You can bet your buns I'll be hounding all you Trevorade drinkers to head out to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the 2010 Gay Men's Health Summit! While technically the 11th anniversary of the first, we'll of course be celebrating the 10th anniversary (in gay years, as Lady Bartlett put it). Here's the as-official-as-GMH-gets release, written up by the lovely Michael Scarce:
SAVE THE DATE: National Gay Men's Health Summit, August 25-30, 2010, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The mission of the Summit is to create a stronger, more diverse, and increasingly visible grassroots movement among gay, bi and trans men, focused on strengthening our communities and tackling a range of health concerns that include, but are not limited to, HIV and AIDS.
Next year's event marks the ten-year anniversary of the first National Summit, convened in Boulder, Colorado. Notably different from traditional health conferences, many have experienced our earlier summits as nurturing retreats, exciting think tanks, and moments of great enlightenment.
We hope to continue building on the success of previous summits as we mobilize to better our health and wellness, conduct strategic organizing, celebrate our past achievements, and create a renewed vision for the next decade of the Gay Men's Health Movement.
Be there! It's a lot of fun with a lot of wonderful, sexy men! And don't worry: It's not a conference. We strive for our gatherings to be more low-key, more personal, and less informal than professional associations. Hot tubs and hotel room parties are key to its success! If you are invested in Gay Men's Health at all - in any shape or form - and especially if you'd love to be surrounded by a group of guys who ARE similarly invested -- THIS is the place for you.