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other sites you been to before finding EC

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Ticklish Fish, Apr 7, 2013.

  1. Ticklish Fish

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    i hope it's okay to talk about these @_@

    but what are some sites you have been to while being in denial/before finding EC?

    I have been to:
    google
    yahoo answers (LOL, those questions and answers there)
    a forum starts with R. two words, I believe it's 2 syllables total. lots of old threads too.
    probably porn sites, not helping haha
     
  2. BornInTexas

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    Mostly yahoo answers and google. That's it...
     
  3. Ticklish Fish

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    yahoo answers is kind of chaotic lol. you have people genuine trying to help then you have troll and homophobes
     
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    It was actually pretty funny, to me. I had people who were generally helping, others who were homophobic, but I would ask myself why were they in the LGBT section anyway, and then you had the gays who were all out and about and proud, but hated you for being in the closet, and say, "F THE POLCE, COME OUT, DEY WONT DO NUFFIN."

    It was really funny to read some of the responses.
     
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    Google answered majority of my questions. Thank you Google!
     
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    Depends. If it's another site that makes you register for an account or we can otherwise communicate with you on, then no, you should probably not be mentioning it.

    If it's relatively anonymous, then it's okay.

    Worse comes to worst we'll just edit out the site names. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    I read miles and miles of Wikipedia pages about LGBT topics, which I hadn't previously known existed. Does that count? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: I found EC via them, so it was the first forum of its kind that I joined. I tried looking for some others out of curiosity, but then I came to appreciate how supportive this community is, that there are actually quality discussions, and that this is such a safe place. I've stayed here and nowhere else.
     
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    Well, I think the first website I ever went to was google. Can't remember the second.
     
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    I'm registered on more forums than I'd care to admit. The worst part is when you find someone else you've seen from one forum on a completely unrelated one, either while browsing or after registration. It's always surreal, and serves as somewhat of a wake-up call (leave monitor).

    I'm only active on one other besides EC at the moment.
     
  10. Hexagon

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    It didn't take me long to find EC. I think I just googled 'lgbt forums' and it was one of the first results.
     
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    google
    yahoo answers
    wikipedia
    lesbianlife.about.com
    wikihow LGBT
    afterellen forums
    and a few others I can't remember right now
     
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    I did a lot of googling which almost 9 times out of 10 brought me here. I used to sit and read thread after thread and it felt so reassuring knowing that there's others out there with the same issues.

    I never joined any other LGBT forums, I was too scared to even join EC for a while!
     
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    I have never been to any other LGBT forum before EC, really, I ususally used google, yahoo answers, youtube (gay blogs), etc to sort of find my way. Eventually I felt sort of lonely and googled for some pleasent LGBT communities and/or forums in which I can talk to people like myself (no gay or lesbian friends at all, never met any IRL) and yahoo answers brought me here. At first, like Lewis, I didn't find the courage to register, so I sort of skulked around and read until I decided that I want to be here. :slight_smile:
     
  14. Stridenttube

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    There are other sites on the internet besides EC??? This is news to me.

    All joking aside, I really only ever used EC. I stumbled across it after I was in deep thought about my sexuality in the back of the car on my way home from vacation with my family in Pensacola. I had started Googling LGBT related stuff on my phone and found EC. The other sites had a sort of bad vibe that I didn't like and EC seemed safe so I joined.
     
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    I was spending a lot of time on Reddit before this happened to me too, almost the same way. I think I didn't quite fit in with most of the LGBT subreddits, and finding this great community was like a blessing :slight_smile:
     
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    I remember that every time a straight person accidentally asked a question in the LGBT section, there was always someone who replied "Ask in the heterosexual/BREEDERsexual sections, not LGBT". I always wondered why so many straight people asked their questions there :eusa_thin
     
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    I was on Shybi, initially. It was nice, but they conformed to the stereotypes quite a bit, so it got a bit lonely for me. It didn't have the support or community that EC has.

    Other than that, just google, youtube, or yahoo answers. I found EC pretty quickly after I started questioning, thankfully :slight_smile:
     
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    I was out long before I came to EC. I didn't come here for support, I came to offer my own :wink:. I've spent a lot of time on SomethingAwful and FurAffinity. These forums aren't remotely related to queer issues, but they have pretty good sections devoted to LGBT topics; I posted a lot in those before coming here.

    That's interesting! I'm on ShyBiGuys and I personally hate how the male and female sections are segregated. Maybe separating male and female communities makes sense for gays and lesbians, but it doesn't make sense for us. I would like to see a unisex site, perhaps with sections for male-only or female-only discussions, but with the main forum still being open to everyone. I feel like this arbitrary split just encourages certain negative, insular attitudes towards the other group. And no, not Bisexual.com that site is horrible. Horrible.
     
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    Oh god, I've been to Bisexual.com before... it was *shudder*... it definitely damaged whatever progress I was making at the time with my sexuality. And yeah I agree, I never really understood why they were separated. Though, honestly, it might turn into a giant dating site-esque scenario. There are quite a lot of women on the girl site that are looking for a couple and/or looking to experiment and i'm sure its the same on the male site. So idk how that would work out.
     
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  20. I was on the firefly cave for a while, which has a really big LGBT community. I was also a huge member of RMRK/Crankeye yeeeeears ago, which is a community of people who make RPG games. It's kind of dead now, though :frowning2:

    I came to EC to offer my help to people, but discovered how good the chit chat forum was!