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GaL-AA Newsletter – Summer 2016

  • Steve N.
  • Nov 15
  • 2 min read

GaL-AA Newsletter – Summer 2016

(August – September – October 2016)

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The Summer 2016 newsletter is filled with powerful personal stories, Seventh Tradition guidance, and updates from the LGBTQ+ AA community, reflecting a period of strong connection and shared recovery within GaL-AA.


This issue opens with a comprehensive Seventh Tradition article, explaining how GaL-AA uses contributions to support LGBTQ+ alcoholics worldwide. Contributions help maintain the website, fund International Convention hospitality suites, distribute literature, support roundup attendees with financial need, manage LGBTQ+ meeting and roundup databases, and cover essential technology and service-provider costs. The article emphasizes unity, transparency, and gratitude for the support that sustains GaL-AA's mission.


This edition features two deeply personal and moving Member Stories:


• “Long Journey” – by Ken W. (Dunmore, PA)

Ken shares a decades-long story of early drinking, inner conflict about sexuality, long-term sobriety, marriage, fatherhood, relapse of emotional sobriety, and ultimately coming out at age 45. Through AA, sponsorship, and the principles of the program, he finds the courage to live authentically while maintaining his recovery and loving relationships.


• “Recovery Adventure” – by Tom D. (Pittsboro, NC)

Tom recounts his early sobriety in the 1980s, the fear of losing joy and connection, discovering LGBTQ+ AA in California, and decades of sober living filled with travel, teaching, service, and spiritual growth—including 16 years in Japan. His reflections highlight AA’s global reach and the unexpected joy and freedom that come from long-term recovery.


This newsletter also includes:


  • April–July 2016 Contributions from groups and individuals

  • Profiles of the Executive Committee, including officers and advisors

  • Steps 8–10 and Traditions 8–10

  • A full schedule of upcoming LGBTQ+ AA roundups across the U.S. and Canada


GaL-AA Newsletter – Summer 2016

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