Another level: friendships transcending geography and race.

In the early 1980s a group of six men began meeting together once a month for dinner and conversation with the expressed purpose of building mutually supportive friendships that intentionally transcend socially constructed boundaries of class, geography, and race. Their assumption was that regardless of perceived differences, men have more in common than they have been lead to think and that by forming open, positive friendships they could provide for themselves a clearer sense of personal self-consciousness and create a setting to challenge male machismo and racial prejudice.

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