Glossary of Gay Terms
If you read as many ‘Men Seeking Men‘ postings on Craigslist as I do (and there’s no way that you do), there are probably a lot of terms that you’re unfamiliar with. Who do you turn to for your homocabulary? Maybe you were wondering, ‘What’s a popper?’, ‘What time is a vampire run?’ ‘Who is Caligula?’
Well wonder no more. This site will get you up to speed on all of your gay vernacular needs. Now you can search the gay way on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual (LGBT) portal. Visit GayCityUSA’s gay dictionary today for hours of fun with your whole (twisted) family!
One bad apple always spoils the bunch; especially when the apple is Craigslist killer, Philip Markoff, and the bunch is erotic services. Craigslist announced that as of today, postings to the “erotic services” category on all US craigslist sites will no longer be accepted, and in 7 days the category will be permanently removed.
In its place, a new “adult services” category will be opened for postings by legal adult service providers. Each posting to this category will be manually reviewed before appearing on the site to ensure compliance with craigslist posting guidelines and terms of use. New postings to this section will cost $10, but once approved, will be eligible for reposting at $5.
The good news: my fave section, men seeking men, will remain untouched (phew)!
$@bs
Craigslist, You Complete Me – A Love Story
I absolutely love Craigslist and can’t imagine my life without it. I want to marry it and have little posts with it. We’ve been involved for a least a decade and thus far it’s helped me find 2 apartments, 1 job, 1 piano player, 3 acapella singers, 1 buyer for my couch, 1 flat screen monitor, 1 DVD player, numerous friends, yoga clients, free events, interviews, tennis partners, lunch dates, hit after hit on my blog (thank you, Sir, may I have another) and I don’t even know what else!
I’ve blogged before about the hours of diversion the men seeking men section alone provides me. I’ve also spent a good amount of time on the “Best of” section. Sometimes I visit other cities and see what’s going on there. When I’m visiting a new city, I check out CL and always see what’s poppin on the local side.
I used to spend a lot of time in the casual encounters section as well, purely for entertainment purposes, of course. I’d post something really naughty like “Trophy Wife Seeks Revenge on Cheating Husband” and let the emails roll in. I’ve collected over 200 responses, which I hope to turn into a coffee table book. Below I’ve provided an excerpt. I’ve never responded to any of them; it would be hard to pass myself off as a trophy wife since I have a modest bra size and am not blond, but I do enjoy reading the responses, what with my user generated content addiction… I’d love to hear from you about how you’ve used CL. Tell me EVERYTHING.
$@bs
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There was this very busy guy who lived in NYC and had no time for a relationship. Then he found this site… brilliant! There are other people out there who don’t have time for love, but still have needs? When he first looked at this site, he had all kinds of fantasies and believed in fairy tales about fun women who didn’t have time for relationships either, but after sending out some emails, and getting referred to the same porn sites, his fantasy became simply that behind one of these posts was a real live girl.
Anyway, this is probably the 437th email that you got from your post, and it’s unlikely that you will ever read it, so does it matter what I write? Maybe I’ll sing for a bit
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream…..merrily merrily merrily…
Oh wait…my voice is kind of terrible. I’m going to jump in the shower.
Back now. Sounded much better in the shower.
Oh well.
I am 34, live downtown, and am opening a restaurant in 2008 either here or back home. I am up here for a few years to live in and out of the NYC restaurant scene and learn a few more things…culinary school etc. Toured with a band for the last 8 years, but got tired of life on the road. Went to Georgetown, so I am educated as well.
Although I am pretty confident and usually charming, I certainly don’t project conceit and as for the physical, I’m in good shape and attractive. The picture…ahh the picture. Taken with my phone so it would be small enough to send through craigslist. Happy to send more
I don’t have much trouble meeting women, or people in general, so why am I here? I guess it is simply a dare. The idea of meeting up with a stranger is sexy.
So…I am taking the dare and putting myself out there to see what happens.
Hope to hear back from you
I don’t know how the problem began. I used to read the personals sections on Craigslist constantly, c’mon who can resist? It’s hours of mindless entertainment. I started naturally enough on strictly platonic and grew to men seeking women… then to women seeking women. Then I graduated to casual encounters and finally succumbed to the ultimate in eSmut: the men seeking men section (one section to bind them all). I would call male friends and read them the headlines just to terrorize them: Private Erotic Discussion Group for Jehovah’s Witness Gay Men – Chelsea; I’ll Suck You Off While You Take a Dump – 27, Union Sq; Leather Master Seeks Pain Pig – 42, Meatpacking…
They stopped talking to me; I started leaving the headlines on their voice mails. Now I know the location of more glory holes in NYC than any other straight female. I’m trying to figure out how to parlay that into a business venture… any ideas?
$@bs
