From Bible Study to Sex Parties, Gays Share Where They Met Their Partners

I met off the personsl ads both times: blind date/coffee. First one from the weekly alternative rag. Second from the now-defunct OutInAmerica.

A friend of mine met his bf at a funeral, of all places

Costco, behind the dumpsters

At a bible study sex party.

R4 - you got to know him 'biblically'?

Met mine when I rented an AirBnB from him.

I met mine in the Classical Music section of a used CD store.

Strip club-ABS in North Jersey, I walked into the middle of a bar fight involving my now BF Shaun's family.

Beat the SHIT out of his dad and older brother, best decision I ever made.

In the dark, moist basement of a sex bar a decade ago.

My sister's roommate. Been together for 32 years.

He was looking at the Manet and I was looking at the Monet.

Steamroom at the Chelsea Gym 20 years ago.

At a meet-up group for gay men

Well let’s see …. decades, first one Bill in the West Village was a just-in-town friend of a friend. Then came Stephen the twin brother of a friend’s lover. Then Jim, from the bathroom of Grand Central Station. Then Roger, on the boardwalk of The Pines Then Wayne, from the bathroom of Grand Central Station

Tale as old as time, Fall Play auditions, He put his arm around me and said "I look forward to working with you."

At my fraternity house in the 70s. I was already a member and he was a new guy who was recruited over the summer. We coincidentally were assigned the same bedroom, with three others. Halfway through the semester, we spent a night in a hotel so we could be together without being caught by the other brothers.

We were together for twenty years before he died of cancer.

I was flying first class as a college student when I spotted this unbearably handsome older gentleman who came and sat next to me. I needed to do my logic homework, and out of the blue, he started helping me.

We've been inseparable ever since, despite the 50 year ago gap.

On Zoosk.

I wonder if any gay couples met at the Republican convention, since Grindr crashed there 🤣

The Mineshaft.

My landlord met his long-term partner at some bathhouse in Chicago in the 70s. They were both horribly closeted at the time, but eventually became out and proud. BF died and left him a bundle.

Bible study? I hope they were reading the part in Leviticus where homosexuals get the death penalty.

Personal ad in the Chicago Reader 36 years ago.

#21, Leviticus was a mental case. Obsessed with meat and how to eat it. Probably weighed 88 lbs. and went around talking to himself. That people would still be obeying him 2,000 years later is pathetic.

r23 Well Leviticus was written by Moses. But he definitely wanted to kill all us gays. How any gay men could go to a Bible study in good conscious is beyond me.

The old fashioned way. In a bar (NYC Townhouse). Together 29 years.

Bible study sex parties? Now that’s a hot Wednesday night!

A gay Bar...introduced by the bartender....12/30 will be legally married for 10 years....but we have been together over 20

Dating app! Eleven years together, eight married

Uncle Craig introduced us.