Gay sober
BRIGHTON
Sunday
Online Meeting! ONLY
Brighton LGBTQI AA
Chapel Royal (in-person location is closed)
North Street
Brighton
BN1 1EA
Zoom ID:
Password:
Tuesday
LGBTQ+ Cocaine Anonymous. CA
Hybrid
Zoom:
Password: courage
Brighthelm Centre (Hannover Room)
North Road
Brighton, BN1 1YD
Password:
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Womxn loving womxn, Gay, Bi-Sexual Transgender Meeting NA
(in-person location is closed)
Dorset Gardens Methodist Church
Dorset Gardens
Kemp Town
Brighton, BN2 1RL
Thursday
Online Meeting! ONLY
Big Manual GLBT AA
Zoom:
Password: LGBTDG
For meeting status click here --> AAUK
Saturday
PHYSICAL Meeting!
LGBTQ+ Living Sober AA
Crypt Community Centre
St. George's Church
St George's Rd,
Kemptown, Brighton
More Info:
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Online Meeting! ONLY
Brighton Clear CMA
Zoom: See link below
For meeting status click here --> CMAUK
Sober Gay Sunday
My name is Dave!
I am a gay, sober bloke living in Boston, Massachusetts. Being queer and sober hasn’t always been an easy journey.
The same-sex attracted world is intertwined with drinking and drugging from the jump. As a juvenile queer making my way into the gay scene, I was more than happy to dive in headfirst with drugs and alcohol.
It made me sense accepted and took the edge off being social in a room occupied of people. I have always been anxious, and alcohol and drugs took that anxiety away and made me the life of the party.
After getting sober it was a whole recent world.
I had to figure out how to be social and fun without drugs or alcohol. I am extremely fortunate that I have a fantastic support system of wonderful people who helped guide me through.
I was swept up by sober gays who had been sober for many years who showed me that we can still do anything and everything we did while using, sober.
They showed me that life only gets better after you decide to abandon your addiction existence behind and accept sobriety. I am so grateful to all those people in my collective who
I used alcohol to assist connect with other homosexual people. When I got sober, I had to re-learn how to be myself in queer spaces.
Don't ask me why I said yes to a party at a queer bar in New York City on a random Friday night in June. It didn't make much sense: I had been sober for five years, and the bar was filled with bottles of vodka and tequila.
But I was determined to demonstrate I was fun even if I didn't consume . What intimidated me most that Friday night was being perceived as a boring gay by the "twinks" who invited me. And there was a lot to prove; they knew every Ariana Grande song.
I got sober at 20 in the middle of my sophomore year at college. Yes, campus police finding me passed out after I attempted a break-in while dressed as Bugs Bunny may have been a signal that something was false. But what actually started me on the track of recovery was when I threw a cup of cranberry vodka on my ex's face.
Every moment I drank, I didn't feel like myself. It was as if I were the queer cousin of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Dr. Rectal and Mr. Pryde.
Even though I have been sober for some time no
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