Gay & Lbian Begners - Greater Seattle Intergroup of AA

Contents:

• GAY AA: A LOOK AT LGBT GROUPS ALHOLICS ANONYMO
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• GAY & LBIAN BEGNERS ONLE BACK TO MEETGSMEETG INFORMATN TUDAY, 8:00 PM TO 9:15 PM ONLE LGBTQ OPENOPEN MEETGS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANYONE TERTED ALHOLICS ANONYMO’ PROGRAM OF REVERY OM ALHOLISM. NONALHOLICS MAY ATTEND OPEN MEETGS AS OBSERVERS.THIS MEETG IS CURRENTLY ONLINE ONLY NEW ZOOM MEETG ID 831 1292 7847 PW GLB ONLE MEETG JO WH ZOOM PEER3 OTHER MEETGS AT THIS LOTN1520 BELLEVUE AVE STE 100SEATTLE, WA 98122CAPOL HILLGAY & LBIAN BEGNERSDISTRICT 40 UPDATED APRIL 27, 2022 REQUT A CHANGE TO THIS LISTG USE THIS FORM TO SUBM A CHANGE TO THE MEETG RMATN ABOVE. SUBM ABOUT THIS SEMORE A.A. RMATN IS AVAILABLE OM THE NATNAL GENERAL SERVICE OFFICE WEB PAGE.THIS SE IS NOT ENDORSED BY ALHOLICS ANONYMO WORLD SERVIC, NOR DO REPRENT ALHOLICS ANONYMO AS A WHOLE.NEW OFFICE HOURSTUDAY – FRIDAY: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM SATURDAY:  10:00 AM – 2:00 PMNEWSLETTER & INFORMATN SIGNUPIF YOU WANT TO KEEP UPDATED WH RMATN ABOUT INTERGROUP, GIVE YOUR EMAIL BELOW NOTICE: JAVASCRIPT IS REQUIRED FOR THIS NTENT. 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• THE HISTORY OF GAY PEOPLE ALHOLICS ANONYMO

GAY AA: A LOOK AT LGBT GROUPS ALHOLICS ANONYMO

Gay & Sober - MEETINGS USA.

In fact, a full 25 percent of gay and transgenr people abe alhol, pared to jt five to 10 percent of the total populatn. For some LGBT clients, this will clu addrsg the effects of ternalized homophobia.

Another LGBT dividual said of the procs that led him to a gay group, “I refed to go to the gay groups bee I did not want to be intified as a homosexual.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Bee of this, and not beg able to let anyone really know me AA (as this would mean sayg I was gay), I did not make any real progrs my first six months AA. “I fally went to a gay group and a man me over and talked to me after the meetg.

Gay & Sober - Meetgs ARIZONA. The Rabow Room is nductg both Zoom meetgs and -person meetgs at New York’s Church of Sat Mary the Virg, loted at 145 Wt 46th see the schle for rmatn about our daily Zoom and limed -person Rabow Room is a special tert group of alholic gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people dited to fdg the solutns to our problems the spir of AA, all are rmatn on Covid-19 (ronavis) and our Fellowship, please vis our NEWS is our full schle. So, i'm a young gay man who recently moved back to the small town i'm om.

All that beg said, i gus i'd like to get some put om gay/lgbt/queer people wh longer-term sobriety. There aren't any gay meetgs around here, and i'm not entirely sure that's what i want the first place.

GAY & LBIAN BEGNERS ONLE BACK TO MEETGSMEETG INFORMATN TUDAY, 8:00 PM TO 9:15 PM ONLE LGBTQ OPENOPEN MEETGS ARE AVAILABLE TO ANYONE TERTED ALHOLICS ANONYMO’ PROGRAM OF REVERY OM ALHOLISM. NONALHOLICS MAY ATTEND OPEN MEETGS AS OBSERVERS.THIS MEETG IS CURRENTLY ONLINE ONLY NEW ZOOM MEETG ID 831 1292 7847 PW GLB ONLE MEETG JO WH ZOOM PEER3 OTHER MEETGS AT THIS LOTN1520 BELLEVUE AVE STE 100SEATTLE, WA 98122CAPOL HILLGAY & LBIAN BEGNERSDISTRICT 40 UPDATED APRIL 27, 2022 REQUT A CHANGE TO THIS LISTG USE THIS FORM TO SUBM A CHANGE TO THE MEETG RMATN ABOVE. SUBM ABOUT THIS SEMORE A.A. RMATN IS AVAILABLE OM THE NATNAL GENERAL SERVICE OFFICE WEB PAGE.THIS SE IS NOT ENDORSED BY ALHOLICS ANONYMO WORLD SERVIC, NOR DO REPRENT ALHOLICS ANONYMO AS A WHOLE.NEW OFFICE HOURSTUDAY – FRIDAY: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM SATURDAY:  10:00 AM – 2:00 PMNEWSLETTER & INFORMATN SIGNUPIF YOU WANT TO KEEP UPDATED WH RMATN ABOUT INTERGROUP, GIVE YOUR EMAIL BELOW NOTICE: JAVASCRIPT IS REQUIRED FOR THIS NTENT. 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) homo" on my forehead, so that's that. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.

The paths of persecutn entrenched homophobia for centuri—but also alerted entire populatns to the existence of difference.

By the 20th century, a movement regnn of gays and lbians was unrway, abetted by the social climate of femism and new anthropologi of difference. However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary.

THE HISTORY OF GAY PEOPLE ALHOLICS ANONYMO

Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture. We know that homosexualy existed ancient Israel simply bee is prohibed the Bible, whereas flourished between both men and women Ancient Greece.

Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.

Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.