o.o....

ok phew

Well said grendel. Imagine, for example, a member of the forum is best friend with another one, they get to know each others for one entire year, then suddently one reveals on the forum he's gay, and the other start hating him, I think worse stuff than one of the person leaving could happen, to the person who declare herself gay.

I don't mind some off topic discussions on the forum though, even if it involves some debates, but I keep an eye on topic like this one or about politic, abortion and any other controversial stuff, because it can easily go out of hand. I'm glad that besides when lordofthegeeks  came in this topic things stayed kinda under control though, you should have seen the similar topic that was posted on United-TI back then. It wasn't involving flame wars, but it was close o.o

That said, I agree with the fact that this site is more of a work place and technical discussion stuff and not really moral stuff. Not to brag, but I think this forum is the most calc games oriented TI forum out there.

That said in the past there was a lot of arguments in the past involving calc programming unfortunately, so it wasn't just politic, religion, sexual orientation, etc. There was a time when using TI-BASIC (or ASM libs + TI-BASIC) was almost a crime on some TI forums, you would get bashed pretty bad for using it, even if your game was better than some ASM games.

Having been a TI-BASIC user for 6 and half a year and still failed at ASM you can guess I got bashed pretty bad often back then -.-.

I think there is around 8 people here who are gay/bi, IRC channel included. Only half are still active though. There may be more though because it takes a lot for one person to reveal such stuff to public.

I just hope that the people who are against homosexuality doesn't hate those ppl, like, if a friend reveal them he is then he start hating him and doesn't want to talk to him anymore. That would be pretty homophobic and homophoby should be banned from the entire world, as it is as worse (if not more) as racism, discrimination, slander, libel and elitism. Why hate somebody for a skin color or their sexual orientation? Especially if the person doesnt bother you with it and act normal toward yourself?

If somebody hate gay people here with no exception, they might as well leave Omnimaga forums, because they have no idea how many people here and the IRC channel are either gay or bi! O_O I know at least 15% of the entire Omnimaga staff, including managers and admin are.  

It may be higher percentage actually, because only 6 or 7 staff actually ever revealed their orientation IIRC. And there is member who're bi/gay too, here and other TI forums.

Just to tell how people could be there used to be lot of people who hated someone for the simple fact that he used TI-BASIC inside a game and doesn't know ASM.

i really don't care if a person is gay or not, just as long as it does not makes problems for society. also the entire gay thing is just a waste of time, if some one is gay they are gay and no one can change it, so people should just let it be not complain about something they will never be able to change. and anyways it is a good thing that some people are gay because then they can't have children, and with the earth starting to be over populated it is good that they can't contribute to earth's population probleml.  lastly people that cann't just let it be are idiotic in that belief since it justs promotes fear of gays and wastes time and energy when something much more productive for humanity can be done instead of arguring the point of if it is bad or not. I mean you have to also relize that gays are human too.

i too think the parade is useless, despite my view on homosexual people, having a parade really does nothing to help how they are viewwed. if anything, it does the opposite