MAGazine

BE PROUD                                                                                        Hi Guys,

  We are besieged by tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and impending pandemics.  But as there is good, even in all bad things, what have you noticed happens in these times of utmost catastrophe?  People band together as a    specie, not according to race; colour; country of origin; sexual, political or    religious persuasion.  Just as people reaching out to each other.  The beauty of that, when evidenced, makes me cry, as I am touched somewhere deeper than by any other experience.  It’s a love for each other that is seldom evidenced.  It’s a discarding of all barriers and learned hatred.

   Must we wait till a disaster so horrific that it threatens our entire world as we know it to reach out to each other?  We of the GLBTI community have yet to do so, even within our own.  The AIDS trauma bonded us together for a while.  But now we are perhaps just as blasé.  Ageism, racism and every other ism still marginalises many of us.

    As we enter the 17th Anniversary of MAG, let us celebrate our love for each other and also rejoice in all the years we have had that no-one can take away from us.  How lucky we are to have enjoyed over 6 and a half decades as per our last survey which showed our average age in MAG to be 65.9.

    And how blessed we are to have MAG there for us, whether it is a dinner,    presentation, or just a hug to embrace that which we all need, acceptance, love and belonging.

    My thanks to all of you who have supported MAG these 17 years and have seen it grow to one of the largest gay organisations in Australia and the largest in the world catering to the Mature Age Man. We can truly be proud of this.

 

  With Love as always.    

     Steve