Gay Adults! Gay Adults!

Where Are You?

Reimagining the Gay Community and the Critical Roles of Youth, Adults, Elders and Ancestors

Ask yourself: "Where do I stand on the continuum that ranges from Elder, Adult, and Youth and how am I contributing to the health of the Gay community?”  At this Faetopia Festival workshop, co-facilitated with Roberto Blain, learn how to build a stronger Gay Community from Don Kilhefner, Gay liberation pioneer, community organizer, Radical Faerie and Jungian psychologist. He is also a founder of Los Angeles’ Gay and Lesbian Center, Van Ness Recovery House, Gay Men’s Medicine Circle, and numerous other seminal organizations in the gay community including (with Harry Hay) the Radical Faeries, an international gay spirituality and consciousness movement.

"Renewing, rebirthing, and revisioning of our community is not only necessary but possible. But it cannot be done without awake and alive gay ancestors, elders, adults and youth working cooperatively together. In the 1970’s a movement made up largely of gay adults birthed a social revolution of major proportions which is still echoing around the world and in our hearts. Similar possibilities for moving gay community and consciousness forward are now within our grasp but it cannot be done without the conscious engagement of gay elders and adults. The only way we will get the kind of gay community we want to live in is to create it.  The key to that possibility is the awakening and emergence of gay adults.”

-- Dr. Don Kilhefner, Gay Adults! Gay Adults! Where Are You? Trusting the River Of Life  in White Crane, Summer 2006 - Subscribe Here

WORKSHOP APPROACH

Alternating between presentation, discussion, imagination, poetry and ritual, this highly-interactive workshop is directed toward initiating a soul-directed, rather than an ego-led, process that empowers both the individual and the community. It recognizes that we stand at the threshold of a historically important generational shift in the gay community. It suggests that the central organizing principle of that tectonic shift will be intergenerational dialogue and cooperation involving youth, adults, elders, and ancestors. It blesses a gay community in renewal. 

ARTICLES TO READ PRIOR TO WORKSHOP

Gay Adults! Gay Adults! Where Are You? , White Crane

http://whitecrane.typepad.com/journal/2006/07/don_kilhefner_g.html

Reimagining the Gay Community, Frontiers Magazine

http://www.frontierspublishing.com/2901/columns/reimagine.html

Gay Elders! Gay Elders! Where Are You? , WEHO.COM

http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=4072

WORKSHOP FACILITATORS

Both Don and Roberto are also central to a major conference to be held in Los Angeles on November 6 to explore and call into being the gay adult.

Presented as an official 2010 Faetopia Festival event, featuring concessions sponsored by Cafe Flore & Taylor's Tonics.

For just one week in June, Comfort & Joy’s “Faetopia Festival” transforms an empty storefront into visions of the potential future utopias we could create together versus the various dystopias that surround us today. Featuring local artistry, performance art, Cuddle Cinema and workshops throughout the week, the Faetopia Festival explores how vacant commercial space can be used to grow our creative community.

WHEN: Pride Week 2010 // Sunday, June 20- Saturday, June 26th.

For more information visit www.playajoy.org/faetopia