatebrokebackforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=49254.
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