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Category: Art & Music Description: non-religious group overcoming stereotypes of all types by loving others just as they are Type: public Created By: apurity
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founded on the simple truths of love that Christ loves all of us just as we are
use this group to help friends focused on gay friends
overcome some of lifes adversity's by supporting each other
standing as one!
your voice, my voice, one voice for love!
use this group to help friends focused on gay friends
overcome some of lifes adversity's by supporting each other
standing as one!
your voice, my voice, one voice for love!
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raising $25,000 in two weeks |
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Posted By: apurity on: 11/18/08 3:31 PM |
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I never expected to use this forum for my family but life is full of suprises so I'm the one that needs your help.
i just found out Sunday my sister's husband had a minor heartache and that he hasn't been sleeping for months cause he's been trying to save there house from foreclosure. So my sister just found out Sunday there losing there house and that all this has been going on. I just cried when I found out. I've been really emotional n I love my sister so much I'd do anything for her, I feel helpless to help her. When she's been around I've been strong for her but its seriously just hurts like hell to watch this. I've put a lot of thought into it and I decided I'm not gonna let that happen, and do whatever I can to help them save there house. My goal is to raise $25,000 for them to keep there house. They've worked so hard for everything and my sister deserves the best and it just kills me to think about how this will hurt her. So I'm networking to raise the funds hopefully by the end of the month. I'm asking all my friends and business associates to either chip in what they can, pray for them or forward this need to someone who is in a position to help financially. Other ideas to raise funds would help as well, so I'm extremely open minded and any ideas would be appreciated!! I do know there are a lot of generous caring people out there who will help. donate by paypal using my email address apurity@msn.com or if you see the link below click on that 
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look what your a part of!!! |
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Posted By: apurity on: 10/11/08 12:00 AM |
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letter from the founder
congratulations guys! we helped our first guy! Kris was left homeless after leaving an abusive relationship, prior to that his parents kicked him out of the house two years earlier when he was 16 after he told his parents he is gay. He's had a rough start at life, but with the support we've provided him he's in a safe youth hostel, (that could be an oxymoron but um you know what i mean guys lol)off the streets, so thanks for your kind words and support, I'm touched that of our 140 members 5 of you in the new york area stepped out to help kris. You guys are great, and your like the brothers i always wish i had! Kurt Rossmiller Jr founder 2008 Gays for Love |
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a boy in new york still needs help!!! |
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Posted By: apurity on: 9/28/08 1:38 PM |
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The boy is under really tough circumstances. There are a lot of amazing people on here and i'm hoping some of you can step up n help him. The boy's name is Kris, he's 18, his parents kicked him out when he told them he's Gay. He's living in his car in Brooklyn and lets rally some support to help him in any way you can think of. Sometimes life really sucks, so thats what friends are for! And he needs friends right now! Thanks sooo much n hopefully with your help we can help this boy start a new life with some real hope. The last sentence of his last email said, "i don't think i can take much more." so i'm really worried about him. He needs compassion n help. let me know
hugs kurt jr group leader gays for love btw i have paypal and our group is raising $ to send him so if you want to add like $10 bucks or more that would be cool! So far we have raised $35. Our group goal is to send him $300 by Weds. crossing my fingers lol my email is apurity@msn.com n please put kris in the notes/message line, we have several projects going on in the group. |
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a boy in new york needs help |
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Posted By: apurity on: 9/26/08 4:53 AM |
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hey guys
if you live in new york or know friends who might have an extra place/room for Kris to stay for a while that would be awesome (i'll find out what part of new york he's in) Again his name is Kris S. and he's 18 (super cute btw lol) He is in new york sleeping in his car...long story short...his parents kicked him out cause they found out he is gay. (I want to slap them!) He needs your help and mine! I want to wire some money to him for food so if you can help, I'm asking for $5 or more from around 10 guys in our group, that would be really cool. I'm going to send $20 so I was hoping I could add more to that with your help. (you can wire it directly to him or paypal it to me and I'll wire it) my paypal address is apurity@msn.com when i was in California chasing my dreams i had to sleep in my car for a month, it was the worst feeling in the world, and a total stranger helped me and basically saved my life, so i want this boy to have a place to stay as soon as humanly possible lol cause i know the feeling if our group can help just this one boy, i think it was worth putting it together! thanks guys kisses kurt jr |
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RE: a boy in new york needs help |
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Replied By: interraver on: 9/25/08 10:47 PM |
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Found this on 365 Gay.com. Thought it might be helpfull for Kris S.
These kids are invisible. It's a gorgeous mid-September Tuesday evening in New York City and the setting sun warmly glows over the streets of Midtown. Chelsea, New York's gayest enclave, shifts into party mode just a few blocks south. To the northeast, the world is starting to queue up for Broadway hits. Meanwhile, commuters rush to the comforts of home. But for thousands of gay youth in Gotham, there will be no partying, no theater, no playing tonight. And once again, no home. Estimates say that a staggering 20,000 young people are homeless every night in the city, - anywhere from a quarter to a third of those are LGBTQ kids. A lucky fraction of that number has found its way to Sylvia's Place, tucked here on the city's far west side, so near and so far from so much wealth. Sylvia's Place is the subject of Queer Streets, a new Logo documentary shot in 2006 which followed seven LGBT teens who frequented the shelter. To see what Sylvia's place is like now, I step into this surreal and humbling world to meet with Kate Barnhart, director of Sylvia's Place since 2004. Tonight, like every Tuesday evening, dinner is being served by a small team of volunteers from the adjacent Metropolitan Community Church of New York. I take a seat on a metal folding chair next to Kate's desk, not quite sure where to put my manpurse amidst the overflowing boxes, plastic bags, and just plain stuff that's everywhere. She motions for me to throw it into the area behind her, with a dozen other backpacks and handbags. Behind my body is the safest place, so everyone stashes their stuff back here, she says. Sylvia's takes its name from Sylvia Mae Rivera, a veteran of the 1969 Stonewall uprising who just a year later co-founded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries), an assistance group for the citys young homeless trans community. In the late 1990s Rev. Pat Bumgardner, senior pastor of the MCC, hired Rivera to run the church's food pantry, only to be amazed by the crowds of young queer folk in need drawn by the charismatic activist. On Rivera's deathbed (from liver cancer in 2002), Bumgardner promised that the church would create a safe space and night shelter for desperate LGBTQ youth who had nowhere else to go. And so Sylvia's Place was born in early 2003, and has ever since provided disenfranchised young gay people aged 16 to 23 with such simple necessities as dinner, bathroom facilities, somewhere to sleep for the night, breakfast in the morning, and - perhaps most important - a listening ear and an encouraging voice. They do all this on a ridiculously small budget, with a shoestring staff of mostly volunteers, in one 2,500-square foot room, despite the (quite understandable) unpredictability of the clientele. We take people until we can't fit anymore. |
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RE: RE: a boy in new york needs help |
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Replied By: interraver on: 9/26/08 4:53 AM |
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New York: New York city
The Ali Forney Center, http://www.aliforneycenter.org Carmens Place, http://www.carmensplace.org/ MCCNY Homeless Youth Services, http://www.homelessyouthservices.org/ Sylvias Place, http://www.homelessyouthservices.org/sylviasplace.html Green Chimneys, Programs for LGBTQ Children, Youth and Families, Agency Operated Boarding Home AOBH, http://www.greenchimneys.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129:agency- operated-boarding-home&catid=111:nyc-programs&Itemid=174 Gramercy Residence at Ungar House, http://www.greenchimneys.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99:gramercy-residence-at-ungar-house&catid=111:nyc-programs&Itemid=99 Triangle Tribe Apartment Program, http://www.greenchimneys.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=131 |
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ARE YOU RELIGIOUS |
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Posted By: apurity on: 9/12/08 7:26 AM |
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ARE YOU RELIGIOUS?"
IT TOOK ME A LIFETIME TO ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT REFLECTED WHAT I KNOW TO BE TRUE... "CHRIST SET ME FREE FROM 'RELIGION' MANS WAY TO SUBSTITUTE GOD WHILE IRONICALLY TRYING TO FIND HIM...WITH SO MUCH BEAUTY IN JUST ONE PERSON HOW CAN YOU DENY CHRIST, OTHER THAN THE FACT YOU HAVE TO DENY YOURSELF AND HELP CHRIST CARRY THAT DAMN CROSS, ITS NOT HARD LIKE EVERYONE THINKS, ITS JUST THE HUMILITY THATS SO DAMN HEAVY FOR US PRIDEFUL HUMANS, THATS WHAT GRACE IS ALL ABOUT, THE REAL DEFINITION OF LOVE, LETTING US CARRY THE CROSS INSTEAD OF DIE ON IT" QUOTE BY KURT R JR II "cause i am a saint by grace" |
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