How did you first discover DL?

I googled "Lucy and Desi gossip."

2003, I liked to read Michelangelo Signorile's site. And he'd recommended DL since 2001, but I never bothered to check it out. Then he got a radio show in 2003 and had two representatives from DL on it. That's what prompted me to finally check it out, and it blew me away so much I stayed on it for nearly 3 days without sleep. Totally blew away the AOL chat rooms I was used to.

I googled 'Red Dragon Cheese'

Googled "Is Kenny Chesney gay?"

Googled "Films You've Discovered, Hidden Gems" in March 2014. The DL link was the second result. The sofas are comfy, the snacks and drugs adequate, the posts have their moments, so I continue to lurk.

Sofas? Snacks? What the fuck are you talking about?

He just discovered DL!

I found DL while searching for Gillian Anderson gossip (yes, typical lesbian), and stayed.

The first time I posted was about Pistorius.

I may have stumbled on the site before, while searching for gossip on old Hollywood. And I'm 37.

I think I googled "golden age Hollywood gossip" early 2001.

Ted Casablanca made a passing reference to the site in 2000. I found him annoying for the most part, but must credit him for getting me to one of my favorite sites. Yes, still!

It was a hot tip from a guy on "DaddyDater."

I was googling a Broadway chorus boy and that search brought me here.

I saw a comment on Unzipped Blog in about 2009 saying there was a large thread here with an anonymous porn star answering questions.

r13 I mean The defunct Unzipped blog Zach Sire used to write prior to The Sword and Str8UpGayPorn. I see there are other blogs with the same name now.

I googled something about a semi-famous acquaintance.

Googled Tom Bierdz gay

I have a friend, Julie she's called. She said I'd have fun here, that it's a nice laid-back crowd.

I googled my name and you bitches were talking about me...

I saw a shout out on the Night Charms website, remember that one? back in around 2004 or so. The quotes were all so mean and birchy, I had to check it out.

R19: "mean and birchy"? So THAT'S what the T in LGBT stands for. TREES!

I wish I could remember. I guess I was just clicking around, and through Providence arrived!

I think hosiery is something which is very magical in my world... and I'm veering off into complete poetry now.

2007, I saw a link for DL in a TWOP forum on American Idol. Came for the gossip, stayed for the... Well, everything.

1998/99. I was searching for something related to Christopher Meloni and "OZ " and stumbled upon a thread here with a photo of him kissing Lee Tergesen at some awards ceremony.

Right at the beginning of the Jody/Jon wedding saga. I was riveted from the beginning. Although an EST, it was like a great soap opera.

As I followed for days, I was in a sedate coffee shop early on a Sunday morning eagerly checking in on the latest developments. I had to stifle outright laughter as it was really getting thick at that point. It wasn't long before a very mature and well dressed gentleman appeared at my table. He asked me, "Would It help to talk about it?"

I looked up in a moment of confusion, then quickly realized he thought I was crying and probably reading a break up email or something.

That set me off in out loud laughter. He was a bit taken aback. I vaguely explained I was reading something funny. From that day, we became very casual coffee shop friends.

Still here and love DL, warts and all.

I was lead to DL by a simple celebrity gossip google.

Ugh," led," not "lead."

'It wasn't long before a very mature and well dressed gentleman appeared at my table. He asked me, "Would It help to talk about it?"

That was DL's beloved Bronze Age Gay!

I was exploring the depths of the Deep Web, and when I surfaced, I mysteriously wound up here.

Lol, r27. Wouldn't that be the crowning touch to finding DL?

I googled "how to make sure you don't get shit on a man's dick when you bottom"

I found it once as I mentioned above but didn't use it much - then I found it again when I was googling "brad kalvo got fat"

Soapzone during the General Hospital Carly/Sonny/Jason saga

I googled if Stana Katic was gay and it led me here.

I googled "Lauren Bacall cunt"

I was looking for naked actors. I'm sure "big cock" was also somewhere in the search.

It was 2004 and Michael Musto mentioned it in one of his columns in the Village Voice. I followed the link and have been here ever since.

It was from a link from some post on LiveJournal marveling at the circus sideshow of Domlijah shippers during the height of the Prancing Pony craze. That must have been nearly 15 years ago. You bitches have been stuck with me ever since.

I googled 'Margarine Fountain'

I Googled 'Murderous Fatty on the Lam Rumored to be on Craigslist M4M So Look Out Bitches'

I used to read agc and asg on Usenet. Someone recommended the DL. That was at least 15, probably closer to 20, years ago.

I found it when I googled "Brad kalvo got fat at a margarine fountain at Betty Bacall's when she was serving him Highpoint Coffee"

I used to follow the "Table Talk" boards on Salon around 1999. DL not so fave David Ehrenstein showed up on a lot of the ones involving gay issues; when those boards started circling the drain he signed off, saying he would be at Datalounge.

Through links on PlanetOut, which had a link to Trudy and the old message board. Hooked in 1995.

I had a fuckbuddy that is also, semi-famous, but usually disliked by everyone on anonymous forums. His web presence is almost non existant now. So, googling his name, sent me here. And true to his public image, he was disliked on this site also. I still wonder, had I not moved to another country, if anything would have happened in having a long term relationship. . .

Someone on Fametracker talked about the DL in a Jennifer Garner thread. I checked what is all about and got hooked.

Anna Marie Cox called you bitchy heartless queens in 2002 and you told me Mitch Pileggi was a big bush supporter and major pussy hound.

Is David Ehrenstein still posting here?

I did a search for Norma Shearer

I was looking for some gay gossip about Dirk Benedict, and I stumbled upon this site. My life has never been the same.

I googled "NPH hate."

I googled, "reverse racism" & "men who hate women with unjustifiable intense hatred"

Who was your fuckbuddy, R44?

Came here during the Prancing Pony insanity. Laughed my ass off and have never left.

The person who does my PR discovered a thread about me on here and forwarded it to me to read. This was back in 2004. I never left. Luckily, you're still talking about me.

Rosie O'Donnell mentioned DL in a blurb in the Advocate sometime in 2000, and I've been here ever since.

R54 how much are you making per scene these days?

[quote] The person who does my PR discovered a thread about me on here and forwarded it to me to read. This was back in 2004. I never left. Luckily, you're still talking about me.

Lee? Lee, is that you?

I saw a sitcom documentary that discussed tension in the set between Charlotte Rae & Geri Jewell. I googled for more info and found an amazing DL thread on the subject. Don't recall the year

Burt Reynolds? Is R54 Mr Burt Reynolds?

Can't remember when or why I ended up here, but I was hooked after the very first "Oh, dear" I came across.

I followed a link on someone's blog. Things are so much easier to follow on here than they are on Reddit.

I googled "is X gay?". I can't remember who X was now, but I'm sure the Datalounge verdict was 100% gay.

I Googled something political and wound up here. DL had its own political section at the time and the red tags.

Only if X was hot and thin, R62. We don't claim the fatties.

R18=Colton Haynes

I found this place googling LOTR gossip back in the Prancing Pony days. Never left.

In April 2012 or so I googled "I hate Zoe Chace," who was a reporter on Planet Money for several years with the worst vocal fry and most awful flat Chicago-sounding accent I have ever heard. I found this hysterically funny community of NPR haters here at DL:

Turns out Zoe Chace made other people's ears bleed too, and they finally took her off the air a year or so ago! By then I had long stopped listening to Planet Money.

Sorry, don't know how to post links anymore since the site change.

There was a whole follow-up thread called NPR: The Good, Bad and the Ugly--which is also in the archive.So So I just hung around after that.

That got messed up. Maybe this will give the link.

The Sullygate Bareback City drama of late 2000 - I believe it was - via gossip.alt or celebrity.alt.

I googled one of these:

"Jamie Dornan gay"

"Garrett Neff gay"

"Nick Ayler gay"

"Chace Crawford gay"

"Penn Badgley gay"

[quote][R18]=Colton Haynes

Ha. I wish. I'm not even remotely famous. People here were discussing something that my name was associated with. I guess since this board's threads rank high in google searches & there's not much about me online - it came up kinda high.

Confirmed heterosexual Marcia Cross brought me here.

Jon Link, Dallas' premiere wedding videographer and personal photographer to cock gobbler Aaron Schock, is that YOU at R70?

Wonkette brought me here too.

I used to be an alt.showbiz.gossip regular but then I broke up with my boyfriend and it was his computer, so I missed a few years with that group. I imagine I still would have wound up here eventually if I hadn't.

R73 reminded me: perhaps it was showbiz.alt.... it one of those alt sites.

I stumbled onto Datalounge while searching for a support group. I thought I was the only one left that dialed my telephone with a pencil.

Back in 1959 I Googled "Is Rock Hudson gay?"

2006. Googled lesbian gym owner/reality flash in the pan Jackie Warner.

I was at "Is He She Gay" but was never satisfied with the format.... And I tried to sign up for that other board, you know the one, and the webmaster would never respond to me. SO since all those people hated it here, I figured this had to be the place.

Someone posted a link on style.com back in the 90s and I was hooked.

From Towleroad, back in 2004/05.

I'm from around 2001/02. I can't remember how I found the site, but I started coming here as well as ISHG.

I googled some kind of celebrity gossip about three or four years ago and ended up here like a lot of others. Some of the replies were so funny and clever that I was convinced that there were professional comedians posting on here. There are a lot of thoughtful, intelligent posters as well as interesting topics.

After monique didnt present best supporting actor oscar i googled her and comments on datalounge came up. Comments were hilarious and been coming back since.

Like a number of folks, must have been googling some topic and 3 or 4 or 5 times this DL link came up. Then I realized it was a "varied" site with other topics and the rest is history. You need a pretty high tolerance for some of the wacky humour but it is ironically the humour, sarcasm, and actual information provided that continues to draw me.

Blue Lotus sent me here. I think he later became Blue Agave.

Googled "Evan Lysacek gay". That was five years ago; I can't believe I didn't know about this place sooner--I also read alt.showbiz.gossip and alt.gossip.celebrities back in the day.

Turned left at Greenland.

A friend emailed me a link in 1999. He thought I'd find it amusing; he was right. I've since punched and deleted said friend, so at least I got something besides some bad memories from the little turd.

Found the Prancing Pony threads.

Was googling for info about a friend's health symptoms and hit on an article in the health section of DL. Yes, DL once had seperate sections, e.g., health, legislation, gossip, politics.

From there I started reading the legislative section and then the political section. Finally started reading the gossip section. People would get really upset when posters posted in the wrong section. This was all back around1998 IIRC.

'People would get really upset when posters posted in the wrong section.'

Any excuse!

I'm not exactly sure but I think back before 2004 Liz Smith mentioned it in a column...

When Elliot Rodger killed those people in California.

Liz smith led many to the DL

Read an article that described it as the "infamous gay gossip site DataLounge" and decided to check it out. This was back in 2005.

I loved it

2001, Musto mentioned it on Village Voice

Been here since 2010. I was looking up an old movie from the 1930's, and this site came up.

I was in a film in the 1930's , I realized that tattle tails were talking about us, and I found out why - on The Datalounge!

I had been following the Robert Wone case at the Who Murdered Robert Wone website and one of the commenters there mentioned a thread here with lots of apparent inside information about the truple.

Spilled a bottle of Feen-A-Mints.

Mentioned in The Awful Truth in 1999; was lucky to have gotten here in the glory days....r.i.p. Blue Agave.

I came here via some sort of gossip circa 1998/1999. I've been reading off and on since then, but more often in the past five years. And I've posted maybe a dozen times.

Holy crap - I got WW for 18? Ha.

I was searching for "gay billionaires". The thread below was one of the top results. Unfortunately I didn't find any rich guy on here, so I have to continue working :(

R18 is Keran Malicki Sanchez

I googled three years ago for rumors about troll faced Jeremy Renner chugging cock, and ended up here.

a.

HomoXtra bar rag NYC.1999.

Been here for ages and I fucking hate the new layout.

Was at a party, maybe late 1999, that Michael Musto was at and overheard him braying at someone "Oh honey! You can get better gossip than that at Datalounge". THe party was awful and I went home and found you guys

I googled Trader Joe's v Whole Foods while doing a college project and found wonderfully cutting analysis. Thanks. Then I'd duckduckgo (which still allows Boolean search) every time I wanted to hear the DL take on something. Eventually, I stuck around.

I'm a little afraid to tell you that I came in through the door of the Prancing Ponies. But wait! I had grown up with the LOTR books, and was intrigued at the potential of those movies. I Googled around the subject, and followed a link that took me here.

What I found was just so amazing to me. The Prancing Pony fangurls were practicing a bizarre level of rabid fandom insanity that I had never encountered before. It was like the cliche of watching a tragic accident in progress and being unable to tear your eyes away. I eventually tired of that amusement, but by then I had discovered other charms to this site.

I pranced over with a bunch of my fellow Ponies.

I googled "Anderson Cooper bottom" ca. december 2011/ january 2012

A porn gossip website I read linked to thread on here about Peter North's gay porn past and other gay activities. This was over a decade ago.

I think i goggled Abe from Sean Cody. At first it was mildly interesting to learn what's going on with him post SC. Now i'm pretty much over how some guys around here spend far far to much time tracking their farporn star. And these "dabate" if a SC model is gay str8 or bi are just ridiculous. You'd think it was actually something important.

I googled "Is it true that one of the munchkins drowned in a toilet?" and DL came up in the search results.

Same reason as R40, circa 1998/99. The A.S.G. and A.G.C. newsgroups started getting spammy so I moved my trailer here.

In 2003 I was a newly-commissioned Air Force officer, and I was struggling with serving during Don't Ask, Don't Tell. I did a search for "gays in the military" and one of the more useful links brought me to DL! Back then there were separate sub-forums, but shortly after I arrived the site collapsed into a single forum.

Hard to believe I've been here 12 years! I was a naive 23-year-old back then and now I'm a much more jaded "eldergay."

googled "edward norton asshole" about 5 years ago and this place was one of the top results.

My neighbor told me about DL. I had no idea. I've been on since 2003.

I googled Cesar Romero gay and Bryan Singer scandal and always seemed to end up here. I really liked it, and decided to post.

I read about it on ALL THAT CHAT about 7 yrs ago. The comment was made that DL was not as tight assed as ATC. I was so entertained when I found the theater thread here. A few days later they were goofing on MLOP, Wayman Wang. Richard Connema and Ann.

I randomly googled "Why is the American flag so ugly?" one night and Datalounge was one of the only websites with people as petty as me to complain about it.

Looking for got pics of a certain figure skater.

Hot not got

I was visiting with my grandma one day and decided to check her browsing history. Men presenting...men presenting...men presenting.... So I checked it out.

I was looking for an old classmate named Cheryl, and I found this place.

I googled a guy named Shane I'd seen on another website, and ended up here, where I found out he was on Fratpad, only he was named Shay.

I Googled "Nancy McKeon gay"

About 1998, my partner thought I would find it amusing....I'm still around.

I was googling some closeted actor. I can't remember whom but I found a lot of new info here so I knew it was the place to be.

"night charm" quoted the site and it seemed to fun and bitchy, I couldn't resist.

2001. There was a whole thread spoiling ATWT's boathouse storyline where Barbara got burned. I was addicted to DL that summer!

It was back when posts were carved on stone tablets and thrown into the OP's cave. If you hit someone it was counted as a W&W.

On the train to Beacon NY about 5 years ago. As I was waiting to get off the train I could see some guys phone as I looked down- he was on data lounge. I thought I gotta check that out .... still here

A friend told me about it, back in the late 90s.

I arrived here in 2004. Sometimes I'd drift away for a few weeks, but I always came back. I posted anonymously during those years, but when I came back in September of last year, I decided to take a name. I can't remember, though, how I originally found the place. A link somewhere, maybe.

I googled something about Jake Gyllenhaal like 7 years ago. Got here. Then found that thread on “Victorian Era DL”. I laughed so much. Stayed since.

In 2006. I was a fan of a certain gay actor.

It kept coming up on everything I searched.

Googled "Bill Hemmer gay"

I now feel ridiculous even being mildly interested in that weird, right wing closet case, but glad I found DL

I don’t remember what led me here, but it’s now my favorite place on the Internet. During this quarantine I’ve been watching old movies on utube and reading all the old threads about them. DL has the best writing on old Hollywood I know of.

I googled 'paying jocks to let you blow them'