Happy Pride with Pride48

This June The 5by5 Podcast will be participating in the live streaming event over on Pride 48.  I have been wanting to be apart of Pride48 since before I had my podcast.  So, when the opportunity presented itself I jumped all over it.  I will be streaming live on Sunday, June 22 @ 11am Eastern.  That will be 10am central.  The shows are streamed live for an hour.  My only problem is what in the hell do I talk about.  If you have listened to any of my shows you know I talk a little about everything.  So do I do a midday version of our Late Night show or do a gayer version of my Fanboy Weekly show.  I think I am going to try to accomplish both at one time.  A little gay, A little late night and a little Fanboy.  I hope you all will join me on my first ever broadcast on Pride48.  Below, is the schedule of all the other great podcasters participating in

the event. 

This will make you cry

This young man shares his coming out to his mother on youtube.  Many of us wish, but didn't have this moment.  And many others will not have this outcome. But, if this doesn't make you cry. You may want to check your pulse. 

National Coming Out Day!!

October 11, 2013 is National Coming Out Day.  

NCOD was founded in 1988 by Robert Eichberg, a psychologist from New Mexico and founder of the personal growth workshop, The Experience, and Jean O'Leary, an openly gay political leader from Los Angeles and then head of the National Gay Rights Advocates.^[2][3] The date of October 11 was chosen because it was the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.^{[1] (wikipedia)}

^{My story was a difficult one.  I was dating a married man until his wife found out.  Some what ostracised by the gay community for being involved with a married man.  But, no one understood my personal struggle. But when my family embraced me for who I was not who I chose to sleep with. I forgot about society and concentrated on growing into the man (gay) that I am today.  Take a listen to my full story below.} 

True Story Tuesday: Pride!

June is Gay Pride month across the globe.  Gays everywhere hit the streets, parks, clubs and theme parks all in the name of PRIDE.  Although, I have not attended a pride event in recent years.  I do love seeing online all the fanfare that some cities put into it.  It's nice to see. 

I thought today I would share with you all my journey to being a proud gay man. Darling Nikki is back on this week's show.  She brings us up to date with what's going on with her.  Then we both talk about television, social media and everything else!! 

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Coming Out

I never have shared this story publicly, other than with close friends and family.  As many gay men and women, I knew I was gay early on.  But, in the era I grew up in it wasn't a good ideal to go around stating the fact.  Although, many kids had their fun with me by calling fag and sissy.  I never admitted it to anyone. And for a time I even suppressed it from myself. I went through grade school, high school and college with this feeling that I knew I had to act on to be complete.  I remember a gay bar being downtown and riding my bike past it and just knowing that's what it was and I was drawn to it.  But, again I never went in.  I was of age but scared to death.  So, I would just ride by and try to listen and see through the very high and private patio fence.  Much to my dismay it didn't work.  But, I would be liberated by a little dating phone service called private lines.  Do you remember how you could buy time on this phone service and listen to personal gay ads in your city.  It was so shady.  You could either mail in your payment, use a credit card or drop off a  cash to their local office.  Since, I was still young and not really into credit cards.  I decided to drop off cash.  It was a remote brick building where you stick your cash in a drop box and someone would put time on your  account.  It was weird.  You would always see one car leave and out of nowhere another would show up. I figured no one wanted to be seen going there to drop off their cash for a gay phone service.  Well, I didn't care and made my first of many cash drop offs.  A day later I was on the service making a voice personal and responding to ads.  It was exciting and intriguing.

Listen into the show to hear the rest of the story. It's a doozy!!