Want to pe the Toronto gay scene? Time to get off of Grdr and Scff? Not fdg what you are lookg for the bars and the Village?This group is for like-md profsnals who want to get active and explore Toronto wh meetup events like hikg, skatg, skig, bikg, movie nights
Contents:
- TIRED OF GAY TO? SOCIAL & ACTIVE GROUP FOR GAY MEN
- HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
- GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
TIRED OF GAY TO? SOCIAL & ACTIVE GROUP FOR GAY MEN
* tired of gay to meetup *
Want to pe the Toronto gay scene? The Meetup Group - Tired of Gay TO? New Social & Active Group for Gay Men (together wh s anizer and members, the “Group”) is a not for prof social club, formed to provi rmatn and facilate social events.
Part of realizg you're gay, or bi, or trans, or non-bary, or anythg other than cisgenr and heterosexual is acceptg you’re different—and somewhat separated—om the majory. Here he shar his journey to overe the sense of isolatn he felt growg up gay a small U. At the time, there were no real gay role mols except for Graham Norton and Jack om Dawson's Creek—and I certaly didn't intify wh him bee I wasn't a football player.
HOW TO COPE WHEN YOU'RE GAY AND LONELY
An open letter to my fellow whe gay cis men: there should be no "returng to normal" after this. * tired of gay to meetup *
I felt like I was pletely on my rried on until I was 16, when I started gog out to gay bars my hometown.
I ma one gay iend, who I'm actually close to now.
For the first time I've been able to form a good group of gay iends and create my own support work. I'd go on gay chatrooms but that was jt a facels nversatn wh someone who uld have been anyone. I thk if I'd had iends who were gay when I was growg up, my life would have been so different.
GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
I now know there were other kids at my school who were gay, but they didn't e out till much later.
But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other.
I spent a few quiet afternoons readg his 1978 but novel Faggots, a satiril (yet clearly tobgraphil) look at the liv of gay men 1970s New York Cy that he wrote jt before AIDS ma him a figurehead of Amerin activism. Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.