Aberdabbadoo
Location
No map yet...
Events
0 Events...
Videos
-
Added 1 month ago
-
Added 1 month ago
-
Added 1 month ago
Sign up nowAbout
Sunday morning 11am to 1pm
Latest Activity
- 1 month ago
Jean-Paul commented on the group Aberdabbadoo's wall:Today, FRIDAY, October 16th 1854 – today is the birth date of OSCAR WILDE, the great Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories known for his barbed wit, martyred Gay saint (ok....maybe not a saint...), he was one of the most ...
- 1 month ago
IanG added a new video to Aberdabbadoo.Slade - Coz I Luv U
First hit for my first ever favourite band back in the early 70s. Looking at them, though, it's amazing I grew up fancying men! hahahaha - 1 month agoJean-Paul commented on the group Aberdabbadoo's wall:
G'morning Rose. Hope all goes well today. AC/DC anyone? No, but Pink Floyd maybe!!
- 1 month agoJean-Paul added a new video to Aberdabbadoo.
All I Have To Do Is Dream/ Everly Brothers
Wow, did I spend a lot of time looking out the window listening to this song when i was a teenager! - 1 month agoJean-Paul commented on the group Aberdabbadoo's wall:
Have a look-see at Gay Montreal, Canada! http://www.tripoutgaytravel.com/video-amazing-gay-montreal/
- 1 month agoJean-Paul commented on the group Aberdabbadoo's wall:
Yea, well if Gelbarbi wants the least bit of credibility from this simple "infidel", he can start be whiping his *ss with a couple of pages from the Kah-Ran. But I ain't bitter.
- 1 month ago
Rose commented on the group Aberdabbadoo's wall:"Zahir Belgarbi, identified as a spokesman for Creteil Bebel, told France-Info radio he apologized if “anyone felt upset or hurt.” Like that makes it all right?
Forum
-
- 32 replies in total
-
- 2 replies in total
Photos
Aberdabbadoo - Members
The Wall
16 Wall Posts
Click here to sign up now.
-
by Jean-Paul 1 month agoToday, FRIDAY, October 16th 1854 – today is the birth date of OSCAR WILDE, the great Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories known for his barbed wit, martyred Gay saint (ok....maybe not a saint...), he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labor after being convicted of the offense of gross indecency. Biographers generally believe Wilde first experienced his sexuality in 1885 (the year after his wedding) by the 17-year-old Robert Baldwin Ross. Neil McKenna's biography The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (2003) theorizes that Wilde was aware of his sexuality much earlier, from the moment of his first kiss with another boy at the age of 16. According to McKenna, after arriving at Oxford in 1874, Wilde tentatively explored his sexuality, discovering that he could feel passionate romantic love for "fair, slim" choirboys, but was more sexually drawn towards the swarthy young rough trade. By the late 1870s, Wilde was already preoccupied with the philosophy of same-sex love, and had befriended a group of Uranian (paederastic) poets and homosexual law reformers, becoming acquainted with the work of Gay rights pioneer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs. Wilde also met Walt Whitman in America in 1882, writing to a friend that there was "no doubt" about the great American poet's sexual orientation — "I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips," he boasted. He even lived with the society painter Frank Miles, who was a few years his senior and may have been his lover. However, writes McKenna, he was at one time unhappy with the direction of his sexual and romantic desires, and, hoping that marriage would cure him, he married Constance Lloyd in 1884. McKenna's account has been criticized by some reviewers who find it too speculative, although not necessarily implausible. Regardless of whether or not Wilde was still naïve when he first met Ross, Ross did play an important role in the development of Wilde's understanding of his own sexuality. Ross was aware of Wilde's poems before they met, and indeed had been beaten for reading them. He was also unmoved by the Victorian prohibition against homosexuality. By Richard Ellmann's account, Ross, "...so young and yet so knowing, was determined to seduce Wilde." Later, Ross boasted to Lord Alfred Douglas that he was "the first boy Oscar ever had" and there seems to have been much jealousy between them. Soon, Wilde entered a world of regular sex with youths such as servants and newsboys, in their mid to late teens, whom he would meet in homosexual bars or brothels. In Wilde's words, the relations were akin to "feasting with panthers", and he reveled in the risk: "the danger was half the excitement." In his public writings, Wilde's first celebration of romantic love between men and boys can be found in The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), in which he propounds a theory that Shakespeare' s sonnets were written out of the poet's love of Elizabethan boy actor "Willie Hughes". In the early summer of 1891 he was introduced by the poet Lionel Johnson to the 22-year-old Lord Alfred Douglas, an undergraduate at Oxford at the time. An intimate friendship immediately sprang up between the two, but it was not initially sexual, nor did the sexuality progress far when it did eventually take place. According to Douglas, speaking in his old age, for the first six months their relations remained on a purely intellectual and emotional level. Despite the fact that "from the second time he saw me, when he gave me a copy of Dorian Gray which I took with me to Oxford, he made overtures to me. It was not till I had known him for at least six months and after I had seen him over and over again and he had twice stayed with me in Oxford, that I gave in to him. I did with him and allowed him to do just what was done among boys at Winchester and Oxford... Sodomy never took place between us, nor was it attempted or dreamed of. Wilde treated me as an older one does a younger one at school." After Wilde realized that Douglas only consented in order to please him, as his instincts drew him not to men but to younger boys, Wilde permanently ceased his physical attentions. For a few years they lived together more or less openly in a number of locations. Wilde and some within his upper-class social group also began to speak about homosexual law reform, and their commitment to "The Cause" was formalized by the founding of a highly secretive organization called the Order of Chaeronea, of which Wilde was a member. A homosexual novel, Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal, written at about the same time and clandestinely published in 1893, has been attributed to Oscar Wilde, but was probably, in fact, a combined effort by a number of Wilde's friends, which Wilde edited. Wilde also periodically contributed to the Uranian literary journal The Chameleon. Lord Alfred's first mentor had been his cosmopolitan and effeminate grandfather Alfred Montgomery. His older brother Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig also had a (possibly homosexual) association with the Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, which ended on Francis's death in a shooting accident, a possible suicide. Lord Alfred's father John Sholto Douglas 9th Marquess of Queensberry came to believe his sons had been corrupted by older homosexuals, or as he phrased it in a letter, "Snob Queers like Rosebery". As he had attempted to do with Rosebery, Queensberry confronted Wilde and Lord Alfred on several occasions, but each time Wilde was able to mollify him. Divorced and spending wildly, Queensberry was known for his outspoken views and the boxing roughs who often accompanied him. He abhorred his younger son and plagued the boy with threats to cut him off if he did not stop idling his life away. Queensberry was determined to end the friendship with Wilde. Wilde was in full flow of rehearsal when Bosie returned from a diplomatic posting to Cairo, around the time Queensberry visited Wilde at his Tite Street home. He angrily pushed past Wilde's servant and entered the ground floor study, shouting obscenities and asking Wilde about his divorce (rumors were rife). Wilde became incensed, but it is said he calmly told his manservant that Queensberry was the most infamous brute in London, and that he was not to be shown into the house ever again. Despite the presence of a bodyguard, Wilde forced Queensberry to leave in no uncertain terms. On the opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest Queensberry further planned to insult and socially embarrass Wilde by throwing a bouquet of turnips. Wilde was tipped off, and Queensberry was barred from entering the theatre. Wilde took legal advice against him, and wished to prosecute, but Wilde's friends refused to give evidence against the Marquess and hence the case was dropped. Wilde and Bosie left London for a vacation in Monte Carlo and while away, on February 18, 1895, the Marquess left his calling card, with an inscription accusing Wilde of posing as a "somdomite(sic) " at Wilde's Club
-
by Jean-Paul 1 month ago
G'morning Rose. Hope all goes well today. AC/DC anyone? No, but Pink Floyd maybe!!
-
by Jean-Paul 1 month ago
Have a look-see at Gay Montreal, Canada! http://www.tripoutgaytravel.com/video-a … -montreal/
-
by Jean-Paul 1 month ago
Yea, well if Gelbarbi wants the least bit of credibility from this simple "infidel", he can start be whiping his *ss with a couple of pages from the Kah-Ran. But I ain't bitter.
-
by Rose 1 month ago"Zahir Belgarbi, identified as a spokesman for Creteil Bebel, told France-Info radio he apologized if “anyone felt upset or hurt.” Like that makes it all right?
-
by Jean-Paul 1 month ago
French gay soccer team snubbed by Muslim team By The Associated Press 10.07.2009 7:00am EDT (Paris) A French gay soccer team says its members were victims of homophobia when a team of Muslim players refused to play a match against them. The Paris Foot Gay team says Tuesday it received an e-mail from the Creteil Bebel club canceling a match scheduled for last Sunday. “Because of the principles of our team, which is a team of devout Muslims, we can’t play against you,” the e-mail said, according to Paris Foot Gay. The e-mail received Saturday said, “Our convictions are much more important than a simple football match.” Paris Foot Gay said in a statement that it asked the amateur league to sanction Creteil Bebel. Zahir Belgarbi, identified as a spokesman for Creteil Bebel, told France-Info radio he apologized if “anyone felt upset or hurt.”
-
by Jean-Paul 1 month ago
GLBT History Month 2009: http://www.glbthistorymonth.com/glbthistorymonth/2009/
-
by Rose 1 month ago
Jean Paul, Mozart would be very nice with the coffee. I could really go for a buttered croissant, too. I know a nice place that does them. And it's not raining today. May breakfast out before work!
-
by Travelboy 1 month agoDear Jean Paul I can always pull some from yout for you, no a problem! Thank you for the warm welcome... I am belong here!
