Gwen was a respected man who could be disagreed with amicably, and he provided a forum for community conversation and understanding that is sorely missed today.
Cost-shifting of mental health services from the federal level to the states is part of the problem. The states failed to fund these services, and the cost-cutting federal government refuses to modify this arrangement.
The particular kind of love relations that the speakers mostly have in mind in their speeches in Plato's dialogues are male same-sex relations, in accordance with Greek pederastic practices wherein mature men pursued younger men in order to serve as their mentors while receiving the young men’s sexual favors.