What else do you want to see IN THE MOMENT?

[Dave O'Brien (In the Moment creator)]

Hey guys!

As we start thinking about the next set of IN THE MOMENT episodes, we'd like to know what you think we need more of. What issues impact your decisions to engage in or avoid behaviors that would put you or the guys you have sex with at risk for HIV or other STDs?

[SADIO]

HEY....GOOD QUESTION, THE TOPIC I WOULD LIKE TO SEE....
A NEGATIVE GUY-DATING A POSITIVE GUY. AND ALL THE DINAMICS LIKE HELPING THE OTHER TAKE MEDICINE AND GOING TO THE DOCTOR TOGETHER. BASICALLY, SHOWING THE SUPPORT ONE NEEDS FROM A LOVER WHO IS NOT INFECTED.

[don warner saklad]

How about showing POTENTIAL sex partners getting tested TOGETHER BEFORE having sex, for A VARIETY of STDs?... then getting their tests results together.

[Mark]

Loneliness. Maybe introduce a "not so pretty boy" into the fold and deal with issues a lot of gay men deal with that puts them at risk for engaging in risky behaviors; Loneliness. Email me if you need some ways to go about it.

[L.D.Neill]

I think Hollywood stresses too much the way too beautiful people.
Sure we need icons and roll models, but the majority do not fall into the "beautiful people" genre, so where do they achieve their roll models?

If this society is going to evolve Hollywood is going to have to start expanding it's repertoire.
After all, how many remakes of the same old thing, done less well, does one think the public will buy into?

It has proven to be a big seller, as in All In The Family, once an actor uses the toilet the public says, "Yes, this is something I can relate to."

I've gotten a little off track here, sorry.

I'm with you Mark, more reality please. More roll models for the shy and lonely.

[Jemal David]

I Strongly agree. You are not the only one with strong opinions on this matter. I could not help but think of the new CW tv shows 90210, and melrose place, when you mentioned "remakes of the same old thing, done less well".

[Jemal David]

I am with you. I am so with you on this. Not so pritty boys are like unheard of in tv, and film, and after In The Moment we can now add internet to that list.

[SADIO]

HEY, IF YOU EVER NEED A FAT GUY (non traditional gay actor) CALL ME 404-503-6907 , SADIO!!!

[don warner saklad]

BEFORE having sex POTENTIAL sex partners get tested TOGETHER, for A VARIETY of STDs and get their tests results TOGETHER, see also http://notb4weknow.blogspot.com

[AMERICAS MOST SMARTEST MODEL]

BEAUTY IS RELATIVE!!!. and to request not so pretty people(which truly is SUBJECTIVE) to be introduced into the group means that we are perpetuating the unhealthy stereotypes. Ive done campaigns and not eveybody agrees Im attractive. Lets focus more on the meaning and not the package. Everybody has issues! Everybody has something! Ive been lonely while watching myself on TV and, thats honest. We are all at risk, no matter the package.
Jesse aka Stephen

[Justin]

It may not lend itself to the drama requisite in a dramatic web series, but I'd like to see "In The Moment" portray a normal person/couple - someone who does not have a drug problem, is not needy and insecure, and who doesn't worry or even need to feel concerned about STDs.

In short, someone who is just maturely going about his/their lives without feeling the need to buy into all this social drama and being concerned with all these supposed issues that the "people-in-the-know," our community's self-professed "leaders of conscience," keep telling us we need to be concerned with.

I admit that to a certain extent, there is a valid need for awareness out there. But all this harping on it just feeds the drama and puts money in someone's pocket. That's what make the gay community one big Twelve-Step group, and makes so many of believe that that's the way it's supposed to be just because we're gay. I just think we should all grow-up, tune-out 90% of the superfluous social dialogue, and focus on quietly and contentedly leading a life in which we truly do our personal best to conduct ourselves with quiet integrity without seeking to stroke our own egos and be the center of attention.

In portraying this on "In The Moment," maybe the drama could be found in the violent reaction that such a balanced, mature person/couple might engender in others - a backlash from the loud people who, in their well-intentioned immaturity and rather pedestrial approach to social causes (both real and manufactured), constantly and continually try to turn-up the volume of life (to gratify their sense of self-righteousness), and so never find real peace for themselves, nor let others find it either.

I think the gay activists do this on any array of issues: drug use, hate crimes legislation, Prop 8, etc. They engender and enable self-absorption and immaturity in the very community they seek/pretend to care about and help - and all by mistakenly turning-up the volume of life instead of turning that volume down, so that a quieter voice with an alternative reason and reasoning can be heard. - J.V.

[Rick Lindsay]

First of all, thanks for IN THE MOMENT. It's really great; very well done.
Re: your question, I'd like to see a poz guy facing the tough issues of trying to date since so many neg guys won't date a poz guy. These are really tough issues to face and deal with, and it would be great to see how that plays out here.
Also, show how someone reacts to and deals with finding out he's positive.
Thanks again
Ricky

[Rick Lindsay]

Oh yeah, one other thing. All the guys on ITM are relatively young. Are there no older guys in their world? Like, 40s or 50s? I think guys in that age range would be interested in this program, and giving them someone to relate to would help draw them in maybe.
Thanks!