Welcome!
23rd November, 2009 - Posted by Jay -
Hi and welcome! This is the home page of the Poly Boston community and the <announce@polyboston.org> mailing list.
We hope you like the new look of the site! If you run into any problems, please let Jay know at js+poly@aq.org. I’m still working on cleaning up and reorganizing the content a bit, but (except for the Search box above, which I know about) all the site functionality should be working.
- 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!
- 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.)
- Looking for other groups in the area (or worldwide), or more information about polyamory in general? We’ve got a page of links and resources. (That’s an annotated subset of the links in the sidebar.)
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. Over the years, events have included 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 about Poly Boston
- Here’s a flyer about Poly Boston, most recently updated March 25, 2000 It described the kinds of events we had at that time. (That’s quite a bit out of date; see our event calendar for current events. We’ve edited a new version of the flyer, and I’ll get it up here as soon as I get a copy.)
- Here’s the same flyer in PostScript format for printing.
- The announce@polyboston.org mailing list is how we announce events.