From: ap.1531@cupid.sai.com
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Subject: GWM/Values
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:45:22 GMT
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I thought I'd post my idea of gay values here and see whether
someone wants to maintain a correspondence.  I'm seriously
interested in establishing a relationship eventually but I don't
know whether this is the route to go.  There are so many pitfalls
in the gay journey that I'm trying to avoid, but I'm not going to
post a long list of "not!" because that is contrary to my idea of
gay values. Gay people are affirming people, not negating ones.
     I believe that gay values affirm each other and reach beyond
the physical appearances into the spiritual structure of each
individual's personality.  It doesn't really matter about social
class or econonmic viability inside the gay community because, let's
face it, most of us are fairly poor.  What I'm saying, I guess, is
that I don't believe in the community-centeredness of people who
can't live without their capaccino machines.
     I might just go right off the deep end here and give a speech
about gays who violate the tribal coherence of the community with
socioeconomic values that recapitulate the Reagan Era...but there I
go.  i guess you can see from where i'm trying to hold it all in
about where I'm coming from.
     I have serious spiritual values, although i'm not especially
interested in organized religion.  I attend services at a Buddhist
Temple about once a year or so, and I get a lot out of it, so i
take meditation practice very seriously.  But I don't whip off to
the temple every time I have a crisis.  I stay home and think it
through for myself.
     See, I believe that the First Ammendment is almost gone and
that what we really need to do is stay home more and restore our
freedoms.  Freedom of Speech.  Freedom of Association.  Pursuit of
Happiness.  That kind of thing.  Actually, I donate some money to
groups like the Human Rights Campaign Fund and the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Descrimination, but I don't really believe that's
the point of Gay Liberation.  The point is to break through the
attitude door, get real and get earthy, live the life that's available
to live where I am and maybe the fact that I'm living in the
wilderness, almost crazy from lack of loving gay human contact, won't
matter all that much.  What does it matter where I live?  where you
live?  Electronics brings us together for virtual contact and maybe
we want to build from there.
     I like music, especially the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd, but
i'm aware of Beethoven and, even better, Gustav Mahler.  Maybe I'm
a hippie, maybe just a weekend Deadhead, maybe just a confused human
being who represents that frail human condition that Christians used
to call "original sin' before that got wealthy and perfect.
     So it goes.
     I really like the posting from the spiritual woman in San
Francisco and I thought I'd go for a posting like hers.  This is it.
The difference is that i held off on my description until the end.
I guess you know I'm not a Macho Stud by now, huh?  I'm gwm, 51,
190 with a slight gut that I'm fighting, I have a good job and a
solid income as well as a trust fund that keeps me going, I'm planning
on Christmas in Florida and maybe you want to join me there.  I haven't
got any demands to make about how you look or what race you are, but
it'll help if you share some of my values and don't get wired out just
because I'm not the macho stud of society's slick mag pages.  I'm
a neat guy, an empathic psychic, a wierdo sometimes, and a good catch
for a middle aged stud who's ready to think about negotiating a
settle-down clause in his life.
   Virtually, Mike

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