Couples composed of older and younger men must stop apologizing for and attempting to explain their relationships. Make the status of your relationships clear to others and demand that others respect it.
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Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Second Coming (Out) of Gay Men
I believe that the lack of information, the prejudices and the misunderstandings about intergenerational relationships exist because heterosexual society believes all gay relationships are predatory. This misrepresentation of the nature of gay relationships is a matter of considerable concern.
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The Second Coming (Out) of Gay Men
Why do Some Younger Men Like Older Gay Men?
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Local Gay Therapist starts Advice Column on “Fabulous PDX”
Marc Andrews starts Gay Advice Column on Fabulous PDX . Be the first to ask a question! http://fabulouspdx.com/resources/ask-fabulous-marc/
Marc function from the fundamental belief that self-inquiry is a necessary and empowering part of living a fulfilled life. I have dedicated my career to service, and entered private practice out of my commitment to quality care. Specifically, I see a need to address gaps in the mental health and counseling spheres for gay men and those affected by HIV/AIDS. Few male counselors exist, and even fewer male counselors focus on gay male issues. From both observation in my role as a clinical supervisor and as a gay man with his own counselor, I
Though on the new year
By Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D.
We fall into stories;They often break us. We arise renewed.
Let a narrative nag at you.
Don
The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage | Print Article
Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California’s Proposition 8
Love
in the words of Carl Gustav Jung“I sometime feel that Paul’s words- “Through I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love” –might well be the first condition of all cognition and the quintessence of divinity itself. Whatever the learned interpretation may be of the sentence “GOD is love,” the words affirms the complexio oppositorum of the Godhead. In my medical experience as well as in my own life I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love, and have never been able to explain…. Love “bears all things” and “endures all things (1 cor. 13:7). These words say all there is to be said; nothing can be added to them. For we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments of cosmogonic “love”. I put the word [love] in quotations marks to indicate that I do not use it in its connotations of desiring, preferring, favoring, wishing, and similar feelings, , but as something superior to the individual, a unified and undivided whole. Being a part, man cannot grasp the whole. He is at its mercy. He may assent to it, or rebel against it; but he is always caught up by it and enclosed within it. He is dependent upon it and is sustained by it. Love is his light and his darkness, whose end he cannot see. “Love ceases not” —whether he speaks with the “tongues of angels,” or with scientific exactitude traces the life of the cell down to its uttermost source. Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at this command, and still he will involve himself in endless self-deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown,ignotum per ignotius–that is, by the name of GOD. This is a confession of his subjection, his imperfection, and his dependence; but at the same time a testimony to his freedom to choose between truth and error”Selected Writings
Carl Gustav Jung – late thought
Symbols of Transformation copy write 1956 by
Bollingen Foundation Inc.New York, NYCHAMP: Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Sign On! Demand Meaningful Action by the CDC Against Criminalization!
t’s bad enough that the criminalization of HIV wreaks havoc in the lives of those who are charged or jailed or labeled as bio-terrorists, like this case in Michigan.
But these cases are also spreading misinformation about HIV — scaring people away from testing, treatment and care, and feeding into HIV stigma.
So what is CDC doing about this?
Over a year ago, many of you joined together to call for CDC to combat the stigmatization and criminalization of HIV.
We received a heartening response last December. CDC pledged to:
1. update their website, factsheets and Q&As to address these issues;
2. develop internal talking points so CDC staff will deliver “consistent, scientifically accurate information” when they receive inquiries;
3. make these talking points available to health departments;
4. survey state health departments to see if they collaborate with criminal justice personnel (e.g., local prosecutors, correctional staff, law enforcement) and how they communicate on and address these issues; and
5. develop a communications strategy plan and tools that state health departments can use to “initiate (or further enhance) dialogue and collaboration with their criminal justice counterparts.”
Not bad for a start.
But then almost a year passed, with no visible action. We wrote to CDC and asked what was up.Well, not as much as we’d hoped. They say they are moving ahead on the updated materials but have dropped the plans for both the survey and the communications campaign.
Not good.
No Excuses: Demanding Equality Face to Face
Gay Lesbian Medical Association – For Patients – Depression
Major depression
