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Who is this for?

This workshop is for gay, cisgender* men. We offer a variety of events, some for specific affinity groups and others for everyone.

Description

Body Electric Facilitator Collin Brown will guide you through the revelatory book Gay Soul, Mark Thompson’s interviews of sixteen gay men who are writers, healers, teachers, and visionaries. The class also includes many videos to learn more about these gay men’s lives.

Each week you will be asked three questions to share about your thoughts, feelings, and ideas related to the chapter. This process will allow you to get to know a small group of men during these four months. You will share your ideas and feelings with them about the gay soul, gay spirit, nature, our bodies, our psyches, and the erotic. Over this time, you will know more about your own journey as a gay man, creating community, and enjoying your growth as a soulful elder.

Due to the length and structure of the workshop, missing one or two classes is not an issue.

About the book Gay Soul: Gay spirituality and sensibility come to light in these pages of striking portraits and interviews. Thompson brings out the unique contributions of esteemed gay men – including James Broughton, Paul Monette, Andrew Harvey, Harry Hay, Joseph Kramer, Malcolm Boyd, Ram Dass, and Clyde Hall – who have led interesting and valuable lives as gay men. Thompson elicits vivid musings on such provocative issues as third gender, S&M, ritual as ‘holy fire’, and spirituality in the age of AIDS. His interviews call out the deepest emotions of each of these vibrant leaders who reveal, as never before, the spirit and the soul of gay life.