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I am not sure what it is about Bad Boys but I have always fallen in love with them. If given a choice between 2 equally attractive guys and one is sweet and kind and the other one has a street Bad Boy edge to him, the Bad Boy wins out every time. My current longest boyfriend in Thailand is over 3 years. I met him when I was sitting in an outside café and he walks out with his girlfriend and they were fighting. They were going at it pretty bad when she says was going to kill him. He pulls a gun out of his pants and gives it to her. He holds up his hands and says, “You want to kill me, go ahead, kill me.” I looked at him, and said, “that is my new boyfriend.” He came home with me that night and has been with me ever since. He still has that edge. He still has the bad boy in him and it is that image that simply melts my heart when I see him. I did break up with him once. I found out all my boyfriends were doing some drugs. I sent them all packing. I left the country to return a few months later. All of them were back to working in the bars except the Bad Boy. He stayed in school and kept up with his classes. I wondered what he was doing for money as I knew he wasn't finished with school yet. He never called me or approached me and asked for anything. Every other boy did. When I finally had time to sit with him for a dinner I ask him what he has been doing. He said he was selling drugs to make it. I asked why he didn't start to work in a bar and make better money and less danger. He said, "I knew you would never take me back if I did that." He was right. And, to this day, he reads me better than anyone else. Anyone else into Bad Boys? Why? Why not?

I know we get a bum rap at time. Where are all those gay men who offered up great books last week. Why are they never interviewed? http://www.yourdailymedia.com/media/117095...ry_in_the_World

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I agree with you KY. But, do you think this is atypical of sports athletes? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/bask...ex.html?cnn=yes NEW YORK (AP) -- Former NBA center John Amaechi, who disclosed last week he's gay, said anti-gay comments by another retired player "demonstrate the need to continue the conversation." Retired Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway said on a radio show Wednesday that he hates gay people, then later apologized for his remarks. "I don't need Tim's comments to realize there's a problem," Amaechi told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday. "People said that I should just shut up and go away -- now they have to rethink that." Hardaway's comments were sparked by Amaechi's disclosure he's gay. "You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people," Hardaway said while a guest on Sports Talk 790 The Ticket in Miami. "I'm homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States." The host asked Hardaway how he would interact with a gay teammate. "First of all, I wouldn't want him on my team. And second of all, if he was on my team, I would, you know, really distance myself from him because, uh, I don't think that is right. I don't think he should be in the locker room while we are in the locker room." If he did find out that a teammate was gay, Hardaway said he would ask for the player to be removed from the team. "Something has to give," Hardaway said. "If you have 12 other ballplayers in your locker room that's upset and can't concentrate and always worried about him in the locker room or on the court or whatever, it's going to be hard for your teammates to win and accept him as a teammate." Amaechi also detailed his life, in his autobiography Man in the Middle, which was released Wednesday. He hoped his coming out would be a catalyst for intelligent discourse. "His words pollute the atmosphere," Amaechi said. "It creates an atmosphere that allows young gays and lesbians to be harassed in school, creates an atmosphere where in 33 states you can lose your job, and where anti-gay and lesbian issues are used for political gain. It's an atmosphere that hurts all of us, not just gay people." Hardaway later apologized for the remarks during a telephone interview with Fox affiliate WSVN in Miami. "Yes, I regret it. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said I hate gay people or anything like that," he said. "That was my mistake." Hardaway has reportedly been removed from further league-related appearances. "It is inappropriate for him to be representing us given the disparity between his views and ours," NBA commissioner David Stern said in a statement to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "Famously, they're saying in 2007 that homophobia is not an issue," Amaechi said. "While [Hardaway] is not a representative of the NBA or of straight men, there's no point pretending it's not an opinion that is out there."

>The Cold War is back I agree with you and with Russia's vast reservers of Oil, it will be a different game this time.

I was thrilled for them. I have always enjoyed them but worried all that controversy was going to hurt them. Thankfully, it didn't.

When I was younger, I read the Tales of the City. I remember sneaking to bed each night and reading them when my family was asleep as I didn’t want to be caught with the books. I have no idea where I even got them or found them. There was no google back then and I think one of the covers appealed to me and I purchased the book and was instantly addicted. After that, I had always dreamed of living in San Francisco and having a group of gay men as close to me as that group was. The other book that I could not put down was Maurice. I just loved it from cover to cover and must have read it 10 times. I do remember that my English teach had mentioned it in class and there were snickers about a gay book. That was one of the few moments that she really had my attention all year. What got you reading when you were younger? What is your favorite modern gay books?

>If you really want a great young gay love story that will take >you about as long to read as it will to interpret its gaelic >prose, check out At Swim Two Boys I haven't read it but James Joyce is my favorite author and many critics compared this to him. I have ordered it and can't wait to read it. Thanks.

I am much more of a day person that a night guy so I don't really think being a vampire would work for me. I was once married to one and loved it. However, my favorite character was Marius. Have you read any of Rice's son's books? I read the first one and enjoyed it.

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An old law school buddy of mine was from the deep south. He was black, massive, sexy and former military. He was also queer as a three dollar bill. Anyway, growing up his father was a highly sought after exec. He would get offers from many companies. When they approached him his response to them was always, "when you get your money right, we'll talk." I think many escorts take the same approach. Why waste time when the money is not right? Get the money right and the talks will begin.

By THOM SHANKER and MARK LANDLER Published: February 11, 2007 MUNICH, Feb. 10 — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia accused the United States on Saturday of provoking a new nuclear arms race by developing ballistic missile defenses, undermining international institutions and making the Middle East more unstable through its clumsy handling of the Iraq war. In an address to an international security conference, Mr. Putin dropped all diplomatic gloss to recite a long list of complaints about American domination of global affairs, including many of the themes that have strained relations between the Kremlin and the United States during his seven-year administration. Among them were the expansion of NATO into the Baltics and the perception in Russia that the West has supported groups that have toppled other governments in Moscow’s former sphere of influence. “The process of NATO expansion has nothing to do with modernization of the alliance,” Mr. Putin said. “We have the right to ask, ‘Against whom is this expansion directed?’ ” He said the United States had turned the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which sends monitors to elections in the former Soviet sphere, “into a vulgar instrument of ensuring the foreign policy interests of one country.” The comments were the sternest yet from Mr. Putin, who has long bristled over criticism from the United States and its European allies as he and his cadre of former Soviet intelligence officials have consolidated their hold on Russia’s government, energy reserves and arms-manufacturing and trading complexes. Rubble from the Berlin Wall was “hauled away as souvenirs” to countries that praise openness and personal freedom, he said, but “now there are attempts to impose new dividing lines and rules, maybe virtual, but still dividing our mutual continent.” The world, he said, is now unipolar: “One single center of power. One single center of force. One single center of decision making. This is the world of one master, one sovereign.” With the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the American defense secretary, Robert M. Gates, and a Congressional delegation sitting stone-faced, Mr. Putin warned that the power amassed by any nation that assumes this ultimate global role “destroys it from within. “It has nothing in common with democracy, of course,” he added. “Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations — military force.” “Primarily the United States has overstepped its national borders, and in every area,” said Mr. Putin, who increasingly has tried to re-establish Russia’s once broad Soviet-era influence, using Russia’s natural resources as leverage and defending nations at odds with the United States, including Iran. American military actions, which he termed “unilateral” and “illegitimate,” also “have not been able to resolve any matters at all,” and, he said, have created only more instability and danger. “They bring us to the abyss of one conflict after another,” he said. “Political solutions are becoming impossible.” The comments irritated some European leaders and prompted sharp criticism from the Americans in attendance. Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican widely expected to make a bid for the White House, made a rebuttal that began, “In today’s multipolar world, there is no place for needless confrontation.” He said that the United States won the cold war in partnership with powerful nations of Western Europe, and that “there are power centers on every continent today.” Mr. McCain then hit back at Mr. Putin more directly. “Will Russia’s autocratic turn become more pronounced, its foreign policy more opposed to the principles of the Western democracies and its energy policy used as a tool of intimidation?” he asked. “Moscow must understand that it cannot enjoy a genuine partnership with the West so long as its actions, at home and abroad, conflict fundamentally with the core values of the Euro-Atlantic democracies.” In Washington, Gordon D. Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said in a statement: “We are surprised and disappointed with President Putin’s comments. His accusations are wrong. We expect to continue cooperation with Russia in areas important to the international community such as counterterrorism and reducing the spread and threat of weapons of mass destruction.” Russia has also faced criticism from the United States and other Western countries that believe it has used energy reserves and transport pipelines to reward friendly countries and to punish those seeking to distance themselves from Kremlin control. Some analysts saw the tone of the speech as evidence of how much oil and mineral revenues have strengthened Mr. Putin. The occasion of the speech was the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy — an event begun deep in the cold war, when Germany was divided and hundreds of thousands of American troops were stationed in Western Europe as a bulwark against Warsaw Pact forces. Mr. Putin began with an apology for the tough talk to come. But during a lively question and answer period full of challenges and rebukes, the Russian president indicated that he relished provoking the international audience of legislators, government leaders, political analysts and human rights advocates. “I love it,” Mr. Putin said as he reviewed a long list of questions. He has long enjoyed high and durable public approval ratings at home, in part for standing up to the West and for pursuing an assertive foreign policy with former Soviet states. He did offer at least two significant and conciliatory statements to the United States. President Bush “is a decent man, and one can do business with him,” he said. From their meetings and discussions, Mr. Putin said, he has heard the American president say, “I assume Russia and the United States will never be enemies, and I agree.” And while Mr. Putin denied that Russia had assisted the Iranian military with significant arms transfers, he also criticized the government in Tehran for not cooperating more with the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency or responding to questions about its nuclear program. Other American lawmakers offered measured criticism afterward. “He’s done more to bring Europe and the U.S. together than any single event in the last several years,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, described the speech as “confrontational,” saying, “some of the rhetoric takes us back to the cold war.” Iran’s top nuclear official, Ali Larijani, listened impassively from the back of the room. His attendance had become a sideshow in itself. After accepting an invitation to speak Sunday, he canceled, citing health reasons, after a tense meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna that concluded with a decision to freeze technical cooperation projects. Mr. Putin joked that he worried the United States was “hiding extra warheads under the pillow” despite its treaties with Moscow to reduce strategic nuclear stockpiles. And he indicated obliquely that the new Russian ballistic missile, known as the Topol-M, was being developed at least in part in response to American efforts to field missile defenses. He expressed alarm that an effective antimissile shield over the United States would upset a system of mutual fear that kept the nuclear peace throughout the cold war. “That means the balance will be upset, completely upset,” he said. Addressing tensions between Europe and Russia over energy exports, Mr. Putin said 26 percent of Russian oil was extracted by foreign companies. While Russia is open to outside investment, he said, it has found its businessmen blocked from deals abroad. The Kremlin has been criticized for attempting to impose registration and taxation laws that could restrict the work of foreign nongovernmental organizations with offices in Russia to aid democratization. But Mr. Putin said his concerns about the work grew from the fact that they “are used as channels for funding, and those funds are provided by governments of other countries.” That flow of foreign money to assist opposition Russian political organizations, he said, is “hidden from our society. “What is democratic about this?” he asked. “This is not about democracy. This is about one country influencing another.” Mrs. Merkel, in her opening speech, struck a far more diplomatic tone than Mr. Putin, though she alluded to the tensions between Europe and Russia over energy shipments and the independence of Kosovo. Addressing herself to Mr. Putin, who was sitting in the front row, Mrs. Merkel said, “In my talks with you, I have sensed that Russia is going to be a reliable and predictable partner.” But she added, “We need to speak frankly with each other.” Mrs. Merkel had previously criticized in sharp terms Russia’s recent shutdown of oil shipments to Belarus, which followed a dispute over natural gas prices. She is pressing Russia to sign a charter with the European Union on energy, which Moscow has resisted. Mrs. Merkel alluded to another potential confrontation between Europe and Russia. The United Nations is weighing a proposal that would put Kosovo on the path to independence from Serbia, which Russia opposes because it fears that such a move could upset its own turbulent relations with ethnic groups in the Caucasus. Russia has crushed one separatist-minded people within its own borders, in Chechnya, but supports two breakaway regions in Georgia: Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “We’re going to come to the stage where we have to decide: does Serbia, does Kosovo want to move in the European direction?” Mrs. Merkel asked. “If that’s the route they choose, both will have to make compromises.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/world/eu...=rssnyt&emc=rss

I have all the Lost episodes on my computer but have yet to finish season 1. I save them for when I am stuck in hotels and have tons of time. From what I have seen, I do enjoy it. I love 24 and think it is one of the best things out there. I have never even heard of Deal or No Deal. TV certaintly has changed a great deal since I was a lad. I was so excited each year when Gone with the Wind came on TV. That was about as good as it got.

I don't think she is going to go sentimental. She just had her first orgasm in ages and he is spitting up blood. Not a good sign for her. I see her as falling for him and then him dying.

I have been watching Dirt and like the show. I have always liked the lead actress and I like her relationship with the photographer. I saw the lastest episodes with Pee Wee Herman. I think he did a nice job with the role he was given. But, it is very hard for me to take him seriously as an actor after watching Pee Wee's shows.

The New Season for Survivor got underway this week. If you missed it, you can download with Itunes. I love the Fiji Islands and hope this season was as fun as last. I really like Dreamz. He is hot. And, a cheerleading coach. Yumm. Also, Boo ain't bad. I don't know what I think of Rocky yet. He is sexy in a very street kind of way but I get the feeling I would not like him if I knew him. All in all, it was a fun night for me to get the season underway with my favorite TV show.

As they say, all good things must come to an end. I have really enjoyed my time on the GayThailand message board. I love the country and the people. However, I have been given a unique business opportunity that will involve the bulk of my time, effort and energy for the next 2-3 years. It is one of those opportunities that I just can

I normally stay at the Intercontinental Hotel in Amsterdam and have also had some great stays at a few other hotels downtown. http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/h...elsearchresults [attachmentid=178] On a recent trip here, I started looking for some lower price hotels and I really wanted to stay in a gay hotel but ended up back with the familiar. Here are a few places I have found in Amsterdam should anyone be interested. Anyone have any information on Prague and gay places there? 1. Try gayamsterdam.com for great gay hotels. http://hotels.gayamsterdam.com/gayhotels.php Not all below are gay but some are and most are gay friendly. Maes Bed and Breakfast: (+31 20) 427 5165 http://www.bedandbreakfastamsterdam.com Townhouse B&B: (+3120) 612 9320 Triple Five Guest House: (+31 20) 428 3809 http://www.triplefive.nl Prinsenhuis Apartments: (+31 20) 521 0610 http://www.prinsenhuis.nl/ Lieven Nachten Apartments (Fred/Kitty): (+31 20) 427 5030 http://www.123france.com/hotel--lieve-nach...7276/index.html Amsterdam Escape: (+31 20) 320 6402 http://www.amsterdamescape.com Hotel Amstelzicht (Robert/Ramon): (+31 20) 623 6693 http://www.rrhospitality.com Hotel van Onna: (+31 20) 626 5801 http://www.hotelvanonna.nl/ Hotel Armada: (+31 20) 623 2980 http://www.hotels-holland.com/amsterdam/armada.htm Hotel

>And all of them were in your house! LOL That may be the reason I never wanted to leave my house.

>Take it from me as an observer over some time. It wasn't >standard or even offered as an option on your make in that >model year. :+ LOL. Thanks! I agree with you. I have tried to go back to the factory line and get a restored engine but they keep telling me if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

> I do not >regret my earlier "slut days" (I had LOTS of fun!), >but I am now in a different mode :9 My dear friend, I am so glad you don't regret them. My boys adored you and you were always such a treat! I am glad monogamy suits you. I have tried on that suit a few times myself but perhaps I am still just too big to fit into those britches.

>I have to agree that some of the most beautiful twinks on >earth are in Montreal (and I mean inside and out... they are >such wonderful people)... though unlike in the past, they are >no longer typically dancers or escorts. I have always found dancers and escorts in Montreal that I adore. I will admit that the twinks of years gone by have faded from the public view but they often come back for short spurts. It all depends on when you get there and how much flirting and spending you want to do. That is one of the reasons I enjoy Black and Blue weekend so much. I did enjoy the club scene there but it is a long process to find the one you want. As you know. I am ADD and my attention doesn't really last too long for a prolongued hunt. I haven't checked out South Florida but will give that a try sometime this year. I did make it down to San Diego and had a good time but didn't do much of the bar scene. I'll be spending more time there as well in the future. I do miss the old days in NYC when twinks were a dime a dozen.

>I think I can come up with a few more then 6, just a few >more(hehe). Well, 6 that stay with me when I am there and are well taken care of when I am away. The others are just excited that the party will be big and fun.

I have to agree with you that Thailand is the best Twink paradise on earth. There is just simply no place else that compares. >Just make your reservations for Thailand where there are >1000's of Twinks waiting for your return. Well, not 1000's but I do know of 6 that are anxiously awaiting my return.

I have not lived in NYC for about 4 years. When I was there, I was very involved in the escort scene. I knew just about everyone that was working. I was browsing on this site, M4RNow and Rentboy today for an impending trip to the Big Apple. What I found was that not much has changed. Yes, there are some new faces but I was really surprised to find that many of the ones who were around 4 years ago are still around and working. I was also surprised to find that all 3 of the escort service sites I was familiar with: Campus, Maximum and Chelsea all had many of the same guys. Back many years ago, I knew many boys that just worked for a few years and then moved on. It seems that this trend has now vanished and has moved to a different level. It seems that many will want to stay around for years and years. Does anyone else see this? Also, what is happening to all the twinks? Should I scrap my trip to NYC and go to Montreal where there seems to be an abundance of them? If the twinks are not going to NYC now, where are they going?