Notices by Mark Tisdale (tismark@calckey.lgbt)

Okay I saw this several times and finally answered for myself.

Fast Facts:

Pronouns: He/Him

Height: 5’8” (1.72m)

Shoe Size: 9 1/2 Wide (US)

Eye Color: Green/Hazel 🟩

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Smoke: No

Tattoos: None

Piercings: None

Favorite Color: Red 🟥

Favorite Drink(s): Coca Cola? I have nothing against alcohol but not for me.

Weakness: Answering this feels ill advised. 😉 Time Management probably. LOL

Fanboy: Star Trek, Transformers, Doctor Who 👾

#Introduction #Introductions #AboutMe

I would not survive a Lent type thing. LOL

#Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Queer #Humor

Confirmed and verified.

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"Just before Christmas in 1987, Geraldo Rivera outed me on national television. I'm sure it wasn't malicious, even though he has a history of shock journalism. He didn't even know my name. During a primetime special, he showed a video clip of me and my boyfriend kissing on the National Mall, taken during the National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights.

I think about this often during Pride Month, even though it happened more than 30 years and several boyfriends ago. The broadcast caused a scandal in my family because I wasn't out to them."

"The closet as a Western construct existed (and still exists) on a spectrum from you're out all the time to you're not even out to yourself. Everywhere on that spectrum, the closet exists as a set of internal and external constraints put on LGBTQ people. For some of us, it keeps us safe, for some it is a mental prison. For me, it is a continual process of undoing its effects."

Those are only a couple of snippets from an, IMO, excellent and sometimes sad article by Jim Berg. 🥺❤️

https://www.salon.com/2023/06/03/geraldo-outed-me-on-national-television/

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Yesterday was... an internal rollercoaster... It started with sitting up bolt upright in bed at 3am. I don't remember the specifics of the dream but it brought back memories from almost 25 years ago. And I sat down to my blog and poured out some memories from 1998/99 that I had all but shuttered away.

https://prezactly.com/things-i-wanted-to-forget/

And I felt really good when I finished the catharsis. And then the rest of the day I cycled between this is great/this sucks. I slept until almost noon today and that seemed to do the trick. Today has been non-euphoric but at least not blue either. Whew!

I had zero illusions that accepting myself would be a one and done thing but yesterday drove it home. LOL

#Queer #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Gay #GraySexual #AlphabetMafia

For the moment I'm mainly copying over my #Introduction post from my old account but given there's more space on Calckey I'll probably re-write the whole thing before long.

Hi, I’m Mark - live in a small rural #Georgia town - until last year I was caring full time for my mother who has advanced dementia (she is in a nursing home 400 feet from my front door now). I’m a #digitalartist and love it. My degree is in #sociology though. And in a former life I was a #ProjectManager in a dark and dreary cube. LOL

Among my fan loves are #StarTrek #Transformers and #DoctorWho - just the highlights. If it's kind of geeky there's a decent chance I read, watched, etc. whatever it may be. Or would like the recommendation. 😃

I only recently came out to myself as being part of the #LGBTQIA family. I will repost the longer version of this from my old account as well but the Cliff's notes is I consider myself to be #GraySexual and #OmniRomantic - still sort of new to all this so patience please! 🚧 ❤️

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