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The GayComicGeek launched a NEW channel (GayGeekyVlogs) at YouTube a few weeks ago and as usual he is speaking my thoughts out loud. Do I need a tinfoil hat? He shares his wishes for a gay geek posse and his fortune at having a boyfriend who lets him cram his hobby down his throat.” |
If you consider yourself a “Gay Geek” please identify what “type” of geek and your general geographical area. Anonymous comments welcome as always. More interested in random hellos.
Ive been having similar thoughts lately. I’m lucky enough to have a wonderful boyfriend who tolerates my interests, and even embraces some of them. He became quite a fan of Dollhouse, Heroes and is really loving Dr. Who, Caprica and Battlestar Galactica… but I still haven’t gotten him to really read any of my comics. I wish I had more real life gay geek friends to shoot the shit with about the topics I raise here. Though if I did, I suppose I wouldn’t have had to make the blog. I’ve met a number local gay geeks at Whatever Comics in the Castro… Where do YOU meet gay geeks?
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04/30/2010 at 11:19 am
I’m a neuroscientist, sci-fi fan, gamer and theater geek living in Boston. While the area is a geek haven, with so many colleges like MIT around, it’s still hard to sort through the sea of gay guys to find like-minded ones. Always up for meeting
07/31/2010 at 12:15 pm
Wow, I’m so glad I found this website (completely by accident mind you, while I was exploring comic book sites at 4 am)! I’ve been reading comics since before I realized I was gay, so (let me do some math here…that was 5 years old…I’m almost 35 now…started collecting in 8th grade…) it’s been about 20 years. In all that time, I’ve encountered exactly 2 other gay men who have read comics. The first was Brian, who was my first best buddy (completely platonic). Man, it was so awesome brainstorming with him about comics, and creating our own universe, waaaay back in the latter half of the 20th century. In typical adult fashion, we grew apart as he met a guy and moved away (then came back and moved away again…this time for good). I still wonder what’s up with him.
My other best bud, Micah, turned out to be even more into comics than I was (which was initially hard to believe). He’d buy so many more comics than me. I thought my $100-$200 a month was a lot; he’d spend that in a WEEK–though I did have to break it to him that he was wasting money on some sheer crap. I met him in October of 2007, and within a half hour, we hit off on our shared love of comics over an Infinite Crisis and Countdown discussion. Within a few months he moved in with my other roommate and we became inseparable (I mean, it got to the point that people at the bar I work at knew him, even though he worked at a movie theater; people at one of the gay bars here always called us a couple, even though we were not romantically-or sexually-involved). He turned out not only to be the absolute best friend you could *ever* ask for, but even more than that (as our shared connections went above and beyond just comic books–though in my eyes, that would have been more than sufficient). When he (part of me still has a hard time typing this) passed away on January 7 of this year, it was like having a piece of my heart ripped away. Then a close friend of mine likened the relationship Micah and I had to being soulmates. That’s as close a description as I can come up with to our relationship. In all my years, I’d never have guessed someone that great would enter my life through comic books.