Which version of "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the gayest: Sylvester's 1978 original or Jimmy Somerville's 1989 remake?
Sylvester - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6cPE2BHic
Jimmy Somerville - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZtdcMIR5do
Vote above!
Recently I have started to feel like that one certain porn star doesn't seem to like having me as a fan, the reason why I am not saying this persons name is because he hasn't really confirm that for me but I feel like it's a gut instincts, but thinking about this made me wonder if there are any other porn stars who don't love and appreciate their fanbase, Does anyone else one here experience this kind of scenario before?
Well, you're not giving much background on why you think that, but I imagine there has been some communication between you and the porn actor? Sounds like perhaps he is being polite and you should trust your gut instinct and think about it from his perspective.
Any kind of actor should appreciate their fans in general for providing an audience for their work but it is a bit much to expect any kind of one-on-one interaction beyond comments in a live video stream or similar situation such as a publicity appearance at a club that they participate in for that purpose. Even in those situations, too much attention from any one fan is inappropriate. To ask that they "love" their fans or even like them on a personal, one-to-one basis, is too much to expect.
Porn actors in particular are no doubt subjected to a lot of inappropriate attention and comments from particular fans. They probably get tired of it quickly and are even worried by it at times. There is an illusion of intimacy that is entirely one-way from the fan to the actor. It's a job, he has his own life, and he can't be buddies with all of his fans. There are a lot of nuts out there.
Imagine that instead of a porn actor, you were talking about a cashier at the grocery store or the waiter at a restaurant. The porn actor has as much right to privacy and a limit on personal interaction as they do.
Here is an abstract from an article in an English-language academic journal that affirms the queerness of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/590952/summary
There are many others, but you have to search for French-language articles.
That is just an excerpt of a review of a book, but it doesn't indicate that the book affirms the film's "queerness" at all. Instead, it states that the book is focused on comparing aspects of Demy's films to aspects of fairy tales. I read elsewhere that one film (Donkey Skin) is analyzed through the lens of "gay aesthetics" in the book.
More importantly, it doesn't hint at any element of the film that would constitute gay cultural aspects, subtext, etc. that are particularly discernible to the French and which would indicate a need to give more weight to the opinion of French GTRU users in determining whether the torrent should be allowed or not. The author of the book that is reviewed in that article is not even French, but American.
Here's a doctoral thesis entitled "Queer Enchantments" that looks at Demy's films through "a variety of queer and feminist lenses". It even has a 25 page section on Umbrellas but does not once in the entire thesis mention anything queer about it and even describes it as an "idealised heterosexual love story".
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/107760/1/WRAP_Theses_Mulligan_2017.pdf
Your comments are very sensible and I don't disagree with you. I just ask: what's the harm in having it available here, too? It's gay enough. There are other torrent sites for movies but why send people elsewhere?
I already said I don't think it's important to have it here but I would also agree that it's not particularly harmful to have it here, either. It's simply a matter of convenience for some users for a film like this.
In a discussion a while back on this site regarding non-porn films, I asked the question, "Where do you draw the line?" I feel comfortable drawing it to exclude both The Lighthouse and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg but of course others can disagree and it doesn't bother me one way or the other what is decided. Even being familiar with them, it would never have occurred to me to look for either of them here on a gay torrent site if I wanted to watch them again, except for this discussion.
However, I really do appreciate being able to find gay-themed films here, many of which are difficult or impossible to find elsewhere, and I think that is important.
In the end, it's a privately-owned torrent site and the owner can do what he pleases with no obligation to explain or justify his actions.
All I ask is that the opinion of French GTRU users be given extra weight, because they are the most culturally aware of the film's context.
Does that sound reasonable to you?
No, in the case of this particular film, no.
Can you list some valid cultural points related to gayness that only French GTRU users would be aware of or understand? It may be more important to French culture than U.S. culture (for example) in general simply because it's a French film, and certainly French GTRU users are more likely to have seen it than others, but I don't think it has any secret gay subtext or code or importance that is only discernible to French people, French LGBT+ people, francophones, etc. Has it even been analyzed or written about to relate it to anything gay?
It's also not very important to have it on a gay torrent site because it is so readily available elsewhere and likely will be indefinitely.
It happens to me exactly the same. I try a thousand ways and can't find the way. I see how other users are uploading this type of content continuously, I have already tried 9 times without any success.
What is happening?I get this message:
Upload failed!
Uploading .exe executable files is not allowed
(.exe .rar .zip, etc)Please correct it, too much that we spend a lot of time preparing the material so that later it takes even longer to upload it without success.
P.D: I try to upload the torrent directly from the gaytorrent.ru website
There was a problem with malware files in torrents and that might having something to do with it. Use the Helpdesk feature in the dropdown menu under Support at the top right corner of the page to ask a mod as they might or might not see this post. You could link to the post to give them the information to avoid rewriting it all.
I admit I started this thread in a fit of pique over the idea that THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG wasn't gay enough for this site, especially since we have so many French members…
I don't understand how you could reasonably take such a position. That film is not gay or gay-themed or homoerotic or anything else. It just is appealing to many gay men for various reasons. The same could be said for a good meal in a nice restaurant served by a handsome waiter. Just because it is appealing to many gay men for various reasons doesn't make it gay.
Now, I will say I don't think it's important that Hitchcock films are available on gay torrent sites because they are so widely available elsewhere. What is important to have on gay torrent sites is gay-themed films with little distribution and availability elsewhere. If someone wants to torrent Rope (or RuPaul's Drag Race, for that matter), there are dozens of torrent sites to choose from.
I beg to differ a bit…the reason I come to a gay-themed torrent site is precisely so I don't have to go elsewhere for movies and shows featuring gay themes or characters...this way, everything is in one place. Regardless whether any of the downloads can be found elsewhere. That's the entire point of having gay themed torrent sites (of which I belong to four, including this one).
In one case, it's a matter of convenience but in the other case, it's a matter of available or not available. Certainly with the examples I gave it's a matter of convenience, not importance.
Independents like myself just want to live in peace
Nah, you're gullible, ignorant, and violent, and one day you'll wake up handcuffed to a hospital bed with "PUSSY BITCH" crudely tattooed on your forehead and cry not because of the pain from the surgery to reconstruct your anus, rectum, and large bowel, but because you know you'll be safe for the few days you'll be in the hospital with a federal officer sitting in a chair outside your room.
I had forgotten about this comment I made over a year ago on a torrent page for Strangers on a Train. Even though it is not directly relevant to this thread, it's important to note that Hitchcock use homosexual subtext to denote villains, something that has unfortunately been very common even in Disney cartoons.
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It might be debatable, but plenty has been written about the gay themes and subtext in this film as well as many other Hitchcock films, notably including Rope and Psycho. For context, the film was released in 1951, a literal lifetime ago. Bruno's obsession with Guy is said to be fueled by sexual attraction. Hitchcock used gay coding in Bruno's effeminacy and implied homosexuality to portray him as a threatening villain to the audience. (Yes, that still happens, unfortunately.) Like The Talented Mr. Ripley, it was based on a Patricia Hightower novel, and the gay subtext in her novels, including Strangers on a Train, has also been written about extensively.
It is not directly relevant to your point, but it's interesting that actor Farley Granger was openly bisexual, which was unusual for the time.
Now, I will say I don't think it's important that Hitchcock films are available on gay torrent sites because they are so widely available elsewhere. What is important to have on gay torrent sites is gay-themed films with little distribution and availability elsewhere. If someone wants to torrent Rope (or RuPaul's Drag Race, for that matter), there are dozens of torrent sites to choose from.
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We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.
This is not a joke. This is not a drill. When we survivors of authoritarianism experience, as a group, a class, a cohort, something that we never, ever should — the horrific deja vu that the horrors of our childhoods, that our parents knew, are happening, all over again, here, something is much, much more wrong than you know.
Crucial institutions have already been captured by the extremist factions who stand against democracy.
I am getting the following error while uploading
Unable to load "qtm.torrent": torrent contains no piece hashes!how do I fix that
Does the title of your torrent contain any unusual characters? I found this in the QTM guide:
Some members have written the helpdesk, reporting:
when I try to upload a file using QTM I keep getting an error that says "Unable to load qtm.torrent: torrent is not valid bencoding!"
~or~
"I tried to create new torrent by QuickTorrent Maker v.1.14, but unsuccessfully.
Torrent file says "torrent has no hash parts".
To fix this issue, you need to take the special characters out of ALL of the file-names, by RENAMING the FILES.
ALL file-name characters must be normal ASCII characters, WESTERN ENGLISH FONT.
This error occurs when there is an unsupported character in one or more of the filenames in the torrent's contents. Generally, the most common character is the apostrophe. Please ensure that there are only regular letters or numbers, dots, spaces, or dashes in the filenames of all of the files in the torrent. Once that is done, try creating the .torrent file again and uploading the torrent again. The new upload should work once these characters are removed.
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Actually i might be wrong haha.
It hadn't occurred to me that it was him but now that you mention it, I think you are right. It looks like it's from an older video when he was younger, not just physically, but also the way he moves and laughs as he shows off his dick. He still does that! For comparison:
Opinion: Here's the president that says people are voting illegally and that voting by mail is a fraud to rig the election. He's telling people to vote by mail (which he says is a fraud), and then commit an illegal act just prove his point… insanity. I'
The reason he did it is to create doubt about elections and the process of voting and in particular the upcoming election. He won the electoral vote but not the popular vote in 2016. He is going to have an even harder time winning this year after having demonstrated just how awful of a president he actually is in more ways and to a greater degree than anyone could have imagined in 2016. He is not running against such an awfully unappealing candidate from the other major party this time around, either.
It's just what he does, promoting conspiracy theories and sowing doubt about anything that doesn't favor him or that he doesn't like. He has a long history of that. Questioning Obama's place of birth is a good example. That sort of thing appeals to the angry, ignorant and stupid sheep who are his core supporters.
You should consider deleting this post on your own as obviously he never intended for a folder that includes photos with his girlfriend along with his nude photos to be made public. It's probably already had a huge impact on his life and he looks like a nice enough guy. Give a high school kid who made some dumb mistakes a break and don't try to identify him and make his name public, too.
Another good reason to delete this post is that it's obvious what state he lives in and possessing or disseminating nude photos of anyone under 18 in that state is considered child pornography even though the age of consent for sex is 16 or 17 depending on the situation.
Mods should consider deleting that torrent for the same reason.
- How do we deal with movies that arguably have gay main characters, but were made before openly gay characters were allowed?
That last one is particularly difficult because it requires the most cultural competence – in this case, knowedge of the way that specific societies have treated their LGBT members over time. We are sure that the master-at-arms in Billy Budd is a closeted/repressed gay, because he is portrayed in ways that were used, at the time of the portrayal, to indicate queerness without being explicit. This is true of both the book and the film.
Hitchcock's Rope is a good example of that. The two main characters are obviously gay in subtle subtext but when the film was made, some straight people were probably oblivious to that. The characters are overtly gay in the play the film was based on.
A more recent example that would be difficult to classify is The Lighthouse. I would probably classify it as homoerotic and not gay-themed, but it could be reasonably argued either way, and in fact there are two torrents of the film here already.
Hi!
I was uploading a torrent file via QTM so that I can increase my ratio and bonuses. However, I have encountered this problem (see photo). After numerous tries, I decided to uninstall and reinstall the program. After reinstallation, I now don't have any prompts if my created torrent (if it was) was successful or not.
May I ask for any assistance regarding these concerns?
Thanks.
Did you search the torrents on the site to see if yours is now available on gaytorrent.ru?
Do you see it in the torrent software on your computer?
I don't use QTM but there is a tutorial here:
https://www.gaytorrent.ru/qtm.php?tutorial
If that doesn't help, use the Helpdesk feature in the drop-down menu under Support in the top right corner of the page to ask a mod for assistance.
What you're proposing seems well-reasoned and the discussions would also be interesting.
I have moved on and decided to avoid engagement with this person.
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As Black Lives Matter protests have spread across America, more and more people have begun sharing clips of police violence online. It’s not just happening at protests, either: sometimes police violence is captured in everyday life, which is what happened to Isaiah Benavides on June 2nd, outside a convenience store in Baytown, Texas.
That day, Benavides saw his friend, Jostin Moore, being stopped by a police officer who had previously been accused of targeting and harassing African Americans. Benavides took out his cellphone and hit record. He, along with his two friends, Skylar Gilmore and Isaiah Phillips, began questioning the arrest.
“They pulled you over for nothing.”“‘Cause he Black, huh?
“That’s fucked up.”
“Black lives matter.”
Officer Nathaniel Brown, of the Baytown Police Department, approached the bystanders as Benavides filmed. He then slammed Gilmore onto the ground and kneed him in the face. Gilmore and Philips were both arrested, and Benavides caught it all on tape. After Benavides posted the video online, it went viral and eventually led to Brown’s firing.
Example of a gay incel who lives in an alternate reality of "alternative facts" constructed by far-right regressive fascists and media whores:
