{"id":11039,"date":"2014-11-27T08:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2014-11-27T08:05:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T13:05:41","slug":"10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2013\/11\/first-thanksgiving-2-360x281.jpg\" alt=\"first thanksgiving 2\" width=\"360\" height=\"281\">Hello, you turkeys! Thanksgiving is coming up,&nbsp;our annual celebration of gluttony and colonization and 2pm dinners. What are you planning to cook? Leave your favorite recipes in the comments, where absolutely everyone will read them.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also&nbsp;that time of the year when inevitably, one&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">jerk<\/a> won&rsquo;t let anyone eat until everyone goes around the table and says what they&rsquo;re thankful for, and everyone else goes &ldquo;awww.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s the worst!<\/p>\n<p>So don&rsquo;t be caught unprepared this year! We&rsquo;ve compiled a list of ten things you can be thankful for, just in case some nosy nelly asks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/11\/nickjonas21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/11\/nickjonas21-360x239.jpg\" alt=\"nickjonas21\" width=\"360\" height=\"239\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Butts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this is #1 on our list of things to be thankful for. And frankly, #1 on almost any other list we compile. Butts are so great, you <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a>. You can sit on them, or use them as pillows, or slap &lsquo;em around, or use them&nbsp;to display a bouquet.&nbsp;That pretty much covers all of their uses, right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/08\/81606484-360x202.jpg\" alt=\"Actor George Takei  (R) and partner Brad\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Marriage equality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, right, this is pretty great thing to have&nbsp;happened in 2014. We won approximately eight billion&nbsp;court cases so far this year,&nbsp;and now most of us <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> in states where we can get married. Three cheers&nbsp;to all the pioneering <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a> who bravely fought for equality, and to the lawyers and activists and organizers and allies who made it possible. Whether it was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/asteroid-named-after-late-gay-rights-hero-frank-kameny-20120711\"> Frank Kameny<\/a> holding protests in the &rsquo;70s, or Andrew Sullivan agitating in the pages of The New Republic in the &rsquo;80s, or Dan Foley litigating&nbsp;the Hawaii&nbsp;case in the &rsquo;90s, or Molly McKay leading parades&nbsp;in a wedding dress in the 2000s, or Edie Windsor prevailing at the Supreme Court just last year, we have countless heroes to thank for their work over the decades.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2013\/11\/Michelle-Obama-Barack-Obama-Fitness-Cover-360x246.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle-Obama-Barack-Obama-Fitness-Cover\" width=\"360\" height=\"246\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Obamacare<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sure, the Affordable Care Act isn&rsquo;t perfect. There&rsquo;s still plenty of&nbsp;work to be done before America&rsquo;s health care is on par with the rest of the world. But imagine how screwed we&rsquo;d be without it! Pre-Obamacare, insurers were allowed to deny coverage&nbsp;to you simply for being <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a>. Chronic conditions&nbsp;like AIDS&nbsp;were subject to lifetime limits, which meant your coverage could evaporate just when you need it most. Insurers weren&rsquo;t required to provide no-cost preventative screening for conditions for which LGBTs are particularly susceptible, like depression. Thanks, Obama!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2013\/01\/The-Package-Tour-360x240.jpg\" alt=\"The-Package-Tour\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.&nbsp;Packages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special delivery! There&rsquo;s nothing better than receiving a package from a special friend. Or even from a stranger.&nbsp;And even if it isn&rsquo;t addressed to you, it&rsquo;s hard to look away when you spot a nice big one.&nbsp;Unwrapping them is such a pleasure, whether they have a fresh newly-packed fragrance or&nbsp;the musty aroma&nbsp;of having spent long hours in storage. And just to&nbsp;be clear, we&rsquo;re referring to getting a box of pens&nbsp;in the mail from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/01\/sleeping-pup-play-360x347.jpg\" alt=\"sleeping pup play\" width=\"360\" height=\"347\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.&nbsp;Pups &amp; Handlers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have no idea why, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/photos-these-sexy-men-love-to-strip-down-for-a-little-pup-play-20140720\">but pup play seems to be having something of a&nbsp;surge in popularity<\/a>, and we couldn&rsquo;t be more thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>We can&rsquo;t remember a time when we&rsquo;ve seen so many collars and leashes&nbsp;at our local <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> bars, not to mention masks and mitts and the occasional tail plug. Good <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boys<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/11\/Lumbersexual-Pictures-360x288.jpg\" alt=\"Lumbersexual-Pictures\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\">6. Lumbersexuals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although this term will become stale and annoying even faster than &ldquo;metrosexual,&rdquo; we are delighted nonetheless to see more&nbsp;flannel and beards and suspenders than ever before. Don&rsquo;t get us wrong: we love our fancy sissies, too. But we&rsquo;re swooning over&nbsp;the current trend of rugged mountain <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>. It&rsquo;s OK&nbsp;if you&rsquo;ve never actually swung an ax, trapped an opossum, or bathed in a crick. Just grow out that facial hair, knit a chunky knit cap, and&nbsp;revel in your burly beefy physique.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2013\/02\/arpad-is-love-Arpad-Is-Love-by-Jawnn-Webster-sissydude-360x360.jpg\" alt=\"arpad-is-love-Arpad Is Love by Jawnn Webster sissydude\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Sissies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hey&nbsp;Mary. You&nbsp;practically&nbsp;<em>invented<\/em>&nbsp;sissying your walk, and we wouldn&rsquo;t have it any other way. You look fabulous in&nbsp;bright pink lipstick, your shorts are so short you&rsquo;re basically a walking wedgie, and you&rsquo;ll never bore us by broaching the topic of football. And most importantly, sissies were on the vanguard of&nbsp;LGBT liberation before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/tag\/rupaul\">RuPaul<\/a> even wore her first heel. Sissies are heroes and we worship every single one of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2012\/05\/stephen-fry-creative-commons-360x326.jpg\" alt=\"stephen-fry-creative-commons\" width=\"360\" height=\"326\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Stephen Fry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen continues to teach&nbsp;us everything we need to know about how to be a delightful homosexual. Funny and smart, polite&nbsp;but firm, he is an international treasure. America has John Hodgman, Britain has Stephen Fry. Maybe 2015 will be the year they make a baby.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2014\/06\/stock-footage-man-in-trunks-reading-book-on-sunbed-360x202.jpg\" alt=\"stock-footage-man-in-trunks-reading-book-on-sunbed\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\">9. Tomefoolery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you been listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/tomefoolery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">avowed homosexual Cody&nbsp;Melcher&rsquo;s literary podcast<\/a>? Every week he and some comedian friends talk about a&nbsp;weird book, and it is&nbsp;consistently our&nbsp;favorite thing ever. We already love geeking out over books, but Cody has opened up a whole new world by introducing us to such bizarre tomes as <em>A Christian Guide to the Sexual Marketplace<\/em> and <em>The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories<\/em>&nbsp;and of course <em>Pink Swastika<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp\/docs\/2013\/08\/very-mary-kate-dragon-360x202.gif\" alt=\"very-mary-kate-dragon\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Gay&nbsp;Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re reading this, it means that you&rsquo;ve managed to pull yourself away from&nbsp;<em>Dragon Age: Inquisition<\/em>, the latest in a string of masterpieces from Bioware and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/straight-gamers-calls-for-no-homosexuality-option-in-dragon-age-2-game-maker-responds-shut-it-20110325\">&nbsp;openly&nbsp;gay designer\/writer David Gaider<\/a>. The Dragon Age games have long featured queer content, but the newest installment features its gayest character yet: Dorian, an elemental mage who is the company&rsquo;s first <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> (not <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bi<\/a>) party&nbsp;member. The franchise has previously featured a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> elf, but that&rsquo;s not such a big deal because everyone knows that&nbsp;<em>all<\/em> elves are <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a>. Let the&nbsp;shipping begin!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=a_kVIP3A18o:g6J4faoCOK8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?a=a_kVIP3A18o:g6J4faoCOK8:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/queerty2?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>matt baume<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/a_kVIP3A18o\/10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving-20141127\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/queerty2\/~3\/a_kVIP3A18o\/10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving-20141127<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving Hello, you turkeys! Thanksgiving is coming up,&nbsp;our annual celebration of gluttony and colonization and 2pm dinners. What are you planning to cook? Leave your favorite recipes in the comments, where absolutely everyone will read them. It&rsquo;s also&nbsp;that time of the year when inevitably, one&nbsp;<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">jerk<\/a> won&rsquo;t let anyone eat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/10-things-were-thankful-for-this-thanksgiving\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"10 Things We\u2019re Thankful For This Thanksgiving Hello, you turkeys! 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