By bluerasberry on 2015-07-13
Puerta Vallarta is a resort town in Mexico. I am in Mexico for the 2015 Wikimania conference. Fabian is joining me for the travel. We left early for tourism and From Friday 10 July – Tuesday 14 we are in Puerta Vallarta. I knew some about the place before arriving but there was not much […]
Posted in gay stuff, Puerta Vallarta, service industry, tour | Tagged botanical garden, expatriate
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-21
Earlier this year the National Museum of American History took in some artifacts related to LGBT history. I saw the news when it was reported, and was glad for that, but also surprised that this needed announcing or that the idea was new. On Tuesday 18 November I visited the museum with Dorothy and we […]
Posted in DC, gay stuff, museum, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Dorothy Howard, Smithsonian
By bluerasberry on 2013-08-17
Sou and I visited the Grand Palace in Bangkok on 14 August 2013. We were returning back from Wikimania and were able to arrange a flight which passed through Bangkok and let us stay overnight, so we did. The night we arrived Sou wanted to visit the gay sleazy district. When we were in Hong […]
Posted in Bangkok, gay stuff, service industry, Thailand | Tagged palace, sex
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-03
Marcus was upset with me when I was in India. I did not feel that he was justified in his original complaint, but in the end, we decided not to talk anymore. It was a bad breakup but I am not sure what could have made it better. While I was in India, I did […]
Posted in gay stuff, love, New York City | Tagged drama, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-22
The night of 13 February I returned from Kumbh Mela with Sou, and I had wanted a peaceful 14 February morning and day with him. Hotels were crazy overbooked in Varanasi and I had not been able to find a room, and I asked Nadya if she could share a room with her cameraman so […]
Posted in festival, gay stuff, India, love, religion, tour | Tagged Kumbh Mela, Nadya Kadrevis, Sherwin, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-21
On perhaps February 12 Sou and I went to some mall to exchange a broken suitcase of his. Sou has, and Indian people in general can have, attitudes about service workers that I rarely see in Western culture. Sou pushes my limits for detecting how suave a person could be, and if he had any […]
Posted in gay stuff, India, love, service industry | Tagged Sherwin
By bluerasberry on 2012-10-11
Marcus and I got tested at Gaycenter at 39 West 14th Street on October 6, 2013. The tests said that neither of us had HIV. Lane’s HIV test October 2012
Posted in gay stuff, HIV | Tagged HIV test, Marcus
By bluerasberry on 2011-05-15
Sarukh and Abdul arrived the week I was going to leave and I was very happy to see them. Nandan’s father had a problem with Sarukh because he did not have legal ID, so I suggested that I would put them in a hotel. Nandan’s father wanted me to stay inside the house because he […]
Posted in gay stuff, India | Tagged dance, sex, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-14
Amit came to my place early this morning. This was about the fifth time he visited. He is cute and I like having him around. I am not really sure of what to think of this culturally and Nandan does not know either, but when he came today he brought his troll with him and […]
Posted in encounter, gay stuff, India | Tagged dance
By bluerasberry on 2011-03-08
I really enjoy having Pradeep around. He accompanies me almost everywhere and tells me about Mumbai and asks me about Varanasi and Seattle. It is my nature to engage in conversation for longer periods of time than most people can tolerate but so far Pradeep seems cool having me pump his brain for the entirety […]
Posted in gay stuff, India | Tagged culture