Homosexuality
Men have been having sex since the dawn of time. And no, I don't mean with women, I mean with other men. Dispute this all you want, make claims of biblical proportions, but it is a well documented fact that man-on-man sex is not new.
"It really threw me for a loop."
Sen. Sanders Calls Out Lawmaker For Homophobic Slur
"Many parents of gay kids have been so homophobic until they discover that their kid is gay. And then theyâre stuck between what they learned and what their beliefs are on the one hand, and what their love is on the other."
WHAT'S HAPPENING
"I felt like my silence in that moment was not beneficial."
At an event earlier this year, I met two women who, as it turned out, were not only business partners but also life partners. They left their marriages and grown children in their 50s and have been together ever since. My curiosity piqued, I'm afraid I monopolized their time with my many questions.
The earliest depictions date back to antiquity.
He's just a peach, isn't he?
All that time I said I wasn't indoctrinating anyone with my beliefs about gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer people? That was a lie. All 25 years of my career as an LGBTQ activist, I have been on a consistent campaign of trying to change people's minds about us. I want to make them like us.
While every American has a right to free exercise, I believe two initiatives of the U.S. government, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the G.W. Bush administration's expansion of the Faith-Based Initiative, have perpetuated a very asymmetrical view of religious freedom.