What Guys Are Saying About Us

"The Manifest Love weekend was the warmest I've felt all winter. It gave me an opportunity to be creative and involved in a thoughtful process of designing our gay men's community instead of feeling stuck with one that doesn't always reach its potential. Well worth the time and energy. I made new friends and strengthened my relationship with men I have known for years. I can't wait for the next one!"
-- Wayne, Providence

"Thanks again for helping us to create such a wonderful and loving environment for the retreat. You're doing great and important work. Many of us appreciate your taking the lead and pioneering in this area. What you are doing strikes a DEEP chord with many men, and it's something I've discussed with friends. We knew we couldn't be the only ones discussing this, and here you are showing us just how many of us stand together. Many of us have had the same feelings, it's just that no one has ever brought it out into an open forum. What I'm trying to say is thanks for being such a top for this community. The discussion of concrete ideas and options for improving how we treat each other is a very important one."
-- Peter M., San Francisco

"I was proud to be part of this. My own heart was touched, over and over, throughout the weekend. Thanks to you for providing vision, focus, an energy, a passion that inspired and sustained our work."
-- Steve N., Denver

"I want to thank you for the opportunity to participate in the men's retreat. I think the message you brought to us was an important one to hear. I was very proud to be a part of a what appears to be an important movement -- a new beginning -- for community and beyond."
-- Joe M., San Francisco

"The Manifest Love workshop I participated in helped me clarify some of the barriers I face to connecting with other gay men on a meaningful motional level. It helped me resolve to interact with gay men - and all men - in a more caring and confident way."
-- Tim, Rhode Island

"Thank you for doing this work. It is SO IMPORTANT. The intentional shaping of a culture in full awareness of the survival-based genesis of it's evolution is absolutely extraordinary. God help us make it real. I'm not sure that I can put my finger on it but I have a sense that this is the dawning of a great change in the culture. It has been extraordinary for me to take an active part in helping to shape a queer spiritual community that has begun a ministry of healing the greater community. I hadn't given much thought to the broader ministry of the intentional evolution of gay culture. What an exciting time to be on the planet!"
-- Leon T., San Francisco

"This may be the most important project gay men could be working on right now. We need a positive vision, something beyond the attacks on the gay right. Your insights might be an early, important step in that direction, valuable to those of us who would like to initiate a (re)birth of the Whitmanesque project."
-- Jim E., New York

"The Manifest Love weekend helped me get more comfortable about walking into a room--now I try to walk in with a smile and an eagerness to be open to whoever I'll meet there--and I'm always surprised by how well other people respond to that openness."
-- Bill, Providence

"Thank you for your work, vision, ideas, and energy. I think that something potentially very powerful and creative was begun. I think this work is vital and exciting and transformative and incredible. "Without a vision, the people perish." I hope that the group of men who gathered can see it through in very specific, concrete and practical ways. I'm glad that we have people like you with vision and passion to move us forward; know that you'll always have people like me, the detail folks, in the background ready to support and nurture you as we go together."
-- Kent B., Berkeley

"Your ideas about the Army of Lovers stirred something in me that I didn't know was still there. I started to cry tears of pride, and haven't stopped thinking about it since. If you build it, they will come. From the rooftops to the airwaves, let it thunder across the land."
-- Craig W., New York

"Dave Nimmons hits the nail on the head with just the right combo of gentleness and authoritative attention to every detail. I can't speak highly enough of the whole experience. Manifest Love has moved me to a new level of openness, and for that I am very grateful."
-- Adam, Boston

"I just had to e-mail my great appreciation for the retreat you facilitated for us this past weekend. Wow....I'm am still riding such a wonderful high...it's like I can go out and conquer the world."
-- Rodney S. Ukiah

"Your talk was incredibly moving to me. I have not heard anyone else saying this about us. You make love sound so simple. My friends and I went out afterward and argued for hours over whether it's the work of a madman, or a genius, or both. Either way, I would appreciate knowing if I can in some way help this effort."
- - Dan R. San Diego

"Thank you again for working with us this past weekend. I had an incredible time at the retreat! I found what you said very thought-provoking and look forward to reading your book."
-- Bill C., Atlanta

"This retreat was an extraordinary, powerful, and life-changing experience for me. I know this incredible "high" won't last forever, but I plan to enjoy and savor every second of it while it does. This retreat was incredibly powerful for me on so many levels. Perhaps first and foremost for me was the amazing sense of hope and exhilaration engendered by experiencing the very real possibilities that exist for true connection, honesty, warmth, affection, and humor between open-hearted human beings."
-- Troy G., Indiana

"Where do I join this army of lovers?"
-- Ric C., Pittsburgh