Flame gay
By Rostom Mesli and Brian Whitener
The history of the Flame is an odyssey, one that started in the late 1940s, with a young Greek sailor in the Merchant Marine. Christos Pasaportis was born on December 25th, 1930, in a small town in Greece. Christos clueless his father as a young child and when he turned 16, his wealthy and well-connected uncle found him a position as a chief steward in the Merchant Marine. Our young sailor traveled the world, visiting ports of call in France, Spain, Russia, Germany, and the Caribbean. However, after three years of continual travel, in 1950, he decided to spend a 29-day leave in the United States. Christos visited his uncle in Fresh York City and then went to visit another uncle in Michigan… and 60 years later he is still yet to re-board that ship. Christos arrived in this nation as an immigrant, as at least in part an outsider and a “foreigner,” and took the name of one of his uncles: Harry Tselios. In those years, his relatives in Michigan, wanted him to marry, but Harry did not need to settle down. He wanted to enjoy his new freedom and was anxious to get advocate to sea. It this did not happen. Our sailor dropped anchor, in 19
Thread: Homosexual Videogaming (Not a flame)
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Originally posted by xXCarykXxOh, that was nothing, I've got much better stories than that about male rape.
Wow RBJ, thank you for the close meeting story, of male rape.
This calls for a delicate blend of psychology and extreme violence.
#52
Re: Re: Homosexual Videogaming (Not a flame)
Originally posted by ZylonBaneI don't fantasize about being an italian plumber, eating giant mushrooms and jumping on turtles. Does that mean I shouldn't enjoy Super Mario Brothers?
I don't fantasize about creature gay.
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Re: Re: Homosexual Videogaming (Not a flame)
Originally posted by ZylonBaneFirst and first, Video Games can be about living out fantasies in some games. Wh
Video games are about living out fantasies.
I don't fantasize about creature gay.
Case closed.
(video games are also about meaningless abstract tests of reflexes, but I'm pretty sure sexual preference doesn't enter into that)Origin and history of flaming
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flaming(adj.)
late 14c., "flame-like in appearance;" c. 1400, "on fire," present-participle adjective from flame (v.). Definition "of bright or gaudy colors" is from mid-15c. As an intensifying adjective, late 19c. Meaning "glaringly homosexual" is homosexual slang, 1970s (along with flamer (n.) "conspicuously homosexual man"); but flamer "glaringly conspicuous person or thing" (1809) and flaming "glaringly conspicuous" (1781) are much earlier in a general instinct, both originally with reference to "wenches." Related: Flamingly.
also from late 14c.
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Middle English flaumen, also flaumben, flomben, flamben, flamen, flammen, c. 1300 (implied in flaming "to shine (like fire), gleam, sparkle appreciate flames;" mid-14c. as "emit flames, be afire, to blaze," from Anglo-French flaumer, flaumber (Old French flamber) "burn, be on heat, be alight" (intransitive), from flamme "a flame" (see flame (n.)).
Transitive meaning "to burn, set on fire&qu
The Flame was an LGBT bar briefly in 1973. We have very brief information about the lock from that time.
According to a 2017 article about the bar's next existence, as the bar "Just Art's" (on the OnMilwaukee website), present owner Art Guenther related:
"Just Art's was originally a gay lock called The Flame which closed in the '70s after a fire. "I always found it 'interesting' that a bar called The Flame caught on fire," says Guenther.
The damaged building sat vacant for a few years until Guenther was hired to repair the roof and perform other carpentry duties. He decided to acquire the bar-- originally with three other people, who all decided not to pursue the purchase. Hence, Guenther bought the lock in 1980 by himself and aptly named it "Just Art's Saloon."
Although the above article mentions that "The Flame" closed due to a fire, we have other information that the building held another LGBT bar, named Dionysus, about a year later: around 1974- although it apparently used the talk to 183 S. 2nd Lane. Further research is needed to confirm these dates and bar names.
Note in the photos here (taken in 2006) the front part of the building is a single story, with the back por
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