If you have something to say...
Say it on the Huffington Post
If you have something to say...
Say it on the Huffington Post
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Heterosexual males moments after hearing "I Will Survive" Photo: Paper Boat Creative Courtesy of: Paper Boat Creative San Francisco, CA -- Psychol...
Each week we'll share some of the best tidbits on The Huffington Post in our new series, "Best Lesbian Week Ever." Here's who and what was on our raging gay radar this week.
The fight for full civil and human rights for the LGBT community continues in our city, the nation and around the world. It is gratifying that some churches are working to not only recognize the LGBT community but to embrace us fully.
I couldn't be prouder to have former DNC chairman Howard Dean, Donald Fowler, Steve Grossman and David Wilhelm stand with us in calling on our party to include marriage equality in its 2012 platform.
I know you wish you weren't gay. I know you wish it wasn't happening to you. I know you feel hard done by. You'll learn in time that you don't really feel like that at all. Believe me when I tell you that you ultimately embrace who you are.
For a long time, being considered a stereotype really made me mad; I wanted to prove how unstereotypical I am, but recently I've come to realize that what others might consider a stereotype I consider just being myself.
A gay man can grin and say ironically, "I'm a really good mother," which may mean that he performs the daily child care in his home, but his comment does not define him as a mom. Nor is a lesbian who coaches her son's hockey team a father. Both are just doing what parents do.
In light of Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan's comments directed at the LGBT community, I resigned from the Executive Committee of the Junior Board of Catholic Charities.
Therapist Bob Bergeron, who committed suicide in December, wrote about aging gracefully. But was he was another one of those people hitting 50, who truly felt an underlying dread of what comes next?
The love note I penned to my partner inside the first edition copy of "The Essential Guide to Gay and Lesbian Weddings" in December of 1995 was inspired by our engagement, and reveals that I had finally found a source for knowledgeable answers to our questions.
Many bigots see you as being like a woman or wanting to be a woman, which gay men will internalize and see as negative. Feminism looks at that thought and says, "What is wrong with being a woman?" I needed to hear that message at 18, and I still need to hear it now.
Gender-nonconforming kids need to know there are others like them. In the media they should be portrayed just like everyone else. At home they need to be accepted and loved, not forced into roles they can't fit. In schools they need to be treated with respect and dignity.
Tears welled up in my eyes, not only because of the sheer tragedy of Jacob's story, but because it is, sadly, all too common. LGBT teenagers take their lives on a regular basis, but the reasons are often misunderstood -- and I know, because I've been there.
We must not and cannot dismiss these incidents as simply the actions of a few individuals, for oppression exists on multiple levels in multiple forms.
