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Waking up, slowly, groggily. White hazy skies, plush cotton with jagged, industrial parts cutting off the space and marking the incursion of cityscape. Roofs, windows, edges, guardrails. Blue colors the billowing brightness. Fire escape stairs sleek and angled.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Flourishing Today we mark the anniversary of a declaration by some scrappy men in the British Empire who stood up for their dignity, rights, and freedom against a tyrant in their homeland. They proved themselves ready and willing to revolt against imperial power, rather
Tend the World, Within TL;DR Amidst the world’s havoc, tend your yearnings to find your flourishing and heal the world. Disorder and injustice are increasing these days so rapidly and to such a terrible extent that it looks like humanity is approaching multiple tipping points that could tilt us into global mayhem. At
Flourish in felonocracy? Three images for this morning, when queer flourishing seems irrelevant or even impossible. 1. Berlin, 1933. Sundown on a Friday. The curtains are drawn and candles are lit. A family gathers at table for shabbat dinner together. 2. Through story and action, a young father creates a
Props to Gay Pride What props you up? What parts of yourself do you draw attention to so as to distract folks from seeing all of who and what you are? Your job title? Your prestigious address or the décor of your home? The stylish brand-names of your outfit? Your
Gay Men and the Pandemic:HIV + Covid, 5 Years On Originally published A strange sharp pain under my left shoulder blade seared into me like a hot blade. I woke, confused and frightened, my skin sticky like I was camping in a cloud forest or had dozed off in the
Flourishing Gays founder Dominic Longo hosts an online roundtable event bringing together two inspiring leaders, Gregg Cassin and Bill Glenn, both gay men who lived through the height of the HIV epidemic.
oday I had a second inspiring conversation with two veterans of the HIV epidemic, Bill Glenn & Gregg Cassin. They shared what the experience of Covid and our reflection on HIV have stirred up in them.
What could “sin” mean from a queer perspective? “Sin” isn’t sexy. Of all concepts from religion that are well-known nowadays, “sin” has perhaps the least caché. Other religious concepts enjoy a more benign reputation (saint? charity? visit the sick? mercy? forgiveness?) and quite a number of other religious concepts actually
Are you weak enough? From the Covid-19 archives: April 22, 2020 All that talk of the free time we now have and the potential of self-discipline for the wonderful things we can accomplish in the strange way of life we are collectively living – That talk has all died down
GayGuard – Never let ‘em see you sweat! Suit up! Get ready for the game. The whistle blows in 20 minutes. Mouthguard, shinguards, cup, helmet – What will you put on to stay safe as the hits and blows of your opponents start coming your way? I was big in
Trauma, Growth, and Gays The heaviness of “trauma” infiltrates life in 2020. Between raging wildfires, Covid-19, shootings & stranglings of innocents, and the heightened awareness that #metoo brought to sexual harassment and rape, we all are “exposed to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence” – the very
We are Them ORDER! Order in the court! Order in the public square! We demand law and order! For some Americans this demand for “order” might mean an end to rowdiness by the kids and Black folk and their starry-eyed friends out in the streets. For protesters and people of
Stripped of routines at the office, away from groups of friends, deprived of hugs even from beloved relatives, who are you? What is your sense of yourself in the cleared space of your newly evolving life? Who do you now see as your biggest self, your best self? My friend
Year of Flourishing (Originally posted January 31, 2021) Two years ago this month in Boston a group of ten men, from their 20s to the verge of 60, took part in the very first Flourishing Gays workshop. That inaugural experiment drew its energy from the conviction that we each have