Gay Club

It is already the second edition of the HappyGayTV & You, my little loulous, thanks to all the messages you left since the last time on the Hot-Line. Hello to all, I hope you are all doing well! Very happy to see you again! Today, as you figured it out, we will still answer all the questions,

all your comments, and we will be sharing the best audio or video messages that we have received on the Hot-Line servers, from the HappyGayTV.com website. Let's start right away, with what I decided to call your happy videos, that is, all these videos that make us feel good, going straight to our hearts, and that, make you smile from ear to ear. Let's have a look!

HappyGayTV ! (Singing)

(Laughter)! Hello. Well, yes, a lot of great memories in the beautiful Gran CANARIA. The actual movie about the Gay pride is magnificent. Very colorful. I want to go there! Freddy, I don't know what was in your HappyGayTV mug, but, but it certainly wasn't water ! Anyway, thanks for your making us laugh this hard, you can't imagine how much we need this at the moment ! Patoche,

Patoche, I see that you you like it being here ! This is the second time we have you on the air and I would like to thank you, because you have clearly understood how the Hot-Line works and what it is used for! Well done ! Patoche, don't take it personally, but, I chose your message because actually it's the perfect example of what shouldn't be done on the Hot-Line,

especially if we receive many messages, on more or less the same the same topic. As a matter of fact, the team has read between the lines, and understood what you were referring to. Unless we are mistaken, you are talking about a video, of a documentary called Gay Pride D Day in English, or Gay Pride Jour J, in French, and that we filmed in the Canary Islands,

some time ago. But Patoche, just imagine for a moment, if there had been 150 videos filmed in the Canary Islands, how could we possibly have identified with certainty, what videos were you talking about ? And so, not knowing it, your message would not have been selected and we would have decided to share on air, other messages,

other clearer messages, on the same topic. So, what should be learned from from your message, which is very important, is that every time you want to refer to something you saw on HappyGayTV, it is absolutely vital to put your words in the right context. Let me explain: those who are watching us, don't know what you, Patoche, were watching,

when you felt like leaving us this message! So, no one can indeed, know if you don't tell us, what document, video, or article you just commented on. So Patoche, it is again essential to share with us the name of the video, or the article you are referring to, so that it's understandable for everyone. Well, actually,

it's just quick gymnastics mental gymnastics that we'll have to go through, and which is not that complex in fact! But this, will be of great advantage, and allow us in addition, as we have just done, to be able to display on the screen the proper thumbnail of the video, the exact article, the appropriate excerpt that you want to comment on. This way, everyone can, after sharing your message,

have a closer look at what you were talking about, and who knows, comment on it as well. So, thank you Patoche, because I understood what you meant. Thank you for your compliments, and thank you also for providing us with this great example that will help all those who want to to leave a message on the Hot-Line. You're the one who had to put up with the teething troubles, as they say, a real baptism of fire, if I may say so.

But thank you, really!

There you go, we now move on to your questions with the very first one, a very relevant question from Olivier. Hello, this is Olivier. I subscribed to the happyGayTV Club, and I don't see news videos, is this normal? Olivier, Bravo ! Your comment, as I said, is quite relevant and well-founded. If I understood correctly,

you subscribed to HappyGayTV Club, and you are wondering why can't you see more videos, as it is stated on the website HappyGayTV.com. Actually, I totally agree with you, but first of all know, that when you subscribe to the HappyGayTV Club, you then receive, e-mails on a regular basis that will notify you, everytime a new video is up on the web. This way you won't miss out anything!

So, we agree, these are new videos that you're going to to receive over time. Another very important detail, if you have been following the channel from it's beginning, and you watched the very first video with the countdown, three, two, one, and the little rocket, I explain very clearly that the website is not, at the time we, are filming these sequences, fully launched.

However, when it will be, then yes, other videos specially devoted to the Club will show up on HappyGayTV.com website, in the HappyGayTV Club section. And then you can, have free access to it! But for the moment, Olivier, we still have a lot of work to do, before we get there, everything is not yet completely finished. So yes, it's true, I'll give you that, we're playing with words a bit for the moment.

But listen carefully Olivier, what I'm going to tell you now! Everything, just like everyone else who subscribed since the very beginning, you are for us, very special subscribers, you are the hardcore supporters, of the very first generation ! So, as soon as the website is fully launched, you will just have to click on the HappyGayTV Club interface, to login, and see all the videos appear in front of you.

So there you go, it's just a matter of timing, and yes, Olivier, your question is quite relevant. But I'm going to entrust you with a little secret, just like for all those who are already subscribed, and who are maybe a bit frustrated, of not being able to fully access the HappyGayTV Club. Well, you should know that currently,

you are listed in our database, I was going to say, with some sort of a tag, an extra parameter, that will allow us, when the time comes, to thank you for your patience and provide you with some additional bonuses, unlike all those who will subscribe after the complete launch of the HappyGayTV.com website. So Olivier, as you may have understood,

it's definitely not for now, and it's just a matter of time, if I may say so. By the way, I don't know if you have seen this video, but I'm asking you to answer this short survey, where we would like to know your expectations, regarding, this slightly confidential section of the website, the HappyGayTV Club? So, if you have any ideas to share with us, I invite you to watch this video

and to share your ideas and suggestions. The link for this short survey can be found in the text below the video, just visit the HappyGayTV.com website, and click on the thumbnail that you will find at the end of the page. Hello Marco! I think this is an excellent idea to create a channel to help out gay people. How did the idea come about? Patou, that's an interesting question.

And I'll tell you one thing as a matter of fact, this idea, I've had it for a very long time. And at that time, there was still, I don't know if you remember, those tiny modems to get access to the internet and they used to make very strange noises,.... Crrr.... Crrr ... something like that! Right, and it was these tiny 56K modems, and it took us at least a minute,

to load a simple web page! At the time, YouTube didn't exist and we didn't know yet, if one day we could even send video streams over the Internet, researchers had not yet figured out a solution, to tell you ! It was well before ADSL, so you see, it really goes way back! But let's get back to that night.

I don't know anymore for what reason, I was looking for something on the Internet about gay people. I was at that time, myself, very uncomfortable, and I remember one thing very clearly. I couldn't find an answer to my question. When it comes to gay people in general, on search engines, at best, one would find websites, a bit like photo novels,

where you could see a whole collection of photographs of people attending some party. I must point out that at that time, Facebook did not exist yet. There were also militant websites, those of organizations that were already engaged in our battle, for our rights, and who, obviously, were at the top of the search engines. And then right after that, devoted websites against AIDS, because at that time,

the triple therapy was not yet not yet fully established. And the only way to stop the progression of the virus, was to implement prevention measures, again and again. Besides that, nothing else fancy on the search engines. And so I thought, this is not normal. In fact, I was looking for something else, I was really, very eager for something else. Surely, since that time,

there have been numerous social networks where one can communicate and interact with each other. But actually, coming from the radio, I had imagined something completely different. And for many years, I kept this idea in the back of my head. And one day, everything matured and I decided to start HappyGayTV. And here's where I was going with it, that will allow me to bounce back too on the previous question from Olivier,

I will be talking about all this more thoroughly in a show on the HappyGayTV Club, which will be entitled..: "The Confidences of Marco Drion". And then, I will really go into the smallest details, because a lot of things happened, from the moment I noticed this shortage, and the moment this concept appeared to me pretty well obvious. Let me tell you one more thing, for example,

in these videos dedicated to HappyGayTV Club, how the HappyGayTV theme song came into existence.

You can check out this theme or even rediscover it, by clicking on this video, which also shows you a wall of images, giving you a glimpse of our future shows. To get access, it's quite simple, all you have to do is click on this thumbnail that you will find at the bottom of the page, on HappyGayTV.com. And finally, this brings us to the third and last message. We'll end on this tone,

this positive note left on the Hot-Line by Minouche, and who actually seems to really appreciate this jingle, the HappyGayTV theme song! Let's listen to it! Hello ! It's Minouche... I just wanted to say.., We love : HappyGayTV (sung)

There you go, you can listen to this theme song, as many times as you like, and feel free to create parodies, dance, sing, and send us a short video, to cheer up everyone's heart. That's it my little ones, now you know what you have to do, go to HappyGayTV.com, and log in on the Hot-Line. As you probably know, it's basically an actual application,

very easy to use, that we have integrated to the HappyGayTV.com website. Now, leave us your messages, don't hesitate to film yourself and if you are, for example living abroad, say hi to us with a beautiful view in the background. Also write down your questions, and your comments, about what you just watched. We can't wait for all your reactions, so we can all get together in a next

episode of the HappyGayTV & You. And in this next episode, I'm going to reveal a little trick, quite a cool one about the Hot-Line and why, we named this service this way, you will love it! So I would like to thank you in advance, for all your messages, and I say to you, see you soon, and lots of big kisses, Ciao ciao!