Connectedness, Psychological Wellbeing

Safe spaces

Last Friday night I looked around the dance floor at the Colonial Hotel here in Melbourne and saw god knows how many gay men partying and having a great time. The team from Where The Bears Are were about to film the final scene for the upcoming season 3 (no spoilers, not going to tell you who dies… mainly because I haven’t got the faintest idea who dies) and we were one day away from the highlight of Southern Hibearnation… the Mr Australasia Bear competition.

And it got me thinking about how great it is to have safe spaces, where like-minded men can get together and socialise, not having to worry about homophobes and homobigots, where we can be as flirty as we like, comfortable in the knowledge that you’re in safe company.

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