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reply to EveryName

Re: Which Canadian city do you think is the most gay friendly?

There.

what's with the rolling eyes?...i don't care if you are bi nor would i criticize you for your preferences...i was simply pointing out something many of us thought was "questionable"...you didn't intend it to be that way, so don't worry about it, we were just wondering, that's all.
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Its all good. I changed it. I understand your point.

no probs...i just wouldn't want someone else, who may not be as understandable, and may already not "approve" of your lifestyle to begin with, falsely judge you.
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reply to dirtyjeffer
See I've seen gays refer to other men as boys.

Ive also seen women call a partner a boy toy.

This notion that boy refers to the underage, is truly wrong, and again, shows where the majority of people's minds slide when they have to infer the meaning.

Oh thats right, our language needs us to misspell to convey real meaning, so I guess we slap a Z and no ones offended.

Boyz oh Boyz.

It's a truly strange twist that our language has had, where the definition of "boy" still for the most part conjures up the image of a male under the age of about 16, but the term "girl" which by definition should be a juvenile female, actually works for females of all ages.

I.e.
"Girls night out" can be had by a group of females in their 30's and 40's. Sometimes can be referred to as "lady's night out or women's night out" but almost exclusively called girl's night out.

"Boy's night out" is almost never used - it's "Guy's night out" to refer to a similar event. Sometimes could be referred to as "men's night out" but pretty much exclusively called "guy's night out"...

So in general conversation for now, perhaps the language will change with time as it always does, but it seems we have the following : boy: male below 16, guy: male of most any age from about 13 and up to geriatric age, girl: female of any age from child to pensioner age, lady or woman: female over the age of about 17 or 18.

As to the original topic - for small cities I think Kingston is quite an accepting and gay friendly city - there are pride parades, an active gay "nightlife", tons of gay community events, etc -- my wife and I have several friends in the gay community, both male and female, and they have for the most part reported that it's "much easier here" than in some of the other places they have lived (Ottawa, Windsor, Waterloo, Hamilton, and Winnipeg to name a few of the towns some of them were previously from).

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So in general conversation for now, perhaps the language will change with time as it always does, but it seems we have the following : boy: male below 16, guy: male of most any age from about 13 and up to geriatric age,

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girl: female of any age from child to pensioner age,

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lady or woman: female over the age of about 17 or 18.

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