About
Where It Started
Project 1973.
In 2010, Jorge Cruise founded Project 1973 on Facebook — a private brotherhood named for the year the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental illness. It grew, quietly, to more than 600 gay men.
No algorithm. No torso grid. Just proof that the appetite for a real, science-grounded gay men's community is older than the apps — and stronger than any of them.
Tribe 1973 is Project 1973's next chapter — designed for millions.
The Theory Behind It
The 3 Choices.
Simple Practices to Transform Pain into Power
Much of what Tribe 1973 teaches — how to understand who you actually are, how to regulate your nervous system without a drink, how to move your way out of shame — is drawn straight from Jorge's book. Be Imperfectly You. Don't Hold Your Breath. Move to Improve. Published by Hay House, 2017.
Every Gay Man, Mapped
The six archetypes.
Six gay tribes drawn from decades of community language — read as body archetypes only. Frame, hair, life stage. Not personality, not energy, not a verdict on who you are inside. A Twink can be fierce; a Bear can be tender. Your icon is simply the shorthand your tribe uses to find you.
Who Tribe 1973 is for
A brotherhood of masculine-presenting gay men.
Every archetype here — Twink through Daddy — sits on the masculine-presenting side of the spectrum. That's the specific brotherhood we're building: cisgender gay men who move through the world as men and want a serious, science-based space to grow into the fullest version of that. Many of us started as softer Twinks and grew into Otters, Jocks, Wolves, Bears or Daddies over time — this is a home for that arc.
The wider LGBTQ+ world is beautifully bigger than one tribe. If a different community fits you better, these are the ones we love and point people to:
- Trans men & women — HRC →
- Advocates for Trans Equality →
- Femme & drag culture — House of Rainbow →
- Intersex — interACT →
- Non-binary community →
- Bi+ community — GLAAD →
- Asexual community — AVEN →
- Families & allies — PFLAG →
One tribe among many. All welcome in the wider family.
The Founder
The rest is my story.
Coming out at 39. Thirteen years of therapy. A partner who is secure where I was anxious. The reason Tribe 1973 had to exist.
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