Posted on 01/08/2007 12:01:59 PM PST by presidio9
Meet the new players in the great American debate about values: Ryan, a 25-year-old newlywed, who is helping other men find husbands; Doug, 50, who is helping gay men in San Francisco create their ideal community; and Chris, 36, whose pursuit of happiness has switched from chasing New York hotties to seeking down-home enlightenment.
They and others across the country are engaging gay men in conversations about their goals and values -- both personal and collective -- and challenging the sense of who gay men are and what makes their community. This introspection is happening as gay men are able to move away from the AIDS crisis, which had demanded their full attention for two decades, and now have the time and energy to look inward, these leaders say.
"A bunch of us went around the city for eight or nine months talking to as many people as we could, asking them what issues are important, what they think of life as gay men, what they think of San Francisco," said Doug Sebesta, who worked in public health and HIV services before he and a few other men started the San Francisco Gay Men's Community Initiative in June 2004. "We kept hearing the same thing over and over again -- basically, that San Francisco sucks."
Sebesta said that as the community
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Hey, Chris--the cheerleader who received a proposal from the Boise state football player-THAT's a hottie-not some hairy ass dude!
When you see this kind of thing posted, it's a sure sign of a thread that has a lot of potential to go downhill fast.
The AIDS crisis ended the day that GLESN got their agenda in the public schools. Now AIDS is an African disease.
So what is the problem? They have been ID'd as mentally ill homos for years. Could not be more clear.
News Flash:
Don't go "in" through the "out" door.
If they'd let me shower in the women's shower, I'd work out all the time too.
How do they separate the HIV-positive gays from the HIV-negagive gays?
"Gay men are standing in the middle of a tornado, with the pope and the president on one side telling them one thing and 'Will & Grace' and 'Queer Eye' telling them another thing and the gay culture telling them another set of issues," Nutter said. "I think that very tornado is what has directed a lot of men to say, 'OK, who ... am I going to believe? Am I believing Massachusetts, where I can get married? Or Cairo, where they're going to put me in jail? Which one do I believe?' Maybe neither."
Thank you, Nancy Pelosi.
-"Doug, 50, who is helping gay men in San Francisco create their ideal community..."-
They already did. It's called San Francisco.
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