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Marcus Stringer |
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5'8", 164lbs, very dark brown hair, brown eyes... sometimes wear hazel or green contacts mainly on special occasions or just for a change; 10.5" shoe (haha... you thought I was talking about...) we'll talk about that later; oh yea... for you who are into this sort of thing, my "sign" is Libra (I didn't know this for sure till just recently... shows how much I'm into it :)) For now at least, I am single and available for dating. You need to know that my personality has been plotted through the Myers-Briggs personality types and it turns out that I'm most often a mix of INFP and INFJ. |
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Founder of Faith Mates as a concept and website to help single gays and lesbians of faith to more easily meet others for a relationship . Note: I no longer own this domain!www.faithmates.com)
Marcus Stringer Photography
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| Mission: |
My mission here is different than a lot of other sites. I'm trying to help you know who I am besides "stats" - including (I hope) trashing some stereotypes along the way. However, I'm also trying to help you know not only who you are, but who and what you can be individually and who we can be collectively (eg. Power Rangers...). I believe that this can happen if you allow it to.
My thoughts move and shake me and I imagine that they might do the same for you. Do your own thoughts have this effect on you? I know some of you don't want this but those who are open, it's available here at Marcus' HAVEN away from the "norm".
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| Location: |
Beautiful yet congested Seattle nestled between the Olympic Mountains headed by Mt. Olympus and Puget Sound on the west, and the mighty Cascade Mountain Range, under the leadership of Mt. Rainier or Mt. Tahoma. I have a feeling that perhaps, maybe, "it could happen" at least in theory (hee hee) that I might leave this incredible place for the right man or if work calls me elsewhere. We shall see.
I just wish people would stop moving here only to send this place to hell like they've done to their previous cities.
I was once in a beautiful little hamlet called "Bellingham" 89 miles north of Seattle and 50 miles south of Vancouver, with Mt. Kulshan (now Mt. Baker) and Mt. Shuksan to the east and Bellingham Bay and San Juan Islands to the west.
Still, I did not grow up here. Those years were spent in a land back yander called Alabama. And before that, I was in the now second smogiest city Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley areas of California. |
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| Self-empowerment |
I have been on my own financially basically ever since high school. However, I had never really been on my own emotionally. That is until I ran into some difficulties in the religious college I attended a few years ago.
I was failing at accepting and dealing with myself and my desires for some other males. In short, I was anxious and horny, as well as afraid and depressed. I opened up to my family hoping that I was valued even though I was gay. However, my family wasn't ready to accept me or give me support. I don't want to give the false impression. Plainly my family rejected and avoided me. I felt crushed. These emotions consumed me and a lot of my time and energy. As a result I had to leave school because of bad grades. This began somewhat of a down-hill spiral, thanks to the high cost of private school and my lack of preparedness to deal with debt.
Fortunately, "God"... a "higher force"... whatever... was looking out for me. Through the help of a few dear people, and my nearly six years at Microsoft Corp., I got back on my feet.
At the end of that time, I decided that I wanted to fully concentrate on school to reach the goal of a college education I'd dreamt about since I was a kid. So I left Microsoft in June of '97, enrolled into Bellevue Community College full-time that September and from there I moved to Western Washington University where I now study.
I am going to be a Social Engineer. Haha! Well that is not an official major, anywhere (to my knowledge) but it covers the idea. I do not regret "opening up" to my family at all. It's like birth, the richest depths and highs of life and freedom as we know it only come after pain, after we leave the womb. |
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| Family: |
I was going to redo the look of this page but haven't gotten around to it so I'll just repost it. Family and Some Friends
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| Likes: |
Places with green leafy or needled trees all year, mild weather (not too hot or cold), photography, music, music keyboards, being fit, sex, having family and friends, healthy living, amusement parks, lazy days in bed, lounging around the house in boxers or sweats, a nice nature walk, and some hiking, stimulating conversation, watching basketball, hockey, football, baseball, playing racquetball, playing around at other sports, symphony, dancing in smoke-free clubs (So far it's been YEARS since I've gone out dancing. If you know of any smoke-free dance clubs let me know!); movies (anything but gore/horror or glorified violence or violence as humor), quiet times at home (with a boyfriend, occasional friends, pizza, popcorn, movie, group board games)... |
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| Dislikes: |
Smoke, bars/clubs filled with smoke and deafening noise - that stuff is a hazard to your health, drugs, very cold weather, too much rain, system of "church membership" used politically against people, demonization of the body found in some organized religions and the exploitation on the part of sex-industry, of the neurosis that results... more on this later |
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| My type guys: |
Read some of the things I wrote about my ideal guy. I've learned the hard way that it's one thing to have a dream about the ideal guy and another thing to be in my own person, an ideal guy. Maybe someday I'll write some things about that. |
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| Not my type guys: |
Super Fem., bar/club/circuit types, guys who like being and want to remain on the Down Low or "DL" (which is different from being discreet while working toward and experiencing freedom at every opportunity - as I understand it, the "DL" is the enjoyment and need of self and other-inflicted social and spiritual suppression), indecisive, snobbish attitudes, gossip's, unimaginative, disrespectful, uncaring, self-centered
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| Best Moments: |
Springing a 'surprise' organ piece or hymn arrangement on the congregation during a "high holy day" that puts chills down the spine and tears in the eyes as the clouds of heaven open before them and they know once again the powerful mercy and grace we all have been shown; spending a day at Disney Land with SDA Kinship friends; romantic moments with that someone special; teary good-byes with summer campers who tested my patience greatly as counselor when they arrived; childhood visits to my aunt and grandmother in Florida; being accepted into four colleges/universities in 1998.
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| Contact: |
Join my NEW mailing list and keep up with what's happening with me, updates, changes and sinful things I've hidden (just joking) on this website, and other good stuff. NO spamming. Only *I* can send email or see email addresses.
Drop me a line. I'm in transition from school to full-time work, or ANY good work I can find. I enjoy receiving notes from anyone who wants to say "hello" and that you liked, yes hopefully LIKED, my site: goodguy_sea@yahoo.com. |