Hi There!

[Aaycle]

Hey Welcome To The Gayness!!!

AHHHH...I love the gayness! it is so refreshing! Would you call me prejudiced if I don't fraternize with the opposite sex? LOL...I sure hope you do!!

[Aaycle]

Hi. Aaycle.

to GS.

Do you work for the Bahamas Tourist Board?

Unfortunately I do not work for the Ministry of Toursim...but does that mean I cannot answer your questions about my hometown effectively? Lol... I am not a spy, on a recruitment run!

[Aaycle]

Hihi You're most welcome, i'm sure.

Also Rychard, if i were from the Bahamas i, too, would never cease to mention them and their awesomeness...

Lol... My bragging is merely a character flaw, but would it be relieving to you to know that I LOVE anything, and everything that is not The Bahamas. I especially love the tone and slang of The Britains, Australians, Irish, French,...etc.

[Aaycle]

xP

Thank you, Thank you!!

[Aaycle]

to this forum Bahamian boy... So the question is, how easy or difficult is it to be gay in the Bahamas? There are lots of tourists there, so the opportunities must be many, but are you comfortable with your sexuality? Is your family comfortable with it, or don't they know about you yet?

Simply put, if you're going to have sexual relations whether it is permitted openly or not, one would find a way to Get-ERR-Done!! But, being gay in The Bahamas is sooo, difficult. We are a small Island (22x7 miles); we have over 325, 000 people in the city of Nassau, and everyone basically knows, or is familiar with everyone. If you visit a Gay bar, you are branded; employment would be difficult to attain if you are openly or flamboyantly gay. So we have a ton of men in the closet.

I myself am comfortable with my sexuality, only my family knows that I am gay, for the economic reasons stated above. I need to work. I am still in college, I work part-time.

Although, there are tons of tourist that passes through this tiny island. To be a gay solicitor of tourist men is deadly to your well-being, status, etc. It just isn't done openly; covertly I am unawre of Bahamian men crusing gay tourist men. So. I don't know about that. I meet men on downelink. That is a Bahamian gay chat site. Not many people know about that. It is a word of mouth kind of thing.

But, after I graduate, I want to RUN far away from this repressive place. It is stifling both intellectually, economically, and homo-sexually!!

[Aaycle]

xP

Thank you kind Sir!! :-)

[Aaycle]

xP

Thank you!

[marshlander]

[color=darkred]... But, after I graduate, I want to RUN far away from this repressive place. It is stifling both intellectually, economically, and homo-sexually!!

What a pity. May your wishes come true.

Thank you kind Sir!! :-)

Sir??

[princealbertofb]

Thank you Aaycles for your report on being gay in the Bahamas... I wasn't sure whether you would be from Nassau and New Providence Island or whether you hailed from one of the twenty eight other islands or cays that make up the country. I guess it's easier to be gay in a bigger community where there is a wider range of sexualities and types but, in a way, the community you belong to is still quite small and provincial. I suppose you might get an opportunity, at some point, of getting away from the Bahamas and into the UK or maybe the United States?
As it happens one of my best friends (English) is gay and has family in the Bahamas, so I've often seen pictures and heard of your place, but he's not openly gay either, so I guess it's something he didn't want to tell his family in Nassau.

[princealbertofb]

And while looking up the word cays, look what I found out... What the sand of the cays is made of: little bits of smashed coral reef.

Intriguing, don't you think?