PT NEWS PT NEWS PT NEWS PT NEWS PT NEWS PT NEWS PT NEWS _____________________________________________________________ An Interactive Weekly Newspaper full of stories, weekly articles, gay news, news from the Pink Triangle chat room, trivia, BIOS, screen names, and much, much more! Without YOU, the reader… the PT News would not exist! _____________________________________________________________ Pink Triangle News pinktrinews@mailexcite.com Issue No. 56 - May 07,1999 Circulation: 256 Editors: FreddieB & Alladdinn _____________________________________________________________ "Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love." Thomas Szasz (Submitted by Alyx) _____________________________________________________________ Howdy Guys and Gals and welcome to another issue of the PT News! I trust your week has gone well and you are ready for the weekend and to sit back and relax while reading this week's paper! __________________________ "WARNING WILL ROBINSON": MOTHER'S DAY IS SUNDAY! Thought this was appropriate for the occasion. (Ali) Do you remember that Doris Day song, Que Sera Sera ? My mom used to sing it all the time. I remember her telling me when I was 9 or 10, "Bobby, our lives are like feathers, we don't decide what we will be, the wind blows us to our destiny". When she saw that I wasn't quite being able to grasp what she was saying, she asked me, "What do you wanna be when you grow up?" and I told her I wanted to be a racing car driver so that I could buy a cool sports car! She laughed and said, "It's natural for you to desire for expensive things now, but when you grow up you'll see that the most expensive thing in the world is love". That conversation comes back to me now, and I realize how true she was. We are born, we grow up, we have ambitions, aspirations, and we fight to uphold what we believe in, but had it not been for Mom, none of it would've happened anyway! So to all you people, think of all the love that your mom gave you, think of all the affection, the hard work she put in behind you. 9th of May is a day when you can give back a little of it to your mom, make her feel special and tell her you love her... http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothersday/happymothersday/ Do you know what the most difficult job in the world is? Being a mother (try getting a nine year old to stand under the shower and you'll know what I mean!) Lighten up your mother's day, tell her a joke and make her smile with a fun card to make her feel good! http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothersday/fromkids/ Give your mom flowers and gifts wrapped in your love... and fill her day with the beautiful things in life... http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothersday/flowersandgifts/ Mother's Day means more than just wishing your mom... it is also a day to wish that special person who is like a mother to you, it could be your grandma, aunt, your daughter (Is she a mom herself?) or even your wife. (remember the trouble she had to go through because of the toddler?) http://www.123greetings.com/events/mothersday/moms/ ______ NOW…without any further delay…We proudly bring you this week's edition of the PT News! _____________________________________________________________ DISCLAIMER: It is the intent of this paper to provide an enjoyable, informational reading material to you, the reader. The opinions and/or advice given throughout this paper are those of the readers that submit, and may not necessarily be those of the editors! All articles and submissions have been accepted and printed here in good faith (without editing) and is not verified, or researched by the editors, therefore may not be true! WARNING: SOME ARTICLES CONTAIN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL! _____________________________________________________________ WEEKLY CONTRIBUTORS OF THE PT NEWS: _____________________________________________________________ RE__ - "Round 'em UP" Primebear - Gay Voice Of America & Coming OUT gayvoice@hotmail.com Tech Master - Tech Tips vp_tips@hotmail.com Misty - Misty's Drag Bag Fairmerly - The Wormhole fairmerly@hotmail.com Goldie12 - THE Poetry Corner pinktrinews@mailexcite.com Maxam - Our resident "Roving Reporter!" Ganymede03 - Various articles _____________ THE EDITORS OF THE PTNEWS Alladdinn (Co-Editor, PT Birthdays) alladdinn@mailexcite.com Freddieb (Co-Editor, Up Close and Personal) fredericb@mailexcite.com _____________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL (Alladdinn) I'd just like to take a moment to thank those of you who have taken the time lately to respond to the paper and its content. Freddie has gotten surprisingly good feedback from being up close and personal with you, and I'm so glad that you are being so open and honest with him. That is just another way that we learn more about one another! The letters to the editors have also gotten a workout as of late. This is all a means of letting us know what you are thinking and how you feel about the content of the paper, and I'm glad that those of you are taking a great deal of interest to take the time to respond! Also, I have gotten quite a lot of positive feedback from my editorials the past few weeks. I just want to stress that these are simply my words from the heart and can be taken however they apply to you. They are not directed at anyone in particular, but the whole picture as I have observed it that week. I am opening myself, my feelings and my heart up to be exposed to everyone, so that hopefully you can see my sincerity and love for the Pink Triangle and this paper! Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks for your support! Ali ____________________________________________________________ LETTERS TO THE EDITORS pinktrinews@mailexcite.com __________________ Send your letters to the editors to: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com ALL comments and suggestions are valuable to us in providing you with the most enjoyable reading material possible! All will be taken into consideration! ___________ Dear Ali & Freddie, I have to ask you a favor. Lately I have been feeling very sad. In fact as I write this I have a hard time holding back the tears, but a guy I was with a few weeks ago told me something. He said it would help if I were to write down on paper just how I felt and then read it out loud and then throw the letter away. He said he had done just that and it seemed to have helped him. I thought I would take it a step further and write to PT News the same letter for the people in PT chat room are the best friends a guy could ever have and I thought sharing this will maybe help me some what too? I hope this is o.k.? Well here it is, I guess you could call this self therapy....... Dearest Chuck, It has been too long for this letter, but everyday it just gets that much longer and it eats away at me. Lately I have been seeing other men as I am looking for a life long partner. Everyone I meet I end up thinking of you and after they leave I feel very sad as I constantly think of you. I have much to say to you, and just because your gone doesn't mean it doesn't mean to be said... First of all I want to tell you how deeply sorry I am for NOT being there for you when I'm sure you needed it the most. I could go on and on giving you excuses why I wasn't but there really isn't any excuse why I did and did NOT do. Chuck you didn't deserve to die the way you did, I should have been there to help you and for my own selfish reasons I wasn't. Not one way did I help. In fact I ignored your suffering because of my own selfishness. I am only now realizing just how selfish I had become. It just pains me to no end to think that when you needed comforting the most, I chose not to ...And now I feel so ashamed of the way I acted. My being afraid of being outed was and is no excuse. I feel so ashamed of myself. Back n high school, you and I shared more with each other and were so close, that even married couples don't share the things we did, even in there life time they don't! I know cause I tried it. I never got to tell you how much you meant to me, and now it all seems so pointless, but as I go on living, a day doesn't go by that I don't think of the most intimate times we shared with each other. I think back and I now realize how important you were in my life. My selfishness made me brush our relationship aside and think of it as just lust and not what it really was. Trivial it was NOT. I wish you were here now so I could tell you to your face how important you were to me and still are for that matter. Chuck, I will close this letter with these thoughts, for what ever it's worth... Thank you for being my friend. While you were alive and in the prime of your life, you were the best friend a person could ever have had, and I thank the stars for having had the PRIVLAGE to have known you like I did!!! GOOD BYE MY LOVE!!! Jack [joker45] _____________________________________________________________ "ROUND 'EM UP" - THE NEWBIE CORNER (PT Recruiter…RE__) Let's take a moment to get to know our new folks that have joined our room! Hello pinkies how are you wonderful people this week? Well, no newbies for you this week, but I am on the road again. I am visiting worry and boo again, meeting a wonderful woman Ashlee, meeting pt mom, and hopefully the geese men. Recently I had something hit very close to home with me and changed the way I looked at life. With all the fights and arguing, rumors, and situations that are not meant to hurt anyone but always does, I had to ask myself why? Life is too damn short to worry about all that shit. Look at what is important in your life; be it love or friends or both, whatever makes you happy. Your happiness is more important than anything in this world. If you are happy, then everyone around you is happy. Nothing is forever not even living as much as that would be great. Do the things that make you happy and god forbid it not be rumors, or hatred, or misconceptions. Take the time to get these things out in the open and get on with the things that are important to you. I have made some wonderful friends in the pink tri and have met some of those friends... cupake, worry, boo, Celtix, anomie, MorganLilth, and soon lots more. I love to travel and what a better way to do it than meeting the people that I care about in life and getting to know them off the screen as well as on. Not all of us are able to do this, but I am glad that I can. I am looking forward to the reunion so much and hope to see most all of you there, well all but meet the people that I have not met. Stop and take a few minutes to hold someone's hand, look into their eyes, and see what they see. Not all the time it will be happiness but if you can change that for them then please do. Well, enough of the mushy stuff... I hope to see you all before this world takes me out. Have fun this weekend and be happy!!! Who knows where I will end up next, although Florida is sounding great! Take care pinkies and see you soon. Have a great week... Love to you all RE _____________________________________________________________ GAY VOICE OF AMERICA gayvoice@hotmail.com (Primebear) Nothing new this week. Sorry PrimeBear _____________________________________________________________ TECH TIPS and CYBER NEWS vp_tips@hotmail.com (Techmaster) ____________ TECH TIP #25 ____________ Shield Yourself! I was informed this past week that there has been a lot of flashing in the room lately. I wrote a tech tip about protecting yourself against flashing in a recent issue. Since then, though, a new patch has been made. It is called a "shielded av". A shielded av is simple a modified game. It was created in Delphi 4 by an API genius and programming mentor of mine. (although he uses Pascal, which I am not familiar with). You can get a shielded av at http://members.xoom.com/Rex__ As I stated in my previous tech tip about flashing, using a tour or pairing with someone is also effective against flashers. Also, you don't have to play an annoying game while doing it. Remember that game sounds can be turned off. P.S. I guess there are quite a few people who read this column. In the past week since I mentioned BiGrrl's Pink Triangle site in my column, membership has doubled to over 600. Send your tech questions to vp_tips@hotmail.com Tech_Master _____________ HERE'S THE ADDY FOR DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE FOR VP. Several people have been asking for the addy to download the free software in helping "mugs" view VP in all its glory, here is the download addy: http://www.excite.com/communities/chat/download/ _____________ PT NEWS SPECIAL MEMO - EXTRA, EXTRA, READ ALL ABOUT IT! _____________________________________________________________ THE NEW FORM OF BASHING - THE "ROOM KILL" PROGRAM Last Friday night, a new "room kill" program became available, which boots everyone in the room at once. The "room kill" program works by using an invalid gif as an av like a boot gesture uses an invalid gif as it's graphic. You do not have to accept any files, it works when they come in the room and use that corrupt av! Bashers are now using this "room kill" to boot us from the room, showing an illegal operation and shutting us down. There is a patch called "patchworx file" offered by the Black Hand that you can get which will keep this from happening, although informers have told me that the trojan in the patch can damage your explorer.exe file. You can get a "Nobootg.exe" patch at http://members.xoom.com/Rex__ ____________________ PREVENTION Here is what you can do to prevent from being booted when these people come in using the "room kill" program: 1. Either just turn off the avs... Or 2. Go to preferences and "uncheck" load virtual places graphics automatically" Please note that if you uncheck load graphics automatically the new avs that show in the room after, will look like a mouthless grey gumby. This is how to 'see' the avs you want to (caution if you retrieve an av on someone using room-kill you will be booted. 1. Right click with your mouse on the av you want to see. 2. Select retrieve picture. This is an inconvenient method, yes, but it prevents the room-killers from booting you. Hosts have been contacted numerously when this happens, but right now can not do anything to prevent it. The user of the "room kill" program just comes back again with a changed name. Excite is working on the problem, but until then if you follow the steps above, you will not get booted when these "bashers" try and boot the room. NOTE: The "room-kill" site had 14000 hits in 3 days, so a LOT of "bashers" have it, and are using it to clear out rooms! _________________________________________________________ This special News bulletin has been brought to you by the editors of the PT News. FreddieB & Alladdin Editors PT News _____________ Technical Support (Submitted by Maxam) Customer: "My computer crashed!" Tech Support: "It crashed?" Customer: "Yeah, it won't let me play my game." Tech Support: "All right, hit Control-Alt-Delete to reboot." Customer: "No, it didn't crash-it crashed." Tech Support: "Huh?" Customer: "I crashed my game. That's what I said before. I crashed my spaceship and now it doesn't work." Tech Support: "Click on 'File,' then 'New Game.'" Customer: [pause] "Wow! How'd you learn how to do that?" _____________________________________________________________ Two old drunks were drinking up at a bar. The first one says, "Ya know, when I was 30 and got a hard-on, I couldn't bend it with both hands. By the time I was 40, I could bend it about 10 degrees if I tried really hard." "By the time I was 50, I could bend it about 20 degrees, no problem. I'm gonna be 60 next week, and now I can almost bend it in half with just one hand." "So," says the second drunk, "What's your point?" "Well," says the first, "I'm just wondering how much stronger I'm gonna get!" (Submitted by lilbutch) _____________________________________________________________ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! ______________________ PT BIRTHDAYS alladdinn@mailexcite.com (Alladdinn) Howdy Birthday guys and gals! Let's take another look at our Birthday guy for the week of May 07, 1999: Mandata (May 05) I prepared for a special Bday spanking for Mandata, I only hope he could sit down the next day!!! LOL ______________ There are NO PT Birthdays on my list for the next two weeks, (Weeks ending May 14 & 21) Here are the remaining Birthdays that I have on my list for the rest of the month of May: youel......………. May 25 TennGirl41…….. May 30 ____________________ That's our Birthdays for last week, as well as our upcoming birthdays for the month of May. I hope everyone is enjoying their Birthday greetings, and if anyone would be interested in having the Birthday Horoscopes return to the paper, please let me know! Until next week's list of Birthday guys and gals... Love and Happiness, Ali ______ PS I have a list compiled of all the PT family birthdays. If, for some reason you hadn't sent in your Bday previously (perhaps you are a newbie, or just thought: "Hey, I haven't sent my Bday in yet!" then please send it to alladdinn@mailexcite.com and I will add it to my list of Bday Guys and Gals! ____________________________________________________________ COMING OUT gayvoice@hotmail.com or pinktrinews@mailexcite.com (Primebear) There are NO Coming Out stories this week! If you have a story of how you came out to friends or family, please click on the email links above to send them in! _____________________________________________________________ THIS WEEK'S FEATURE STORIES FROM OUR FAMILY MEMBERS _____________ These stories come to you from the readers of the PT News who have a talent to express their words by the means of telling a story. Some of these stories are from experience and are true, while others are mere fiction in the minds of the creator. If you have a story you'd like to share with our readers, please send it to: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com (This announcement has been brought to you by the PT News.) _____________________________________________________________ "A Screen name becomes the Alter ego for some of us!" ____________________ SCREEN NAMES pinktrinews@mailexcite.com If you'd like to share how you chose your screen name, please feel free to send in to: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com _____________ There were NO screen names sent in this week. ______________________________________________________________ ATTENTION PLEASE…I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!!! ______________________________________ The REUNITING OF THE WEDDING VOWS OF DEE AND BLISS (PT wedding reporter, Alladdinn) On Tuesday night, May 04 at 11:00 pm EST Dee and Steph renewed their wedding vows amongst friends and PT family, officiated by Gander. Primebear and Tawanda concluded the wedding party standing on either side of the brides, while the guests sat in two tour pews off to one side to avoid confusion of who was friends of which bride! (lol) Both brides looked smashing in their personalized self-portrait AV's. To begin the ceremony, Dee had the most eloquently heartfelt speech and well thought out expression of her feelings that this reporter has ever heard. I must say that this is one of the many virtual weddings that I have attended, although some may not understand the cause for such weddings, I could definitely sense the feeling of honest commitment between these two ladies! The reception following the ceremony was in a beautiful mansion style reception hall. Spirits were high and those that attended had a wonderful time. (Even though they all left this reporter alone at the end to clean up the mess and turn off the lights afterward!) LOL Congratulations Dee & Steph... May all your days together be as happy as the night you renewed your commitment to one another! Your PT wedding reporter, Ali ____________________________________________________________ The Densa Quiz! How dumb are you???? Take this quiz, if you dare, and see! http://www.pressanykey.com/densa/densa1.html ____________________________________________________________ BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS BIOS pinktrinews@mailexcite.com _________________________ Everyone enjoys discovering more about the people we see in the room on a daily basis. If you have not sent in your BIO…we'd love to hear from you, and for those of you who are new to PTN, a BIO is merely a little about yourselves to introduce you to our PT family. We all chat and get to know one another in PT, but trying to keep up with chat and IM's, along with ICQ (uh oh's) can be a challenge at times. Your BIO doesn't have to be anything lengthy, just anything you'd like to share with the rest of our family, so as to get to know you better! Thanks, Ali _____________ There were NO BIOS sent in again this week. ___________________________________________________________ A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste. ____________________ Wishes (Submitted by kalii2) One day in the great forest a magical frog was walking down to a water hole. This forest was so big that the frog had never seen another animal in all his life. By chance today a bear was chasing after a rabbit to have for dinner. The frog called for the two to stop. The frog said "Because you are the only two animals I have seen, I will grant you both three wishes... Bear, you go first." The bear thought for a minute, and being the male he was, said "I wish for all the bears in this forest, besides me, to be female. For his wish, the rabbit asked for a crash helmet, and immediately put it on. The bear was amazed at the stupidity of the rabbit, wasting his wish like that. It was the bear's second turn for a wish. "Well, I wish that all the bears in the next forest were female as well." Rabbit asked for a motorcycle and immediately hopped on it and gunned the engine. The bear was shocked that the rabbit was asking for these stupid things, after all, he could have asked for money and bought the motorcycle. For the last wish the bear thought for awhile and then said, "I wish that all the bears in the world, besides me, were female." The rabbit grinned, gunned the engine, and said: "I wish that the bear was gay..." _____________________________________________________________ IT'S A GAY WORLD ___________________ This is a new column that's content is up to you! What we are looking for is stories of our family from around the world. This could be anything from how the gay society is treated, or accepted in your area of the world, gay events, news, nightlife, or stories of gatherings of the PT family in your neck of the woods! Specifically, we would like to hear from those from Australia, Guam, New Zealand, Hawaii, England, Canada, New Finland, as well as the Four Corners of the United States! If you have any ideas or questions…please email us at: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com We are looking forward to hearing from you all! Alladdinn ____________________ News Article: N.H. repeals law against gay parenting (Submitted by lilbutch) CONCORD, N.H., May 3 (UPI) Gov. Jeanne Shaheen has signed a law repealing New Hampshire's ban on homosexuals serving as foster or adoptive parents. The law, which takes effect in 60 days, leaves Florida as the only U.S. state to bar homosexual parenting. With her signature today, Shaheen said, "New Hampshire now will be able to judge foster and adoptive families based on their fitness, without making prejudicial assumptions." The ban, enacted in 1988, was particularly strict. It prevented gay and lesbian people from serving as adoptive parents or as foster parents. It even prevented foster or adoptive parents from having homosexuals either as members of their households or as long-term visitors to their homes. The governor said, "For too long, too many qualified families have been denied the opportunity to provide a child in need with a healthy, loving environment." She said: "This law will allow more children to be with supportive and nurturing families. That's good for New Hampshire and good for our children." __________________________ Why gay couples must flee to Canada (Submitted By Goose and Gander) Marriage guarantees someone from abroad a future in the U.S. But if you're gay, you'll have to leave. 04/07/1999 The Globe and Mail, Metro, Page A1 STEPHANIE NOLEN ____________________ 10%-Qtv - Weekly Queer Television as Diverse as Our Community Check us out on the Web at http://10percent.interlog.com/ Casey Trauer and Eric Nachaman met in 1995 at a party in Little Canada, a blue-collar suburb of St. Paul, Minn. They chatted, but left without even exchanging phone numbers. Little did they imagine that four years later, they would be together and living in the big, original Canada. They pulled into Toronto with their U-Haul in January. Since then, Mr. Trauer, 28, has landed a job as a Web-site producer for the CBC. Mr. Nachaman, 29, is looking for work as a food scientist. "It's kind of like being in exile," says Mr. Trauer, in a gentle voice marked by broad American vowels. "But it's okay. The people are friendly." The two men came as landed immigrants but in reality became refugees for love. Like hundreds of others, Mr. Trauer and Mr. Nachaman have taken advantage of a twist in Canadian law that allows them to be together here when U.S. law would have kept them apart. It's an odd situation that makes gay men and lesbians both proud of Canada 's progressive attitude and at the same time unhappy that progress in this case comes with a hefty dose of deception. Mr. Nachaman is Polish and was in the United States on a student visa. When it expired in 1995, he had to get out. But by then, he and Mr. Trauer had fallen in love. Mr. Trauer went to work in Warsaw for a while, and then the two realized they wanted to be together, long-term, and not in conservative Poland, where they were forced to disguise their relationship. Had he been involved with an American woman, marriage would have given Mr. Nachaman U.S. residency rights automatically. Gay men have no such option. U.S. immigration law, tightened in 1996 and enforced with even greater stringency, would not recognize their relationship. Immigration lawyers estimate that thousands of couples, many of them parents, have been split up by a deportation drive begun in 1997 and intended to stop a flood of illegal aliens; gay couples are collateral damage in that effort. Mr. Nachaman's only hope of getting into the United States was the standard immigration application, from Poland, which might well have taken 10 years. "We could not," he said, "subject our relationship to that." And so, like hundreds of others in the past few years, he and Mr. Trauer turned to a modern-day underground railroad. They had heard mutterings about Canada, and then came across the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task Force. Run by volunteers on both sides of the border, LEGIT holds monthly information meetings in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa, as well as U.S. cities. Successful immigrants offer advice to those seeking to bring a partner to Canada, such as tips about the best immigration offices to use: Paris, Johannesburg and Seattle are said to have sympathetic case officers. They also share the magic word's "humanitarian and compassionate grounds," which can open the door to gay men and lesbians, even though, officially, Canada does not recognize a same-sex partner as a spouse. LEGIT estimates that in the past five years 700 people have come to Canada this way. From 1952 to 1978 it was illegal for gays or lesbians to enter Canada at all, let alone as immigrants. (A similar U.S. law was not dropped until 1991.) The immigration policy began to change in 1991, when two women challenged under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, arguing that the law discriminated against them because they could not sponsor their lesbian partners. Anxious to avoid a court ruling that would impose new regulations, the government settled both cases, and allowed the women in. The cases gave lawyers, and would-be immigrants who heard about them through the grapevine, new inspiration. Riding the lawsuit chill, couples began to apply -- and win approval. Christine Morrissey and Bridget Coll formed LEGIT and have become the engineers on the under-ground railroad. They had launched the first challenge when Ms. Coll, an Irish and U.S. citizen, was rejected even though the two had been together for 10 years. But Cynthia Petersen, a Toronto lawyer who specializes in gay rights litigation, calls Canada 's little legal two-step "completely unsatisfactory". For example, Mr. Trauer and Mr. Nachaman didn't have to resort to "the H&C," as it's known. They applied together through the Warsaw office and, being young men with highly employable skills, were both approved as immigrants. But it is rarely that easy for would-be immigrants at the mercy of the officer who assesses their application. Heather Ross, who came to Toronto from California in late 1997 to join her Canadian partner, recalls worrying that "if I get an immigration officer who is homophobic, that might be the reason we can't be together, but I'll never know it." This leaves activists such as Ms. Morrissey with mixed emotions. "We've assisted a lot of people in coming here, and that's positive," she said. "But what we want, the way it should work, is that same-sex partners should be recognized in the family class [for sponsorship]. The Justice Department's own lawyers have told Immigration that they can't continue to discriminate, and they're running out of time." A gay -rights organization called the Foundation for Equal Families has launched a massive lawsuit against the government, demanding changes to 58 statutes which it says are discriminatory, many because of the way they define "spouse." To avoid a lengthy court case, the government seems to be planning piecemeal changes to legislation (such as income tax, pensions, and social security), rather than passing much more controversial omnibus legislation to redefine "spouse" to include same-sex partners. "There is a lack of political will," Ms. Petersen says. "The government wants to deflect criticism . . . so they can say, 'We did this because we had to.' " In a white paper released in January, the immigration department indicated only that it is considering a redefinition of "spouse" to include same-sex and common-law partnerships. "The government is inclined to move in this direction, but it has not been decided what form this will take," said spokesman Rene Mercier. To the critics who deride the tortured application process, he responds, "We're a step ahead of many countries, even with the H&C." Only a handful of other nations, such as Norway, South Africa and New Zealand, allow same-sex couples to immigrate as spouses or sponsor each other for immigration. In the end, Mr. Trauer and Mr. Nachaman didn't have to rely on humanitarian and compassionate grounds, but they, too, feel that something should be done. "We're not the best ones to express why it's important to codify this," Mr. Trauer said. "There are people who are poor, who don't make as much as we do or do what we do, who have less chance of making it. "We were very lucky," he added. Lucky and grateful to Canada -- but nonetheless waiting for a sea change south of the border that might allow them to go home. Others from the United States, such as Ms. Ross, are happily planning to stay. " Canada sees us as just a little bit more of a legitimate couple than the U.S.," she said. "I'm more of a person here. We're a family here." THE WAY IT WORKS In 1994, Immigration Canada advised its case officers that they could cite "humanitarian and compassionate" grounds to let a same-sex partner stay in the country. A couple had to be able to prove a bona fide relationship and show they would suffer considerable hardship if forced apart. So now the process works like this: Citizen: A Canadian applies to sponsor a same-sex spouse. That application is rejected because a "spouse" by definition is someone of the opposite sex. The applicant then appeals on humanitarian and compassionate grounds and the partner is let in. Non-citizen: First, one partner must succeed in immigrating through regular channels and then sponsor the other. People deemed to be too old or in professions not weighted highly enough are stuck. However, gay men and lesbians can seek refugee status if they can demonstrate they will face persecution at home because of their sexual orientation. --- LEGIT Toronto (Lesbian & Gay Immigration Task Force) P.O. Box 111, Station F, Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2L4 Tel: 416/925-XTRA x2211 ______________________________________________________________ "WANTED, NEEDED, SEARCHING FOR, GOTTA HAVE IT, CAN'T FIND IT!" _______________________________________ PT CLASSIFIEDS _____________ PT Classifieds are meant to not only be humorous, but also used as a means of placing advertisements for things you might be looking for, possibly used for personals, as well as letting missing people know they are missed! If you would like to place an ad, please send it to: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com and we will gladly print it for you! _____________________ WANTED: If there's anyone that is still searching for someone to carpool with to the reunion next month, please let us know so that maybe we can find you a ride! We want everyone that wants to go to the reunion to be able to attend! ___________________ Missing: Has anyone seen Fairmerly? We haven't heard anything from him in a couple weeks now, and I'm beginning to get a little worried! ____________________ WANTED: If anyone is interested in writing or helping with the PT News in any way, shape or form, please send us an email to the PT News address and we'll gladly welcome you aboard! _____________________________________________________________ This is an interesting perspective to think about. I'm not sure who put this together originally. (Submitted by Denarius) If we could, at this time, shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look like this: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans. 70 would be nonwhite; 30 white. 70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian. 50% of the entire world wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people. All 6 would be citizens of the United States. 70 would be unable to read. 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 80 would live in substandard housing. Only 1 would have a college education. When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for both tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent. _____________________________________________________________ POETRY CORNER pinktrinews@mailexcite.com ____________________ When things are down and you need to release, a poem is a perfect way to feel because it can't talk back or try to give solutions to your problem. (Krymsyn) ____________________ The Morning Poem.... for Non-Morning People (Submitted by Alladdinn, from a friend) I woke early one morning, The earth lay cool and still When suddenly a tiny bird Perched on my window sill, He sang a song so lovely So carefree and so gay, That slowly all my troubles Began to slip away. He sang of far off places Of laughter and of fun, It seemed his very trilling, brought up the morning sun. I stirred beneath the covers Crept slowly out of bed, And gently lowered the window And crushed his fucking head. ____________________ Old Man, old man He sits alone by the glassy lake. Snow covering his closed eyes the white sky looking mean. Quietly, he dies trapped by his own dream. Awakening, he sighs, "Alive, yes. Not living but still I'm alive." No one seems to notice this bent old man as he hangs his head and cries. thatgirlp copyright 1987 ____________________ And now, another poem from our very own POETRY CORNER HOSTESS: Goldie, our Peculiar Poet… _______ To all the boys I loved before... Who traveled in and out my door... Hello fellow chatters, Hope you all are sending in your poems of the week, or if any of you have noticed that I'm now sending in some songs that mean a great deal to me. If you choose to send in a Song, please do so, or you can stick to the Poem of the week. I do need some submissions, so if you all can help me out that would be great. Tks Goldie ;-) And now for another poem by ME. Sitting here thinking of all my friends in chat, Make my day, never want to end, For all of you are the Truest of true, without you I'm blue. I go home there is no puter, what is there to do? like I said I'm blue. So many pals are missing I wonder where they can be? Maybe they are lonely, Just like me. Morgan I miss ya wherever you are, Near, or far. Drade, you are the kewlest buddy to sit with, giving you girlie kisses, Jenna silly girlie I love you too. without you's I am blue... _____________________________________________________________ Life in the 1500's----- (Submitted by Denarius) Anne Hathaway was the wife of William Shakespeare. She married at the age of 26. This is really unusual for the time. Most people married young, like at the age of 11 or 12. Life was not as romantic as we may picture it. Here are some examples: Anne Hathaway's home was a 3-bedroom house with a small parlor, which was seldom used (only for company), kitchen, and no bathroom. Mother and Father shared a bedroom. Anne had a queen sized bed, but did not sleep alone. She also had 2 other sisters and they shared the bed also with 6 servant girls. (this is before she married) They didn't sleep like we do lengthwise but all laid on the bed crosswise. At least they had a bed. The other bedroom was shared by her 6 brothers and 30 field workers. They didn't have a bed. Everyone just wrapped up in their blanket and slept on the floor. They had no indoor heating so all the extra bodies kept them warm. They were also small people, the men only grew to be about 5'6" and the women were 4'8". So in their house they had 27 people living. Most people got married in June. Why? They took their yearly bath in May, so they were still smelling pretty good by June, although they were starting to smell, so the brides would carry a bouquet of flowers to hide their b.o. They took their yearly bath in May, but it was just a big tub that they would fill with hot water. The man of the house would get the privilege of the nice clean water. Then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was pretty thick. Thus, the saying, "don't throw the baby out with the bath water," it was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. To describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs." Since there was nothing to stop things from falling into the house they would just try to clean up a lot. But this posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings from animals could really mess up your nice clean bed, so they found if they would make beds with big posts and hang a sheet over the top it would prevent that problem. That's where those beautiful big 4 poster beds with canopies came from. When you came into the house you would notice most times that the floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt, that's where the saying "dirt poor" came from. The wealthy would have slate floors. That was fine but in the winter they would get slippery when they got wet. So they started to spread thresh on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on they would just keep adding it and adding it until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. So they put a piece of wood at the entryway, a "thresh hold". In the kitchen they would cook over the fire, they had a fireplace in the kitchen/parlor, that was seldom used and sometimes in the master bedroom. They had a big kettle that always hung over the fire and every day they would light the fire and start adding things to the pot. Mostly they ate vegetables, they didn't get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner then leave the leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew would have food in it that had been in there for a month! Thus the rhyme: peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometimes they could get a hold of some pork. They really felt special when that happened and when company came over they even had a rack in the parlor where they would bring out some bacon and hang it to show it off. That was a sign of wealth and that a man "could really bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with guests and they would all sit around and "chew the fat." If you had money your plates were made out of pewter. Sometimes some of their food had a high acid content and some of the lead would leach out into the food. They really noticed it happened with tomatoes. So they stopped eating tomatoes, for 400 years. Most people didn't have pewter plates though, they all had trenchers, that was a piece of wood with the middle scooped out like a bowl. They never washed their boards and a lot of times worms would get into the wood. After eating off the trencher with worms they would get "trench mouth." If you were going traveling and wanted to stay at an Inn they usually provided the bed but not the board. The bread was divided according to status. The workers would get the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family would get the middle and guests would get the top, or the "upper crust". They also had lead cups and when they would drink their ale or whiskey, The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. They would be walking along the road and here would be someone knocked out and they thought they were dead. So they would pick them up and take them home and get them ready to bury. They realized if they were too slow about it, the person would wake up. Also, maybe not all of the people they were burying were dead. So they would lay them out on the kitchen table for a couple of days, the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. That's where the custom of holding a "wake" came from. Since England is so old and small they started running out of places to bury people. So they started digging up some coffins and would take their bones to a house and re-use the grave. They started opening these coffins and found some had scratch marks on the inside. One out of 25 coffins were that way and they realized they had still been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on their wrist and lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night to listen for the bell. That is how the saying "graveyard shift" was made. If the bell would ring they would know that someone was "saved by the bell" or he was a "dead ringer". Amazing, eh? _____________________________________________________________ UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL (FreddieB) Welcome to the wonderful world of Up Close and Personal with your host, FreddieB. A weekly interactive column of questions that dare to be asked and double dared to be answered. We all want to know exactly how you feel about certain topics that normally wouldn't be discussed openly in chat. Answering is strongly suggested but please be honest and don't beat around the bush. Tell us how you REALLY feel!!! After each set of weekly questions, I will print the responses the following week. Looking forward to your participation and interactions. Now for this weeks questions: 1. Where is the most unusual place that you have had sex? 2. If I were to give you $5000.00, what would you do with it? 3. If you started a new relationship with someone and your parents told you they didn't approve of that person and you had to choose between that person and your parents...Who would you choose? 4. On an airplane you are talking to a stranger of very good looking appearance. Unexpectedly, the person offers you $10,000 for one night of sex. Knowing there is no danger and that payment is certain, would you accept the offer? 5. If you were able to wake up tomorrow in the body of someone else, would you do so and whom would you pick? 6. If you could choose the manner of your death, what would it be? Please be open and honest as possible. Some of the questions require some thought and explanations. Looking forward to your answers for next week's issue! Please email your responses to pinktrinews@mailexcite.com Give your MOM a great big kiss from FreddieB!!! Be Good and Play Safe, FreddieB ______________________________________________________________ What's everyone looking at? Check out the Top40 most requested stocks! Plus quotes, charts, news, portfolios, mutual funds, and discussion. All free, fast, and easy. Visit: http://clickhere.egroups.com/click/63 ______________________________________________________________ MISTY'S DRAG BAG (Misty Meanor) Production or spot numbers, assembling a show and trying it all to get run smoothly can be a very harrowing and daunting task. Murphy's Law has a real nasty habit of popping its head in the most unlikely of places. This week I'm going to describe the typical way I try to put together a collection of individual performances into a show and what you need to consider when you do so. Look at what you need, do you need spotlights or a microphone, etc. O.K. firstly check that you have your venue, then double check just to make sure about a week beforehand. Check the dance/performing areas and the seating arrangements. Check the equipment and the lights. Check there is adequate preparation/dressing room. If not, you may need to curtain off an area for this purpose. Look at bar staff and make sure they know what people will expect in the way of drinks and snacks so they can stock up. Arrange your DJ. Make sure they are familiar with the equipment and its a good idea for the DJ to get there before opening time to ensure everything is connected and working the way its supposed to.(spare fuses and a couple of light bulbs and some electrical tape normally fixes most little things that tend to go wrong). Make sure your DJ has a running sheet, knowing what is expected of them, timing of songs, lights, etc. Also because the DJ is usually stuck in their box for the night, make sure they are catered for with drinks and snacks and someone who can jump in the box and put on the next song for when they have to answer the call of nature. Your worst nightmare is the performers themselves. Remember you are dealing with everything from Prima Donna, experienced professional to someone who gets butterflys and doesn't think they can go on stage (and that's all in one person). Are they ready for their performance? Have they rehearsed? Are the outfits complete? Do they know where they have to exit and enter the stage-area from? Did they remember to bring their music? Do they know where to get ready? Are they going to arrive on time? I suggest someone be assigned to bringing a makeup kit for those who forget something. Also bring your glue gun, a stapler and staples, sticky tape, spare stockings, spare shoes in case they break a heel and one spare outfit in case something goes drastically wrong with the one they wanted to wear. Make sure there is a mirror or two available so they can touch up the makeup. And bring a fan. It gets a bit hot on stage and after performing its good to cool down a bit and get rid of the sweat before taking the bow LOL. Have a copy of the running order close to the entry point to the stage so they can see who is on next. In arranging the order of the songs try to break them up a bit. Don't put all slow songs together, but go upbeat then balland etc. Ask them how much time they need to change in between numbers. Some outfits take a lot to get in and out of. If people are doing songs by the same singer try to put other numbers in between unless of course you're doing all that person. And keep a couple of copies of the running order with you in case the other ones go missing and you need to replace them. Nothing worse then trying to read a running sheet that's been hastily written using a napkin and a lipstick (but this is a good backup plan LMAO). Don't panic. The time to panic and worry is when you have done everything and the show is over and you are thinking about what you should do next time. Have fun doing it; yes its stressful and agonizing but its lots of fun and done right it will be one hell of a night. Lots of Luck and Love Misty ______________________________________________________________ REX'S BASKET _____________ Hello sports fans! Well it's official, the Sens are out of contention. It already looks like there really isn't any competition for any of the top three in the west. Toronto or Boston vs. Dallas, Colorado or Detroit. Another 4 game final? Looks like another year where the top three seeds in the east lose. Last year my Capitals were in the catbirds seat. This year, it's Toronto's turn. I have to start with yet another list of faves. This time it's those great gams of tennis. BEST LEGS IN TENNIS ------------------- LADIES ------ 1. Steffi Graf 2. Anna Kournikova 3. Mary Pierce 4. Dominique Van Roost 5. Venus Williams MEN --- 1. Jim Courier 2. Cedric Pioline 3. Malavai Washington 4. Stephan Edberg 5. Michael Chang Next week- Top 10 Bounciest tennis busts. I guess a sports bra ain't enough at times. THIS BIG GUY IS "ON THE TEAM" ----------------------------- On March 10, Ian Roberts announced that rumors about his retirement are false. Roberts has announced he intends to continue playing. Ian Roberts, 30, the Australian out-gay rugby international had this to say about his homosexuality and his team's acceptance: "As an out-gay guy in a sport perceived as very heterosexual, I have attracted quite a lot of animosity. The saving grace has always been with the game itself. Most of the players and administrators, with a few exceptions, have been accepting." "By mixing with them and playing football with them, I was able to establish their respect as a person. But having a gay team could make an unwanted issue out of sexuality in sport." "I take offense at the old locker room argument which assumes a man cannot, in any circumstances, control his urges. Any self-respecting human being can respect the rights and ways of another human being. The idea, then, that gays can convert, or want, heterosexual guys, is ludicrous. We want to play the game, not the field." THE SILVER SCOREBOARD --------------------- Roberts has told the press that he is in negotiations with film producers to star as himself in an autobiographical movie! I have gotten many complaints about not having links of featured athletes. From now on, I will try to add a few links for each athlete. Thanks for your responses. Here's a great picture of Ian: http://www.dstc.edu.au/TU/staff/timbomb/ian/pics/WATSON2.jpg Here's a body nude of Ian: http://www.dstc.edu.au/TU/staff/timbomb/ian/pics/BLUE5.jpg Here's a more dramatic picture of Ian which I love: http://www.dstc.edu.au/TU/staff/timbomb/ian/pics/sheet.gif MY ONGOING SOFTBALL BATTLE AT THE OFFICE ---------------------------------------- Bea was kind enough to remind everyone about the softball league through the company e-mail. I even got a reminder! I posted a message in the kitchen over 2 weeks ago too, conveniently over the sink. It's now official- everyone knows. All I have to do now is hope the reaction is positive. Patty, our database Q/A expert, is extremely keen on the idea and has asked me if her boyfriend (who isn't an employee) can also play. I will have to check with this since he reminds me of Oral Hercheiser (Braves MVP pitcher a few years back). I am also thinking of appealing to our Social Committee, even though I refused membership last year. You can reach me, Rex, at vp_tips@hotmail.com _____________________________________________________________ LEATHER (Primebear) Hello family. Well last week's column did strike up some interest. I didn't receive any email but I did receive IM's and open chat in the room. This week's column is dress code. Unfortunately, I only know the Male dress code for the Leather Bars. I haven't been able to find any listing for our female members on what is appropriate or how they signal each other on what their interest are. If you know of a place, Email me at MasterPrimeBear@hotmail.com and I will pass it along. Last week I mentioned that someone who has been in the Leather Community for awhile can detect a wannabe real quick. Dress code could give you away. I was a bouncer at many Leather Bars in San Diego and Los Angeles and sometimes it was quite hysterical on what people would wear when they came into the bar. Then again, sometimes it was quite hot and then sometimes quite daring. Loved those nights. Everything a Leatherman wears is a signal. Why signals? Well for one thing the bars are usually very noisy and another thing is talk is cheap. Basic attire is cock ring, jock strap, Levi's 501 jeans (button down plain jeans, the more worn out and faded, the better. Form fitting helps.), socks, boots (black engineer), belt (black), T-shirt (plain pocket or no pocket), and a vest (leather, black). Alright. Now you're dressed for the very basic no signal night out in the Leather bar. Can't afford to buy anything else to go out but still want to give out a signal. Easy to do. Make sure your 501's ride up your crotch (this will help in showing your basket and forcing it left or right of the buttons.) Hanging left (you want to be on top, in charge.) Hanging right (you want to be the bottom, submissive). Easy huh. O.K. Dare to go farther??? Why not hankies?? Hankies tell others what scene you want to get involved with. Anything in your Left back pocket means your top, in charge. Anything in the Right back pocket means your bottom, submissive. That is easy but the hard part is knowing what the colors represent. You aren't out in the bars to be color coordinate or fashionable. Leather men could really care less about that. Our minds are basically sex. Simple idea. Yes some are out just to enjoy themselves but won't pass up an opportunity for sex if it arises. You can wear more than one color in your pocket. There are no guidelines on that. So, let's review some OLD STANDARD COLORS first then we'll go into some of the newer colors that are hanging in the bars. BLACK- left SM Master, right SM slave RED- left Fister (gives fist), right Fistee (receives fist) DARK BLUE (NAVY BLUE)- left Fucker, right Fuckee LIGHT BLUE- left gets Sucked, right Gives Head YELLOW- (GOLDEN SHOWER) left Urinates On, right Receives Urination BROWN- left SHITS ON, right Receives or eats shit GREEN (KELLY GREEN)- HUSTLER- left Sells, right Buys ORANGE- left ANYTHING TOP, right ANYTHING bottom PURPLE (PIERCING)- left Piercer, right Piercee GRAY (BONDAGE/LIGHT SM)- left TOP, right BOTTOM Those were the basic colors. The say if you will THE OLD GUARD COLORS. Now the colors below are out in the bars also and they are kind of new and yes, they have meanings behind them as well. BLACK and WHITE CHECKERED (Safe Sex)- left Top (will train you if needed), right Bottom (will train you if needed) PEACH- (HIV)- left Negative, right Positive ROBIN'S EGG BLUE- left 69er (aggressor), right 69ee MEDIUM BLUE- left COP, right COP LOVER LIGHT PINK- left Dildo Screwer (giver), right Dildo receiver DARK PINK- left Tortures Nipples, right loves to have Nipples Tortured DARK RED (2 handed Fist)- left Fister (gives), right Fistee (receives) MAUVE- left into Naval Worshipers, right Has a Naval fetish MAGENTA- left Suck My Armpits, right Armpit Sucker LAVENDER- left Likes Cross-dressers or Transvestites, right IS Cross Dresser or Transvestite MUSTARD- left IS 8" or more, right WANTS 8" or more RUST- left 2 Looking for 1 (three way), right 1 Looking for 2 (three way) APRICOT- left Two Ton's o' Fun (obese), right Chubby Chaser CORAL- left Suck my Toes, right Foot Fetish GOLD- left Cowboy, right A Cowboy's Horse FUSHIA- left Spanker, right Spankee OLIVE DRAB- left Military Top, right Military Bottom HUNTER GREEN- left Daddy, right Boy Looking For Daddy BROWN LACE- left Uncut, right Wants a Hood CHARCOAL- left Latex Fetish Top, right Latex Fetish Bottom WHITE- left wants to be Jacked Off, right Will Jack Off Both RED/WHITE STRIPE- left Shaver, right Shavee BLACK/WHITE STRIPE- left Prefers Black Bottoms, right Prefers Black Tops BROWN/WHITE STRIPE- left Prefers Latino Bottoms, right Prefers Latino Tops YELLOW/WHITE STRIPE- left Prefers Oriental Bottoms, right Prefers Oriental Tops Damn. It seems like this is a never-ending story of colors. This just scratches the surface. Now you know why I like the basic OLD GUARD COLORS. Easier to remember. The colors just went on. There is Paisley, Leopard, Tan, Chamois, Fur, Silver Lam'e, Gold Lam'e, Teddy Bear, Kewpie Doll, Jock Strap, Kleenex, Grey Flannel, Handie Wipe, Cocktail Napkin, Doily, Mosquito Netting, and on and on. Guess you can make up your own colors but it would be nice to know what they mean. Another way of identifying TOPS from BOTTOMS is how things are worn. Things like Key rings, basket (mentioned above), armbands, wrist bands, nipple rings. Anything Left is Top anything right is Bottom and if they are wearing both sides it could mean will go both ways or it's a fashion statement. You would have to go find out, but hopefully he is wearing some other signaling device like hankies to tell you what he wants. O.K. Now you're armed with the material to go out into the Leather Bars and have fun. Just remember though. I can tell you what to wear and how to dress but I can't teach you attitude and Leathermen have attitude that is unique and very difficult to describe so you'll have to go out and walk on egg shells for awhile. Until next week. Play Safe what ever you do. MasterPrimeBear _____________________________________________________________ HANKY CODES (Alyx) I am sending you a list of both male and female hanky codes. These are used by some folks in the leather community to identify what they are into without all the questions. I will do the women's first as it is shorter than the guys, though I know there is a longer one out there somewhere. The group Leather and Lace based out of LA did one as well as Samois. This copy is from Samois for the woman and a place called Leather Image in SF for the men. Alyx WOMEN's Hanky codes Left side Color Right side Fist fucker Red Fist fuckee Anal sex, Top Dark Blue Anal sex, bottom Oral sex, Top Light Blue Oral sex, bottom Light S/M, Top Robins Egg Blue Light S/M, bottom Food Fetish, Top Mustard Food Fetish,bottom Anything goes, Top Orange Anything goes, bottom Gives golden showers Yellow Wants golden showers Hustler, selling Green Hustler, buying Uniforms/Military, Top Olive Drab Uniforms/Military, bottom Likes novices, Chickenhawk White Novice (or virgin) Victorian scenes, Top White Lace Victorian scenes, bottom Does Bondage Grey Wants to be put into bondage Shit scenes, Top Brown Shit scenes, bottom Heavy S/M & Whipping, Top Black Heavy S/M & Whipping, bottom Piercer Purple Piercee Likes menstruating women Maroon Is menstruating Group sex, Top Lavender Group sex, bottom Breast fondler Pink Breast fondlee Men Hanky codes..... Left is Top, right is bottom LEFT COLOR RIGHT Wants head Light Blue expert cocksucker sixty-niner Robins Egg Blue sixty-nine Cop Medium Blue Cop-sucker Fucker Navy Blue Fuckee Cock and ball torture Teal Blue cock and ball torturee Fist fucker Red Fist fuckee Dildo fucker Light Pink Dildo Fuckee Tit torture Dark Pink Tit torturee 2-Handed fister Dark Red 2-Handed fistee Likes menstruating women Maroon women menstruating Into navel worshippers Mauve Has navel fetish "Suck my pits" Magenta armpit freak Piercer Purple Piercee Likes Drag Lavender Drag Pisser Yellow Pissee Spits Pale Yellow Drool crazy Has 8" or more Mustard Wants a BIG one 2 for 1 Gold 1 looking for 2 Anything, anywhere, anytime Orange Not now, thanks Two tons O' Fun Apricot Chubby Chaser Suck my toes Coral Shrimper A Cowboy Rust His Horse Spanker Fuschia Spankee Hustler Kelly Green John Military Top Olive Drab Military, bottom Daddy Hunter Green Hunting for Daddy Dines off tricks Lime Green Dinner Plate Rimmer Beige Rimmee Scat Top Brown Scat bottom Has uncut dick Brown lace likes uncut cocks Circumcized Brown Satin likes circumcized cocks Heavy S/M Top Black Heavy S/M bottom Bondage Top Grey Bondage bottom Latex fetish Top Charcoal Latex fetish bottom Actually owns a suit Gray Flannel Likes men in suits "Beat my meat" White "I'll do us both" Cums in scum bags Cream Suck it out Shaver Red/White stripes Shavee Likes black bottoms Black/white stripes likes black tops likes latino bottoms Brown/white stripes likes latino tops likes oriental bottoms Yellow/white stripes likes oriental tops likes white bottoms White Lace likes white tops Wears boxer shorts Paisley likes boxer shorts Beastialitist, top Fur Beastialitist, bottom Star fucker Silver Lame Star Likes bottom musclemen Gold Lame Likes Top musclemen Has Tattoos Leopard Likes Tattoos Smokes Cigars Tan Likes cigars Cuddler Teddy Bear Cuddlee Chicken Kewpie Doll Chicken Hawk Wears a dirty jock Dirty jockstrap sucks 'em clean Has drugs Zip-lock bag Looking for Drugs Stinks Kleenex sniffs (or has a cold) Gives HOT motor oil massages Handywipe Wears it well Rides a motorcycle Chamois Likes Bikers Bartender Cocktail Napkin Bar Groupie Tearoom Top Doily Tearoom bottom Outdoor sex, top Mosquito Netting Outdoor sex, bottom Lovers out, my place ok Toothbrush Lover's home, your place only _____________________________________________________________ Here's one for all us dog owners...how true it is! Love to you all! vans! _______ Doggie Dictionary: LEASH: A strap which attaches to your collar, enabling you to lead your people where you want them to go. DOG BED: Any soft, clean surface, such as the white bedspread in the guest- room or the newly upholstered couch in the living room. DROOL: Is what you do when your persons have food and you don't. To do this properly you must sit as close as you can and look sad and let the drool fall to the floor, or better yet, on their laps. SNIFF: A social custom to use when you greet other dogs. Place your nose as close as you can to the other dog's rear end and inhale deeply, repeat several times, or until your person makes you stop. This can also be done to human's crotches. GARBAGE CAN: A container in which your neighbors put out once a week to test your ingenuity. You must stand on your hind legs and try to push the lid off with your nose. If you do it right you are rewarded with margarine wrappers to shred, beef bones to consume and moldy crusts of bread. BICYCLES: Two-wheeled exercise machines, invented for dogs to control body fat. To get maximum aerobic benefit, you must hide behind a bush and dash out, bark loudly and run alongside for a few yards; the person then swerves and falls into the bushes, and you prance away. DEAFNESS: This is a malady which affects dogs when their person wants them in and they want to stay out. Symptoms include staring blankly at the person, then running in the opposite direction, or lying down. THUNDER: This is a signal that the world is coming to an end. Humans remain amazingly calm during thunderstorms, so it is necessary to warn them of the danger by trembling uncontrollably, panting, rolling your eyes wildly, and following at their heels. WASTEBASKET: This is a dog toy filled with paper, envelopes, and old candy wrappers. When you get bored, turn over the basket and strew the papers all over the house until your person comes home SOFAS: Are to dogs like napkins are to people. After eating it is polite to run up and down the front of the sofa and wipe your whiskers clean. BATH: This is a process by which the humans drench the floor, walls and themselves. You can help by shaking vigorously and frequently. BUMP: The best way to get your human's attention when they are drinking a fresh cup of coffee or tea. GOOSE BUMP: A maneuver to use as a last resort when the Regular Bump doesn't get the attention you require... especially effective when combined with The Sniff. See above. LOVE: Is a feeling of intense affection, given freely and without restriction. The best way you can show your love is to wag your tail. If you're lucky, a human will love you in return. If not, you can always sniff their crotches. _____________________________________________________________ SITES WORTH SEEING Websites from a few of our "Family" members for you to check out! (Maxam) ____________________ Here is a NEW site for you to check out!!! If you'd like to check out the events planned for the PT Reunion, check out this webpage created by Alladdin just for you! Also included is what we call the Pink Pages, which is links to other pages people have made. Here's the addy: http://www.hotyellow98.com/ptreunion/pinkpages.html _____________________ Here are a few new additions that Maxam, Rex, Looksjustlikeme and vanboys have sent us: http://www.plumbdesign.com/theraurus/ http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/tree.html http://www.netfinder.com/links/html/sgpl.html http://www.webbyawards.com/ http://www.prolaunch.com/ http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdres.htm Great pages boys! It's vanboys here. Too bad our web site is for the color guard. But you can add my sisters' page to it. Its full of greetings, virtual gifts, even send a wedgie! Even more links to other pages. Maybe we can all go "shopping" on her page and send the new mommie Joiee some baby gifts...lol Heres here addy! http://members.tripod.com/~TLC101/links.html Later !!!! vanboys ______________ http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/Rex__ Rex's new site. Check this one out for sure! ______________ Thanks Maxam, Rex, vanboys and looksjustlikeme!!! _______ REMEMBER folks…Please let us know if you CAN NOT link to these sites. We are trying to make it so that it is easy for you to use the PT News as an informational tool to go to these sites! ____________________ If you have a personal website you'd like to include in your list, please fell free to send us the site address: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com and we will gladly add you to our list! ____________________________________________________________ Texas Baby (Submitted by Maxam) A Texan bought a round of drinks for all in the bar and announced that his wife had just produced a typical Texas baby, weighing a whooping twenty pounds. "WOW!" was the response from everyone at the bar. Two weeks later the Texan returned to the bar. The bartender recognized him and asked, "Aren't you the father of the baby that weighed twenty pounds at birth? How much does he weigh now?" The proud father answered, "10 pounds." The bartender said, "Why? I know that babies lose some weight after birth, but ten pounds? He did weigh twenty pounds, didn't he? What happened?" The proud Texas father said, "Just had him circumcised!" ____________________________________________________________ EMAIL LINKS AND INFORMATIONAL MATERIAL: pinktrinews@mailexcite.com (Letters to the Editors, Opinions, Comments, Complaints, Submit an Article, Classified Ads, Birthdays) gayvoice@hotmail.com Political (Primebear) vp_tips@hotmail.com Tech Tips (Tech Master) fairmerly@hotmail.com Fairmerly (The Wormhole) fredericb@mailexcite.com FreddieB Alladdinn@mailexcite.com Alladdinn _____________________________________________________________ *YOUR'E INVITED TO THE WEDDING OF FREDDIEB & ALLADDINN* On Saturday, May 29, 1999 around dusk, Mr. FreddieB & Prince Alladdinn will exchange their real life vows of commitment in marriage at their summer cottage in Port Hope, Michigan, at the PT Reunion. All friends of the Pink Triangle are invited to attend this blessed event. Following the ceremony will be a catered dinner under the stars, followed by the show hosted by "Lady Erica" (Ali's drag persona, being brought out of retirement!) Performers for the show are: Lady Erica, FreddieB, PLR, Dee, Shawna (Dee's daughter), with possible performances by Gooserella and Lord Slayer. Also... there's a possibility we might have a "surprise performer"! Following the show will be "Dancing Till Dawn" with a LIVE DJ!!!!! Freddie and I look forward to meeting all of you at the Reunion and sincerely hope as many of you can attend this special occasion for us, as well as the rest of the reunion events planned for the weekend. As a reminder, the Reunion runs from Friday May 28th - 31. If you have plans to attend the reunion, please RSVP so that we can make the necessary arrangements! Thanks! 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