Bobby A, August 12, 1988 Los Angeles, CA.

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• Bobby A, August 12, 1988, but leaves his location, event, and topic blank. The transcript lets us fill in quite a bit more.

  Tracking information — Catalog #106

  • Speaker: Bobby A. — catalog lists Bobby A

  • Gender: Male

  • AA member: Yes

  • From: New York City, NY — specifically Brooklyn. Bobby says he lives in Brooklyn Heights and repeatedly identifies himself with New York and Brooklyn.

  • Recording date: August 12, 1988

  • Recording location: Los Angeles, California

  • Event: Unknown. The transcript clearly establishes that he was invited to speak in Los Angeles, but I don't see an event or conference name supported by the recording.

  • Sobriety date: March 17, 1975

  • Sobriety at recording: Approximately 13 years

  • Age at recording: 45

  • Primary topic: Bobby's AA recovery story, particularly his journey as a gay alcoholic from fear, addiction, and destructive relationships to service, connection, and genuinely loving sobriety.

  • Additional themes: Growing up gay in an Italian Catholic family; alcoholism and drug use; New York gay life; Fire Island; relationships and domestic violence; psychiatric hospitalization; suicide attempt; AA special-interest/gay meetings; Al-Anon; sponsorship; grief; AIDS-era losses; service; the Steps and Traditions.

  • Explicit-content setting: Definitely Explicit – Yes. This is one of the clearest ones so far. Bobby uses frequent strong profanity and discusses sex, drugs, poppers, physical violence, suicide, and other adult experiences quite directly.

  • Historical-language advisory: Yes. Bobby frequently uses LGBTQ+ terms for himself and others that were common within gay communities at the time but can sound offensive outside their historical context.

  • Transcript reviewed: Yes

  • AA speaker: Yes

  • Gender: Male

  • Bobby A, August 12, 1988 Los Angeles, CA.

  • Bobby A, August 12, 1988 Los Angeles, CA.

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