Tobie and Rocky

Tobie and Rocky is one of the 4 gay couples that I truly admire. Today, I finally read the blog post on how Rocky narrates their beginning as a couple. I also found out that April 23, 2009 is their anniversary.

If I understood it correctly, sometime in 2007, Rocky accidentally took a picture of Tobie in a sci-fi convention. Rocky posted the said picture on the net when Tobie left a simple message saying that he’s the guy in the picture. It’s just a simple meet and greet and their love story didn’t took flight… yet.

Then they met online, the 2^nd time, after almost 2 years. Tobie saw Rocky’s profile in a famous gay dating site. It was then that Rocky realized that Tobie is a true-blooded bisexual. It’s something that they talked about. They became friends and would just talk occasionally, as Rocky indicated, “with the random bit of flirting here and there online”.

In February 2009, they decided to meet in person just to play NetRunner (I never heard about this game, promise). Rocky invited Tobie and they’ve realized that there is “spark” between them. They’ve “connected” (sort of) to each other’s soul. They’ve enjoyed the night playing the game.

They’ve hang out all throughout Valentine’s Day 2009 together after that and they get to know each other even more. Rocky at this time, have a partner and he left out the details on how that old relationship ended.

Eventually, Rocky and Tobie reached a point where in their bond and their feelings to each other are just RIGHT. They started living together in their apartment called “The Sietch” and since then, they’ve become a couple.

Rocky, by the way, is a successful blogger and the name behind the blog “The Geeky Guide to Nearly Everything” and is the marketing manager of a BPO company. Tobie is also a blogger, an artist, comic book creator and is the author of “The Garapata Can Speak”. He is also the boss of his own International Medical and Business Transcription Company.

Like the ending of the Harry Potter series, I can say that between Tobie and Rocky, all is well.

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The Poster Boys of Happy Gay Relationships

I currently have four Poster Boys of what a gay relationship is all about: Tiggah & Pooh, Mark & Kevin (of Westlife), Tobie & Rocky (more of them soon) and Neil & David.

Neil Patrick Harris is one of the most successful gay actor in Hollywood today. He was well known before as Doogie Howser and now as Barney Stinson (“How I Met Your Mother”). He was recently interviewed for Entertainment Weekly about being gay in Hollywood and here’s what he said:

“It was not this big secret that I was trying to keep. We crafted a statement that seemed appropriate and empowering, and then we let the cards fall where they may. I wanted to be honest about things. I was admittedly concerned about the public’s reaction, and I must say, the indifference that most people expressed was the greatest reaction of all—and a reflection of a nicely evolving culture. I enjoy that I can tweet pictures of my babies, 11-month-old twins Gideon and Harper, in the morning, then don the Barney suit and make out with a couple of chicks in the afternoon, and no one bats an eye.”

David Burtka on the other hand, is the biological father of the twins and a successful chef. They always look good together. I always love their pictures whenever they go public. I see them as lovers and as best buds. I would definitely love to see them get married soon in New York.

Hopefully, once Oreo is here with me, we could also have such gorgeous picture together. Hopefully, we could also be poster boys of happy gay relationships for others.

Here’s also Neil’s interview with Ellen DeGeneres about the twins. Fabulous isn’t it?

Neil Patrick Harris talks about his twins.

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Inspiration from Neil & David

There are 3 gay couples I look upon as model of gay relationships: Tigguh & Pooh, Mark Feehily (of Westlife) & Kevin McDaid, and Neil Patrick Harris & David Burtka.

I’ve idolized Neil Patrick Harris since his Doogie Howser days. In fact, I got the hobby of keeping an electronic journal from Neil Patrick Harris’ character. When he came out of the closet in 2006, I idolized him more for being brave enough to admit it, in spite of his very successful career as an actor.

He’s been happily married with his lover David Burtka since 2004, and they also have twins (via David) named Gideon Scott, a boy, and Harper Grace, a girl. The twins were born in 2010.

They showed the gay community that it’s really possible for two guys to be deeply in love, live in a monogamous relationship, and in some countries like the United States, adopt babies (or at least have babies through a surrogate mother).

The relationship of Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka is an inspiration for us, Elmer & Oreo. They showed us that a happy, married, gay-couple life is possible.

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