What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word marriage? Wedding bells, a long, white dress, flowers? A man and a woman spending the rest of their lives together? Yeah, that’s what most people think of…
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Whether or not gay marriage should be made legal is one of the biggest issues in most parts of the world today, and causes the most heated debate by otherwise seemingly sane people.Over the years there have been many, many…
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We can stare at statistics and poll results until our eyes go blurry and we’re dizzy with numbers floating in our head, but the simple reality is that marriage is an institution. Sure, I agree with that. That’s typically the…
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The most that can be said thus far is there probably exists a genetic component to homosexuality. However, no single “gay gene” or has ever been identified as the cause of homosexual behavior. In short, no one knows for certain…
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This is 2008 and I still cannot believe that we have such closed minded individuals in this society. Do any of you know a gay couple and what they go through and how they are discriminated against under the law?…
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The majority of public opposition to same-sex marriages is rooted in homophobia alone, and has nothing to do with anything sacred. In Colorado, the same people who opposed gay marriage on religious grounds voted against granting next of kin status…
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There is no truly rational reason that gay women and men should not be allowed to adopt children. There are only “excuses” based on religious sexual fantasy, and the “facts” show that there is much “reason” that gay women and…
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The national debate about whether Marriage should be a sacred institution between only a woman and a man is fundamentally flawed from the outset; because like most debates and opinion polls the answers are directly relative to the framing of…
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It’s hard to imagine that God created Heaven and Earth and wrought a man from the primeval mud and a woman from the man’s rib and said, “But remember, marriage is a sacred institution in accordance with your state’s constitution.”…
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Years from now, I fully believe that this debate, so heated and contentious today, will be viewed with the same disdain as “Should women be allowed to vote,” and “Should slavery be abolished,” are currently. No one today would ever…
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The process of coming out as a gay or gender queer person is never an easy task but it is a necessary thing for each person to do in order to move forward in life.There are numerous ways to come…
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Ignorance, like a disease, can be transmitted from the carrier to many innocent victims. Almost like handing down an heirloom, some parents transmit ignorance to their children, especially about other races and people who hold ideas or have lifestyles different…
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Homosexuality and bisexuality are very different sexual orientations and can not be filed under one label if we must use labels at all. The stigma attached to homosexuals by a mainly heterosexual world are compounded for a bisexual person in…
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The issues of whether or not homosexual couples should be awarded the same rights and privilage of any other married couple if they decided to marry is really a no brainer. Yes is the only appropriate answer. Marriage is a…
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Coming out is usually an uncomfortable situation all around. That is every bit as true for the person hearing the news as it is for the one breaking it. Every gay person knows that it is often very difficult to…
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While a gay/lesbian relationship has the sames ups and downs as a heterosexual relationship, there’s one difference that we have to keep in mind. No matter how confident we are in ourselves and in our relationship, we live in a…
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I suspect that human homosexuality is an inherent trait of some individuals that was an evolutionary response to the environment our hunter/gatherer ancestors lived in. During my studies to earn a Bachelor’s degree in anthropology, the subject that most captured…
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Some issues, like this one, I believe should not be issues if simple logic plays any part in society. My main points for this topic boil down to: 1. If a single straight person can adopt a child, then a…
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Bisexuality is not indecision. Being bisexual is often regarded by both straight and gay people as a sign of secret affiliation with homosexuality. In reality, it is a lack of the pre-conceived taste for either sex. Bisexuals often find themselves…
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Homophobia can indeed be combatted and prevented. But not prevented completely. There are two main enemies one would have to fight in order to combat homophobia. One is ignorance and the other is your own prejudice. Both adversaries are as…
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“I am gay” are words that no spouse ever expects to hear from the man or woman that they are married to. These are words that I heard in 1999 and till this day I can still hear them over…
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Gay Marriage There is a lot of controversy about gay marriage. Nearly every one has there own opinions about whether or not is should be allowed. Many people base their opinions on religion, health insurance, tradition, the constitution, morals, and…
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The old Billie Holliday song, “There’ll Be Some Changes Made”, had a line in it: ‘Cause nobody wants you when you’re old and gray.” One parody changed gray to GAY, and that clearly expresses the gay generation gap. Relationships in…
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Sexual identity in regards to sexual orientation is a very intimate and undiscussed aspect of human identity, yet it is one of the most important. Wikipedia describes sexual identity as an identity roughly based on sexual orientation, which is a…
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Physical and emotional violence is only a portion of the things gay and lesbian couples are faced with. In addition to these atrocities, they must also ignore the different stereotypes associated with homosexual couples. GAY RELATIONSHIPS ARE ABNORMAL AND UNHEALTHY…
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Is there a best way to come out of the closet when one is a homosexual? The matter is an extremely personal one and it is up to the individual and how comfortable they are feeling if and when they…
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The title “Getting Accepted as a Gay” itself implies that acceptance as a Gay man (or Lesbian, or Bisexual, or Transgendered person) is a matter that is up to others. In fact, acceptance starts with the person this is LGBT….
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It took Salma Rehman (name changed), a 27-year old lesbian, a couple ofyears to accept her sexuality and 7 years to gather the courage to tellher father. She is still not comfortable talking about it to most inher extended family….
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Historically, homosexual relations have been a human taboo across most societies and most eras. The reasoning is fairly basic and downright primal – life forms are born and bred to continue the species and therefore to continue to breed. Just…
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Most will remember George W. Bush’s ban-gay-marriage charade, in 2006; he called for the amendment of our Constitution to ban gay marriage. Likely nothing more than a very clever diversion, the amendment was rejected later that year. Many of those…
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