What year did you graduate from high school?

Gee....you are ancient.

Myself, 2010. Jealous ?

2001.

2014, I win.

2003.

1970

1921

1973

2001

1985

1899

I think you made a typo R10. Did you mean 1999?

r10 and I have the same sense of humor. LOL

I think we can assume anyone on this site graduated with an 18 as the first two digits..

'85 . Missing a reunion this weekend.. Don't want to fly that far only to return for the holidays. High school in the 80s suited me just fine. I had a blast. Parents had no idea where I was ever once I turned 15. I was either home or out. It was never where are you going but when are you coming back. Fake idea a 15 to see bands. I grew up fast but as a little gayling that's not unusual. I would love to go back for just one night.

1968

1985.

1989, & I still remember coming home early on graduation day & watching a TV movie with Diane Lane in it, & having the weirdest feeling about how different life would be from then on.

We are sexy

We are fine

We’re the class of

Eighty-Nine!

1983. When younger folks ask me what year I graduated I give them the "Micheal Jackson had a really big album that year" clue. A number have come back with "Oh same year as Bad?" (WTF?)

Be sure and add your favorite color, name of first pet, mothers maiden name, birthday...

1969

Class of 2021 here.

Class of 2007!

2001

1980; I turn 60 next year.

I can't fucking believe it.

Another 1980 here.

1978, and going out dancing since 1976. Discos (they weren’t called “clubs” then) were more than happy to let high school teens in and serve them liquor, no fake ID required.

2014

Sorry I'm late.

R20 is right. Beware of trolls and their seemingly innocuous questionnaires.

1988 here also. I remember seeing Willow in the theater and thought that Val Kilmer was hot

I remember seeing Woodrow Wilson in the theatre and thinking Rudolph Valentino was hot.

Another rep for 1983, when they Solid Gold Dancers were the hottest men on TV and we waited with bated breath each week for Friday Night Videos!

It’s so weird how early 80s and late 80s are a completely different world.

Things really went to shit around 1986.

1973

1995

2001

1967. Summer of Love. Going off to college (some of us to Vietnam), amid protests, assassinations, Woodstock, Moon landing, Altamont, Chappaquiddick, and Manson.

Good times!

2022

1995

1968

" '68 Is Great!"

Muriel's gonna ban you, R38. You're too young to hang.

Graduate high school?... Um

R1 You went to evening school in your 40s?

2000

1994. I'm 45 and still frisky. I can pop a boner in an instant. I thought the "dirty 30's" were supposed to be the heyday, but I'm enjoying my 40's even moreso.

1995 - seems like yesterday

1982

I’ve always wished I was older for two main reasons.

I’ve always preferred 1970s music, TV, fashion, and hairstyles to that of the 1980s.

If I were older I would be retired by now.

I have forgotten the date but I once figured up the exact day I wish I had been born.

Had I been born on that date I would have turned 18 the day after the Vietnam draft ended.

The remainder of the 70s would have been my playground and although I did engage in quite a bit of consequence free sex while I was in junior high it would’ve been nice to really kick up my heels and been a big whore in the pre-AIDS era.

LXVI

It was supposed to be 1987, but I was such a stoner in grade 11 and acid casualty in grade 12 that I had to do an extra year (but I ended up graduating with honours, so there’s that, I guess.)

1943

1968. Boston area and graduation was postponed for a week since RFK was killed. Between that and boys in my class that had been drafted it was a depressing event.

1994… it was all about Melrose Place, Celine Dion, Ace of Base, The Cranberries, Nancy v Tanya, The Lion King, Forrest Gump. What a time to be alive.

1976, the bicentennial class.

1996 huntys

1993

1990. Turned eighteen the same day. Jim Henson had died ten days earlier, so my childhood died in more ways than one 😢.

1984

@r50, "1943"

Oh, honey, you only LOOK 96

What’s high school?

1971, and out in 1974. Good times.

1972..

^ Thank you, someone here is older then me... 1973

Apparently one can graduate from r19's high school without learning how to spell "Michael."

r6:

^ I'm the guy without the hat, wasn't I cute in the 1920s?

2011 .. Somebody tell me it gets better. I think I picked the wrong major… I hate my job!

Technically 2008 in my country, but it was actually 2009 given that I was an exchange student studying abroad!

R64, so that's the origin of Edward Gorey's fur coat chic. Interesting.

1986 - so young, so dumb, yet never truly full of cum; I drained my snake daily.

1977

1988 also. That’s the most common year for posters at DL.

I just finished the junior high.

R66 - Sweetie you’re far too young to be posting on DL! Go live your life! Wait till you’re 50+ and butter like the rest of us here.

1998

Shocked by some of the gaylings who frequent DL! 2011! 2014! Who knew?

R74 - Same here! (I’m 1988) I would never have spent my youth being a catty bitch online. I was out every night, working and traveling every day, and enjoying life. So sad they are here. I feel like this is a place for 45+ year olds.

1972 and I hated every single fucking moment of it.

Another 1968. And a man in uniform from the VFW gave a speech on honors day - and ended with: "And I hope none of you here today find yourselves in this organization. Peace."

Right? I expected a bit older on here.

I expected a lot of you guys to start hitting on me. Are you afraid of Apple police. Or the "pedo" troll.

The year Janet Jackson's landmark album Control was released.

1999. Two months after Columbine. When school shootings were still shocking.

1885. Sort of. My fucking cunt teacher decided not to offer the end-of-the year examinations because none of the students—except me—were ready. He assumed that we would finish the following year. But it was right before I married Alonzo so I had other plans — as in getting some "D!" We married on August 25, 1885.

2005; the same year Youtube was founded.

R83 I wasn't even born yet.

2018

2016

1992

R64/R75 I graduated in 2011, and started lurking and posting here later that same year due to being bored and miserable in an entry-level pre-College job at the world’s most boring and poisonous company. All through school I was always a loner and misfit geek posting on various message boards in my free time, and I hated school and my peer group, so for me it’s situation-normal.

Growing up I wasn’t permitted and did not have the resources to go out socialising afterschool or on weekends, and besides that I didn’t have the confidence or the mental/physical strength to do so anyway.

Not everyone had idyllic young lives where they were popular at school, of sound health, and enjoyed normal freedoms and a non-toxic home-life, yanno. Feel lucky if you did, and be considerate of those who didn’t.

R88 - Excellent points; well taken. Good luck to you.

OP, my pin is -1234 and all my passwords are "password"

From the looks of you, OP, I’m guessing that’s “BC.”

R86 So old!

2002. Our class trip to DC was canceled because of 9/11

Another from the Class of 1980. I'll be 60 in a couple of months. Our 40 year reunion in 2020 was obviously cancelled due to the pandemic, though I haven't been attending reunions anyway, so I didn't care. Last I heard, they're debating on either trying for 2022 or just waiting for 2025 for a large 45 year event.

^ You want to feel old? I'm getting death notices from people I graduated with in 1973. There have been quite a few

1997

Another 1970 here. Our 50-year class reunion was supposed to be last year. I wouldn't have gone anyway.

1985

1877

2000

I would encourage everyone particularly from the 60's & 70's to attend those high school reunions. It's nice to see how everyone looks and what happened to everyone.

Try to get involved if you live in the area - it's much more fun. High school annuals are available to look at on Classmates.com without paying - although you have to join. It costs nothing. It's fun to see the photos.

One of the women involved in my 50th reunion in 2018 messaged me and I volunteered to do a couple of videos for the event......an In Memorium which was very sad.....and a history of the class with all of the photos I could find at Classmates from grade school onward...... It was a great success and I talked to a lot of folks and realized that things that bothered me from back then were really NOT important.

My life is better for it.

Sorry but I literally cannot understand these people who loved school and the people there enough that they’d revisit the experience. Respect but I like leaving my trauma buried in the past.

I understand R102 - but you also might get some closure. But then again, I wasn't traumatized.

1952

You could not drag me to a HS reunion.

College, on the other hand...

R88 we are very glad you are here. We need new blood.

1987

MCMLXXV

1970

1942

1979

1993

1978

2011 - To the poster above that said I’m young. Thanks for saying that. Sometimes I don’t feel it. I’ve been out of college for 6 years and I haven’t accomplished anything. I’m a financial analyst for a government contractor…I hate it. I wish I knew what to do with my life… I’m clueless.

1981.

Jesus, r114, pull yourself together. Work to enjoy your life away from work at least. Save your money. Learn to invest, figure out how to retire early in case you’re forced to…hint hint.

"1942 "

You do realize that you're 97, don't you?

R117 - He's actually 102. Repeated a few grades...

R114 - awww good luck to you. And don’t worry too much about the future. I didn’t find my true calling until the age of 37. Now I look forward to my work life.

I didn't go to " high school" but I completed my apprenticeship in 1890.

I graduate in May (2022.) Don’t worry, I’m 18 lol, I just like observing older men discussing different topics. I’m a loner and don’t have many friends so I come here, as well as many other discussion boards for older men.

R121 - Call me.

The better question, Boris, is what percentage of Macedonian youths graduate from high school?

Another 1988!

1974

2008

1948

2003

1980

Did the Dateline episode air, it didn’t show up on my On Demand?

Gradeeate?

Me?

Hoo sed?

1989. I turned 50 earlier this month and I still can’t believe it. I’ve lived quite a life but also feel like I’ve done nothing.

Nellie and Laura were in my graduating class.

R15 "... if you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear a flower in your hair..."

1968 rules.

1988-- The height of the the AIDS crises and I had no idea what AIDS or HIV was!!! I can't believe I'm still here and HIV free!

[quote]In Memorium

Oh, dear.

Anyone who graduated in the 20th century is officially an Eldergay.

Rydell High, Class of '62.

No, that was not my age.

1975 - although I didn't get to "walk the stage" because I lost some "Annie Get Your Gun" spring musical tickets I was supposed to sell and couldn't come up with the money to replace them. And I think the school was pissed that I caught them sitting on thousands of dollars meant for the students in the gifted program through research at the L.A. public library, where I frequently went when I ditched a year and a half of high school. Fortunately, the money eventually went to a statewide trip around California for the dozen or so of us who were considered "gifted."

1987

So far, 1988 is the most common response.

R141 My granny graduated that year too.

What is high school?

R142 - Fuck you AND your granny. My generation is and will always be the best.

So is my granny, she is a great old gal.

Sorry R136.

Memoriam.

Hmmmm.....my spellcheck doesn't like that.....but I looked it up.

We're the best,

We're better than *you*,

We're the Class of '82!

I know, darlin'

I'm a whore

I'm the class of '74!

Hahahahaha!

All you guys who think you're so young and smart, BOY are you in for a surprise

Before desegregation.

I can visualize an HTML copy of this thread, accessible by linked computers at the troll farm, with IP addresses and other notations written in Russian, Romanian, or Greek attached to the individual posts.

"I suck your cock while

You suck mine--

We're the class of 69!"

Sr 77

87. There were 19 people in my class and 12 of us had gone K-12 together.

How often IS the security question “what year did you graduate from high school?”

We're So Much Fun

The Class of 1981

R155, in most cases, one can use the year one graduated to extrapolate the birth year with a fair degree of accuracy.

Have you ever gotten any calls from Indian scammers (the 'Microsoft' or 'Apple' scam, the $799 Amazon charge scam, the 'IRS warrant for your arrest' scam, the Medicare scam)? The telephone numbers they call are part of a database which can be edited to include tiny details one inadvertently drops to the callers during the interactions. Depending upon the success of their ruses and the number of interactions they have with one (conservatively, say, two or three calls a week across six or seven years), the notes attached to each number can potentially grow to encompass a fairly intrusive picture of the person(s) they're calling. There's other sources of online data they can mine also - businesses you frequent which sell your information. The accumulated data constitutes a profile, offering the potential to scam you, to steal your identity - any number of ways to exploit you.

It's the same here on the DL. Threads which ask DL users to provide some seemingly innocuous piece of personal information here and there are collated by members of the teams assigned to troll this site, building profiles of the users cumulatively. Honeypot links capture the IP addresses of those who click on them. Etcetera.

Oh, I disclosed my granny's age!

1973

1942

1976

R152

We are 1968

We just learned to masturbate.

1884.

[quote] It’s so weird how early 80s and late 80s are a completely different world.

Try every year in one decade.

^ Exactly! Compare the world of 1960 with the world of 1970 and you'll think 50 years had past. Now compare 2000 with 2010 and meh

The 60s throughout were exciting.

1970. Shortly after graduation I discovered I could sneak into the gay bars in downtown Chicago and find older guys to buy me drinks. And just like that .....

Does the year one got their GED count?

R167 Did they ask for compensation?

R169, back in those days the bars didn't have people at the door carding. It was up to the bartender to make sure you were "legal". I would lurk around in the back, then go up to some guy with a dollar in hand and ask if he would order me a drink. I was young but I wasn't stupid - I only went up to guys I thought were hot. Picking up guys was a lot easier back then. LOL

Class of 2000 here

1888- I’m a REAL elder gay.

Wasn’t the drinking age 18 nationwide back in 1970? Or were you still 17, r170?

Drinking age varied by state until the 1980s. The federal government made 21 the drinking age nationwide when they required it of the states to receive federal highway funding. Before that it was between 18 and 21 in most states, and varied widely.

1990

[quote]Wasn’t the drinking age 18 nationwide back in 1970?

Not in California it wasn't.

There are ways of getting around having to save up for a child's college expenses.

Hahhahahaha R123

In some states I think it was 23 R174.