2003 Archives

It appears hatred and the pulpit are long-time friends. Preachers, ministers, priests, bishops and the like aren't enlightened folk simply because they have a title. They're imperfect human beings just like the rest of us. Some may be wiser...

The Supreme Judicial Court today became the nation's first state supreme court to rule that same-sex couples have the legal right to marry. Gay population: The 2000 Census estimated there were about 19,000 gay couples in Mass., and about 659,000...

All God's Children (video), Woman Vision, 1996. 1.800.343.5540 Blessed Bi Spirit: Bisexual People of Faith, Debra Kolodny, ed., Continuum International Press, 2000. Can Homophobia Be Cured? Wrestling with Questions that Challenge the Church. Bruce Hilton. Abington Press, 1992. Coming...

Affirmation (Mormon). Box 46022, Los Angeles, CA 90046; (213) 255-7251; www.affirmation.org Affirmation (United Methodist). Box 1021, Evanston, IL 60204; (708) 475-0499 American Baptists Concerned. Box 16128, Oakland, CA 94610; (510) 530-6562, fax (510) 530-6501 Association of Welcoming and Affirming...

The following organizations purport that they can change the sexual orientation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people through prayer, twelve-step type programs or behavior modification. The American Psychiatric Association states that there is no evidence that such efforts are...

The following groups teach that homosexual behavior is a sin, thereby forcing many gay people and their loved ones to choose between their faith and being true to themselves. American Family Association, Tupelo, MS Chalcedon, Vallecito, CA Christian Coalition, Chesapeake,...

Guess which of the following verses evangelical christians take literally and which they say weren't meant for modern man? Thanks to Falwell.com. "If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have...

The following synopsis of the FRONTLINE documentary Assault on Gay America is taken directly from PBS.org. On February 19, 1999, in Sylacauga, Alabama, 39-year-old computer programmer Billy Jack Gaither was brutally beaten with an axe handle. His throat was...

"Like two birds of beautiful golden plumage--inseparable companions-- the individual self and the immortal Atman are perched on the branches of the self-same tree. The former tastes the sweet and bitter fruits of the tree. The latter remains motionless,...

There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea A little shy and sad of eye But very wise was he And then one day A magic day...

"The only queer people are those who don't love anybody." "One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness." "It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain." "The fact that we are all human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish humans from one another." ...

There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a circle where it begins.Look at my watch, which tells the time; it goes round, and...

Depressed and gaydoctors sayboth in your geneswon't go away.Dreams grow darkswirl aboutvisions beginnightmares shout.This the visionhad when lostlost in darknesslost in lost.Queer little visionslept in bedoozed from fearsdeep in head.Began a questionwisely ignoredwill I ever be lonelyhomely bored?...