The Out In Kingston forum - Welcome!

new to the site so i'll say hello! (1 reply)

ducklover — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:56:01 +0100

hello everybody! new so i thought i would make a point of saying hi and that i hope to meet lots of people!
i'm a bi woman. i go to st. lawrence college and will be 20 in september. and that's about me :)

I'm new to this site (3 replies)

frenzy66 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:21:40 +0100

Hello everyone. I am a newbie on this site and to the gay community in general. I am slowly coming out.
I attended my first Gay Pride Boat Cruise on Friday night and it was alot of fun, I'm so glad I went. I made
some new friends and had some laughs too. I look forward to next year's events. I'm 44, looking for new
friends to hang with, go for tea/coffee, movies, or whatever.

Kingston ahoy! (4 replies)

Dogmeat — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:54:31 +0100

Hello queer Kingston.

I will be moving to Kingston at the end of August / beginning of September to start my master's in Gender Studies at Queen's. Looking around this forum, I see things are a little slow. But I'm hoping that there are at least some people reading, if not posting, who can potentially point me in the right direction on a couple of things... like a good place to live, queer- and trans- (and combat sport-, aha) friendly health services, and perhaps other helpful info as well. I will post more on these topics later.

A few words about me: I'm a 25-yo genderqueer transboy, originally from BC and currently living in Toronto. I am also an amateur boxer, a brunch cook, an anti-racist feminist, a writer, a filmmaker, an avid cyclist, a work-a-holic and a night owl.

I'm looking forward to Kingston and Queen's in the fall.

Heyy, Im Hope! (3 replies)

mcrfan4life — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:08:46 +0100

Uhmm hi. I'm a lesbian living in Kingston ON! woo hoo love my town.

Was wondering if there are any lesbians wants to go for coffee maybee? I need to get into the dating and out in my community ya know?

Well, maybee I'll chat to yall soon? :)

xoxo

Not new to Kingston, Definitely new to The Forum. (3 replies)

Jillian — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:19:49 +0100

I'm Jillian,

I've lived in Kingston for two years, and I'm kind of ready to start meeting other lgbt people here.

Ummm. I'm kind of a massive nerd, I adore music, I play music and I love my cat more than almost anything.

Yeah.

I'm bad at these things. =D

hey im cody (1 reply)

Coddy92 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:48:23 +0000

Hey im cody I've been out for a while and these events can be fun so I thought id try signing up for the forum !

Fun things you can do with the forum - an introduction to BBcode (1 reply)

Blake — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:10:34 +0100

Some of you may be familiar with how an internet forum works, but I thought I'd make a guide on how to use some of the various features and BBcode on this forum.

Let's say you want to make a thread about Admiral Snuggles, your new kitten.

First you'd go to the appropriate subforum, in this case General Chat (Adm. Snuggles' French friend.) Hit "New Topic," right at the top, and you'll come to the "Start a New Topic" screen.

This screen is largely the same for both posting a reply to a thread and starting a new thread, so be sure to check at the top.

Now we have a variety of options for modifying text using BBcode. BBcode is a limited mark-up language that forums use in place of HTML because of security reasons. You can use it either by using the buttons at the top of the posting field, or by remembering the code.

First, a rundown of the available options (note that I have put a space in the first bracket of the example code so it won't be picked up by the forum, take that out!):

B Button: BOLD - code is [b ]text you want to bold[/b]
I Button: italics - code is [i ]text you want to be in italics[/i]
U Button: underline code is [u ]text you want to be underlined[/u]
~~abc~~ Button: ~~strikethrough~~ - code is [s ]text you want a line through[/s]
X₂ Button: _subscript - code is [sub ]text you want in subscript[/sub]
X² Button: ^superscript - code is [sup ]text you want in superscript[/sup]
Text Colour Button: Colorful text! - It is best to use the button for this, as it uses either RGB values or named colours that no living person has ever thought of, such as "rosybrown" - also, I know, I know, it's the American spelling. Can't be helped. Try not to use this too much, as some people have a harder time reading differently coloured text.
Text Size Button: Big text! - again, best to use the button. Don't post entirely in extra-large text all the time.
Code button:

allows for a code box which ignores line breaks

- code is [code ]text you wish to display as code[/code]
Center Text Button: centers some text! - code is [center ]text you wish to be centered on the screen[/center]
Horizontal Line Button:

- makes a horizontal line. code is [hr ] with no closing tag.

Continued in next post.

Questions, Comments, Suggestions? (no replies)

Blake — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:15:34 +0100

Obviously the board is still brand new and we're ironing some bugs out. We've tried to set it up in a way that keeps topics grouped together so we don't have a hundred different forums, but that allows content to be sorted in a way that won't drive anyone crazy.

The board will no doubt evolve to fit the needs of you, the user, so expect changes to be made over the coming while.

If you have any questions or ideas, feel free to post them here!

Hi There! (34 replies)

tp — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:36:27 +0100

I'm Tony and I run Out In Kingston. As some of you will know, I don't live in Kingston (or Canada, for that matter) right now, but hope to return in the future. Rather, I'm living in Lichfield, a beautiful medieval city in the middle of the UK...

I hope you enjoy using the forum!

Forum Rules (no replies)

tp — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:08:05 +0100

Welcome to the Out In Kingston forum.

We've got just a few rules for you:

Be respectful of other forum participants.
Privacy is important: don't divulge your phone number, email address, or 'out' someone else.
Porn has no place in these forums. Do not include links to pornographic sites, videos or images in any message.
Spamming: don't do it. If you've got a product to sell, advertise it in the Out In Kingston directory, or the Marketplace forum.
Flaming and Trolling: don't do it. It's not big and it's not clever.

If you stick to these rules, we'll all get along fine. If you don't, we'll ban you.

cheers,

Tony and Blake