Gay men fdg openns and optimism through geo-lotn
Contents:
- PRI GRDR: A SEX-POSIVE, GLOBAL CYBER SPACE FOR GAY MEN
- CYBERSEX ADDICTN A GAY MAN: A SE REPORT
- CYBERGAY WORLD
- UNED GAY CYBER WRTLG
PRI GRDR: A SEX-POSIVE, GLOBAL CYBER SPACE FOR GAY MEN
* cyber gay *
If you’re workg somewhere where you fear that they’ll fd out you’re gay, then that isn’t the pany for you.
Vis gay bars, the LGBTQ+ muny lov for s alli to learn about s muny. June is Gay Pri Month.
What better time to celebrate Grdr, a sex-posive, global cyber space—and meetg place—for gay men. That’s Grdr, a ee geosocial workg applitn that enabl gay men to lote other gay men wh close proximy.
CYBERSEX ADDICTN A GAY MAN: A SE REPORT
How extraordary that wherever a gay man liv or travels, he n stantly fd other gay men. ” He’s not forced to search out the often margalized gay ghettos that ntue to offer much need radarie and support. There is an immediacy and timacy this app offers that distguish om ter s providg gay men wh accs to one another.
A patient of me took a trip to a part of the untry not known to be particularly gay iendly. Not to make ntact, but jt to know that even this relatively unpopulated, ral lotn, they were not the only two gay men around.
CYBERGAY WORLD
There was a gay man out the middle of what seemed like nowhere to this urban dweller! Homosexualy is shadowed by furtivens and fear.
By necsy, most gay men have to hi their sire for romance and sex. Another patient tells me about a recent board game party—a group of gay men gettg together to play board gam and have a few beers.
UNED GAY CYBER WRTLG
But they were able to feel part of a larger gay muny, and to talk playfully and ankly about sex. Another patient, a member of an ethnic mory known for a particularly homophobic culture, looks for men like himself, men stgglg wh the dual margalizatn nsequent to sexual orientatn and ethnicy. The self-hatred is dimished, if only a b, and, as creasg numbers remd our gay, lbian and transgenr youth: gets better.
I will never fet a iend’s scriptn of his first vis to The P, a gay beach muny on a small barrier island off the southern shore of New York’s Long Island: “It was like I’d died and gone to heaven…I’d never seen so many openly gay men one place before. ” He relled the moment of his arrival by ferry tail--the visn of gay men dancg, holdg hands and jt beg themselv as the shore me to view--wh joyful astonishment. Grdr is like a pocket P a gay man n take wherever he go.