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Article: Repeat after me: do you come here often? A dating guru in New York is teaching gay men how to meet people and form relationships.
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2000
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A dating guru in New York is teaching gay men how to meet people
and form relationships. David Colman reports
Repeat after me: do you come here often?
Finding a partner in the gay community has never been harder, and
it is making people unhappy, according to Manhattan's only gay dating
therapist. "There is a revolution going on," says James Sullivan, 55.
"The 1970s were a decade of sexual freedom, the 1980s one of Aids and
grief, and now there's a shift from a scene of bars and cruising to
dating, romance and long-term partnerships. And a lot of gay men have
been caught off guard by it."
Sullivan feels that, at least as far as courtship and
relationships are concerned, the community is in ...