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Iflyfish
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Info on school safety for LBGT students in Baja
This great organization is doing some wonderful charitable work in Mexico as well as in the UsofA and Canada.
http://www.impcourt.org/icis/info/Documents/ICC_Trifold_Fina...
This group offers a safe place for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual) students in schools across the United States and Canada supporting
safe schools.
http://www.theswcsun.com/gay-straight-alliance-works-to-crea...
I have a friend who has asked me to inquire of my fellow Nomads if anyone knows of any GSA groups in Tijuana or in the rest of Mexico?
If you have any information on this please U2U me.
Thanks,
Iflyfishconmilgbtamigos
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DENNIS
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There's a bar downtown Ensenada on Sin Street where all the men dress and act like women. Lemme know if you would like their address. I don't have it
or I'd include it here.
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Ateo
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Always the class act Dennis.
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Iflyfish
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I am not interested in the bar but if there are any GSA clubs or groups in Tijuana schools. LGBT kids are often bullied in schools and they have an
incredibly high suicide rate due to social stigma. As a Social Worker in Public Schools I saw this problem on a regular basis.
The Gay-Straight-Alliance clubs/groups in school contribute to School Safety as they provide safe places for students to be and for other students to
get to know others who are different from them. There are chapters now across the USofA and Canada. I don't know if they yet exist in Mexico. The
Imperial Court System in the USofA, Canada and Mexico provide support to groups in this community and so I included information about their charitable
mission.
Does anyone know if there are GSA clubs in schools in Baja? Since there is an Imperial Court in Tijuana I thought there might be these clubs for
students. I would appreciate any information. You can u2u me here with information. Thanks.
Iflyfish
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EnsenadaDr
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You know what, I have to be very honest with you. I personally believe that LBGT's are accepted more in Mexico than in the US. I remember when I
started medical school, there was a gay student a year ahead of me. He was a very nice guy, and I was shocked that people accepted him so readily in
Mexico, where the stereotypical bias was "homophobic" and "macho".
I also remember doing my social service in Ensenada, and went into the local internet cafe. There was a guy who helped me in there that was very
nice, and I got to know him well over the course of a few months. He posts on Facebook, and I believe does some cross-dressing as well (he refers to
putting on his other gender clothing at times.) Other students down here seem to just accept it as far as I can see. Seems both of these students
had an extended group of friends and were readily accepted by their peers.
[Edited on 1-27-2013 by EnsenadaDr]
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ateo
Always the class act Dennis. |
Was I being un-PC? That's too bad. Some things just don't fit into my time worn visions of Baja.
That may seem critical to you, but I choose to nurture a memory of a frontier carved out by manly, and womanly pioneers through their endeavors, and
that's the way I plan to keep my recollections. I won't allow some changes in this world to interfere with that.
Did you ever travel the Old Road, all dirt and rock, from border to Cape? I did, and believe me, there were no gay bars on the way. That was a
Baja that I was into and I prefer to maintain my memories. That's about all I have left.
So....I'm going to be a bit un-PC........right or wrong. It helps keep me young.
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EnsenadaDr
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Dennis, you have to admit that there is a very famous bisexual bartender in the area...and your community embraces him wholeheartly...I have never
ever seen you be rude to this person, so don't come across as unaccepting...you even defended this person against a very negative posting in Punta
Banda.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Dennis, you have to admit that there is a very famous bisexual bartender in the area...and your community embraces him wholeheartly...I have never
ever seen you be rude to this person, so don't come across as unaccepting...you even defended this person against a very negative posting in Punta
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I'm anything but unaccepting. I just choose to keep my memory banks in certain areas refined and confined to a past that I know personally.
I come from a time when it would be unthinkable to walk into a Hells Angels bar and ask which tables were reserved for gay members.
Don't mess with history. It's inviolable.
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
....I come from a time when it would be unthinkable to walk into a Hells Angels bar and ask which tables were reserved for gay members....
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Were there any in Newport Beach, Fontana maybe, but Newport?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
....I come from a time when it would be unthinkable to walk into a Hells Angels bar and ask which tables were reserved for gay members....
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Were there any in Newport Beach, Fontana maybe, but Newport?
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Are you kidding? The establishment sponsered police department wouldn't even let Mexicans come to town unless they had a leaf-blowers strapped to
their backs. 
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
....I come from a time when it would be unthinkable to walk into a Hells Angels bar and ask which tables were reserved for gay members....
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Were there any in Newport Beach, Fontana maybe, but Newport?
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Are you kidding? The establishment sponsered police department wouldn't even let Mexicans come to town unless they had a leaf-blowers strapped to
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Yup, that's what I remember from the mid 60's. Had to go to Santa Ana for decent mexican food.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Yup, that's what I remember from the mid 60's. Had to go to Santa Ana for decent mexican food. |
There were a few places for Mexican Food in Costa Mesa, but, not that we were snobbish, we had to have our shot records reviewed before we'd go up
there.
Now....I'm just kidding, for those of you who are wondering. 
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EnsenadaDr
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Dennis, you mean you didn't see Brokeback Mountain? The times are a changin'!!!
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ateo
Always the class act Dennis. |
Was I being un-PC? That's too bad. Some things just don't fit into my time worn visions of Baja.
That may seem critical to you, but I choose to nurture a memory of a frontier carved out by manly, and womanly pioneers through their endeavors, and
that's the way I plan to keep my recollections. I won't allow some changes in this world to interfere with that.
Did you ever travel the Old Road, all dirt and rock, from border to Cape? I did, and believe me, there were no gay bars on the way. That was a
Baja that I was into and I prefer to maintain my memories. That's about all I have left.
So....I'm going to be a bit un-PC........right or wrong. It helps keep me young. |
Probably same proportion of gays in population then as now. Sounds like "all you got left" is your prejudice, glad that is what keeps you young
(WTF?).
[Edited on 1-27-2013 by mtgoat666]
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Dennis, you mean you didn't see Brokeback Mountain? The times are a changin'!!! |
Actually, I didn't....for no particular reason.
Had it been a fantasy about Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy, I would have had a definite reason.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | | Probably same proportion of gays in population then as now. |
Keep up with the story line, numbnuts. Baja in the 50's and 60's.........there was very little population. Only the wild, wild west.
Baja was a rite of passage.......not a gay pride parade ground.
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gatoramey
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Dennis
Sounds like your getting your health back. It also sounds like your as happy as a queer in a dick tree. March 15th I'll fly by your house.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by gatoramey
Dennis
Sounds like your getting your health back. It also sounds like your as happy as a queer in a dick tree. March 15th I'll fly by your house.
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Ohhhh lordy.....
OK Ramey. I'll be looking for you.
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Howard
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Your treading on sacred land here!
To each there own, live and let live and who am I to say how you should think but damn, it leave Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy out of this!
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Howard
To each there own, live and let live and who am I to say how you should think but damn, it leave Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy out of this!
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Sorry. I'll burn incense at their shrine in repentance.
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