Hello folks. Yet another IMDb refugee here. Thankyou for this wonderful place. I was getting to the point were I had lost track of why I went into the forums over there. I have been exploring here for several days now and posted a few times in the more familiar territory of the Chez Tremblay section, but I'm very happy to once again put that overwhelming consciousness of stranger danger behind me.
I am Ray.
Libran - The worst kind of Libran with all but one planet plonked in Libra! Always striving for balance, sometimes there just seems to be too many options and I decisively procrastinate. Whilst I tend to be self focused and overly sensitive much of the time, I'm way too generous with cash and possessions, and way too selfish with time and space. Perhaps it's cheesy, but my greatest pain is to know someone is in pain.
Living in Brisbane Australia - Born in Broken Hill, a town on the boarder on New South Wales and Victoria, I grew up around Sydney on the East Coast and spent my early adulthood in the heart of Sydeny itself. After losing a restaurant to..., let's say enjoying the fruits of that amazingly fast city a little too much, I headed North to lick my wounds and ended up in Brisneyland where the pace is gentle, the weather's perfect, and the attitude is warm.
41 years old - Wasn't coping at all with that leap. All of a sudden it becomes apparent that all the adage It goes too quickly, has credibility. Soon I realised that racing around chanting It's too soon, It's too soon, It's too soon was only using up more valuable time. Coinciding with this shift in attitude came BBM.
Gay Male & Very contentedly single - I have known that I am gay since it is possible to know you're gay, but I didn't live in an environment that made coming out easy, so I didn't until I was 25. Even then I had no intension of acting on my gay instinct until my parents had died a natural death. On the first day of my second year of uni, that was to change. I walked into class and standing there was the man who would make it not only possible to come out, but he made it absolutely necessary. I finally felt that all absorbing love that no one can ever quite describe accurately. We spent some wonderful years together and my life changed unrecognisably. Circumstances saw us part with him moving across the other side of the world and time saw us lose touch. Until recently. I simply googled his name, and by mid 2007 we will reunite as friends. I consider myself very lucky to have felt that level of passion about another person, many people reach the end of their lives without ever having done so. I guess I'm a bit of an Ennis now. I'm open to sharing life again, but they have to be pretty special. As I always say, the next relationship I have will be the one that makes me want to stop being single. I realise that I never gave my parents enough credit. They re evaluated all their prejudices when i came out finally, and whilst they aren't totally saved, they are certainly aware and accepting of diversity now.
Cartoonist / illustrator - After losing my restaurant I was at a loss as to what to do next. I had a Nursing Degree, but didn't want to go back to that, I had a Creative Arts degree, but found after 5 years in the acting and Directing profession that I didn't have the talent to make the grade, I had enough of the working gay bars as the fun had somehow drained out of it after so many years and nothing was exciting me anymore, and I ssssoitenly didn't want to go back into another restaurant. So I started drawing. And it turned out that I could make a living with it. Once I decided that the world is my oyster at 40, I took a part time job at the post office to boost the travel funds, and now I'm looking toward the end of the year to sketch my way around the planet.
BBM - I've watched it over 50 times. Need I say more? Astonishing film, with astonishing realities, and because of it, and these forums I have made some astonishing new friends. Looking forward to including all of you in this. Thanks for having me.
