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News: Added Polyam Collaborative Community of NE.
News: Updates about other groups in the area.

Hi and welcome! This is the home page of the Poly Boston community and the
announce@polyboston.org mailing list.

 * To get involved, join the Poly Boston announcements list. That’s where
   everything we do gets announced. You can sign up on the web at
   http://polyboston.org/lists/listinfo/announce.
 * If you like, once you're on the announcements list, you can then join the
   chat list, say hi, and introduce yourself
 * Looking for upcoming events? Check our events calendar! (For large events
   outside the Boston area, you should also check Alan M’s list of poly events.)
 * There are a lot of poly groups around this region. You might be interested in
   some of the other poly or poly-related groups in the area listed below.
 * Want reading material (or advice)? Alan Wexelblat has put a collection of his
   poly columns online. You can also check out some articles we’ve encountered
   (or been in)
 * Wanna buy Poly Boston stuff? We have the two T-shirt designs Jim did in 2001
   for Pride available on shirts, mugs, sweatshirts, and meesepads at
   cafepress.com. Go to http://www.cafepress.com/polyboston/ for the “Sharing is
   a Family Value” designs, and http://www.cafepress.com/polyboston2/ for the
   “Expand Your Family” designs. (These are sold at-cost; we don’t make any
   money on them. They are not identical to the T-shirts we wore at Pride, which
   were silkscreened rather than digitally transfered, but they still look
   good.)

Polyamory is having or being able to have consensual, honest, respectful
relationships with more than one person at a time, or being able to romantically
love more than one person at once. Some poly people feel that for them, love is
not a finite resource that must be saved for one person lest it be exhausted,
but a renewable resource — the more love we give, the more we have to give.

Poly Boston is a group for polyamorous (poly), poly-curious, or poly-friendly
people in the greater Boston area. The group organizes events via the
announce@polyboston.org mailing list. Events include discussion groups, support
groups, potlucks, parties, and other social events.

While these events provide an opportunity to meet a diverse collection of
interesting, friendly people, this is not a dating service or a cruising area.
If you come looking for that, you won’t have any fun, and we won’t either. But
if you come looking for interesting discussion, new ideas, and a sense of
community, you will probably find it, and if you treat the people you meet with
respect and integrity, we will probably enjoy your company.


INFORMATION AND LINKS


INFORMATION ABOUT POLY BOSTON EVENTS

 * Our events calendar is online





OTHER GROUPS IN THE BOSTON AREA





 * New: Polyam Collaborative Community of NE has a Facebook presence and a
   Meetup presence, and has a bunch of regular events.
 * New England Polyamory (formerly Boston Metro Area Poly) has a Facebook group.
   (For complex reasons to do with security and Facebook's confusing and limited
   privacy settings, you can’t see the group itself until somebody invites you,
   but you can message this page to ask the moderators to add you to the group.)
 * Family Tree is a poly organization in the general Boston area that’s been
   around a lot longer than Poly Boston. (There’s considerable overlap — some
   people come to both Family Tree events and Poly Boston events.) They are less
   geographically concentrated than we are. Their web site is at
   http://ftree.contra.org/, and they also have a paper newsletter.
 * A sizable fraction of the people in Poly Boston are bisexual. If you are too,
   you may be interested in Biversity Boston and/or the Bisexual Resource
   Center.
 * Metrowest Boston Polyamory, based in Framingham and environs, have a Meetup
   group. (new)
 * A bit further west there’s a Western Mass poly group which has Yahoo! groups
   for events and for discussion.
 * And south of us there’s a Polyamory Connecticut group.


INFORMATION ABOUT POLYAMORY IN GENERAL

 * http://www.polyamory.org/ is the home page of the alt.polyamory newsgroup,
   and probably the best single web site about polyamory.
 * The alt.polyamory FAQ is a good general introduction to polyamory.
 * The Culture Supplement to the FAQ lists poly-related books (fiction and
   non-fiction), movies, songs, and comic books. The non-fiction book section is
   a good place to look for more information (much of it contradictory! :-)
   about what polyamory is.


BLOGS

 * Opening Up is Tristan Taormino’s blog associated with her book of the same
   name.


DISCUSSION-GROUP RESULTS AND HANDOUTS

 * At the discussion group on June 28, 2000, we brainstormed a long list of
   terms for different kinds or levels of relationships.


ALAN’S POLYAMORY IN THE NEWS

 * The wave of polyamory filling the media continues: Poly agreements,
   parenting, finances, joys, sorrows... and, that reality show.
 * How 'Couple to Throuple' ended: our poly education job is cut out for us. And
   other poly in the media.
 * Today is Metamour Day! Why February 28? Valentine's Day times two!
 * This week: In the Washington Post, "Is Polyamory the Future?" NPR, the NYT,
   happy metamour frubbliness, how-tos, criticism. The wave continues.
 * Polyamory non-discrimination bills are introduced in Berkeley and Oakland

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