I am a victim of excess flatus. It is not a matter of choice. I guess you could call it "genetic". I have found this to be a problem that has had no social acceptance. As a matter of fact, most people complain about it when they encounter people like me. I overheard, at one party, a comment , "I liked it better when they stayed in the water closet and didn't insist on "performing" at public venues". Please folks, this is something I was born with, it is not something I chose. Why can't you accept it? I had to handle this problem privately and quietly for years. Now, folks like me are tired of being looked down upon. We want to be treated just like everyone else. I want my flatus elimination to be accepted and practiced in the open.

I do not wish to have to move to San Francisco or Boston which are loaded with victims of flatus. I want to be able to express myself publicly. We , in Georgia, have formed a group, Friends Against Restrictive Tooting. There are many FART members now and growing. Once we have broader acceptance, we plan to move to Stage 2 and call our group FOOLS, (Flatus Openly Out Loud Satisfactorily).

Please , put aside your prejudices against flatus victims. Support us in our effort for acceptance. Do not turn your noses up at us. For all you know you may have a family member that has this affliction, who keeps this problem silent. This could be deadly.

We have recently received some bad press by another group, who we think of a bigots. Brothers Enabling Against Nasty Smells. (Also known as BEANS)

May we count on your support?? There is an aura about those who tolerate us.

Thank you.

Something I used to do in my younger days was go to gay bars alone. Well, I wasn't completely alone. The bartenders knew I was straight and loved the game I would play. It's the same game women play to get free drinks all night long. You sit at the bar, talk to some random guy about whatever guys talk about, he buys you drinks and when he asks if you'd like to go to his place you tell him you're straight. For everyone "in the know" it's hilarious, plus you get free drinks to boot. I guess I was holding my own guerilla straght bar thing? 

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This is when I am happy that I am not blind, because if I had a text-to-speech program that only read NB headlines, this post would be about my amazement that Gay Gorillas could actually get into bars.

"I believe in American Exceptionalism, just like Brits believe in British Exceptionalism and Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism." - PreBO, 4/4/09

I think their reason is a sled load of ****. They want attention. I think it was more for some kind of shock value. Who else you know will announce to the room full of total strangers that they are "gay". If a heterosexual did that "Hey everyone, Im straight!" everyone would think you had lost your frigging mind. But they always want everyone within earshot to know they are gay. Keep your sexual proclivities to yourself.  Now, sit down and shut the hell up, we're trying to watch the game.