# gay men (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover gay men. Page: Feed: --- ## [Sex, Meaning, and Embodiment](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/sex-meaning-and-embodiment) _2026-04-23 · Mike Gerle, Paul Lennander, and Trevor James · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mikegerle.substack.com/subscribe [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194132042/5c9487c1d30837b1a91fd4bae72496e6.mp3) ## [Do Your Holidays Hurt?](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/do-your-holidays-hurt) _2025-12-12 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ Gay men, and anyone who doesn’t match the style guide of their bio-families, can get hit with a special kind of emotional whiplash this time of year. However you’re spending these weeks, please know you’re not alone. Not with the feelings, at least. Plenty of us have been there, and many of us still are. I’ve spent Christmas Eve barbacking a thinly attended Monday karaoke night at Revolver in West… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/181379626/d6dbb1e880ee45dcf26d1b513527626e.mp3) ## [Why We Think Sex is Bad](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/why-we-think-sex-is-bad) _2025-11-24 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ I keep wondering how “sex-positive” became a buzzword at the exact same time everybody started having less sex . When we live in a reality where medication protocols like PrEP and DoxyPEP can prevent a person from acquiring or shedding HIV and STIs, when U=U , why are we having less sex now than when sex was literally deadly? Race Bannon, who writes the Substack Love At The Edges , shared a story… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/179853333/76e65522ac7b8a97aaf797396a70b43e.mp3) ## [The Community of Men.](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/the-community-of-men) _2025-11-11 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ My heart aches to share the community of men. Not a widespread sentiment among left-leaning queers, I know. Inclusiveness — meaning all people of all kinds should be in all spaces, every time we do anything — is the only acceptable way to socialize nowadays. I get it. But, I miss the fuck out of those all-male spaces. Even before sex became important to me, all-male spaces provided the kind of… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/178530089/3390a95d061923c0ebadb5d516413637.mp3) ## [Yoga, Gonorrhea, and the Middle Way](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/yoga-gonorrhea-and-the-middle-way) _2025-07-31 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ Two months ago, I wrote about embracing the yoga practice of sexual restraint, brahmacharya, which is one of the five yamas in the first limb of yoga. Yesterday, I was lying face down on an exam table in my doctor’s office, my cargo shorts pulled down, ass up, and a needle injecting antibiotics into my left ass cheek to treat gonorrhea found in my urine. So, what’s going on? Over the past two… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/169795023/f741d3891a074dbb9cd913ccecdde8b6.mp3) ## [We’re a Coalition, Not a Community](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/were-a-coalition-not-a-community) _2025-07-23 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ Categorizing LGBTQ+ people as a single community , rather than a broad coalition of diverse groups, is paralyzing the advancement of services, spaces, and political outcomes most of us want. Recognizing our coalition-ness would allow for a greater diversity of thought and, more importantly, more resources for the goals we all agree on. This gay man would rather defeat MAGA authoritarianism and… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/169069791/3886cde9164f7a9affd9f10be61fe411.mp3) ## [On Edge](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/on-edge) _2025-06-26 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ You are not reading the post I had prepared for today. The hot vomit of my pain Attacking the confusion this old gay man feels in the Rainbow tribe of 2025. Written in blind fury.Staggeringly numb. On edge, teetering on the precipice of oblivionUnaware of its grip on my heart. This heart, clenched. These guts, a slithering knot. My presence in this moment; Impossible. The venomous edge stalks like… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/166854257/784f1ef1828ab24d70fb502a3b86e23d.mp3) ## [Gay Party Politics: Who’s In, Who’s Out, and Why It Matters](https://mikegerle.substack.com/p/gay-party-politics-whos-in-whos-out) _2025-06-11 · Mike Gerle · Going Deep: A Gay Guide to Reality_ Thanks for the invite. Who’s coming? When we receive an invite to an all gay event, what’s the first thing we do? Sure, we look at the theme of the party, the location, the date, but those are usually secondary considerations to the big question, “who’s going?” This is really a multiprong question: Will I feel comfortable with these guys? Is there anyone there I’d like to to date or fuck? Will… [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/165738678/b3b2dd10b5fe07df5f1174a742566895.mp3)