"Queer Spirit is about men loving men, gathering together in loving and intimate ways to explore, dialog, enjoy, dream and celebrate the "who" and "what" we are in the broader community..."
LifeLube was in Salt Lake City a couple of years ago for the 2005 Gay Men's Health Summit and loved it. Queer Spirit, which we discovered thanks to Kickin Tina, is another reason to give it up for this fabulous little city in Utah.
The following is a gem we picked up on the site, written by one of the Queer Spirit facilitators.
True Self
by John Cottrell
Queer Spirit to me is the opportunity for a person to explore and express one’s true self. How does one know the true self? It certainly takes some exploration and intentional evaluation to answer this question. The road to the answer is to look at how we define ourselves; what constitutes our identity? We often define ourselves by what we do: “I’m a lawyer, ” “I sell cars, ” “I’m a father. ” And although we play many roles like these in our daily lives, they only capture a fraction of who we really are. For example, a man may work as a police officer, but may only be in this profession because his father and grandfather before him were police officers, or that it is a government job that might provide good benefits and a respectable retirement plan. But does the job tell us who this person really is? Yes…. and no. Yes, because this person wants to provide helpful service to his community and finds fulfillment working in law enforcement. And no, because he may only be a policeman because his father expected junior to follow in his footsteps. So what is the true self?
Read the rest on Queer Spirit.
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Huh? What does this have to do with the original post, Zak?
ReplyDeleteOur identity and the true self is the topic.
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