Out of the [B-Town] Box

On this, the Eve of the great Tumbl…

…I just wanted to say an unequivocal thanks.

I think it can be easy to be dismissive of all of these things that just occupy our time. Twitter, facebook, instagram - it’s all noise, and yet it’s all so important. We carve out these nooks and create communities. We make friend. And we explore who we want to be to the world.

Tumblr gave to me a spot in this endless digital void to be unequivocally me and to explore who I was on my terms. To say I was at odds with my identity as a queer man for most of my life is an understatement; it wasn’t until my late 20s that I gave myself the license to explore - and that outlet started right here. Tumblr gave to me a space to wade into the conversation. It introduced me to folks which whom I could converse. It showed me I wasn’t alone out there in the world - and that we could figure it all out together. It was empowering for me. It gave me the platform to find my voice, my taste. And - oddly enough - a weirdly sex-positive understanding of the queer community full of happy, healthy, and proud people.

I’m sure I could’ve figured out my place without Tumblr - but I’m glad it existed for a time so I could experience life a lot earlier.

So thanks for the space to be me…and for the space for you to be you, so that together we could just be.

Thanks for the folks I’ve conversed with on here - know that regardless of how brief our exchanges have ever been, they have been meaningful in some capacity to me. Thanks for all the creativity, positivity, and humor (and sure, even a bit of the sexiness).

If we shall meet again in the vast space of the internet - feel free to reach out. I know that I haven’t fostered “community” in the same way as folks feeling this hammer come down - but I’d like to think I’ve existed in a few folk’s orbit as they have in mine.

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