David Boyd:  

CLASS OF 1985
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Shasta High SchoolClass of 1985
Redding, CA

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Life I wonder if anybody will really read this, because I'm too cheap to join this site, and I'm probably not alone in that perpetual state of thriftiness. Well, just in case anybody does read this, I live in Palm Springs, California. I don't have any kids (yay!), and that shouldn't really surprise anyone because you would have had to have been deaf, dumb and blind to have missed the fact that I was gay. I came out at 18, and although I was married for five years, it was certainly never a conventional marriage by any stretch of the imagination. My life has never been dull. I had a lover who died of AID's when I was in my mid twenties, and as a result, I became involved with the Eastern mystical tradition of Tantra as a means to bring more spiritual awareness to the gay community in relationship to sexuality. I have a website which is dedicated to Tantra, and I do a lot of work with gay men teaching tantric excercises and philosophy. I will probably begin doing workshops this Fall, which is something I have always wanted to do. I am also an artist, and I have had the great privelidge to study with some amazingly talented and recognised artists over the years. I realized this year that I was finally producing the kind of work I had always dreamed of when I started having to right protect my work because it was being plagiarized by a world famous photographer. I took it as a back handed compliment, and I will remember that when I am sueing him, but I digress. I am also...Expand for more
in recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction, so I spend a lot of time doing outreach for that in the gay community. I have lost so many friends to AID's and addiction I can't even count the numbers anymore. But today I have a lot of hope. The most important thing to me is that I don't want to see another generation of kids grow up with the kind of hatred and intolerance that are generated by the kind of ignorance and fear that were so prevalent in my years at high school. On a lighter note, I am also a bodybuilder, I spend way to much time at the gym, and I am doing more modeling this year than I ever did when I was living in Europe in my early twenties on the high fashion circuit. Not bad for 38. Yes, I am vain, but you know, vanity can save your life. It got me to quit smoking pot and doing speed over five years ago, so hey, whatever works. In conclusion, life is really good. I'm sober, I'm healthy, I'm HIV-, I have loving friends, and everything I do for a living is something I want to do that I enjoy. Better yet, I am able to put a tremendous amount of time and energy into passions of mine that are hopefully going to help others on a similar path know that some kind of trail has been forged and a map or two have been plotted out with various options. That was more than I had to go on a lot of the time, and anybody who has been down this road will understand what I mean when I say how important it is to share our experience, strength and hope with eachother.
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