D Gregory Smith

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Email Address: dgsma@hotmail.com

Location: Butte, MT; Seattle, WA

Project Contributor Since: November, 2009

Entries by this Contributor: 38

D Gregory Smith, MA, is a gay, HIV+ native Montanan, a Rome-educated former priest, now a mental health therapist, health educator, firm and gentle activist, spiritual adventurer and witty optimist who loves to write. He blogs at From Eternity To Here

Greg has always been active in the field of social justice. As a newly ordained priest he served as an original member of the Montana Governor's AIDS Advisory Council, advocating for early testing and working to address homophobia in rural medical centers.

As a therapist, he has worked at Seattle Counseling Service in Seattle, the oldest LGBTIQ mental health agency in the country, and was especially interested in helping queer people address and overcome the guilt and shame that directly and indirectly come from family, society, religion and self.

He works with the Montana Gay Men's Task Force presenting at and co-facilitating Men's Health Retreats, facilitates two HIV+ support groups, and also works as a private therapist. He speaks at events throughout the northwest, telling his story and educating others about being gay, HIV, intimacy/relationships and other topics.

He lives in both Butte, MT and Seattle WA as a result of the dual circumstances of needing to keep his health insurance in Washington, and having been the primary care-giver of an 85 year-old friend in Montana. He also has a fantastic partner, Ken, his biggest fan and most gentle (and almost always right) critic....

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