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Tampa Pride anyone?

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Good Morning,

Tampa, FL pride is this weekend Saturday 26th. The parade is at 1pm on 7th Ave at Nuccio Blvd.... Who will be there? Of course that night the after party will be Southern Nights Tampa....

Tampa will i see you there? Some buddies of mine are wanting me to go so since i'm off work i decided why not. Hope to see some people out.

Gage Owens
 
Seems a little early for Pride!!!
 
It's always warm in Florida. We can do it every month. haha.

True that Gage Owens. My only complaint about the timing is having it the day before Easter. Last week or the following week would have been better. But of course they didn't consult me. lol I hope I can still make it to church in the morning. :)
 
One of the biggest pride events in the whole southeastern United States is actually in St. Petersburg. So Tampa doesn't usually try to compete during the month of June. While generally accepting of gays, Tampa went through period of many years with some very homophobic city council members who tried to stop the pride parades altogether. There were a few years where there was no pride parade in the city. Given their way, they would have burned any books in the public libraries that had any gay authors or gay themed plotlines. They banned (and threatened a cut in funding to) any local Tampa libraries having special exhibits denoting gay pride or gay culture.

It's getting much better now though. There is even an openly gay man on the city council. :)
 
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I've always been jealous of those that can go to a pride and this seems like a great place to go to so I hope that all that get to be there have a great time.
 
I've always been jealous of those that can go to a pride and this seems like a great place to go to so I hope that all that get to be there have a great time.

Great to see you posting! You were one of the first people that I spoke with here on the forum of course we were both Tyler White fans -I hope all is great with you
 
One of the biggest pride events in the whole southeastern United States is actually in St. Petersburg. So Tampa doesn't usually try to compete during the month of June. While generally accepting of gays, Tampa went through period of many years with some very homophobic city council members who tried to stop the pride parades altogether. There were a few years where there was no pride parade in the city. Given their way, they would have burned any books in the public libraries that had any gay authors or gay themed plotlines. They banned (and threatened a cut in funding to) any local Tampa libraries having special exhibits denoting gay pride or gay culture.

It's getting much better now though. There is even an openly gay man on the city council. :)


Glad things are changing in Tampa for the better. One thing I do love about Seattle is, you can be anything or anyone you want and nobody really cares. Hell our Mayor is gay and got married when Washington passed same sex marriage!!!! Tampa if you go to the parade keep a look out for Damien Kyle. He said he might be there....
 
Glad things are changing in Tampa for the better. One thing I do love about Seattle is, you can be anything or anyone you want and nobody really cares. Hell our Mayor is gay and got married when Washington passed same sex marriage!!!! Tampa if you go to the parade keep a look out for Damien Kyle. He said he might be there....

Actually, the last Chief of Police in Tampa was an open Lesbian. Last year the mayor of Tampa was the Grand Marshall at the St. Petersburg Pride Parade. When same sex marriage was approved in the State of Florida, that same day there were open marriages held in the park across from the City Hall. I posted pics of this on another thread.

As Tampa mentioned, in recent years Tampa has not tried to compete with St. Petersburg in June since St. Petersburg does have the largest celebration in Florida. They have still sponsored many LGBT activities during the same week such as a gay oriented film festival at the Tampa Theatre. Tampa was also home to the famed Gay Men's Chorus in which I sang for one season. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding the chorus disbanded.

 
Dang it, Gage Owens. If I got in my truck right now I could get to Tampa and maybe run into you at Southern Nights. That would be awesome. I'm only an hour away.
 
Great to see you posting! You were one of the first people that I spoke with here on the forum of course we were both Tyler White fans -I hope all is great with you
it's great to see your still here and to speak to you, things are actually going great with me now thanks, it's great to see all of the gorgeous guys they have on here now, I can't believe what I've missed since ive been away but with models like Gage Owens and tanner my eyes will definitely be on here more often. 💖
 
It's SO nice to have you back again Dan. We've worried about you while you were away.
 
It's SO nice to have you back again Dan. We've worried about you while you were away.
thank you, as you know I've been messed up for along time but for the first time in I don't know how long I finally feel balanced with my emotions. I didn't realise just how much I've missed this place until I started posting again. 💖😘
 
Well Guys (and Gals) lol,

I did make to the club last night and one of my more recent bucket list dreams came true. I got to meet two models I could have only hoped to meet up to this point. I've been a big fan of Gage Owens for a long time. I had not been to this particular club before so I had little idea of what to expect about the club itself. (Let alone my giddy nervous anticipation about the possibility of meeting Gage Owens in person. :biggrin:)

I always seem to get that way as a longtime member of the site and a fan of many models here. I go in with a nervous excitement, sometimes even a little tongue-tied and with hopes of a very positive interaction with the models. Usually when meeting Broke Straight Boys models in the past, I have been at official Broke Straight Boys pride events with Sha there to introduce me and help break the ice, so to speak. Sha knows I'm quite harmless and very respectful of any models I do get to meet. This time I was on my own. lol

From my perspective I'll share a few insights about Gage Owens from last night. When he is in his Clark Kent persona he can appear so mild-mannered and nondescript, that no matter how much of a fan of Gage Owens and his work you are, you could walk right past him in a crowd, not recognize him, and be none the wiser that you were standing next to such an attractive and sexy man. It's when he takes off the baseball cap and the clothes, and becomes Gage Owens the porn star, that you really see just how handsome and stunning he is. He was wearing a baseball cap turned backwards and he (currently with a hat on at least) shows no hair on the forehead, sides or back. The only thing I had to go on when trying to find him in a very large crowd was trying to recognize his face from the lower forehead down and a nearly perfect complexion. There were actually about 3 guys there last night dressed the same way with the baseball caps, who could have passed for him. haha I was a little confused! lol

Fortunately I met someone else there who could verify for me if I had indeed spotted Gage Owens. :) I hoped that he (this other model) might be there, based on some of his past Twitter posts. Many of you know that I like this model a lot, praise him for his work onscreen, and have even come to his defense here in the forum at times if I felt reviews of some of his scenes were too rough. Physically and sexually, I love the fact that he has some fur on him and looks so manly without clothes on compared to many of the other Broke Straight Boys models. Personally as a fellow human being, I've always had a soft spot for him from the personality he's shown us onscreen (pre-scene interviews, BTS vids, etc) as well as how he likes to cook and bake for other people in the Broke Straight Boys house. :)

So I spot this very handsome guy with a neatly trimmed beard and I go up to him. Gage Owens knows I'm coming that night. But not this guy. I was SO happy to see him there as an added bonus to the evening, that it took me great self-control not run over to him like a lovesick little schoolgirl, gush about what a big fan I was of his work, maybe try to hug him...and risk scaring him into calling security. LOL So I took it slow. haha I went over to him and introduced myself by name. He politely did the same. I'm sure he probably wondered (and was wary about) why this older stranger had approached him at all.

The demographics of that particular club skews much younger. A fact I was not fully aware of until I actually got there. It ranges from about 18-30. Maybe 40. Yes. You read that right that they allow 18 y/o's in there. lol With no alcoholic drinking by them of course. So suffice to say that any guys like myself over 50 are very few and far between in there. So in the eyes of many I probably looked out of place.

So I'm sure this poor guy is puzzled and a not just a little suspicious of why I'm making a point of trying to introduce myself and talk to him at all. I wasn't sure how to let him know I was a fan. Or that I even knew he was a porn star. So I broke the ice by asking him if he knew anyone by the name of Chandler. That did take him by surprise! LOL I then quickly told him that I was Tampa from the forum. But I still don't think he knew who I was or that it really registered. It's not like any of us here in the forum are so important that all the models know us and our individual screen names. Yes. The man standing in front of me was indeed Chandler. haha Woohoo!

I asked him if the guy I thought was Gage Owens really was Gage Owens. And he confirmed it. He went up to Gage Owens and brought him over to me. At least Gage Owens kinda knew who I was and had been expecting me to show up that night. It was quite a thrill to see him standing in front of me. It was so good to finally see him! At the time and even in hindsight I still wish that I had had Sha there to put both of them at ease about me. That being that of course I would be very respectful of them as I have all of the models I've met...and that it would be safe for them to lower their guard a little bit. I totally understand though that just because they're approached by well-intentioned fans of the site, doesn't mean that some of those "other" fans aren't creepers who need to be kept at arm's length. And of course they have no idea who they can trust and who they can't.

But anyway... :) Gage Owens's eyes are really amazing in person. Even in a dimly lit room they are so beautiful. I've always heard that the camera adds about 10 lbs of weight to actors. Gage Owens has a thinner build in person than I expected. That's not a criticism of course. Just an observation. I think he looks great! Gage Owens graciously agreed to let me get a picture with him. For which I'm very grateful.

Chandler was also very gracious in letting me get a picture with him. He even went out of his way to patiently help me through some issues with my phone camera. Both Gage Owens and Chandler treated me quite well and it was a real pleasure to meet them. :)
 
Thanks for sharing that great experience with us Tampa. To my recollection, you've now met Cousin Mikey, Diesal, Tyler White, Damien, Paul and now Gage Owens and Chandler. That's a pretty impressive list. Am I leaving anyone out? So when will you post the pictures of yourself with the boys from the club last night?

I think that is great that you made the trip to the club and had the balls to approach the guys and had such a positive experience and shared it with us. Way to go Tampa!!!!:thumbup1:
 
thrilled for you Tampa! I am a juge fan of Chandler and that would have been so coolto have seen and talked with him in person - Congrats!
 
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