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Hi HuskyPup!
For me, i think ts up to you taking what you like and leaving the rest. noone is an expert/professional so i can only talk for me. i go to a GLBT alanon meeting and have gone to GLBT aa/alanon meeting when i went to a conference/forum one year. I go for me and im the expert of my life but i do need the help and support of others. im agnostic and i dont listen to people who tell me the way to live. i include other things aside from teh 12 steps as nothing has a monopoly on "god' etc
when i worked the steps first time round i was encouraged to seek professional help too its just that wheni m at alanon or etc i speak how alanon has helped me and how those steps and tools help me. its none of my business how others work the program but i do find that following the suggested things has helped and meetings on traditions etc have helped me hugely. i also talk to the members who i find im comfortable with. i have met some who have been minding my business etc but ive heard what you find in recovery rooms youll find outside, its just that ive found recovery has a frame of tools to use to get through those conflicts.
i think you can do whatever you want.
gay meetings for me have been a good focus for a particular area of my recovery and general healing but going to other meetings to is encouraged and helped me move through the effects of having grown up in an alcoholic home.
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