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[Smiles] That's what my friend in HPP from Oregon was saying about the metaphysical community there, sort of like where I'm at now, but more down to earth and into nature.
And, point well taken John. The same may go for religion, politics, race, and so on :-)
"IMHO Puna attracts a different sort of gay tourist, just as it attracts a different sort of heterosexual tourist"
"Please remeber that our sexuality is a small part of who each of us truelly is."
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Who my best friend is as a person and how real (painfully at times)he is transcends beyond anything else about his personal life or choices. It is the essence of our relationship and should be the essence of any relationship. It is what is important to me and nothing else. I would welcome any place becoming a Mecca for “gay “ tourist. In my personal experience you have a greater chance of meeting PEOPLE that are secure enough in themselves that they can be real with me while allowing me to do the same. Wyatt, your quote says it all and I personally can not wait until the day when the word gay is eliminated from our vocabulary.
Lenny
Edited by - lluberesm on 07/19/2006 03:19:06
Lenny
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Reading the posts this morning made me smile.
Cindy I agree. We all are different here. The island does attract a different kind of tourist. Since living here I find myself defending the very same people that I felt were misfits back home. The island has a way letting us see beyond the exterior of a person.
Lenny your best friend is a lucky person. I hope your friend reads your post. It was a pleasure to read such deep care and compassion
put into words.
Wyatt
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Da Banana Boys bought their place 6 years ago. I lived in Honomu then... a guy from Opihikao came into our place and we started talking - gross generalization ahead -- after I said my friends moved in his neighborhood, i realized he was a redneck... he said (as I took a couple of steps back...) "those gay guys? Wow they are good for our area, they are cleaning it up, and now all the crack dealers are moving. I like gay guys."
This is a honest to goodness quote. Cant make this stuff up!
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Well as a gay tourist I hope the area becomes nothing like other gay resort towns. I don't think it ever will. I think it does have a draw for gay people with a certain spiritual sensibility, but that is true regardless of orientation. I like that there are plenty of gays & lesbians there, but more important is that there are open minded, accepting people. Maybe there is something about the mana that has a special draw for gays & lesbians, but it is not for the kind of guys who live at the gym and go dancing until 8 am. For me, lower Puna is a semi-gay world which is an escape from the ridiculously gay world I live & work in San Francisco/Oakland.
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Okay, I'm not gay and I just would submit that the reason that anyone would do well in Puna is that they be open-minded. Well, maybe gay people have a headstart on that just by the nature of their choices, or their ability to forge ahead in spite of all too popular judgments. So it would stand to reason that they would do well with a "live and let live" attitude.
I don't care if someone is gay, straight, lesbian, purple, pink or green. If they are open to possibilities and the beauty and healing qualities of Hawaii, they are drawn to it...and I would be honored to be their neighbor.
Carrie
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And you will be soon, Carrie. Very soon.
Welcome to the gayborhood.
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ROFLMAO!!! "Gayborhood!"...Oh John you do make laughing easy!
I guess I just don't get the "I like you EVEN if...thing." I just LIKE you!! (To quote Pee Wee "Like you Dotty!"
Kinda reminds me of the old "Some of my best friends are..." I mean WHO even GOES THERE?? Wish everyone were more like my little dog CHUY. He just loves ya! That's it! When you come home he rolls all over the ground and cries a little for missing you! We should all wag our tails more!!! (Figuratively speaking, of course
)
Carrie
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Aloha kakou!
So happy to find this thread! I have always felt welcomed and loved in Puna, well, in Hawaii in general really, as a gay person and a woman. I love our live and let live attitude.
Puna has its issues but I really think it's getting better all the time :-)
(thank you Paul McCartney)
I love going to the Natch (or the Maku'u market) and seeing all my girlfriends, gay and straight,(male and female :-)getting all my hugs, and feeling a part of an aware and mostly enlightened community.
Puna-tics Rock!
See you 'round the Yoni-verse-
Liz
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