Please introduce yerselves!

topic posted Mon, May 5, 2008 - 4:32 PM by  offline-robin
Hey there all you 343 folks!

I'm yer moderator and I don't really do much to keep this tribe chatting, but I thought it was a good time to ask folks to introduce yerselves, since it's been a long time since the last set of intros (which you can find if you search the history of the tribe).

I'm -robin. I currently live in Vancouver, Canada but think of Oakland, California as just as much my home. I live with my girlfriend and she calls me her "it-friend" cause I prefer folks use the pronoun "it" to refer to me. I also have other loves and lovers, whom I miss alot right now as they are in Oakland. I'm very broadly poly, having casual interactions at parties all the way to serious live-in relationships. I've been poly all my life, but like most folks have had times where I am more actively seeing many folks and times (like now while I am recovering from surgery) where I'm mostly just with one person. I'm also kinky and have been active in different BDSM communities at times. I'm also part of a collective that throws queer orgies once in a while. I'm also one of the founders of Screwup in SF and feel alot of comfort with trans and genderqueers, though I see myself more as a non-gendered monster who'd fit in on Sesame Street (if it were a porno).

I started this tribe cause at the time there was no tribe specifically for queers who were poly. I'm not sure it is still necessary, but given how many people have joined I guess it's worth it as a good list of who's here on tribe and queer and poly.

So, why don't you introduce yourself and feel totally free to start any thread you like, ask any questions you want, or bring up any topic you want.

yer mod, -robin.
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-robin
SF Bay Area
  • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

    Mon, May 5, 2008 - 7:07 PM
    Let's see... I'm a Tribe dork. That is to say that Tribe is my social networking platform of choice. I'm kweer (or queer, or something similar), cisgender male, probably more of a dyke than anything else, and um... poly. Yeah... that's the term.

    I live in Milwaukee, WI with a wonderful guy, but also have casual and sometimes intense relationships with other folks both near and far. I also miss the Bay area, and maybe for the same reasons Robin does. Lots of hot foxy lovers and friends (and loverly hot friendly foxes) there.

    In addition to being a Tribe dork, I also am one of the co-founders of the Queer Zine Archive Project. All of the zines we have online are queer, and a bunch of them are poly, too...

    xoM
  • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

    Tue, May 6, 2008 - 9:33 AM
    Yeah, okay, I'm Loren. I live in the San Francisco bay area (south bay). I like walks on the beach... no, seriously.

    I tend to have multiple intimate relationships, with some casual play (I'm kinky). I never was cut out for monogamy, but have been, in a de-facto sort of way.

    My primary partner and I have been together for over 20 years, I have a lover as well. I find that I don't seek sex outside of that (primary & lover) but do have other play partners. Two of my play partners are long-standing friends and very close to me, others are more casual.

    I also have a very good boy under my care.

    There's more, I'm sure but I didn't want to cut & paste from my profile.

    ~Loren
  • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

    Thu, May 8, 2008 - 10:29 PM
    Hey. Thanks for starting the tribe, Robin.

    I'm in a functionally monogamous relationship with someone who has reason to be very wary of poly, but we at least reached agreement that on a theoretical level, it just makes so much *sense,* poly. Between school and work, I'm not sure how we'd manage the logistics of other relationships if it came to the point, but it's weirdly comforting just to know poly's out there. Oh, and I'm in Portland. That's about the size of 'er.

    Anna
  • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

    Wed, May 14, 2008 - 2:33 PM
    Hi Robin!

    Haven't seen you in a while :) That was before my fae name came about.

    Umm. Tough to id. Words that fit me.
    Queer
    omni-sexual (bi means just 2???)
    Male
    Alpha
    Top/Versa
    Slut
    Sadist

    Poly relationships? Primary for 37 years, gf 10 yrs, cpl frnd 6 years, NEW bf Yeah!!! playmates? many :)

    Hugs,

    Rig Daddy
    • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

      Wed, May 14, 2008 - 9:46 PM
      I am a kinky bi fem bottom in an open relationship. Rig Daddy, I have lusted for you from afar ever since we met last year. I am hoping to achieve a place on your potential playmates list one of these days.
      • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

        Sat, May 17, 2008 - 12:18 PM
        Hey Susan,

        I DO remember you.

        My apologies but recently my new playmate list has become almost exclusively male or trans. It was a bit lop-sided with fem energy for too long so the Libra in me is balancing things out, LOL.

        Hugs,

        RD
        • Re: Please introduce yerselves!

          Sun, May 18, 2008 - 2:12 AM

          Hi I'm Stephanie. I know some of you in this thread already. (And Susan, I don't know if I've met you, but I'm good friends with Brie in Michigan and have met Grin once.)

          I'm a bi switch. I became legally single in August of last year after a 20+ year relationship. That's been a long and rocky change in my life. Nowadays I have 3 local regular play partners and friends, plus I play with others on a less regular basis. I don't have anyone that I'd call a girlfriend or boyfriend at the moment, and not really looking for that, but I wouldn't turn it down if that were to happen.

          I've also been unemployed for a long time, and actually a lot of my energy has been going more toward that than other things lately.

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