| California Men’s Gatherings presents . . . | ||
| May 1, 2019 Volume 12, Issue 5 | ||
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Binky’s List CMG Community News, Events of Interest, & Marketplace Classifieds |
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| Welcome to Binky’s List, CMG’s very own community news publication, named in honor of one of our most beloved elders, Al-Binky Hoch. _______________________________________________________ Did you ever wish you could use the CMG email list to tell everyone about anything you wanted? Well that is EXACTLY what this newsletter is for. It’s NOT for CMG events. It’s for everything else. So send us your own items: News, events of interest in your area, items for sale, apartments for rent, jobs wanted, personals, community links, etc., by clicking here. _______________________________________________________ CMG does not necessarily endorse the events or organizations listed here, nor guarantee the quality of the goods/services offered. |
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| Quote of the Month | ||
| Authenticity is simply the soul made visible. Lisa Jaffe |
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| Events & Items of Interest | ||
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Rear Opening (Los Angeles)
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| CMG Marketplace – Part 1 | ||
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| Did You Know . . . ? | ||
 Mourning My Childhood Bully: He Teased Me for Being Gay—Now He’s Dead When my mother told me of Dan’s death, I felt a pang of unexpected sadness, but for different reasons than his loved ones. by David Toussaint 2/5/2019Dan’s obituary was simple and lovely: a tiny photo accompanied by a mention of the job he held for over two decades, a wife who he’d been married to for almost as many years, his love of sports, his active involvement in the local church, a young son.There was no mention of the kid he used to traumatize. Me.He’s holding some sort of award in the photo (yet another accomplishment in a list that started in elementary school), and, like so many of the popular, athletic kids I grew up with, was now paunchy and overweight. If I’d not known it was him from the caption, I would have only recognized the eyes, those twinkling brown pupils that captured the hearts of girls and filled me with terror every time they stared me down.I met Dan in kindergarten, and he came to either my first or second grade birthday party. We started out as friends and I still remember laughing with him. He was kind of a dork like me. His family lived two blocks away in our suburban, northern California town, and they were known to be strict and conservative. They had one of the few two-story houses in the neighborhood, which loomed over all the others.By the time we reached seventh grade, our worlds had changed. We both started junior high together, but, while Dan had prematurely transformed into a muscular jock, I was overweight and unpopular, devoid of athletic skills, and teased for being feminine. Our differences came to head in the one class we had together: P.E.…The rest of this article: http://www.newnownext.com/gay-bully-dead/02/2019/ |
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| CMG Marketplace – Part 2 | ||
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| Links of Interest | ||
| LGBT Social & Recreational Organizations CMG (California Men’s Gatherings) OUT4FUN (Gay Calendar of Events) SAGA-LA (Los Angeles Gay Ski & Snowboard Club) SAGA-SD (San Diego Gay Ski & Snowboard Club) Great Outdoors APGF (Asian/Pacific Gays & Friends) POZabilities (San Diego Social Network) GLTA (Gay & Lesbian Tennis Association) IGBO (International Gay Bowling Organization) IAGSDC (International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs) Fun and Games Club Arriba (Ski & Snowboard Club for Gays & Lesbians) LA Blades Hockey Club Gay Outdoors LANG (Los Angeles Nude Guys) CMEN (California Men Enjoying Naturism) BA-MEN (Beach Areas Men Enjoying Naturism – for O.C., Long Beach, & South Bay) Asian Pacific Islander Pride Council (Facebook Page) Satrang (South Asian Queers of Southern California) Avatar Bienestar Black & White Men Together (Southern California) FaeLA (radical Faeries Los Angeles) Menstuff Menstuff Events Calendar So CA Bondage Club East Bay Network Men’s Massage Network (Los Angeles) Southern California Gay & Lesbian Club (and Friends!) Southern California Cycling Group The Billys Gaysurfers.net CalComMen Unusual Attitudes Jonathan’s Circle (Fresno) MAX (San Francisco) Gay Elder Circle (Los Angeles)Community Organizations Los Angeles LGBT Center San Francisco LGBT Community Center Oakland LGBT Community Center San Diego LGBT Community Center Sacramento LGBT Center Palm Springs LGBT Center Antelope Valley OUTtreach Center LA LGBT Center Social Services & Housing AIDS Project LA Shanti Orange County Lifeworks Mentoring Project Angel Food Project Chicken Soup (Los Angeles County) Hollywood Sunset Free Clinic SCA (Sexual Compulsives Anonymous) L.A. Youth Supportive Services (Teen and Young Adult Hotline) Southern Oregon Pride Lotus Rising Project Pacific Center (Berkeley) Red Circle Project One (National Gay and Lesbian Archives) Pop Luck Club Trevor Project L.A. County 211 Mankind Project Los Angeles Mankind Project San Diego The Discovery Community (Bay Area) Gay For Good Starland Community HSD (Homeless Shelters) UCSF Alliance Health Project (San Francisco) The Lavender Effect North County LGBTQ Resource Center (Oceanside) HIV Long-term Survivors Outfest Wildwood RetreatPolitical Organizations Equality California Human Rights Campaign Stonewall Democrats (Los Angeles) Log Cabin RepublicansMiscellaneous Organizations & Listings Gay Business Directory (LGBT Yellow Pages) Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (L.A.) |
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