About the Summit

Eight Core Issues

• Explore the longings for intimacy and connection with other men and the social structures, networks, and ideologies that promote or prevent such connections.
  
  
• Understand the meanings of anal sex, penetration, & the exchange of semen and explore the relationships between various racial, ethnic, and class-based masculinities and anal sex practices
  
  
• Grapple with the emotions, pleasures, & wounds emerging from childhood and adolescent experiences with boys & men
  
  
• Tap into sources of resilience, creativity, determination, humor & playfulness in diverse gay men's cultures
  
  
• Support healing from trauma: violence, abuse, homophobia, racism, poverty, AIDS and addiction
  
  
• Examine the ways transgression, risk, and the taboo interact with queer men's sexual desires, practices, and subcultures
  
  
• Confront ways in which privileged masculinities of youth present challenges to & opportunities for well-being as men age
  
  
• Revive and recreate community rituals, social structures, and networks to replace those lost during the most intense crisis years of AIDS