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"If any place needs Manifest Love, it's here!" -- Todd, 32, Twin Peaks TWO EVENTS COMING TO THE BAY AREA!! Friday, Oct 24: An evening salon, open to all, no charge Manifest Love: Steps to a more sustaining gay male world 7:00- 9:30 pm, LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street Free Friday night? Spend two hours with us and see for yourself! THEN... Sat. Oct 25-Sun Oct 26 -- Weekend retreat (Shared carpool to the Santa Cruz Mountains, registration required) The Soul Beneath the Skin: Gay men finding new ways to be with and for each other Join us for a weekend as we focus on crafting the lives- social, intimate, sexual, communal, voluntary, ethical - that we want to enjoy with each other. Through individual and collective experience we help gay men reflect on, experience, and practice values of care and nurture in new ways. There's no simple box for what we do. We are part social movement, part applied spirituality. Our work links ethical analysis to action, to foster creative forms of beloved community among gay and queer men. Call it a great gay experiment in applied affection-- in the largest possible sense.
Over the weekend and through ongoing Loving Disturbances, we envision and create the more nurturing affectionate gay world we want to live in, and learn and practice more sustaining patterns with each other. "I have never seen anything like this. It's what I've hoped for from gay community for years." -- Andy Among the topics we cover: Manifest Love: An Inquiry Toward a More Loving Gay Male world Reconnecting to our hopes for each other Our
gay fantasies: Asking for what we really want Ouches,
gifts, and burning demons -- how we treat each other Requiem
for a Bitchy Queen: Cynicism & gay hope Our code of ethics with each other The
perfect trick and sexual mentorship Beyond Cruising: Using Your Eyes in Whole New Ways to get what you really want
If you like what you see, join the S.F. team to carry our values beyond the weekend into our daily shared lives. There, you'll find other guys of like spirit working on "loving disturbances" - fun, public, collective actions. They are our way of helping nudge the patterns and practices of gay world into more humane directions, meeting men in new ways, and having fun doing it.
"I really enjoyed the weekend. It validated a lot of my feelings about who I want to be as a gay man. I now know that there are others out there like me." -- Tom For more info, or to register, email here or call 415.487-3045. Space is limited.
Curious? Here's what guys say about our weekends Wanna know about future Bay-area events? Climb onto our email list! |
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